I Think

We used to have rabbit once a week when I was young. We had a warren on the estate. It was in a sandy hillside about 1/4 of a mile wide covered in sweet grasses and clover.

I often went with the gamekeeper to get the rations. He had two ferrets. I carried the nets. We pegged the nets over some of the holes and he put the ferrets down. Less than a minute and rabbits were popping into the nets. He held them up by their back legs after he got them out of the net and gave them a karate style chop on the back of their necks.

While I gathered up the nets he used his knife to gut them. The rest of the preparation was left to ladies.

I can't say I particularly liked it although sucking the bones was alright.

They breed very rapidly do rabbits with a gamekeeper looking after them and are very useful for mediating between human nutritional needs, via vegetation, and sunlight. And not much husbandry is as convenient as rabbits on a steep hillside.

That sounds like a friendly gesture. Two can live as cheap as one they say here.

My co worker has a pet rabbit. Yesterday, the rabbit was in the yard, when a ferret appeared from dog only knows where. His wife got the rabbit into the house and the ferret continually tried to gain entrance at the sliding door. She threw bleach at or on it, but that only made it leave for a few minutes. My co worker says the ferret was still hanging around at last report.

Tell your co-worker not to get too close to the ferret ed.

He's pretty savvy without my help.

I was only trying to help in case he isn't very familiar with ferrets.

And I depreciate that.

The weather man said Houston may be in the last gasps of winter. Hmmm. We got in the twenties a few times and the thirties several times. I felt one tiny chunk of ice during a rain. Yep. Winter has happened.

I planted some garlic a few weeks ago. Took a shot because it is organic. The garlic has begun growing. I have never grown any before. Don't know if it can survive our summer.

Do you have any knowledge about the best climate conditions for garlic growing? I know Gilroy is the garlic capital of the world, but that's all I know about garlic.

I do know that garlic has to be in the ground for two growing seasons to be worthwhile. I had an uncle who used to grow it...nothing in the world like fresh grown garlic.

We had a whole bunch in Saratoga Springs area in upstate NY. I enjoyed harvesting it and having it in my sauces. I would imagine it'd grow or taste even better in a slightly warmer climate but it grew pretty well there. I just had to remember to harvest it at the right time. We planted in late october or early Nov.. (our fall season before the frost) and put hay over it to insulate.

Here's a good article on planting garlic.
http://gardening.about.com/od/vegetablepatch/a/GrowGarlic_2.htm

I read the article on growing. Looks like it should work. It said to save some good ones for next planting. I need to read more to find out why the unused ones can't stay in the ground all the time.

Lately I come home from work and work even harder than when on the job. The cool weather periods are short. Got to get the tough projects out of the way.

I noted some changes in the growth atop the one moringa tree that I trimmed last fall. Don't know if it will result in seeds or blossoms or both. It is generally true that one can begin harvesting the leaves after the first year. Looks like that one is right on schedule.

I dug a hole three feet deep. I think it's time to dig up the stunted moringa tree, to replant over there.

There will of course be more cool weather, but the next four days will see the mid seventies, plus a potential day of rain.

As I suspected, the tap roots - there were two - were snapped off before I found the ends. Planted it anyway. Who knows?

Planning to put insect poison down and water it in today. With no freezing days two years in a row, they will be impossible to really control.

If we could break down the hysteria that claims we are after all guns, not just seeking reasonable control, the issue would be resolved rather quickly, I think.

Randy Quaid is about to lose his bid to become a Canadian citizen. Unless he flees to a different country, I bet he ends up in jail in the good old USA.

I do not need the rain, but we desperately need the rain.

My garlic looks good. I am going to let it grow wild until either it dies or it becomes a nice little patch.

Been guessing at my income tax this year. My wife went back to work, meaning we took in enough that I have to pay back a big chunk of my SS money. I should set it up for them to deduct it during the year after this.

Eighty degrees in January. Even in se Texas that's a big deal. But a front will pass through this afternoon and chill us down to the sixties for a few days.

Got my tenth squirrel yesterday. The first few may have come back, but since I began delivering them to the Spring Creek Park, there could be no way for them to make their way home. That has to be a distance of more than twelve miles.

Immigration reform is popular, because both parties want Latino votes. Just as the fiscal cliff was avoided once both parties reached a deal that kept taxes low for the greatest size group of political donors. It remains to be seen if other "compromises" can be reached.

Governor Perry is continuing this year to underfund education, Medicaid and pretty much anything else that helps the poor and vulnerable. And now he is planning to return taxpayer money that he deems unneeded.

The much advertised severe weather, leading to winter's return, mostly fizzled, but for a day of strong wind gusts. It is cooler, but not true jacket weather outside. The shower that accompanied the front left little to remember it by.

My brother in law passed away last night. He had been in pain unabated too long. He died in his sleep. There will be no funeral. A cremation, with immediate family present, will be his sendoff.

Sorry to hear this, edgarblythe.