so i breathe it in. it says here we are, and we are here...

ok. so the concert continued and i remembered i had pictures of this guy that decided to grow outside the front door in the spot where the ferns grow. i love the ferns and i thought it was neat that in both pictures the auto focus focused on the ferns and not the flower.

its eleven thirty and im sure there will be an encore. then to SLEEP.

Oh, its kind of a stupid groove. Oh, its kind of a natural fact.

above title is linked to NPR's coverage of opening band fugiya and miyaga and peter, bjorn and john. i first heard F&M when they played at this years SXSW show and i thought they were great. i just so happened to come home from work today and i noticed they were playing tonight. its eleven now and peter bjorn and john are just finishing. its been a great show.

writers block is definitely a top ten album of the past year.

in your skeleton suit

it has been a great spring so far. no riding or running but i have been working quite a bit. its nice to be busy with work again. my truck just got out of the shop... fuel filter... i replaced the first one at about 16000 miles and diagnostics showed it needed replaced again at 21000. the first replacement cost me about $15....this one since i let the shop do it cost me $120. i am curious to know where i am getting this dirty fuel at.

new gadgets.... i decided to get the blackberry pearl and to my surprise i really like it. the reason i like it so much is how it integrates email, phone calls, and text messaging with the address book. it works great... havent spent much time browsing for anything on the internet and not sure i will use it for that.... i imagine it will do great for traveling, finding restaurants, directions, etc... in those situations.

i can also sync my calendar but i mostly use my calendar on my laptop and not so much while i am at work. it figures out the words you want to spell after typing but i havent seen a setting where it predicts the word before you spell it. anyone familiar with that??





in a week or so we should start doing some grilling around here. no progress on the garden since last garden post. rainy day today. maybe trailer and shop work. i am trying to get the trailers legal so i dont get slapped with some mega fines that everyone tells me they are cracking down on. as one person described it... "the DOP is like your wife, no matter what, they are going to screw you."







birdmonster @ mercury lounge

there's a hole in my pocket thats about her size

autism

above is a website a friend of mine asked me to pass along. it is a video from five for fighting in attempt to raise money for AUTISM awareness.

where would we be without wishful thinking

its more than earth, seeds, sun and water

gardens. gardens have always been a part of my life. its one of the clearer things from my childhood. although i dont recall working in the garden, i remember just being by the garden. i guess most of the work was done by my father. work was involved because i have learned that a vegetable garden does not exist on its own.




















i remember the year of the prize carrots and the years when i just looked at the cabbage and never really understood what it was. i remember the corner devoted to pumpkins and lifting leaves and finding colorful squash and pickles that were only the size of a pebble a few days earlier or even just a flower. i remember the pussy willow tree that grew at the top of the garden and i would think of that tree often. i just always thought it was my moms favorite because she would bring branches in and place them in a vase.





















there has been several years i have built my own garden and i have yet to have the success that my father has. even today my fathers garden turns out much better than mine but it doesnt have the same success it did when i was a boy. the garden i watched as a boy and searched for worms in and chased grasshoppers from plant to plant was something all together different. you just cant go outside and decide to grow one of those gardens.

this is my first garden in my new home. i will post updated pictures of it as the year goes by. the photo below is of the compost pile underneath the rhododendron. mostly coffee grinds. im looking forward to strong blooms.

two to listen to, and them too.

bird and the bee and lily allen.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9348709

and

loney, dear and low.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9432230

"spring thang 2007"

if you roll to a ludacris concert, then you just roll the only way you know how.

creep under my door

again and again by the bird and the bee!



its april fools. i was fooled and i fooled a few. had a great birthday weekend. thanks to everyone who contacted me and shared the weekend with me.