Pandemic Proportions

The household is plagued with the flu virus.  I seems that we’re passing it off, one at a time to each family member.  It’s the typical “seasonal flu” as compared to the “swine flu”, which I guess isn’t seasonal?  It starts off with cold-like symptoms but then you have the high fever and achy bones, which will then turn the cold into a flu.  If you had vomiting and/or diarrhea then you just may have the h1n1 (hiney) flu.  I don’t want either, but I have this feeling that I’m right on the edge of the loading platform to the sick-in-bed express.

We are encouraged at the workplace, to wash our hands and get our flu shots.  Only our flu shots were cancelled due to a supply shortage.   However,

we’re assured that we’ll have them for the flu season.   Hello!  We have the flu, the season is NOW!  

sigh

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Strange Plane Over Forest Grove

What the heck is this?

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I found this one day as I was looking for a crash site.   Obviously it’s a plane, and it was probably distorted by the projection of the aerial photo .. but still, it looks suspicious. Zoom in on the farm below … is that some kind of airstrip?  Perhaps for stretchy white drone aircraft designed to spy on the citizens, to read our bank cards as we buy 12-packs of Hamm’s from the 7-11? 

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melancholy brain

melancholy brain
Originally uploaded by jugbo

a very very rough week. I had a swarm of migraines this week. The last two days being some of the worse I've had in a long while. I'm a bit defective that way I guess.
I am however, happy how this photo came out. It was an accidental lighting shot. I really like how that happens because I am not a good eye for lighting.

You Have Red On You …

The 2009 great salsa harvest has begun.  We went out to the farm this Sunday and picked up 50 lbs of tomato, 50 peppers, garlic, cilantro and onion.  We will have tomatoes for years to come.  Want some?

We took all the ripe maters and skinned and de-seeded them.  I then ran them through the food saver and threw them in the freezer.  We have about another 15 lbs to go yet because they weren’t quite ripe yet.

We always make out great with our CSA (community supported agriculture) program.  Fresh veggies all season long, delivered to your door, can’t be beat.  There is some pressure on how to deal with some of the odd things like ground cherries (blech) and abundant things like lettuce and basil.  We have basil from last year frozen in the freezer still.  The wife usually finds some yummy recipe solutions for most the ingredients.  yummo.

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