Finally starting to melt here in TN, back at it again Friday tho. I'll get a few days of runnin' in before the refreeze. I hate to get all bundled up just to go outside.
Snowed in, which doesn't take much in Tennessee. Nobody moves snow here, just let it pack down and turn into polished ice. The highway departments didn't buy any salt this year, which is a good thing, but for some reason the US hasn't discover that stuff called sand.
I look at my vineyard and keep saying soon, still have some pruning to do when the snow and ice goes, should be the January annual thaw maybe next week. Got my herb garden started early in a window box and grow light, noticed a pot I had planted ginger root in and forgot about has sprouted too. I always try to find a way to grow semi-tropical stuff here, haven't figured out avocados yet tho, I know it can be done selectively. Still organic, the chemical companies have done it for me, by being so greedy.
The baby Mustang does not tolerate snow, so she stays home for this kind of weather. No need to bend the precious tin. The Hondas always deliver in the gloom tho.
Lots of great photosets this month to feed my addiction to ballerinas, fitness and estrogen are such a great combination, always pictured heaven as a downtown Kiev dance studio.
Hope the new year brings you more than you need and most that you want, just be very selective on the wants.
I look at my vineyard and keep saying soon, still have some pruning to do when the snow and ice goes, should be the January annual thaw maybe next week. Got my herb garden started early in a window box and grow light, noticed a pot I had planted ginger root in and forgot about has sprouted too. I always try to find a way to grow semi-tropical stuff here, haven't figured out avocados yet tho, I know it can be done selectively. Still organic, the chemical companies have done it for me, by being so greedy.
The baby Mustang does not tolerate snow, so she stays home for this kind of weather. No need to bend the precious tin. The Hondas always deliver in the gloom tho.
Lots of great photosets this month to feed my addiction to ballerinas, fitness and estrogen are such a great combination, always pictured heaven as a downtown Kiev dance studio.
Hope the new year brings you more than you need and most that you want, just be very selective on the wants.
Time for the annual Harley Winter ride. Need to give the antique a bath and kick 'til my leg is sore[ real Harleys don't have electric starters]. The ride doesn't last long because, for some reason, I never remember how cold it feels with blue hands and ears. Hopefully I won't have to walk home.
Summer is for Vespa scooters, the ride of choice for little local trips. Vespas sip gas lightly and always get you home, old Harleys drink more gas than a small car and break like a steam train on a steep hill[ they really are more like a steam dinosaur than a motorcycle.
Hope everybody here and everywhere has the best year ever in 2011. We all need some good news and prosperity.
Summer is for Vespa scooters, the ride of choice for little local trips. Vespas sip gas lightly and always get you home, old Harleys drink more gas than a small car and break like a steam train on a steep hill[ they really are more like a steam dinosaur than a motorcycle.
Hope everybody here and everywhere has the best year ever in 2011. We all need some good news and prosperity.
Steam Punk Couture has inspired me to build a steam powered velocipede, the cross over between a bicycle and motorcycle from the Victorian age. Should be a fun project if I don't blow myself up.
Think I'll opt for a brighter color, the era wasn't that bland, lime green? Propane powered vice coal, gotta go green you know.
For those requiring less safety considerations.
Think I'll opt for a brighter color, the era wasn't that bland, lime green? Propane powered vice coal, gotta go green you know.
For those requiring less safety considerations.
The vineyard is all tucked in for the Winter, more trellis' to build and repair later, lots of fruit tree pruning too. The gardens are all gone and the last of the tomatoes and peppers have turned into sauce. The squirrels ate all of my pecans this year and the black walnuts took the year off. I'm trying to get the cats to eat more squirrel, but they're too pampered to do that. Next Spring I will start a proper herb garden, mostly French/Mediterranean, I moved the Rosemary indoors just in case. Sprouted some ginger root late in the summer, it's slow so I moved it in too, under a grow light to let it get a head start on next year. I'm hoping to start some grapes to make some Rubino Marsala wine for cooking, the process is very complex, but while the vines mature in 5 to 7 years I hope to learn. Good Marsala wine has almost disappeared, it was made in Western Sicily, but the art is nearly lost because it involves allot of knowledgeable blending of aged and new wines. The newer generations of Germans in Sicily are not interested.
Trying to piece together another ancient Vespa scooter, this one a '66, the older ones just have so much more character. Most were red, but I have 2 other red ones, so this one will be royal blue. They're great to run around town on, 150 mpg and 40 is fast enough.
Back in the stock market again Ford for now, GM later when the frenzy settles down with the price. Most people don't seem to realize that the World economy runs on cars, not houses like the media tries to push. When people buys cars the World is happy, and they're finally starting to get greener. We just need to figure out how to get along without oil, gonna be a hard task tho, the money is still thick there.
Rain, Sun Rain, Sun all day today. Back outside between the clouds, life is good.
Trying to piece together another ancient Vespa scooter, this one a '66, the older ones just have so much more character. Most were red, but I have 2 other red ones, so this one will be royal blue. They're great to run around town on, 150 mpg and 40 is fast enough.
Back in the stock market again Ford for now, GM later when the frenzy settles down with the price. Most people don't seem to realize that the World economy runs on cars, not houses like the media tries to push. When people buys cars the World is happy, and they're finally starting to get greener. We just need to figure out how to get along without oil, gonna be a hard task tho, the money is still thick there.
Rain, Sun Rain, Sun all day today. Back outside between the clouds, life is good.
