writing (sort of) and the things I do to avoid writing

I'm still working on my big paper from my phd. I think that I finally have a story that I like but it requires that I go back into some older papers in big-thing ecology that I may or may not have read in general classes. Hopefully I can find enough of those papers online, I sure wouldn't want to have to go to the library.
So in between serious thinking time, we've done some more working in the garden. Today we put new copper mesh up around the boxes to try to keep slugs out of the veggies-it seemed to work last year but got pretty beat up by the end of the year. Thairo weeded the herb garden and planted more rosemary, savory, chives, and margoram. I can't believe that the parsley and chervil overwintered. The tarragon has come back from its roots. And as expected, the thyme, oregano, and sage overwintered fine. We're going to wait a few more weeks to plant basil and cilantro. The tomatoes have mostly sprouted including the variety that I saved seeds for last year, I wasn't sure that I did it correctly but apparently it's good enough.

Begining of garden season '10

We survived the Olympics and haven't seemed to have any of the dreaded post-Olympic depression. I think that I'm finally recovered from the cruise-dock rock lasted 5 days this time. It's still amusing to Thairo to watch me stagger into walls and still not amusing to me. We've agreed to disagree. Thairo's still waiting for a few projects to start, seems like spring is taking it's time to spring in Nevada, Washington, and Mars (or where ever else there's archaeology going on).
We're trying to not get too far ahead of ourselves gardening even though we have this extra time with both of us at home. So far we've planted poppies and wildflowers in the front yard, larkspur in the back, and have a tray of lupine sprouting in our seedling nursery (AKA the bookshelf in front of the dining room window). This weekend we're going to plant red sunflowers in the front yard.
And (drumroll) start the veggies. Peas, lettuce, and maybe carrots can go into the garden this weekend and we'll probably start tomatoes in the seedling nursery too. We saved some seeds last year so will try those, plus Thairo's friend sent us 6 more fun varieties. I think that we're going to get a brandywine, roma, and cherry from either West Coast or PNW seeds. We've talked about having 24 tomato plants. I know probably not enough for me. I can't wait for the glut of tomatoes in August, I want to make gallons of tomato juice.

I'll post some pics once I take some.