Corn in the Hedgerow

The other day I noticed something unusual in the flower-bed area that runs along the front of our house. I don’t pretend to know the inner workings of nature, but I am certain that at no point in time did I nor any other person plant corn in there. And yet, there it is. And it’s not just one stalk of corn, it’s an entire row of corn.

I’m not going to lie to you, I think it is entirely awesome that a row of corn is naturally occurring in our flower-bed. In fact, I am thinking of posting a weekly corn update on twitter. Of course, that makes me a little nervous as I am not 100 percent sure it’s corn because it is apparently still in the larvae stage and hasn’t bloomed or sprouted or whatever it does when it starts shooting corn cobs out of it’s innards. It could easily turn out to be very large grass and then I would look foolish, albeit only slightly, because it seriously looks just like corn.

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Kayaking

Most people don’t know this about me, but I am a kayaking expert. It didn’t start out that way. In fact, about three minutes into my first trip as I was stuck on a log in the middle of the river, wondering exactly what to do next and more importantly how to stay upright, I had doubts about the whole thing. By the time the trip was over, I had completely and totally mastered the art of navigating a tiny boat with a double-ended-oar-thing, and thanks to my cat like reflexes and keen observational skills, once I had dislodged myself from the log, I managed to make the rest of the trip with no incidents, with the exception of a small collision with a canoe, but you can’t really count that.

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Gallery Fixed… Among Other Things.

For a while the whole lightbox effect thing that I had going on with the photos on this site hasn’t really worked. Well, that is now a thing of the past. You can click on photos and get a lightbox-type effect now, as long as you wait for the entire page to load first.

And that’s not the only thing I fixed today, no sir. I also fixed a shoddy internet connection. Yep, after three hours of exhaustive work, I figured out the USB extension cable I was using was bad. I know, I’m good. I also changed out the toplink on my tractor, which sounds like way more work than it actually is, and I mowed the yard….partly.  And then I held some kittens while medicine was shot down their throats, then I disinfected the 60 or so scratches on my hands and arms.

All in a days work.

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Tweet Tweet… Tweet!!!!

I recently started trying out this whole Twitter fad. So far it’s pretty much like talking to myself since I follow no one and no one follows me. Well, I follow MacHeist and my profile says I have 7 followers but then it only shows one and I don’t even know where that came from, but it’s likely just an ad or something because I think it showed up after I tweeted about Windows 7, which by the way I have been using the release candidate for a while now and it’s a total piece of crap, but not as total a piece of crap as Vista, so way to go Microsoft. You have really outdone yourself.

Anyway, my Twitter profile is http://twitter.com/kjohnson72 so feel free to follow me or whatever you are supposed to do on Twitter and I will continue occasionally talking to myself.

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