rob was here.

There are two things in life that I wish I could invest more time into. Those are growing things and cooking. This post is about the former.

I always had a hobbit-like intrigue with things that grow, and are always amazed by how fast some plants grow relative to other plants and so forth. Since Susan and I moved into our house I did manage to plant a few various plants and trees around our back patio, but nothing major. I would eventually like to have a less confining plot of land and time to do more outside. For now, I will make do with what I have and try to grow some things indoors. No plans for anything illegal though. Shifty eyes.

Some time last year, I was eating an orange, and as I was spitting out seeds I was wondering if I could get them to grow. After choosing four seeds that I hadn't damaged with my teeth, I wrapped them in a soaked paper towel for a week or two, until two of them began to sprout. I planted them in some soil and kept them on the window ledge, where over a few months, they prospered and grew to about 4 or 5 inches in height. They then stayed about this height over the winter until they both died (at almost
the same time) earlier in the spring of this year. I kept photos of them along their life stages. Out of interest, here are some snaps:














































I think next I might try some sort of hot pepper.

I haven't posted for a while and I have a whole lot of nothing to talk about. So I'll forgo the unpleasantries and have the guts to post a snippit of a song recording that I just stumbled across that I did sometime this summer. Walking through my audacity projects, I've discovered I have quite a bit of material from the past year or two that I had mostly forgotten about. Most of it I will never post here in fear of it becoming an internet meme :)

It's recorded with my guitar, computer, the audacity software and a $12 microphone, so lets just say you get what you pay for. I started doing this to practice my capabilities of singing while playing guitar (or at least bumbling along and humming half comprehensively). It's harder than it looks to do both at the same time!

rob doing the first quarter or so of pearl jam's yellow ledbetter