Neanderpundit

I went out yesterday and voted.

In indiana, you have to declare your party to vote in the primary- but apparently you can re-declare each time.

So I went and voted in the primary, and then I went home, and scrubbed myself down with a bar of Lava soap, until my skin glowed. I haven’t felt that dirty in ages.

But I voted. Did you?

Fuck the comb.

Wife reminds me I didn’t get the daughter’s campaign stickers printed last night (she’s running for student council president) So I sprint off to the computer room where I pound out 72 small and 12 large self-adhesive full color glossy labels.

And then use the paper cutter to trim them into individual labels, because all I have are full sheets of label material.

And then I have to score the backs, because in cutting the full sheets not all the individual labels are crack&peel. Which you must do with a scalpel, the onlyu thing sharp enough with a smooth enough edge to cut through the backing and not the sticker itself. And i manage to get 71 and only mess one up and cut all the way through.

I still haven’t had my damned shower.

Then the wife shows me the notice about the “election party” which is after the normal school day, in the gym, and ends “Promptly at 4:00-5:30”

How the HELL can some4thing end promptly over the course fo an hour and a half?

This is the BEST school in the damned district. Good lord.

Last year I had about twenty five tomato plants, and was only able to easily harvest tomatos off about eight, because eight tomato cages was all I have- the others ended up laying all over the ground.

So this year, I put three plants in each cage. The cages are huge- like five footers- so they are too big for one solitary plant anyway, so I figured, each cage has an early girl, a better boy, and a celebrity. Two additional cages have Lucky Hundreds (cherries) And I put in four decent looking green pepper plants. Hope they do ok.

I have four twenty foot rows of corn. Not a lot, but a few nice ears of fresh sweet corn are a gift from the gods.

I have cukes, and beets, in addition to peas and beans, and I expect to put in some squash, too, before it’s over. I want to find some good jalapeno plants, if I can find some that dont look iffy. I may yet hang one or two tomatos as well.