Salvation Amy

A quote from my friend the Chapter 7 Trustee on the subject of Bankruptcy reform…

"Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive decrees, depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my peoples’ poor of their rights, making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey."

                           Isaiah 10:1-2

Dicentra

Some things take you whizzing immediately back to childhood, and for me, this little woodland treat is one of them.  A good portion of my free time as a kid was spent in the woods, usually alone.  I did and do find this plants flowers miraculous.  Watching it bloom makes my front yard feel just a little more like home.

Plus, it never hurts to wear your politics in your front yard.

Read it even if you think you have before.  There’s new Stuff.

The changes are going to be coming slow and steady around here for a while.  Today’s change - All gardening posts have been moved to Amy’s Garden.  Over the next days, weeks, and months, look for a b’zillion formatting changes, and maybe some fancier stuff as I learn some HTML coding.  Slowly slowly.

I’m in the process of moving my old blogger posts over here.  Maybe with the posting of this post, the archives will update.  We’ll see.

As of now - Political Posts have been moved to the Deepest Darkest Basement.  Where they belong.

If you want to check out stories, photos, observations and such about the people I live with, you should go Gather Round the Hearth.

I think this may be the best picture I’ve ever taken.

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I love jicama.  I can NEVER find it at the grocery store, and I always kind of want it.  So I got some seeds, and I planted them.  They are large, almost rectangular, reddish brown, and lovely.  They sprouted.  And they are hearty looking, strong little plants.

I figure that I’ll put them in really big individual containers, so that the tubers will have room to go.  I can almost taste the delicious jicama.

I decide that I should look them up on the internet and find out what kind of soil they like. 

Well, some things I found out.  They won’t produce tubers anywhere in the US except maybe southern Florida.  Mmm.  Maybe I should have thought about climate.

But wait, there’s more.

Instead of tubers, they will produce "luxurious vine with prolific flower and pod production" but no tubers.  Which is the part that you eat, because, well, it’s the part that’s not poisonous.

But wait, there’s more.

You see, the above ground is a "vigorous spreading prostrate vine which reaches several feet in diameter.

Me to Scott: "At first I didn’t think it was a problem, because I was thinking diameter was the around part.  But that’s not right, is it?"

So, apparently?  I’m growing Audrey II in the computer room.  And I can not wait to watch the neighbors FREAK when I plant it in the yard and the dogs start disappearing.