Asparagus Production

The <a href="http://www.cas.psu.edu/" title="PSU College of Ag Sciences">Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences</a> <a href="http://www.extension.psu.edu/" title="Cooperative Extension and Outreach">Agricultural Research and Cooperative Extension</a> has an interesting little <a href="http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/" title="Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Publications">publication</a> in their <a href="http://agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/" title="Agricultural Alternatives - Penn State Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology">Agricultural Alternatives</a> line about <a href="http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/FreePubs/pdfs/ua313.pdf" title="Asparagus Production">Asparagus Production</a> [PDF]. Here is a list of the ones I thought looked interesting (there are many more).

Food Log

Cereal again this morning.



<ins datetime="2003-10-06T13:37:00-05:00">Lunch was a bag of chips and a four mile walk.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-06T15:59:00-05:00">This afternoon I broke down and had a <a href="http://www.naturevalley.com/Products2.htm" title="Welcome to Nature Valley: Products">Nature Valley Oats &rsquo;N Honey Crunchy Granola Bar</a> (180 Calories).</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-06T19:31:00-05:00">Salad and a beer for dinner. Gretchen found some low fat blue cheese dressing. I could not tell the difference.</ins>

Chili

The freezer is almost full with bounty from our garden, but we still have a large bowl of tomatoes left from what we picked before the frost this past week so we are trying to use them up. Tonight we are making up a batch of chili freeze.

Food Log

Breakfast this morning was an omelet made with left over peppers, onions, and salsa from the fajitas last night, a slice of toast with butter, and a glass of orange juice.



<ins datetime="2003-10-05T14:02:00-05:00">Lunch again consisted of a hand full of peanuts and a beer.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-05T19:41:00-05:00">Dinner was two fajitas made from last night&rsquo;s left-overs, enough tortilla chips to finish off the salsa, and two beers.</ins>

Still More Credit Where Credit Is Due

I found the cool JavaScript/CSS hack to <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/nicetitle/" title="Nice titles">show link titles nicely</a> by Stuart Langridge at <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/" title="kryogenix.org">kryogenix.org</a>. I have modified it to work with acronyms, abbreviations, and definitions, and have modified it to work properly with inserted text.

The Birds!

The trees are filled with migrating birds. It sounds like some great rusted metal machine gone mad.

Fire

We have wood heat and in the eleven years I have lived in this cabin I cannot remember ever having had to start a fire so early.

More Credit Where Credit Is Due

In the truth in advertising category, I thought I would document where I got the HTML code for the banner at the top of the page before I forgot. I think it came from the <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/" title="A List Apart: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques">Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques</a> column that <a href="http://gnuhaus.com/iblog/" title="iBlog - still putting the &quot;blah&quot; in blog...">Mark Newhouse</a> wrote for <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/" title="A List Apart, for people who make websites { tease }">A List Apart</a> as modified by <a href="http://www.bigtrouble.com/ala_119_opt.htm" title="bigtrouble - A List Apart #119: A Miniscule Optimization">A Miniscule Optimization</a> from <a href="http://www.bigtrouble.com/" title="bigtrouble">Bryn Dyment</a>.



Now that I look again, I see that Mark has a clever way to get rid of tables used for form formatting like I currently use for my contact page. Perhaps I will try to reformat that page using his techniques.

Food Log

I had scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, and orange juice for breakfast this morning.



<ins datetime="2003-10-05T07:47:00-05:00">Lunch consisted of a hand full of peanuts and a beer. Dinner was three fajitas and two more beers.</ins>

Playing with CGI

I have discovered that there is a way to run CGI scripts from the PSU personal Web pages (like this one). Here is my <a href="http://scripts.cac.psu.edu/users/m/h/mhl100/scripts/printenv.pl" title="CGI Process Environment">CGI process environment</a>