Song for Today: Love is a rose but you better not pick it..it only grows when it's on a vine...handful of thorns and you know you missed it..lose the love when you say the word mine.....Linda Ronstadt

In Season: roses, roses, beautiful roses

It was almost 90 degrees yesterday, while today's temperature high barely reached 70. Great weather for greens and sugar snap peas growing in the garden. The tomatoes are in. I have Big Boys, romas, yellow pears, early girls and cherry tomatos. Lots of tomatoes......some for sauce, some for salads, some for my yummy summer tabouli salads and cherry tomatoes for eating off the vines. I think two more plantings should suffice. Zucchini, squashes and pumpkins still need to be sown. Oh, and I can't forget sunflowers. What's a garden w/out sunflowers to attract birds and give them their own snacks?

Thanks to beerdrinker.org for the link to Defective Yeti and the funniest story I've read in months. Defective Yeti meets Darth Vader...go to the bathroom first .....

Enraged, furious, angry, spitting mad are just some of the adjectives needed to describe the 2003 tax bill's exclusion of minimum-wage income worker's child tax credit. Can anyone explain to me if this is legal? Can anyone explain why this is not discriminatory? Can anyone explain to me why they couldn't pull some more moula out of the higher income workers?

As the blue jean and detergent buyer in the family it is beyond reason that someone making at the maximum $12.80 an hour would be denied an increase in this child tax credit. Families are huge consumers who are always in need of toilet paper, maybe a lottery ticket or two, diapers, take-home pizza, and a 6-pack of Hamms. In fact, they are such huge consumers, that maybe they were excluded because their major purchases aren't in the stock market, but in paying off medical bills, student loans, or financing a reliable vehicle. Their taxes are already low enough, (with all them child deductions) that their consumable income has nothing to do with the immediate economy.
That is the only rationale I can make in this insane move. Freaks!! Read the NewYork Slimes article here. (treat as suspect;consider the source!).

Speaking of beer...the Hood River News reported, here, on May 19th, that Full Sail Brewing Co, my old employer, will be botttling and brewing good ole Henrys products.