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Wednesday, Jan. 01, 2003 - 2:45 p.m. I know�I have been posting a bunch of photos here lately. Sorry if they slow down the loading of my page, but I am a firm believer of the old saying �A picture is worth a thousand words�, so I load them up and display them for you. With the way I write, it might be the best for all involved� I always plant a few amaryllis bulbs every winter, hoping to have a stalk with multiple blooms putting on a show on Christmas day. That didn�t happen this year. My timing was off on one by a full week, and the others aren�t even close yet. The photo below is of the orange-red flowers of the one I came closest to hitting on time. It opened partially yesterday, and was in full bloom this morning when we drug ourselves out of bed. Since the blooms only last about a week, I wanted to photograph it and share it with you while it lasts:
I have one more bulb that should bloom next week, and a few more that are slowly coming along. I buy a couple new bulbs every fall. They aren�t that expensive (around $3- $4 dollars each), and bring color inside during the drab winter months. In the summer, I transplant all of my amaryllis bulbs into the garden in any small openings I have in my tomato bed. In September, I pull the bulbs, allow them to dry for a few days, and then cut the green tops off. After a little bit of storage time in the pantry, I pot them back up and hope for the best. I average about 1 out of 2 blooming at least a second year, and I have one large white flowered bulb that has bloomed for the last 3 years. They are easy to grow, and make a great conversation piece, too. If you can grow a houseplant, you should give these plants a try next fall. Here is one photo of the NDDOT truck that I wrote about last week. The one that was described as �engulfed in flames� by the driver.�
I shot a bunch of photos of this charred heap, and I will post them on Photogra when I get the time. I�ll link the page here, once I get it made �public�. I used my macro zoom feature on some of the shots. If I didn�t tell you what the photos were of, you might have trouble identifying the image. At least, that�s what I was hoping for�. The two guys who retired yesterday� First off, there is Tink:
I�ve written about Tink here several times before. He is the one who was a temporary lead worker, after spending 20+ years only doing one other job for the NDDOT- picking up dead animals and other trash from the roads as our �Roadrunner�. He tells the tallest tales you would ever want to hear, and I think he even believes most of them. The best Tink-tale ever? His story about chasing Bob Hope off of his property in California for stealing his oranges. I told him yesterday that whenever he comes up with a good one, he has to call me so I can pass it along for him. I don�t think he really wanted to leave. He doesn�t do much outside of working, and I think he will end up working somewhere else in the future� The other person who retired yesterday was Deacon, or just plain �Deac�, as most of us called him.
I have spent a few great spring days catching fish in Deac�s boat. He left me a note on my desk yesterday, telling me to call him next spring when the crappie are biting. I will take him up on that offer. He is a good person at heart, but he also loves to visit with the ladies. He stops by the credit union so often; they actually changed their rules on how many cash withdrawals you could make in a month. True story. You can only make 4 cash transactions a month before they start charging you a couple of bucks for each after that. He used to make some type of money movement almost every weekday! He is harmless. He is just a little different than most people, that�s all�. He is barely old enough to retire and still be able to draw his pension. He has been exploring his options for a part-time job elsewhere, mainly because not working might drive him crazy. Hopefully a job with many women working around him, so he doesn�t have to drive to his credit union every evening any more� This might be my last entry for a few days. The weather looks like it will be turning very bad in about 8 hours form now. It might start out as freezing rain and snow mixed, changing over too all snow with an accumulation of a couple of inches. Or, it might just be all snow, with up to 10� possible locally. Neither option sound like fun for me. I�m on days this week, so I have to contend with all the extra traffic along with the messy weather. Y�all drive carefully, please��
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