A Few Quick Notes 225

-While we don't have any rain yet, the skies have turned grey and appear as though they are preparing to really let us have a soaking. This meteorological turn for the worse would be associated with the hurricane/tropical storm system that is presently approaching the south coast of Nova Scotia. I heard one forecast this morning that suggested that some regions could get up to 10 centimetres of rain (which seems like a lot to me), hopefully they weren't talking about where I live.

-For the first time in a few weeks Neil and I didn't make it to the farmer's market. From my perspective this was mainly because we have adequate quantities of both celery and onions, each of which were recently or are on sale. The impressive thing about the present celery sale is that is the cheapest I have seen it in Halifax and it is also some of the nicest celery I have seen, a nice deep green with well formed stalks.

-Last night Neil, Rebecca, and I played a quick game of Scotland Yard. Not surprisingly, Neil, as Mr. X, smoked us. As one might suspect, Neil was somewhat more familiar with the associated strategy then either of us, something that he put to good use.

-Some of our plants seem to be doing quite well. Notably the beans and banana plant seem to keep growing a a fair pace. On the other end of the spectrum are the thyme and beet plants. In both cases these seem to keep dieing for no apparent reason. While the thyme plants does this only a few days after sprouting, the beets are now doing it a month or so into their lives. I still can't quite figure out why some of the beets seem to just die while the other seem to be doing quite well. On of my thoughts is that the container in which they are growing isn't deep enough, but that doesn't explain why some of the other plants are doing well. Another possible issue is overcrowding, though there seems to be no connection between spacing and sudden death. Some of the more isolated plants have died, as have some of the more crowded plants (the same pattern holds true for the plants that are still alive).

-This is shaping up to be another weekend filled with reading and associated school work. Most of the reading will be for two courses and hopefully result in a variety of papers, all of which will be due on or before Tuesday. As soon as the papers are handed in I will have to switch over to reading for my third course, and then, once Wednesday hits, back to one of the other two courses. It seems as though there is no way to get ahead of the game.