pumpkins and ooze

Well, we planted pumpkins at the land today. Used a cool thing called an 'ooze tube'. Here's a pic of one on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/TWK40-Forty-Gallon-Tomato-Watering/dp/B00340BMB4/ref=pd_sim_ol_5

Works nice in this case because we have 3 acres of land about 5miles from our house and cant easily go every day to water. This bladder holds 40gal of water and "drip irrigates" the pumpkin plants. It has capacity for a week. We'll see how it works. Should be some photo's on valerie's blog soon

http://valeriesvegetables.blogspot.com/

Edit: we picked 2 of these up on clearance at lowe's for 3.99, not the 19.99 as shown at amazon.

update on green mountain

talked to green mountain customer service friday (via web chat), and it seems I need to be a customer for 3 months to get my gift card.

Let me google that for you

Randomly discovered this. Seems to be separate from Google, and just fills out the google search box and hits the appropriate button (google search or I'm feeling lucky). Apparently created in response to people "too lazy" to search themselves.

the site: http://lmgtfy.com

sample search: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=houston+restaurants

kinda neat

pain

man my tooth (or more accurately, my whole left side of my mouth) hurts.

Electricity Suppliers

I switched last week from Reliant to Green Mountain Energy. Not sure how it will be in the long run but hopefully it will be cheaper and more sustainable (ie for the planet).

This was prompted by a 577$ bill from Reliant. For over 3800 kwh (it was mostly June consumption) the average price was over 0.14 / kwh. I signed up for a 6 month fixed rate plan with green mountain for (I think) 0.109 / kwh. Its also supposed to be "100% renewable" whatever that means. I wonder what would happen if everyone (or everyone in Texas where the switch is very easy) suddenly signed up for a 100% renewable plan -- would the coal and natural gas fired plants just be shut down? (I doubt it -- there's still the industrial and municipal/government demand).

Also I was supposed to get a 100$ gift card for signing up (or maybe it was 50 I cant recall) but I havent seen any sign of it.

Will try to update once I get a bill from green mountain.

More of a Journal than a Blog

I made the blog to document random things that happen, random thoughts I have, or want to remember. I'm always trying to recall "when did this happen" or "what year did we do that". So toward that end, I present Random Thoughts.