Climate Change: Spend Four Minutes on This

I got this VIA Green Roof Growers- take 4 minutes out of your life and watch.

Good bye Garden plot- A mini rant

Well a semi-sweet day around here- I went and took the remaining plants out of my plot in the

community garden. For the record, The community garden was just a demo garden, one that I am proud of. We got a late start (Late June-early July) And with 6 of 8 of the plots growing food, we managed to donate over 51 pounds of food to the food bank. My hope is that the City of Burien takes note and starts a community P-Patch. Of course, (RANT ALERT)cities being cities it seems to take an act of god to do anything worth while, they need studies, cost analysis, etc etc. HARUMPH. They have the park land, thanks to the King County Executive, cost would be minimal, savings to the city would be substantial. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY SIT ON THEIR HANDS ON THIS ISSUE. People want and need to grow their own food.

and the cost issue, well I ranted before on this issue. Suffice it to say, I am not backing off until I see a nice community garden in Burien. Maybe I need to contact the new city council people. You know- introduce myself, in my boyish Tony Soprano way. Maybe leave a head of cabbage in their bed. Anyway onto the rave part of this post. There are a lot of folks to thank for our "community garden: The good folks at sustainable Burien, my fellow like minded members who did the labor and are pushing for a permanent garden, Dane and Kathy, the curators of the BIAS, who let us have space for it, and see the garden as an art form. No one to thank from the city, cause I don't have a permanent garden yet!

007- License to bark (and pee, poop and lick)

Well I gave into government today and got Romeo a dog license. Sammy is still a fugitive, being an unlicensed cat, but Romeo now has a license to be a dog. They are getting a bit silly here about licenses, Rumour has it that Burien is going to institute a Bike License. But that in itself wouldn't pay for bike lanes, they want to start a surcharge on your car! To pay for Bike lanes. I have to tell you if that ever gets to the voters, I would have to vote Hell No. This recession is starting to get to me, folks. First the King county Executive wants to shut down all the King County parks- well at least the ones in less desirable neighborhoods in the county (read "Lower Income Neighborhoods) while the eastside (Bellevue, Redmond) pretty much goes unscathed. Luckily the city of Burien which recently annexed a good size portion of the area north of me is going to take over the parks that the KCExec says cost too much for the county. Looking at these parks, I see very little to upkeep. Hell. If it helps I will take my tractor up there and mow the damn things. Thats about all the county does there. The real losers in this battle are the kids who live in these areas. And in Seattle they just reached an agreement with the affected unions to furlough workers for 2 weeks a year and shut down the libraries for a week as well. If elected officials are seriuos about saving money, why aren't they furloughing their own staffs, legal departments and closing the parks in their own neighborhoods? Smells of elitism.
Anyway didn't mean to get on a rant there folks. Just let it be known that Romeo D. Johnson now has a license to be a dog. And bark. Pee. and poop as long as he picks it up.