I've sat down with my box of seeds, enumerating them into categories such as root crops, corn, squashes, greens, herbs, brassicas, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers.  Why isn't there a category for corn, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers?  Produce that grows in the air?  One of life's mysteries.  Well, I have enough of everything to make a very good garden this year, using last year's seeds and beyond, so this is the year I probably don't need to order anything.  Also, I am not going to order plants through the mail again.  The blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb and asparagus roots do better if bought downtown and gotten right into the garden same day, instead of languishing in warehouses, delivery trucks and mail boxes along the way. 

I've made a little, very little, progress with Google Earth.  Now I've downloaded their latest version, continued to read their help manual, and now can do a little "layering," showing borders.  One thing I don't understand is the concept behind "desktop resolution," which needs to be set at 1024 x 768 minimum, for maximum operation.  This just makes everything smaller.  I had it all the way over to the lowest setting, which makes all things much larger and easier to see, and now I have everything, including this blog, smaller; I don't know why this is better. 

The temps are a little lower, and that means that when walking with Pepper and now Arnie, I don't slide out of my tracks as I walk.  Much better traction now that it's colder.  My chicken, Susie Q., is happy and large.  Her shape (something like a football, with legs and head sticking out) is quite aerodynamic and efficient.  I wish I could pet her and hold her, but she won't allow it.  I have a wand, made from a Jerusalem artichoke stalk, that I reach in with and stroke her back gently while talking to her nicely, but she just heads for the house when I do that.  Silly girl.