Muchacho Polaco

These are some agaves I’ve been propagating from the front. I have eight of various sizes. The one in this photo is the largest.

The ones in the front yard look like this:

They look terrible because we’ve not been getting water. But they produce a steady stream of offspring that look like:

Then I have another variety:

I have nine of these and they came from various places around the neighborhood. I have a large one in the front that looks like:

And finally I have 3 more of another variety I’ve propagated:

These are the newest and smallest of the bunch.. I have one smaller one growing in the front that I found in the neighborhood:

That’s a total of 21. At an average of $15-$30 each at the nursery (depending on type and size), that’s a rough savings of $315 to $630.

There was a Ford F150 that went for about five grand that I liked more than this toyota but I didn’t bid on it because I didn’t want to win two trucks. We will keep trying.

In a couple more hours this morning’s auction begins and we’ll see if we are victorious this week.

We purchased a pop up camper a couple weeks back and realized we need a truck to pull it. I was thinking our Honda Element would be sufficient, but the pop up is too heavy.

In the last auction, I lost a truck by $200.

We have to walk the dogs at 5am each morning because by 6 it is far too hot.

Scout was a natural swimmer – at least that’s how we got him. Berlin not so much, but he’s much more willing to learn than Rome. In that way he’s more like Scout and the other one much like Tila in that he seems to hate the water.

We went to caleb and morgan’s wedding on saturday. We’ve known caleb since he was about three years old.

They still have not killed each other.

So far the hydropronics have been going pretty well. I have been growing a variety of things. It is the bok choi that is doing the best. I believe it’s supposed to take around seven weeks to full maturity.

I’ve been in Indianapolis for the last week. It seems like a nice place. Tonight we toured the football stadium.

I am attending a conference in Indianapolis this week. Ed Slott is a CPA that does pretty spectacular workshop on taxes and tax planning.

Matt and I took a trip to Kentucky last weekend to visit our friend Dan who has 200 acres in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. As far as I can recall, this was my first trip to Kentucky. It is an extraordinarily beautiful place – so green.

This is the barn where we stayed. Dan is building an apartment inside, so it’s not as rough inside as the outside.

He bought an old tobacco farm and this barn was used to dry the leaves.

We used his side by side to travel around the property. I believe he said it’s about eight miles to circumvent the parameter.

The layout was pretty diverse. From prairies to various rock formations, waterfalls, and rivers.

Dan had a cow recently butchered and in the freezer so we had red meat for nearly every meal.

The baked potatoes sitting in the coals below the meat turned out magnifico.

Cigars and bourbon each night around a fire. The weather on this trip was really pleasant. It did rain a bit, but mostly clear and 50s and 60s.

Our last day was sunny.

We traveled home on Tuesday, but got stuck in DFW for hours. Fortunately, we have access to various lounges now which makes for a pleasant time.