New PowerBook

Yesterday I received, courtesy of RU, a brand new Apple 15" PowerBook. I had known about this for some time so Megan and I had already sold my old blueberry clamshell-design iBook on eBay (for a surprisingly large amount of money considering). I really like the new PowerBook except:

• it's a lot hotter on my lap than the old iBook
  
• it really needs the super cool handle that the original iBooks had - they rocked
  

That said, it's really well outfitted - the latest version of all of Adobe's Creative Suite, Graphic Converter, all the iLife apps (although I already had those), Airport Extreme card for wireless access on campus (and from the neighbor caddy-corner to us if I wander out in the yard some), 80 GB hard drive, 1.5 GHz G4 processor, 1 GB RAM, and Bluetooth which allows me to sync my addressbook and calendar to my phone (which means I don't have to spend tedious hours entering everyone's personal data into the phone). I still have a few more things to install and I've yet to transfer all 8 GB of my iTunes library to move over, but things are moving along just fine thank ya!

Garden movies

I've taken a set of photos of the yard and Tyler and made them into a slideshow. There are two sizes:

• medium (320x240 pixels) - about 65 MB
  
• large (720 x 480 pixels) - about 290 MB
  

These should stream just like movie previews so they should not be a problem to view unless you're not on a broadband connection - if that's the case, you should probably stick with the medium size. You'll need Quicktime to see these. We hope you like it!

Dinner from the garden

Dinner from the garden (barring the chicken of course). If Tyler would just catch us some chicken..... Spinach with a anjou pear vinegarette, new potatoes with peas, and a nice white wine. Yummmy!

Garden on June 15th

Just some more gardening news - things are growing like crazy. It's been very hot here recently and was fairly wet before that so everything (including weeds unfortunately) have taken off. We should have tomatoes relatively soon if it will stay sunny a couple more days. We're already enjoying some raspberries now and we just harvested some peas this morning. The lettuce, mesculun, broccoli, and cauliflower are winding down now. Take a look!

More garden pictures

I've posted some pictures of the garden. See them here.

Tomatoes are coming

We have tomatoes! We have probably 20+ tomatoes on the vine now and with the sunny, hot, humid weather we're hoping they'll ripen up soon. We also have baby peppers on all of our plants. Some pictures will be posted tomorrow!