The 2007 garden is now started and is expanding! With today's additions, I had to move the entire garden into my writing studio, pictured above. As it continues to expand, plants will find their way beneath grow lights in the garage as well. Tomato varieties are numerous: Bonnie's Best, Beefeater, Early Girl and Legacy.

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My oldest daughter, Erica, snapped this delightful photo of a teepee in the town of Castle Rock, Washington. Castle Rock sits along I-5 north of Portland, Oregon, and is the gateway to Mt. St. Helens.

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WOOHOOOO! I have such a case of spring fever that I even wore my Dickies coveralls to work today ... and got all the JimBob jokes that goes along with it. Saturday, I tilled the garden. Today, I began potting tomato (and other) seeds in the garage where they will sit under grow lights until being moved early in March into the outside greenhouse. Next stop from there, the garden. And then into a canning jar, or directly into my tummy! After not doing a garden at the house last year, I'm more than itchin' to get going this year. This is just one flat out of many - the very early stages. And it's all starting in my garage - where all the good stuff happens...

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It looks like we're almost through winter - the days are getting longer and the temperatures are climbing, albeit slowly. I am getting a HUGE case of spring fever. That means two things: one, gardening and two, working on cars. (And getting a tan, but you can do that while doing the other activities). Here, Connie is jacked in preparation for engine removal. I've got to get this car running - and quickly, before gas prices start rising again.

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