2006-04-29
It's spring in Deventer, the Netherlands, too. So I can show off with pictures of the tulips I got for my birthday in December:
It's not much, but it's mine... Most of the garden has been taken over by the kids to grow vegetables. But I really like the yellow and red tulips:
2005-07-03
2005-07-02
Generally speaking, I'm in complete agreement with Tom Chance on the subject of gardening. We've had potatoes (and this years crop looks ready for harvest tomorrow; the ultimate in just-in-time supply logistincs), vegetable marrows and lots more. Peas, too.
This year, however, I also planted, in addition to a goosberry bush and blackberry bush, a rose bush. You see, there's this gap between the fence and the shed, where clumsy me couldn't manage to put some more fence. So I'm trying to teach this rosebush to close the gap for me, with its prickly growth. Nice flowers, too, but they don't last more than a few days.
In general, gardening turns out to be hard, this year. There's invasion of greenfly, the weather is completed messed up and I somehow fail to find the time to properly tend the garden. I blame bugzilla, myself, for that.
2005-04-02
I've been coding almost non-stop for about three or four weeks now. From 8:15 to about 17:15 Java hacking for Tryllian, and from 20:00 to 23:00 Krita hacking. And sometimes I could interleave the coding a bit: a quick dive into Java during a long Krita compile or a small bugfix in Krita while the Java unittests were running. I've added the Cimg-based image restoration plugin I have written about before (I see from the cvs digest that Gilles Caullier has added the same functionality to Digikam -- nice!), an almost-working select-by-colour dialog, a few tests and some performance enhancements.
Today I took the day off, more or less. I bought a climbing rose, raspberries and gooseberries, dahlias, lilies and strawberries for the garding and spent the morning with Menna and Naomi in the garden -- Rebecca being laid up with a touch of flue (poor girl; Friday night is our regular movie night, and she was not well enough to watch, and Menna and Naomis stayed up to watch "A Woman in Paris", that well known super-super film by Charles Chaplin).
And in the afternoon I let the kids play their latest game on my laptop while I slept the sleep of the just. I had intended to some hacking tonight, but first I wanted to test the latest version of Krita with my wacom tablet. It turns out that SuSE still does not give me out of the box support with version 9.2, so I had to jump through hoops and consult websites, but I got it working finally. We've had a bit of a regression, as I had feared, because drawing isn't quite so beautiful as it was. No doubt it'll get fixed in the beta...
2004-08-09
In spring, I found four wrinkly little left-over potatoes in the cellar and decided to plant them anyway.
2004-06-21
What with one thing and another, I haven't been able to spend as much time on my poor little garden as I should have. But in compensation we're having a really old-fashioned Dutch summer, with rain and sunshine following each other in quick succession. And that means that all the greens are growing really well.
2004-04-26
I've planted a fig in the front garden, a very little fig, no more than a branch. A figlet, so to speak... And it's getting its first leaflets.
