Check out these sprouts!

Man, I'm gettin' pretty good at this green thumb stuff. (Except for white flies they're still attacking my peppers the jerks!) 

These are the new baby heirloom tomato plants I sprouted from seeds I had scooped out of their parents. 

Holy crap! That could result a lot of tomatoes if these all mature at the same time. 

Ireland: Anascaul: Tom Crean

Annascaul's (this is the Gaelic spelling by the way) favorite son is Tom Crean. He was an Antarctic explorer and hero. And he loved puppies because the picture of him and the puppies is everywhere in the pub he used to run.

 And it's also the subject of the statue that was erected in his honor.  

It Must Be Dingle

Whatever it means store, you said it.

We hit Dingle in the late afternoon. It's a sweet small town but the rain was coming down and it was becoming a bit of a ghost town. 

However we did duck into this amazing crepe place. 

So if your in Dingle go there. And get the egg, ham and cheese crepe. It comes folded into a square with the unbroken yolk sticking out the middle. It was awesome. 

We probably should have stayed here. 

So we can say we were at the "berry" lodge of dingle. I'll let you work on that for a minute. I got so excited when I saw this sign because I was making jokes the whole trip that as soon as we got to Dingle I wanted to sample their famous berry pie. This guy thought I was trying to get a picture of him. When I only wanted the sign.

Leaving dingle I had my hand eaten off by this tower. 

Weird huh.

Nose Hair

Okay. We were experiencing some serious wind in our travels like in this castle picture.  When we got to the B&B in Annascaul and took off my sweatshirt I noticed I had a hair in my face. So as I started to brush it away I could feel it was coming from my nostril. Somehow I inhaled a rogue hair into my nose. And once I realized it, my first thought was to run to a mirror to check it out. And my second thought was to get the camera. You gotta look close. The sensation of removing it was oddly pleasant. Of course I had to pluck it from my head as well. I mean gosh, it was inside my nose. I guess it would only be grosser if it was a rogue nose hair that somehow grew unnoticed to that length and ended up in my head. 

BTW

Is in stores now. I wrote the foreword (it's the best part actually). 

Ralph from the Dharmalars did an interview with the guys at www.geekscape.net. Check it out.

Ireland: Killarney and a new Tyre

We knew there was a tyre shop in Killarney so we rode the spare till we got there. 

On the way we stopped at my favorite place of the whole trip. It was "Molly's Tea Room." 

They had the coolest art work and souvenirs. A huge carved druid.

 And leprechaun holding an ice cream cone. (We're buds.)

 And the greatest scone with clotted cream and jam I've ever had. 

It was chilly in the place so the tea was nice too. 

Then we finally made it to Killarney and found a tyre shop (not the one I saw in the phone book but all the same). These are the guys who saved the trip. 

They had the tyre for my car. 

And it was just our luck. They just opened up their shop like a week ago. 

New Garden: Right from the Box

There is still much to blog about my trip though Ireland and we haven't even scratched the surface of my trip to Vancouver. 

But I thought I would pause a minute and show off the garden I set up at the new place. 

I decided to mingle my plants this time. So I built a giant five foot by eight foot box. And filled it with soil. (It took a lot!) I took the plants I had in pots  and planted them in the box as well as added a few others that I picked up at different nurseries. (Oh man this blog is even boring me.) 

So far so good. Someone told me marigolds naturally repel bugs so I've added a bunch of them as well as other flowers to keep the bees coming around.