One of my favorite bands over the last few years has been Green Day.   American Idiot was  a pretty incredible album and their newest effort,  21st Century Breakdown, is not bad either.  Green Day is normally referred to as a “Punk” band and while this was true for albums like “Warning”, American Idiot and now 21st Century Breakdown both solidly cement their transition to a more mainstream pop/rock genre.

I’m not a high-falutin music critic but I do like this album – there is enough “fight the man” in this album that it still moves me to hate the status quo.  Fighting the status quo -trying to make things better – is why I ran for office in the first place and if I run again it will be the main reason why.  It’s always up to those with real talent to motivate the dullards like me to try something different…:)
This album has just enough of that stuff in it to stir the darker demons that hide in the corners of your soul….try it.

Well, the garden is off to a rough start.  We got our plants at Southern States and those plants were in the “peat pots”.  Last year, the plants were in the plastic pots and we just pulled them out and planted them.  With peat pots you’re supposed to tear off the bottom of them and then plant them. 

I guess the idea is that the pot will just disintegrate in the ground but the water doesn’t seem to move through the peat pot very well.  The plant will dry out if the water isn’t placed directly in the top of the pot.  Next year I’m either going back to the plastic pots or, I’ll just tear the peat pot off.

The peas were off to a roaring start but a rabbit seems to have come by and eaten the tops off of them.  I was hoping that we wouldn’t have to use the fence again this year but it is going back up tomorrow!!