The more things change, the more they stay the same

This might be a new project, but the things we are being ragged about are the same old shit we hear about on every project. Does any of this sound familiar? Yeah, I think so:

I am writing to everyone to address a few housekeeping items, PLEASE READ these as I would like to not have to police the group or send multiple emails regarding these topics throughout the project as it gets repetitive, nagging and exhausting.
REMINDER:: You are in a SHARED workspace.
Refrain from doing the following (to ease any olfactory distress of your coworkers):
Spraying any sort of smelling products into the air within the workspace (use the restroom or outside)
Wearing excessive perfume/cologne (remember, everyone may not have the same sensory enjoyment as you)
Cooking malodorous foods in our shared kitchen
Eating malodorous foods at the desk
Taking your shoes off at your desk
Please also note that, since this is a shared work space, keep your conversations to a low tone and minimum within the space, as it can get distracting for the people around you.
Should you need to take a phone call, DO NOT take calls in the hallway or lobby outside the suite. This disrupts the other businesses that we share a floor with. Please step outside the building to make calls. Thank you.
Be completely cognizant of your surroundings, please keep the personal items on your desk within YOUR personal space—please be spatially aware when you are expanding into your neighbor’s space as it is not conducive to a tension-free working environment for the whole.
Lastly, and this SHOULD BE common sense, but it has been requested to review the dress code requirements to the space. I know it is getting warm, but PLEASE adhere to the dress code set forth in our TPI Handbook. You all received this handbook with your onboarding email. For your reference, should you need it, please refer to Page 22 on the section titled “Personal Appearance.”
Thank you for reading this ENTIRE message all the way through.

Yes, I provided the entire email, because I think it is informative.I think I have received an email like this on pretty much every project I've ever been on. These are the things people complain about, and these are the things that people keep doing regardless of how much people complain or agencies tell them not to do these things. The people doing these things don't fucking care if they are offending other people, or pissing people off, or whatever. It's part of why they are in Temp Town. They have no clue that what they are doing makes other people unhappy. Which is why these emails have no effect.

It would appear the F-35 doesn't suck as bad as a lot of people claim

As in, maybe not even close. In fact, the F-35 is looking pretty good to a lot of people. The Marines would like to get the F-35 faster than planned:

PARIS — The Marine Corps, which plans to purchase hundreds of F-35 joint strike fighters, wants them to be delivered quicker, the service's deputy commandant for aviation said June 20 at the Paris Air Show.
“We could use airplanes faster,” said Lt. Gen. Jon M. Davis, who will be retiring in a few weeks. “We’re flying some of the oldest tactical aircraft — the strike fighters — in the naval inventory.”

On top of that, a whole bunch of U.S. allies want to buy the plane, as well:

Canada is poised to buy 65 F-35 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp, sources familiar with the process told Reuters, which would make it the 11th country to join the program.
The United States and its allies plan to buy more than 3,100 F-35s in coming years to replace aging F-16s, F/A-18s and other warplanes.

So, 11 countries want to buy 3,100 F-35s knowing that it sucks? Hey, maybe it doesn't suck. In fact, at the recent Paris air show, the F-35 pretty much proved that it doesn't suck. Check it out:



Holy fuck. That plane can fly.

Tomato harvest!

It is pretty early, but we have tomatoes. I have a tomato plant in a pot outside my front door, and I gave a neighbor one, as well. This is what we have from my plant:

Still on the vine on my neighbor's plant:

Not for long, I think. Early harvest, looks like.

A traffic Haiku!

I don't normally have any reason to do a traffic haiku, because I live in a rural area with few traffic issues other than trying to get to D.C., where I work, and the less said about getting to D.C., the better. Today, however, I found inspiration on a backroad:

Stuck behind a guy
35 in a 50
Dumb motherfucker.

Sorry, need a few low-effort posts right now

I've been slack about posting for about four months now, so I am trying to get back in the swing of things. A couple cheap posts never hurts, and this qualifies. Mrs. Wolves likes to take pictures of clouds. Fortunately, she is a) good at this and 2) knows a good cloud when she sees one. Such as this:

And this:

And this:

And, of course, this:

Good clouds, no?

Happy birthday, Natty!

My granddaughter turned a year old the other day. Thank goodness her mother had a formal portrait done:

I might be biased, but what a doll.

Whole lotta farming

I have been to The Farm multiple times in the last couple weeks and, while I took pictures, I have been remiss in updating Farm activity. There has been quite a bit. This won't be chronological, really, but it should be reasonably comprehensive. I will start with the garlic bed. The garlic was et up with weeds, and the parsnips -- volunteers from last season's winter crops -- were ready to harvest:

Farmer Tom harvested the parsnips and gave them away. I weeded the crap out of the garlic and that bed was left looking like this:

Not sure what happens next there. Next, we move to the okra, which needed major weeding:

I weeded it, and planted seeds in the gaps. First time for okra on The Farm, so we'll see what happens.

Thwe peppers are doing well:

The carrots are doing quite well:

Kale and Swiss chard continue to produce, far outliving the expectations for these winter crops:

The peas have produced well. Last weekend, I harvested all of them, pulled the plants and took down the string trellis. This is part of the transition from cold-weather crops to summer crops:

Also harvested the last of the broccolinis, then pulled out the plants:

Same for the head lettuce and cauliflower:

The first bean bed obviously needed weeding:

So, I weeded it:

The second bean bed is doing well:

The broccolinis in back came out; the leaf lettuce in front continues to produce:

Not sure what to put in the back of this half-bed:

 Squash and zucchini are going well:

And, of course, I harvested a ton of leaf lettuce, head lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, cauliflower and broccolinis:

All of the ripping out of plants provides a great deal of material for the compost heap:

One of the things we did was put up a couple more overhead racks on the newer beds:

The racks will allow us to install overhead irrigation and, when called for, put up string trellises. Good stuff. Naturally, Jeb the Wonder Dog oversaw all of this activity from a shady spot:

 Going to The Farm tomorrow, so we'll have an update then.