I’m having trouble loading the video of Bishop Andrus. I’ll keep trying. The one that shows is Bp. Chane instead. And nothing is showing up in the Bishop Chane post below, even though it’s there behind the scenes in my admin area. Anyway, both videos are available on HSUS Animals and Religion video page. Or, if you click on “Bishop Andrus” in the “Tag” link below, the correct video will show up.

(Again, this is Bishop Chane.)

Like I said in the “Bishop Andrus” post, something weird happened. In this case, the video doesn’t show up here at all. But if you click on the “Bishop Chane” “Tag” below, it will show up.

Pretty low-tech, eh? Which one do you like better?

(Well, I can’t remember how long it’s been since I laughed this much.)

I like my “red room”, my garage, the afternoon sun shining through the leaves of the jungle that was a patio, and my cat. So I decided to post this picture that I took a couple of days ago. As with all the pictures on this site, if you click on it, you can see a larger version:

(You know what they say about bloggers who post pictures of their cats….)

OK, here’s a picture of my Square Foot Garden from yesterday:

Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism

Remaking people or societies….

The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein

I noticed that if I click on the “RSS” in the browser window, it brings up a more “blog-like” version of the page. Since my posts tend to be long, it’s an option, to see more at once in a more readable version. (That would speed people past the obsession with my garden, to animal-related posts.)

I meant to make this a “page” and not a “post”, so I could link to it. Oh well. Humor me, and take a look at my latest garden pictures. I truly have no life. (Even worse, when it rains, and I don’t have to water anything. I just watch it grow.)

Here are some pictures I took today. First I wanted to try to capture the curly loops on the tops of my garlic plants, because I thought they were cool. (If you click on the pictures, a larger version will pop up, which will show more than these do.)

Then I wanted to try to capture my baby cayenne peppers, because I never had luck with peppers yet. And I think this will be a good year….

Then I tried to capture my largest baby broccoli….

I also have some baby bush beans, but I’ve raised them before, so they aren’t a novelty.

Here’s a picture of my 13 potted tomato plants in front of the Earth Box, the Square Foot Garden, and the potato patch….

This morning, I noticed that the tomato plants in the front two pots had been victims of a vegan varmint who had dug them out. I repotted them. They’re doing fine. Of all the plants to disturb, there were no seeds in those pots. (I have soy, carrots, basil and parsley in the long flower boxes. I might have understood foraging there instead.)

So, I had counted 27 tomato plants the last time. I have 4 Better Boys and 2 grape tomato plants that I bought in the flat of veggies. 3 more planted themselves from last year. So I won’t know if they’re Better Boys or Romas, until they “hatch”. The rest were planted from seed. They’ll catch up. And if they’re late bloomers, it will probably be a good thing if they don’t all have to be picked at the same time. The 4 in the low flower box are Beefsteak, and the rest are Better Boys. (The tomatoes in the pot are the “overflow” that I didn’t have room for in the garden. But they’re in a sunnier spot, so should do well.) Next year, I probably won’t plant so many. But I was hoping to give some seedlings away. I guess I’ll just give the tomatoes away, unless I learn how to can them, or freeze them. It would be worthwhile to learn how to can, and to make my own spaghetti sauce to last all year, since organic sauce costs from $3.50 and up for a jar, depending on what’s on sale.

Today, I bought some Lola Rosa lettuce at the local farmers’ market. I was surprised that I couldn’t find any pictures of it on the Internet. So I took one of my own:

This is buried in my 2003 archives where no one is likely to ever find it. At this particular juncture in my life, I feel the need to post it again. It was written by a couple of (former) Lutheran pastors back in 1988, and still speaks to the culture in our churches today:

Das Glauberger Schuldbekenntnis, translated into English….

The Glauberg Confession

We confess before God, the Creator of the Animals,
and before our fellow Men:

We have failed as Christians,
because we forgot the animals in our faith.

As theologians we were not prepared to stand up
against scientific and philosophical trends
inimical to life
with the Theology of Creation.

We have betrayed the diaconal mission of Jesus,
and not served our least brethren, the animals.

As pastors we were scared to give room to animals
in our churches and parishes.

As the Church, we were deaf to the ‘groaning in travail’
of our mistreated and exploited fellow-creatures.

Glauberg, Spring 1988

This is just one picture I wanted to post, because things are noticeably bigger than they were on 6/8 when I posted the last pictures.