OK folks here’s the new improved picture.  I used the “Auto Levels” since I’m sure the computer knows better than I do what the picture should look like.  Used the “spot healing tool” on the neck, makes me look 15 years younger, don’tcha think?  Course if I WAS 15 years younger I’d be illegal.

More pics next week.

I’m taking a Media Technology class this summer, and my Final project is to learn Photoshop. Perfect for a woman of my…talents (and by talents I mean age}.  I had a mini-whirlwind introduction from the professor teaching the course…stupidly, I chose something he is GREAT at.  Memo to self…next time choose something he knows nothing about!

Anyway YOU, dear reader, are going to learn along with me.  So here we go.  To the left of the actual working area is the TOOLBAR, this is your God.  Lookit all the stuff you can do!  OK, so I don’t know what half of it means.  But I like the sound of “blur”, “spot healing” and “slice.”  Sounds more like plastic surgery!  I actually photoshopped this image–the words in that turquoise color are the ones I put in there.  I tried to make the words black but gave up out of annoyance.  I feel that this will happen often during my learning experience.  The tool thingies with no word next to them, means I really didn’t understand what it does so I left it blank.

Now here’s the first picture I’m gonna mess with.  Yes, yes, I know, never take a picture with someone 30 years younger than yourself.  Oh well.  First thing to do is get that neck taken care of.  Which tool, blur, stamp, spot healing?  Tried the clone stamp tool…that’s supposed to take something from somewhere else, copy it, and put it where you tell it to.  Didn’t work, neck still awful.  This is gonna take a long, long time.  I’ll post the results in ten years when I figure this thing out.

By the way his name is Shane and he can really shred on guitar!  Come see us, Sept 18, it’ll be a Rock Mass at Gate of Heaven church in Dallas.  And staytooned for the new, improved pic, once I get finished with it!

Tomato on the right, with the stake.  Blue lake beans that were eaten by groundhogs, in the middle.  To the upper left, a castor bean plant, supposed to repel moles and….yes…groundhogs.  Does it work, who knows.  All the way in the back, tomatoes, squash, and lima beans.

Different kind of beans, called Contender.  Open pollinated, which means I will save the seeds for next year.  Yea, you’re supposed to save the EARLIEST and BIGGEST but I can’t help it, when the tiny new ones first appear I just munch away.  Hell, that’s what I GREW ‘em for!!  These did way better than the Blue Lake, the groundhogs apparently either couldn’t find them or didn’t like them as much.  I’ve already caught 4 groundhogs by the way, with my Havaheart trap, and released them all into the wild

The new secondary garden, for extra corn (Stowell’s Evergreen and of course Silver Queen) and pumpkins, which you can’t see, and canteloupes.  Have never had much luck with the winter squashes.  I think our season is just a leeeetle too short.  However, this is the first year I’ve seen squash bugs.  Even if the season is long enough, the squash bugs will probably get ‘em, even though every morning I go out and pop all the eggs, and try & find the parents. Little b-words!!

Ooops.  This isn’t my garden, it’s Gogol Bordello last month at Appel Farm in Elmer, NJ.  I really enjoyed ‘em but the REAL fans said it was a rather subdued show.  I’ll tellya, that Eugene Hutz is ka-ray-zee!!!  And awesome.