The Japanese are pretty strange about a lot of things, none more so than melons, which are commonly given as gifts. The usual gift melon is a cantelope, though honeydew and watermelons are also given. Japanese farmers have developed a square watermelon, which they have designed so it exactly fits Japanese refrigerators. (Which is another bit of Japanese weirdness: there are two sizes of refrigerators. Period. One that’s maybe three-quarters of a cubic foot, and one that’s a couple of cubic feet. Ten- or twenty- cubic foot refrigerators like Americans and Europeans use do not exist.)
Monthly Archives: June 2001
Geeks and their toys
It is Balloon!
Today’s the day: John Ninomiya will be flying his bunch of grapes at the Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival.
More Corn
This is the Ruby Queen variety.
I alternated the Ruby Queen row-for-row with the more common Chubby Checkers variety. The Ruby Queen seems to be producing faster, which is the opposite of the way it’s supposed to work. It does seem to be producing right on schedule– if so, the first day of summer, I should be eating my own home-grown corn.
First Week of June
What a difference a few weeks makes in the garden!
If you look back at the May 16th entry, you’ll see some tiny little corn plants, and patches of bare dirt. Three weeks later, this is what’s there.
Rags to Riches?
An example of life’s definition of irony: Laid-Off Worker Becomes Instant Multi-Millionaire.