We've been very busy car shopping and tending to car related stuff. We weren't able to get the car registration renewed because it needs expensive repairs, which will cost almost as much as the car is worth these days. Car shopping is tiring and not a lot of fun, in my opinion. However, once it's finished, it's nice to have a good car to show for it. We're not ready to buy yet and the vultures car salesmen have been calling us at home to pester us. Ah well...
We've also been getting garden beds ready for planting. We have quite a lot of this weed growing in our yard, and today, I finally was able to find out what it is. I found out that it's quite edible, and an almost identical plant is considered a delicacy and sells for almost $5.00 a root in some parts of the country. We tasted some of it, and it's quite nice. It's one of a very small number of members of the mint family that produce a tuberous root. The root has a flowery aroma which is rather lovely when eaten. The other plant that's like it, Stachys affinis is used in Asian cooking either pickled or in stir fry. We're going to try it in a stir fry and then I might try to find a recipe for pickling it.
This week is working in the garden, bookkeeping, and working on the house. When we took my computer in to be worked on, we brought the wrong recovery disks in with it, so we had to reinstall the operating system ourselves. I've been busy trying to get it back the way its supposed to be with all of the programs and peripherals installed. I'm partway there, but there's still a lot to do. One of the cool things that came about as a result of this is that I found some really cool Firefox add-ons, one of which is this...
http://interclue.com/
I'm having a lot of fun with it. I can hover my mouse over a link, and then hover it over an icon that appears, and I can see the contents of the link without ever having to click on it. I love that feature.
