Post Number 600 -- of beans and wi-fi-and where to find seeds

(chrisfrandsenart.com)

Chase is a serious teacher who also loves hip-hop. Adena pours drinks by night but advances the frontiers of science by day. Kat knows both how to tend a table in the big city and to handle a grouchy snake back in Her rural acres.

I could go on. We are all of us a blend of talents and interests, we shift from role to role.

Today I helped several colleagues at work set up wi-fi connections and felt justifiably proud of myself -- me, a Generation-Xer who was fully an adult before I ever accessed the Internet, me, who just learned myself how to connect to Wi-fi a month ago, and two months ago didn't even know what it was.

Then I came home, changed clothes and got onto my hands and knees in the balmy 96 degree heat to harvest green beans from the garden. First time ever doing that, growing green beans, that is. Different role. Farmer ECD, minus a straw hat and a hay stalk to chew on.

Sweetie and I boiled them and seasoned them with butter, paired with yellow squash and fresh tomatoes.

I planted another row of carrots tonight, too, no thanks to the big box outlet stores that refuse to carry garden seeds except for a few weeks in spring. You know, the planting season does extend beyond April, at least in my neck of the woods. I had to find a specialty garden store and I bought their last two packets of carrot seeds.