Garden Report

 This weekend while I was in Springfield, I went ahead and pulled up some of the veggies in the garden. Who knows when I'll get back to Springfield, and by the time I get there the house may be sold and someone else wanting to eat my leeks and parsnips.

Well maybe not, but we can only hope that someone sees this house, gets a nice tax refund and buys our house.

 There are still onions and garlic in the ground because they aren't big enough to harvest. But I did get 14 oz of leeks.

16 oz of parsnips and
2 oz carrots

 And apparently the flower bulbs are as confused about the weather as I am. Yesterday we might have hit a high for January in Springfield. I heard it was near 70 degrees.

These hyacinth and tulips need to retreat back into the dirt!

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Bittersweet

I had a three day weekend (due to working for a City and yesterday being a government holiday. This job has some definite perks.) I went to Springfield to clean my house and list it.

 Something very sad but exciting about seeing a realtor sign in your front yard.

 And a key lock box on your front door.

I forgot to show you how good the back porch looked after we replaced the siding.


If you're interested in looking at our house, it's listed here: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1819-W-Lee-St_Springfield_MO_65803_M77868-51855 or look for 1819 West Lee Street, MLS #1200648

This is the perfect home for somebody wanting a two bedroom home with a raised bed garden and greenhouse. 

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Music Monday: Money for Nothing by Dire Straits

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Doily

 I know you're probably getting tired of seeing doilies. I still have a few to make. I started a new one last night. And I still need to finish the one for my mom... I ran out of thread and can't find any to match, so I think the last couple rounds will be a different color with a made up pattern out of my head.

 This one isn't blocked out yet, but I finally finished it. All those double crochet clusters take forever. They are pretty but a pain!

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Oh wait! That was a month ago!

But there's snow here today, and it's still coming down outside my office window. Rather heavily, in fact.

This is how I was greeted this morning: 

 About 1/2" to 1" of snow, with frozen sleety stuff underneath that on my windows...

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Numbers

Today I am going to share a weird relationship I discovered with numbers. This is something I discovered because I always sat in the middle of the backseat of cars growing up, and stared at the clock for long periods. I also looked out the window a lot at county road signs.

What I discovered is that any series (that I've encountered so far) of three or four digit numbers will eventually equal zero if using addition and subtraction. I know this sounds weird, so bear with me as I explain.

Take, for example, the number 347.
3+4=7-7=0

The numbers in bold font are the original numbers. The regular font numbers are the result of the addition or subtraction.

Let's look at another one: 529.
5-2=3+9=12-5=7+2=9-9=0

As you see, it matters whether you use addition or subtraction as the first action. If you use the wrong action first, the number will get increasingly larger or increasingly smaller and not equal zero.

Here's a four digit example: 12:21
1-2=-1+2=1-1=0

Surely I'm not the first person to notice this. However, if anyone else has, I don't know if there is a name for this phenomenon or if it means anything. I don't know how this would be useful to apply to any situation. It's just a weird thing of nature, like the golden section (or golden rectangle) that works because it works.

I invite you to try this with a series of numbers and let me know if you find one that doesn't work.

For awhile I tried to also use multiplication and division, but that got a little difficult.

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Music Monday: Broken Wings by Mr. Mister

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