Be ready for outages this week guys. Conserve energy wherever you can to help relieve stress on the grid! 

Some pictures of my garden, the only plant that stuck with me from the beginning is the green bell peppers the rest didn't fare out so well,  some are just planted about a week ago. I tried to grow: tomatoes, bell peppers, baby beets, chives, zucchini, and egg plant. 

I just had a random idea. Why don't all new houses include a smart meter that not only gives standard info like temperature but a simple breakdown of what sources the electricity being used is sourced from? Like if you were to check at 5 pm, in San Diego it would probably be around 75% fossil fuel sourced. If you checked at 6 am, it would be more proportionately renewable-based. I think this could be implemented relatively quickly and would increase household resource awareness. If we wanted to get creative, we could even have a minute by minute counter of how many lbs of CO2 our household is emitting at any given time. This part might be controversial, but local energy providers could implement a surcharge based on how many hours a household is operating above a certain C02 per minute threshold. To not disproportionately affect lower-income households with more family members, there could be a surcharge tax break implemented if a family's total income is below a certain amount. Thoughts? 

Enough
Broken bottles and rusted pieces of glass
Crumpled up newspaper lost in the grass
Flooding concrete plaguing our trees
Can this be the environment that goes on around me?

Toxins and insecticides splashed onto our food

oceans filling with black grim oil
Sea life headed doe fatal doom
This is what we are to consume?

Mills bleeding out iron casting out fumes
Airlines leaking destructive gases
Weapons of devastation tested at isolated sites
And this is the air that sustains life?

Is there something we can do 
Maybe raise awareness to those closes to you

Went to Lowe's to pick up some more seeds today. All sold out. Apparently the home harvesting craze is on. Not sure if people are just bored at home because of COVID or if it's a trend that will stick long term. Hopefully, it's the latter. Everyone with a garden should be growing their own food nowadays. 

I hit a slight speed bump in my quest to becoming a master harvester. My zucchini plant's leaves got ill from mildew so I had to pull most of them before it spread. Luckily the roots were not affected and the plant appears to be recovering and producing. Sometimes I forget how vulnerable these types of plants can be. If I fail to water and check on them for even a day, things can take a turn for the worst. 100 percent still worth the effort though!