Rumblings from Nifty Galoot

CSA Ringer T by Rotem Gear

I just saw a tweet from Jean at Rotem Gear that she has a new CSA design on t-shirts. It tickled me, as I’ll be going to a ‘Local Food’ Farmers Union dinner and meeting Thursday evening. A couple folks will be talking about their CSA’s. I’ll be talking about the Farmers Market, and a gal will talk about the farmers market visitor count and survey.

If you aren’t familiar with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)… it’s part of the local food movement. This t-shirt design is a clever tv parody and invites us to take a closer look.

CSA Ringer T by Rotem Gear

More items featuring this design can be found in the CSA: Community Supported Agriculture section.

Tags: Rotem Gear, CSA Ringer T, CafePress, CSA

Had a nice afternoon float down the Mississippi river with some neighbors yesterday.

Start of the Fall Flotilla

Gwen sits in her kayak at the start of the Fall Flotilla trip down the Mississippi river.

Jerry and Iona in a red canoe

Gwen is getting her camera to take a picture of Jerry and Iona starting to paddle a red canoe down the Mississippi river.

Jerry and Iona in a red canoe

There were pretty reflections off the water as Jerry and Iona canoed along the eastern bank of the Mississippi river.

W paddling his kayak down the Mississippi

Fall colors and reflections off the water make a pretty picture as W paddles his orange kayak down the Mississippi river.

Fall Flotilla down the Mississippi river.

A pretty picture with fall colors along the banks of the Mississippi river as canoes and a kayak head downriver. Bob’s in his homemade wooden canoe. The other canoeists are John and Joyce and, Jerry and Iona. W is in the kayak.

After the trip, we all gathered at Gwen and W’s house for a potluck supper. What a nice afternoon trip and good food!

I have a number of websites, and many of them are WordPress blog based. There are lots of great plugins for WordPress to use. Here’s a list of some of them I’ve found useful:

• Akismet – Spam blocker
• Bad Behavior – Spam blocker used in addition to Akismet
• CommentLuv – Gives a backlink to a commentor’s last post
• Contact Form 7 – Customizable contact form
• Lightbox 2 Plugin – Used for showing larger views of images in posts
• List Subpages with Descriptions – Just what it says
• NoFollow Free – Remove nofollow from comments, with customizable settings
• Popshops.com – Add products you affiliate to your blog
• ShareThis – Make it easy for folks to share posts they like
• ShowIKRSS – Display Imagekind galleries in your blog and make links affiliate links.
• WordPress Automatic Upgrade – A must have for upgrading WordPress
• WP-Ads – Useful for showing ads or content wherever you want in your blog
• WP-Amazon – A way to find Amazon.com products to add to your blog

There are many other great plugins I’m not using because I don’t have a need for them or haven’t heard of them. I did want to share the ones I like and use most often.

Here’s a photo of bright red and yellow flower blossoms I took at last Wednesday’s farmers market. I love how this photo turned out with other blossoms behind the central bloom and the green leaves under the blossom.

Red and Yellow Flowers by Kent Lorentzen — View Larger

I’ve added this to my Flowers gallery at Imagekind, so it is available for sale there, framed or unframed.

Tags: Kent Lorentzen, Red and Yellow Flowers, Imagekind, Floral, Flowers

My friend Jean, from Rotem Gear, recently posted about a new design for farmers… It says ‘That’s How I Roll’ and has a picture of a farm tractor. Perfect for us farm guys, gals, and kids. Don’t you think it’s a great design?

Farm Tractor White T-Shirt

This great design is available on many styles of shirts to fit nearly anyone. What a nice gift for any farmer, or wannabe farmer.

It’s a late spring and all the planting has been delayed. Tuesday I cut potatoes and Thursday I got them planted. Put in about an acre, divided between Gold Rush russets, Yukon Gold, and Red Norlands.

Took some video when I was cutting spuds… And this is my first video posted to the web:

I kept it short on purpose so it wouldn’t take too long to load on dial-up internet. Okay… I have to admit… The clip of cutting is speeded up a tiny bit to shorten the clip.