Ghost Note Studios

Some photos of my studio here in town:

The console is originally from Trident Studios in London; Bowie, T.Rex, Queen and Elton John recorded using this desk. It then went on to Impact Recorders in LA where the 1st 2 Cypress Hill records were done.

The piano is a Baldwin 9 footer, also have a Hammond A100 organ with Leslie Cabinet a variety of guitars and low watt amps along with a Marshall head.

Beer Thirty

First Sprouts

Not even the Winter solstice yet and three tomatoes have already sprouted from seed that I started on Dec. 1st.

Peche Jaune, Buckbee’s 50 day and Northern Lights, take a bow!!

Spent yesterday walking on the arbor that is on the southern exposure installing eye hooks on the 1″x 1″. I felt like I was walking a tightrope even with all that lumber beneath me. The idea is that those eye hooks will hold the wire for my containers that also have eye hooks in them:

And when I get them up there they’ll look like this:

That way when the tomatoes really take off I can just have them hang off instead of building a trellis or caging them. This will provide extra shade as the sun rises during the spring. Want to put watermelons up there, but then I’d probably have to re-inforce the hooks with washers and bolts to keep them in the plastic.

The Farmer in tha Hood

Long time, no post.

Gearing up for my 1st spring in the new crib and boy have I been a busy boy.

Planted the following(thanks to Greenfield Citrus and Baker Nursery ) :

• Sanguinelli Blood Orange
• Orlando Tangelo
• Lisbon Lemon
• Macatera Sweet Orange
• Pink Eureka Lemon(it’s only pink when it’s unripe, but it is striped  like a green  & yellow tiger)
• Bonanza Mini Peach(2)
• Anna Apple(2)

Just started seeding the following short season tomatoes(thanks to Tomatofest.com) :

• Buckbee’s New 50 Day
• Early Annie
• Marmande
• Northern Lights
• Orange Roma
• Peche Jaune
• Siletz
• Sunset’s Red

And a Scarlet sweet Watermelon

The reason I chose Short season  is that A: they’re used to growing in chilly weather but will benefit from the full sun, and B: they mature so fast they’ll hopefully won’t get zapped by the sun to the point that they’ll split like the larger tomatoes usually do out here.

If the Lord’s willin and the creek don’t rise, the 1st of them should be ready before the Phoenix Open and most of the by the time pitcher  & catchers report for Spring training. Starting next week I’ll be seeding the Cherry Tomatoes that will keep me in sauce from March 1 thru June. Gonna be hanging them from an arbor that runs along the south roof line, gonna anchor them with sting and some eyehooks.

Just transplanted:

• Mexican Lime
• Buddha’s Hand citron
• Navajo Blackberry

I think the Lime will be OK, worried about the Buddha Hand and the Blackberries. Finding the right locations is hard, wonder if it’s too hot for the Blackberries even in this microclimate.

Getting ready to harvest:

• Pink Eureka
• Blush Grapefruit
• Minneola tangelo
• Kumquat

Have a shipload of kumquats, all of 4 Minneolas(then again the tree was half dead when I bought) 20 or so Grapefruits and a dozen Pink Eurekas

The Unintentional Creepy Onesie of the Week

Beer thirty, special edition

Just came in today, and no, you probably can’t get one

Skateboarding goats

Goats doing what they do best, standing on stuff, then jumping off.