New URL; Update your Bookmarks and links!

After two years of having the wrong spelling in the URL for this blog I finally corrected that spelling from "boulerbelt" to "boulderbelt" (note the addition of the letter "D"). If you have this blog linked to your blog or website please update the URL. Time to update bookmarks too.

Having changed the URL (which I cannot undo as a spam site has taken over my old URL-that took under 24 hours) may have been a bone head move in the short run as a lot of people cannot find this blog via their links and bookmarks but in the long run it should be a brilliant move as now this blog will show up in search engines when "Boulder belt" is typed into the search box.

It has been fun trying to remember where I put up the URL to this site and changing them all (over 20 links so far and I am sure there are others), especially in light of the fact I am using a brand new computer that I have not been able to transfer anything from my old computer (because it died 36 hours before I got the wonderful and beautiful new iMac) to so I do not have many of my old bookmarks and only 10% of my email list

A New Computer

I got my new iMac today and it not a moment too soon as my old iMac died Monday Morning. This means I have lost pretty much all of my email addresses so if you are reading this and were on any of my email lists or for some other reason got email from (you might be friend or relative) please send me an email to goodowsATinfinet.com (chnage the AT to an @) so I can capture your email address and reclaim the 500 or so addresses I had as of this past Monday.

I also have lost a lot of marketing stuff that I intended to back up on CeeDee. I have the basic stuff on CD so I should be up and running with brouchures, labels and the like in a couple of weeks. Maybe by than I will have a working printer as well. I have a lot of tech issues the past 6 weeks or so and soon they will all be fixed with upgrades/new equipment.

Lucy Gets a New Mac

I bought a new iMac today, actually I ordered it today and it should be here next late week.

It will be a big improvement over the failing iMac I currently own. Among other things, it will have a keyboard that will have working "T" and #5 keys. It will also have a lot more memory, be faster and an up to date OS (for a few months anyway).

I'm psyched

This will be Mac #4 for me.

Farmers' Market Starts and Other Issues

Today is our first market of the season. I feel like I should be a bit nervous and running around getting things together but other than harvesting crops, I think we are pretty much ready to go. And I should be out harvesting as it is dawn but we are having a thundershower so I will wait until the rain passes.

Picked up my new digital camera yesterday and of course I cannot use it because I am not running a new enough version of mac OS X. I have 10.2 and I need at least 10.3 to use the software that came with the camera so I can download the images to my hardrive via a USB cable. Not a huge problem as I have a 1 gig memory card on order form Amazon that should arrive in a couple of days and I will go to a local electronics box store to see if they have a card reader that is affordable (I suspect it will cost much less than buying the upgrade to Mac OS 10.3 which is around $100 US.). Despite the hardware/software incompatibility problems the camera is way cool and can do so much more than the old one.

After getting the camera and spending a couple of hours figuring out I cannot download pix to my Mac I went and started our tomato crop for the year. We are doing 11 different kinds of tomatoes: Glick's Pride, Big Beef, Pink Brandywine, Yellow Pear, Red Pear, Sungold, Yellow Taxi, Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Green Grape, Opalka and a Opalka cross we have been growing out for 3 years now trying to get one of the mutations to stablize out. We are going for the stripe genetics in hopes of creating a new striped sauce tomato. Should know something in maybe the next 4 to 7 years.

I started the tomatoes in small soil blocks and as soon as they germinate I will make 10 to 12 trays of 2" soil blocks and will move them into those. They are slated to be transplanted around June first and I do not want huge plants because they are quite hard to put into cloth mulches so that is why I started them so late in the season.