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Raised bed garden starting to produce!

Posted on July 8, 2009 by bturnip

It has been barely 3 weeks since we first [reported] plucking the first vegetable from our raised bed garden. Since then, our garden has just exploded!

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Perfect summer dinner

Posted on July 7, 2009 by bturnip

Farmer’s market “Carbon” tomatoes with fresh basil from our garden in a caprese salad, flank steak from the grill, pasta and fresh vegetables seasoned with herbs from our garden. Tasty!

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Buffalo River pt. 4

Posted on July 6, 2009 by bturnip

Actually, Pinnacle Mountain…

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Buffalo River pt. 3

Posted on July 6, 2009 by bturnip

Visiting the Nars correction: Elk, not deer!

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Buffalo River pt. 2

Posted on July 4, 2009 by bturnip

This is the continuation of the Buffalo River posts, part 1 is [here]…

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Buffalo River pt. 1

Posted on July 1, 2009 by bturnip

Me and my buddies took a late June trip up to the Buffalo River. Our three day route was to take us between Mt. Hersey and Gilbert:

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Walk it off!

Posted on June 23, 2009 by bturnip

Caught an elbow reaching in trying to poke a rebound away:

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Raised bed garden- first fruit!

Posted on June 17, 2009 by bturnip

Gabe did the honors of plucking our first garden vegetable today. We chopped up the banana pepper, it was full of fresh-from-the-garden goodness:

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Numeric validation with Oracle regexp_like

Posted on June 17, 2009 by bturnip

PROBLEM: Identify records where there is non-numeric values for a particular column. SOLUTION: select SOME_COL from SOME_TBL where regexp_like (SOME_COL,’^[^[:digit:]]’) ; Obviously this implies that maybe the field should be a NUMBER datatype to start with, but sometimes what we … Continue reading →

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Garden progress

Posted on June 2, 2009 by bturnip

Our little raised bed garden experiment is moving along nicely. The tomato plants have grown up enough to warrant some bamboo trellis support: The cell phone picture doesn’t show a lot of detail, but the tomatoes are down the middle, … Continue reading →

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