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  1. Well, there are the Leprechauns, Miss Anony. But they don’t help with the cooking. (The greedy bastids.)

    Oh, I got lots growing: asparagus, artichokes, beans, potatoes, squash, broccoli, cabbage (I make sauerkraut), beets, boysenberries, strawberries, apples. However, the spinach is all gone now as it got et.

    I’m a veritable, semi-retired, engineering farmer (or farming engineer – depending on the day).

  2. I studied engineering as well 🙂 What kind of engineering do you do when you’re not farming?

    Those snotty Leprechauns. Sounds like they need a talking-to. 🙂

    I make strawberry jam. Mmmm. Never tried boysenberry jam, but I bet it’d be good. Do you grow pink lady apples? They’re my favorite. 🙂

  3. @8 – You mean “Pink Pearl” apples? Haven’t heard anyone talk about those in years. Mine: “Yellow Transparent” and “Gravenstein.”

    Engineering: At this point, only software applications, mainly for atmospheric and oceanographic research. By training: aeronautics & astronautics.

    Your turn!

    /resume 🙂

  4. Anonymiss,

    Thank you for picking me. That’s twice, which is twice more than Keln ever has. You can give my cookies to Jimmy. I weigh less than he does, but I’m working on weighing even less.

  5. @13 Iowa Jim, Your line was hilarious, sir. 🙂 I choose the ones that make me laugh out loud. Awesome job! Wait, though. Did you just say you don’t want my cookies??? I’m not sure how I feel about that… 😛

    @12 Harvey, you are a snot. I hate haunted-y type scary dark stuff and Stephen King would top that list. Snot. GEEEEEEEEZZZ!!!

    @10 blarg, a room? for resume swapping? Geez. I didn’t know that was customary. You and Harvey are BOTH snots.

    @9 Jimmy, My degree is in Mechanical engineering. I really enjoyed the nuclear side…but for some reason 🙂 they wouldn’t let me complete my training with the on campus reactor…. Since then, I have undertaken a wide variety of “projects”.

    I have never heard of those types of apple. I’ll have to try them sometime. 🙂

  6. @14: I was going to ask about your degree and then blarg told me to get a room, so I backed off!

    It sounds like your ME department was a big ‘snot’ for not letting you complete your training on the campus reactor. (The university I attended had one of those, too, but I never saw it. It was run by a combined group of weird physics prof’s and mysterious nuc guys.)

    Projects, eh? Yeah, I know about those. And yet you find time to blog AND make cookies.

    BTW, blarg, I think IMAO is a nice room!

  7. @14: I didn’t say that I didn’t want your cookies. I simply quite graciously offered them to Jimmy, motivated by the fact that I’m fifteen pounds heavier than I’d like to be, although I’m five pounds lighter than I was in May. I’m not even baking my own cookies, because I eat too many before I give them to my neighbors. If the weather continues good (by Iowa standards, which are a bit different from the standards in Silicon Valley, where I used to live), I’ll be at my target weight in another three month or so, and I’ll feel free to eat cookies.

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