Holy BLT!

GOOD posted about the Purest BLT content today. Apparently the winner has been chosen!

Click here to read the formal contest rules
Click here to read GOOD's post

The rules are pretty interesting - requiring you to grow/cure/bake your own ingredients. That's a contest I can get behind. But the real story here is the winner who created a very detailed org chart of his sandwich.

Hot damn was I impressed. I want a BLT like nobody's business now. Great job. Awesome sandwich.

Click here to review the awesome org chart

Garden Troubles

For those of you who aren't aware, this summer has been plagued by unusual weather troubles (namely, a heck of a lot of rain). As a result, my little garden (an assortment of vegetables and fruits and plants in containers on my porch) is having all sorts of troubles itself.

My tomatoes were dreary and sad for most of June - having gotten about 8 hours of total sunlight throughout ALL of June. The tomato plants have since perked up and have produced about a dozen actual tomatoes (sadly... they are only NOW beginning to turn not-green).

My Brussels Sprouts were attacked by tiny, adorable green caterpillars posing me with a difficult problem. Kill the tiny, adorable caterpillars or watch my nurtured-from-birth plant? In the end, I found a spray I could make at home to deter the caterpillars.

The cucumbers got fungus, the tomatoes got aphids, slugs attacked, then drought... etc. etc. etc.

The latest in the long line of garden woes? I came home a few days ago and, as usual, immediately checked on my baby plants. My (giant) sunflower plant looked good but I noticed that it had a few leaves who were missing most of themselves.

And that, is when I found the fuzzy caterpillar! Again, he's adorable and fuzzy! But... he's killing my plants. So hard.

Oh the Baja

So we all know the Subaru Baja was not the best idea of automotive innovation. I get it - it's like a truck and a car... but somehow it seems they got the worst of both vehicles.

That said, I do love it when I see them on the road. But based on this Consumerist post, there may be far fewer of the 2005-2006 variety if we're not careful.

Read the Consumer Post

Apparently, the 2005-2006 Baja (yes, there are less than 16k of them) has a faulty fuel hose that could, inadvertently, cause your entire vehicle to go up in flames.

Yikes.