I just took a walk around the yard. 
Things are starting to sprout in the 
garden -- radishes, whatever we 
planted next to the radishes, and the 
green beans. We didn't use up all the 
seeds, so we didn't staple the 
envelopes to the sticks at the end of 
the rows. Now I don't remember what 
was planted in several rows.

On the other hand, the rows are all 
straight and orderly this year. No 
drunk gardening. Sadly.

There was a nice morning almost two 
weeks ago, so we went out and did the 
planting. We also planted potatoes in 
a former flower bed behind the house 
and tomatoes in with some flowers 
along the side of the house. We still 
have a big flower bed in front and a 
shade garden on the north side. It's 
an old house that's positioned in the 
center of the lot, the way they used 
to do things in British Columbia 
before the big-box houses with six 
feet between them.

I also ventured out into the great 
covid-o-sphere and got a truckload of 
soil to fix the lawn where we replaced 
the water main last year. Fortunately, 
it started to rain shortly after that 
work was done, and the new grass is 
doing quite nicely.


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Did sxmo for the Pinephone ever come 
out of left field! It was completely 
unexpected.

It's a PostmarketOS (Alpine Linux) 
based distribution that is using 
suckless tools, scripts, and some new 
C programs to create a great "desktop 
environment." I've been having a great 
time setting it up how I like it -- 
and everything is infinitely 
customizable. 

The original programmer[1] set up the 
interface to use the volume and power 
buttons, but I've been shifting 
everything over to gestures -- and 
resizing the elements so that they're 
a little more touch friendly. My next 
adventure will be to customize the 
keyboard. If you read through the 
thread linked below, you'll see that 
another user already did it and gave 
me some advice. It's so cool to have a 
Linux phone that is so definitely a 
Linux system first.

As an added bonus, the OS comes 
pre-installed with a gopher browser, 
and the phlogosphere shows up in the 
videos. Too funny! You can read more 
about those adventures at:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9913

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[1] http://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo