Music and Renewal.

With the close of Spring and Summer just around the corner, there's heaps of life and good vibes in the air:

• My mini-flock of Bantam chickens is getting stronger and larger every day. They're still living in a brooder box in my basement like surly teenagers, but the bigger they get the quicker I can give 'em the boot out into the yard.
  
• The garden is planted and I'm trying my hand at growing lettuce and hoping to never buy greens at the store again. Needless to say my garden is strongly tomato-centric, due to ease of growing ability, but I'm not complaining.
  
• I pulled the trigger on a couple of solid concerts over the next couple months; Underworld, Wilco, and Phoenix (see below for what will inevitably be the album of the Summer and MGMT can suck it!). 
• A late July Vegas trip planned with Cousin Russ and Kyra; 4 days of insanity, wrapped in a cheap timeshare-sponsored package.
• The honeybees are currently scoring 50/50 with one hive in jeopardy and the other growing strong. I've probably waited to long to put honey supers on the strong hive, but that's another story. I'm also debating moving some brood from the strong hive into the weak one. Just need to get my ass in gear.
• Not writing enough as is apparent in this blog. Twittering like hell though! Micro-blogging anyone? Yuck.
• Sold my bearded dragon, BD, to a friend and purchased a breeding/mated pair of new bearded dragons. Their cage almost takes up an entire wall of our living room. The word "zoo" is quite appropriate at this juncture.
• Completely behind on posting pictures from the past 2 years. I've got mad gobs of pix from various vacations I keep telling myself I need to process and post. Maybe this weekend?
• Need some music suggestions? Try these on for size: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Thao, Grizzly Bear, Jaydiohead (Jay Z meets Radiohead, surprisingly good!), and Dark Was The Night (compilation).

That's all for now folks. 

Brief highlights from my head, because what good is a blog for anyway?