Planning an urban vegetable garden

I've always been very fond of gardening. I like looking at flowers, how they grow and smell, but I've always had the same disadvantage, not to have a square of ground to plant in, so pots have always been my best allies.

Last May, a colleague gave me two little tomato plants. At first I didn't know what to do with them, but I finally took them home. My wife was very happy with the idea of harvesting tomatoes in only two months, but I have to confess that I wasn't as convinced as she was of the success of that new experience but, in spite of that,  I planted them in two pots.

After two long waiting months, we have eaten the first tomatoes. I have to tell you that I had forgotten the real taste of this vegetable. Its taste makes me think about the holidays my family spent in the farm of a friend of the family where all kind of fruits and vegetables were harvested.

After this successful experience, I couldn't remain crossed-arms, so I have bought, what is called an urban vegetable garden table. It's a wooden made table with  almost two square meters surface to cultivate. I'm looking forward to planting  lettuces, cauliflowers and onions which  is what I've been told it's
suitable to be planted in winter.

If the harvesting is generous I might send you something....., Would you buy it?
I'll keep you up to date.

Vicent

More About Mushrooms

In the United States there is a phenomenon called Indian Summer. Here, in Spain, we have a similar weather event called "veranillo de San Miguel" which happens about the first days of October. It is In these dates when in the pine woods grow the wild mushrooms "boletus" best known by "migueles" and one of its best varieties "boletus edulis", "king bolete or penny bun" in English. It is a delicacy and a highly prized good by restaurants and mushroom pickers. It is at this time when we more like going to my mother's village which is in the middle of the woods.
This year is being very prolific and you can see mushrooms everywhere.
On last Sunday morning my older brother, his wife, my children and I went to look for "níscalos", "milk cap" in English. Now it is its turn. It is also edible but it is not so prized as the "boletus" although its well-known for its exquisite taste.
Well, as my brother and sister in law, do not have children, I do not know who enjoyed more if they or my children. These latter have already gone mushrooms picking in many occasions but this time we went to a different place which is not a long way from the town. The spot is wonderful in autum.
It is usual for us "beginners" find a dozen mushrooms in one hour. But, in this occasion, the first half-hour we already had picked up about two kilos. You could find several specimens after walking a couple of steps. My children had not enough time for everything.
When they had found a mushroom they shouted excited, then they cut it and ran towards us to show it, then they ran towards the basket to put it into, and then they kept looking for.  (I do not know if I have correctly written: gritaban, cortaban, corrían, seguían ¿?). We enjoyed a lot watching them enjoying.
I guess all children enjoying a lot either picking mushrooms, pine cones, blackberries, sloes, chestnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, figs, snails, or just sticks or twigs. It's amazing how much a child can enjoy with the nature.

The wireless radio invention

“This is SS Titanic, come at once, we have stroke an iceberg”. That was the message sent by two radio operators from the famous ship. This message could not have been sent without the invention of a shy child from Italy.

A very cold night of November, 1912, two men trained by this inventor sent a message using electromagnetic waves through the air. Certainly, many people would have died without that technology. That message was sent over and over again till it was received by Carpathia, the nearest ship on the Atlantic Ocean.

Young Guglielmo didn’t like school or playing with his friends. He used to spend a lot of time in his bedroom taking machines to pieces. He also liked setting up experiments, and he was particularly interested in Electromagnetic waves. The idea of conveying signals through these waves was his entertainment and passion. In his first experiment he was able to transport electricity along the electromagnetic waves to making sound an electric bell. When he showed his experiment to his father, he couldn’t believe what his son just made. He started searching wires in the bedroom, but he couldn’t find any. His unusual son, somehow, could manage a wireless system. Mr Marconi was amazed and very proud of his son.

In the next years, Marconi was looking for support to his experiment. He wrote plenty of letters to the government in his country, but they never wrote back. So, he travelled to England where he found people interested in his brand new invention. His first transmission was a signal sent from France to England through the English Channel. Then, he was ready for the biggest challenge of them all, the Atlantic Ocean. He succeeded too. He carried on experimenting and his invention was installed on the ships at that time.

So, in 1912, the Carphethia’s captain received the signal from the Titanic and sailed as fast as he could towards the ship in peril. That night 711 people were rescued thanks to the wireless communication; 711 souls saved by those desperate wireless signals from that ship and we have to thanks Guglielmo Marconi, that unusual boy from Italy.       

I Found My Particular Reader

I think I am not an expert neither the Internet nor computing, but I always liked entangle in the computer.
One of my dreams since I was very young, since I started with English was having someone to read me books.
On the Internet I have heard many podcasts but that was not what I wanted. I wished hearing and reading at the same time.
Now, thinking about audiobooks and all this kind of things, I thought that perhaps I could find, on the one hand, books written in English, in pdf for example, and the other hand audios of these books, in mp3 for example. And so it was. Now, whenever I have time, I spend pleasant moments with my new distraction.
At first I tried finding movies in English with subtitles in English, but , by the moment, I have given up. I visited a hundred of pages, but there is no way, all of them put any impediment.
I will keep trying it. Any suggestions?