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I pretty much finished the forge today. The two wheel rims are mounted on the pipe, the top wheel rim has the mortar poured and shaped, and the tuyre is set up. I'll be using part of a leaf-blower with a variac transformer for air.

I'll light first fire tomorrow. It may be this weekend before I actually fire it with charcoal.

My anvil is missing. I haven't seen it since I moved back in 2002, so it may be gone forever. Darn big piece of metal to just lose.

/johnny

I'm having a bit of Amaretto over ice right now because I am on my way to be the master gardener on these threads, according to the rule I made to be it. :o) (Your rules may vary but I don't care.)

My rule is, if I can get tomatoes from tomato seed I grew under the grow lamp, I am the master gardener of the world, not just these threads. That is how important to me it is to grow tomatoes. I killed the ones I had last year, didn't transplant them right.

I have a baby tomato on a Cosmonaut Volkoy Tomato plant!!, AND a baby tomato on a 4th of July tomato plant!!. How about that? All of the four types of tomato plants have blooms. Tomato plants I grew from seed later are growing. Think I need to stick a few Jobe’s tomato spikes in those pots.

The celery looks much better now except I lost a lot of the stalks when it went totally flat.

rightly, I see little bitty green things on two pepper plants that may be peppers. The tallest plant is the Fooled You Jalapeno pepper which won't be hot and the other is Hot Pepper Mix, so I don't know what kind of hot pepper it is. If it actually grows those little green things into peppers, maybe I can tell by what it looks like. It for sure won't be a ghost pepper, don't think a company would put something that hot into a hot pepper mix. :o)

If the yellow blooms on all those cucumber plants make cucumbers, I will surely have some but anything can happen before then.

That St. Anne lettuce is growing but I don't like limp leaf lettuce and that's what it looks like. I'm a failure at lettuce so far. I need to do something about that and try again, not using a strip. I've got that long wood planter sitting on the ground and I put net over it so nothing can get the seed and it's shady in the afternoon and I put new potting soil in it this spring so it should grow lettuce. I'll start on that project getting Tom Thumb lettuce seed from Baker’s Creek Seed as greeneyes suggested if the company still has some.

My two David Austin rose bushes that survived 2011 have luscious pink roses. When the flowers are gone I'll look to see if there is a rose hip of any size.

rightly, Friday and Saturday we have a 50% chance of rain.