A little too much farm labor and not enough labor at the drawing board. It’s time for me to hunker down and scribble through the weekend. No worries, there are worse jobs to be had. And I am enjoying my wide screen computer dvd player, watching Jonathan Rhys Myers sneer his way through The Tudors.

Speaking of yummy things, many delectable eats out here for the picking. Todays’ treat was an absolutely fresh spinach salad sprinkled with local range-fed pork bacon, no preservatives. I never buy grocery meats anymore.

There is a farmer’s market in town once a week which sells superior goods. The local ham is the best I have ever tasted, and costs about 1/3 what the best Smithfield hams run (which can easily cost $100 and up). We buy several a time and hang them in the well house. The place smells like breakfast.

After writing of how much I like growing kale and collards, now that I am harvesting turnip and beet greens, collards and kale have been made redundant. They taste about the same, and you get root vegetables to boot. I’ve got a lot of new recipes I want to try.

The harvest is rich with perfume. I want to roll around in my garden like a puppy and gather up all the scents, to smell of thyme and lavender. And turnips.

Heavy rain is expected for the next couple of days, and flood warnings are out. I am housebound, so I will draw many things.

By the way, this global warming thing. We’re not doing it right. It’s 61 degrees F in JUNE.

The storm keeps knocking the satellite out, so I’ll gather dvd amusements, and I’m gone from here.

Enjoy the local scenery.

PS: We wish our pal and blog regular Brickmuppet all the best. His mom has cancer.

Earlier today, MTV broke news of Fall Out Boy vocalist and bassist Pete Wentz teaming up with famed designer Darren Romanelli, Nathan Cabrera, WINTERMEN’s Brett Lewis and Imaginary Friends Studio’s Sam Basri to create an all-new comic book series with Image Comics debuting this September, FALL OUT TOY WORKS.

“Me and Darren came up with the idea of creating a world around ‘Tiffany Blews’,” Wentz told MTV News. “It’s more than a comic too. In the end, it will be a graphic novel, clothing, web site and possible toys themselves.”

FALL OUT TOY WORKS, inspired by the ideas and lyrics of Fall Out Boy, tells the story of a brilliant young robot maker who risks his entire company for his factory’s newly produced android named Tiffany as she becomes his greatest passion and potentially his own destruction. FALL OUT TOY WORKS teams Wentz with Darren Romanelli AKA Dr. Romanelli “DRx”, the ground breaking designer behind the reinterpretations of Nike, Looney Tunes and Black Sabbath, and writer Brett Lewis, the acclaimed creator of BULLETPROOF MONK and The Wintermen. Art chores will be handled by Sam Basri of Imaginary Friends Studios, the art studio behind the art for Radical’’s Hercules: The Thracian Wars, Caliber: First Canon of Justice and Steve Nile’’s City of Dust.

Darren Romanelli added, “Pete had hit me up about designing him some custom gear and we immediately clicked. We’ve been throwing ideas back and forth for some time and FALL OUT TOY WORKS stemmed from a place of passion and common ground between us. Of course, Fall Out Boy has been a major inspiration, but we’re reaching in the larger world of art, fashion and pop culture. We’ve also brought in my frequent collaborator, Nathan Cabrera, to help conceive the wider world and are thrilled to have a writer of Brett Lewis’ status realizing these ideas to their fullest potential with Sam Basri of Imaginary Friends Studios.”

FALL OUT TOY WORKS #1, a 32-page full color five-issue comic book for $3.99, will be in stores September 2nd, 2009. For more information, please see Fall Out Toy Works.