Steve here!

Dear family,

I, too, have school to contend with, and I'm hoping I can get an hour of studying in before I go off to a jam session. I bought two watermelons this summer, and this year, for the first time ever, I saved the rinds and juiced them. Sometimes I mix the juice with apple juice, but it's good by itself. You have to drink it up because it'll go bad faster than most other juices will. I had a half a pitcher from the first batch go bad on me. I've been able to make a couple of big batches of salsa with tomatoes, jalepenos, sweet peppers, and fennel from the garden, which I've been eating with everything. We've had a few successes in our garden here and a number of failures. It's time to dig it up soon and plant for the fall. My housemates have fallen behind on their rent, and it's motivated me to insist on more communication, especially from myself. I hope they get caught up soon. I'm only scheduled to work about thirty hours a week, and I have to make my money stretch. I thought about looking for other work today, but I don't want to sacrifice time I need for music and for school. I think I will look for another housemate who can stay in the back room, although the last person who stayed back there ended up stealing more stuff than he contributed in rent. Love, Stephen