Posted on 08/12/2016 4:04:37 PM PDT by greeneyes
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The heat and humidity have made me create some shade for my planters. Used landscape fabric for that purpose. Also have had an additional watering per day. There are now several green tomatoes in various stages of development The first tomato is just about starting to turn red. The roses which were pruned way back about a month ago now have buds forming. And the flower buds on the four o’clocks are starting to show some color. That will be exciting when they flower!
Maybe 5 or 6 times in the 65 years I have lived here. We have had more serious earthquakes then that...
Clear your cache and reboot your system.
It was a great day when we ditched the local dial-up and got DSL from AT&T. I’m a little concerned that AT&T wants to abandon Missouri.
I dumped the Dell desk top in 2011 and have an iMac. That solved many issues. No attacks. Crap is easy to ID.
Endless rain in the Ozarks. Weeds out of control, but harvest has been good for tomatoes, beans, silver hulls, and cukes. How to keep the stink bugs off the tomatoes????
Today is a brief cooler interlude, but more heat tomorrow.
Trying something new. Covered all my raised beds with hay. Going too see how it composts by fall season. Hopefully alot less need to till weed and water. Lots of heat generating underneath.
Thank you so much for the recipe, Greeneyes - we’ll give it a try this week!!
I often have to use shade in the afternoon, but not really this year. We’ve had a few scorchers, but not of terribly long periods-unusual for here, and in line with cooler weather patterns of the 1970s.
I think I would rather have the snow. We live rather close to the New Madrid fault zone, but not so close that we have actually experienced any quakes.
One afternoon, I was sitting here at the computer, and there was one that was only between 3-4. It was over so quick, I didn’t even realize what it was. I thought it was a plane or helicopter flying very low at first-but it was over too quick for that, and the ceiling tiles of the drop ceiling fluttered a bit.
I didn’t know about the New Madrid zone until we had put down roots, or I would have stayed on the other side of the state. LOL
We have DSL from Century Link. I called them, and it’s only 0.7 mbps. When I couldn’t get Netflix, on blue ray, I tried out a free movie channel called crackle, and it got me connected.
It showed me the mbps and sometimes it fluctuated down to 0.1, so I think it’s the Wifi service. A message at the bottom of the TV screen kept saying reload was needed due to slow speed and advised to check with ISP.
The tech line claimed that there were no issues, and delivery was at 0.8 mbps. Miracle of Miracles, today Netflix worked fine on the blue ray all day.
I’m thinking about seeing if something faster is available, and how much it will cost. My desk top is a HP all in one. My laptop is a HP. I started having the most trouble with my desktop when I updated to windows 10, so have not updated the laptop, and probably won’t, since I don’t like windows 10.
I am a techno-illiterate. So I know the tech line hates to hear from me - they speak Greek Geek, and I have to ask them to define about every 3rd word. LOL I make them earn their money for sure.
Manual picking???? Too much rain for most anything else.
I could do with a little more heat here. It’s been too cool for August this weekend.
You are welcome. I would use the least amount of sugar, as you can always add more after you open the jar.
I once asked my Hubby’s mother for her sweet pickle recipe. She told me that she always just made dill. After she opened a jar if dill pickles, she would just add sugar to the jar, put the lid on, and shake it and let it sit till the sugar dissolved.
I have used straw as mulch between plants in raised beds. It was still when the produce was ready for harvest.
Manual picking. Time is an issue with me. The bugs are everywhere including all over the the soybean crop and many weeds.
Apples not bad this year, but not a single peach due to another late frost. Everything loves peaches.
Built my first PC in 1982. Have used and worked on many platforms, not much on MACs. But a lot on DOS, Windows, Linux, IBM AS400, etc.
I’ m not a programmer, but have some experience with that.
Have been using various forms of Linux since 1994. My desktop PC runs Debian with XFCE GUI. Love XFCE, have been using it since Redhat 5.0 came out.
I once ran a catalog department for a wholesale distribution company. Lived in a spreadsheet and flipping from AS400 to Windows and Redhat Linux. It took all the tools of those to accomplish the scripted publishing. (Web & print- through Quark)
I will never go back to Windows, too many security issues.
Too bad we couldn’t “share”!
The grass and weeds and veggies are all growing like it's May and I can't keep up. I've got tomatoes running out my ears, sweet corn is ready, and there are little baby bean pods all over the Blue Lake vines. The Straight 8 cucumber vines have pretty much all croaked so there is some relief there.
I picked a few Roma tomatoes and a couple peppers and made a small batch of salsa and spicy tomato juice over the weekend.
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