Posted on 01/13/2017 2:27:15 PM PST by greeneyes
Me too. I haven’t heard from her for a while. I can’t remember the website off hand. Sometimes I send her a FR Mail, and she responds, but I haven’t lately.
I gave up riding bicycles and horses at age 55, but never got into riding motorcycles. Bones don’t repair as quickly when one gets old and brittle bones run in my family.
My last tumble when my horse fell down broke my wrist, dislocated my elbow and broke off the tip of the ulna in the elbow joint. Had to have some very painful PT to get the elbow joint to work. Still hurts off and on.
The Doc asked me if I was going to quit riding, and I said no-not till I’m 55. So I did ride for 10 more years. Then I sold 3 horses, and gave away 2 to my grand daughter and niece.
Have you ever seen tube-bender’s blue berry cages? He has quite a few challenges too.
I don’t really like any sport except NASCAR. and by far the most common profession in my family is “coach.” You can see where I fit in. At least I stay well versed in rules, plays etc simply by attending family functons.
I suspect this is a grafted tree. My lemons are not sweet like the Meyer lemons I have bought but I’m still happy with the lemons. I had one last week but it still tasted slightly green. Waited a week and had one today. Very large and juicy but I believe it to be a true lemon. I saved the seed since I am setting seeds now anyway. I’ll see if I can find a spot to try to start some. Curiousity gets the better of me.
'Ziva' Paperwhites blooming away. (Please forgive the dirty window!)
Our newest pup, Seneca. 8 weeks old. Treeing Walker Coon Hound.
An older pup, 6 months, now. One of SEVEN that I raised this Summer into Fall. Our HANDSOME, 'Osage.' Also a Walker Dog. He has his own Doggie Condo now. He's not entirely thrilled, LOL!
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The last time I rode a horse was in 2011. I was 59 and had a lot of trouble with the horse. I didn’t fall off, but it wasn’t the usual pleasant experience...all the time I was fighting with the horse.
I did buy a used mountain bicycle last summer just for the exercise...not for transportation. It’s locked up in the shed for now, as bicycling is very unpleasant in the frigid weather. I used to be an avid cyclist, and was even a bicycle messenger in Boston back in 1976...BUT I was a LOT younger then!
I’m not a big sports fan either, but I was raised in Boston which is a HUGE “sports city”. People love the teams almost “religiously”! The Pats, The Sox, The Celts, and of course “Da Brooons”
78 degrees today in Lower Alabama.
I think Spring is close for us now.
The cardinals (birds, not Catholics or Baseball/football payers!) are everywhere, males singing and fighting, females flying around selecting mates...
The pair of Redtail Hawks that nest in my biggest pine tree are back!
I’m gonna hook up the tiller. By month’s end, I need to plant English peas.
Let me tell you about my peas! I grow Alderman, also known as Tall Telephone. And they grow more like pole beans than most other English peas. I hook up a 5 foot fence in the garden and they even outgrew it. At first I thought these English peas were not going to amount to much. However, they are later than most by almost a month but once they start! Huge pods 6-7 inches long, with 8-12 peas in each. Very fat and tasty! And if you keep picking, they’ll continue producing. BY May, when it’s too hot in Alabama for English peas, these will go until the first half of June. I’ve been planting this variety for ten years now.
I also grow Little Marvel peas. They’re the complete opposite in vining from Alderman. They vines don’t get big, but they will produce a ton of 3-4 inch pods with very fat sweet peas inside. The best tasting in my opinion.
I move these around in my garden, because as legumes they put back a ton of nitrogen in the soil.
I also hate working with English peas! They’re a lot of work to shell. Every year I pick 5-6 full brown paper grocery bags at each harvest, but from that get 5-6 big bowls of raw peas. I’ll get around 2 harvests of Little Marvel and 4 of Alderman. It takes me a long time and I’ll usually say, “I ain’t growing English peas no more! Too much dang work.”
Then come this time of year, and I’m back to salivating for them!
I also plant what some call Southern or crowder peas, black eyed peas, etc. People in Alabama just call them peas, that’s why we say English peas for the cool weather green ones. They love the hot, humid weather we get during the long Summer, and don’t have many pests except aphids. I just let them naturally fight the aphids. With a widespread crop of peas, lady bugs seem to appear in droves just to eat the aphids. These kind of peas are also great for putting nitrogen back in the soil. I just broadcast them around like planting a cover crop. When they finally die and dry out in the Fall, they’re easy to process because you can just pick the whole vine and whack them around inside a barrel. You then have to clean out the spent pods and sticks and such, but that’s not as hard as shucking English peas.
Pls. keep me posted. If I get a green house, I may want to plant some too.
Thanks for the Pictures. How long does it take micro greens to be ready for the first clipping after planted?
Last time I tried to ride a bike, I couldn’t get the balance right, and I didn’t want to risk breaking anything, so I gave up. My mom used to have a big adult tricycle with a big basket in front and back. I wish I had kept it. LOL
Some of the guys in my church (Bikers) were disabled vets. They had beautiful 3-wheeled Harleys that were called “Trikes” but NEVER “tricycles” LOL!
I am jealous of your weather! I have never been able to grow peas. Hubby is planning on planting more legumes than usual, but it’s beans, beans, and more beans.
I remember being stuck in Boston in 2004 when the Sox won the series.
My delivery wasn’t scheduled till the next day.
I didn’t get unloaded for two days.
Wild.
I missed the whole thing...I was living in Florida at the time. But It was very exciting just the same!
70 degrees yesterday and today. We’re still muddy from the snow, so I put the combination to good use and started digging up beds for my planned garden expansion. My beloved patch of wild greens came though the snowstorm beautifully, so I’ve been happily snipping them for soup and stirfries and such.
I’m hoping to be able to check on Monday or Tuesday to see if my winter lettuce came through. It’s currently under the row cover and the cover is frozen to the ground.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where we are just emerging from the January thaw. Much of the snow has melted. It looks like subfreezing temperatures are returning.
We will be thawing for a day and half and then back to freezing.
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