Posted on 06/15/2018 7:34:01 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks to Augie for posting last week's thread. My laptop got knocked off a table and cracked the battery pack, so it will no longer hold a charge. The free wifi at the hotel was difficult to access, and the available computers would not allow me to do much on FR either.
So my home computer is now having issues. The windows updated, and ever since then, I keep getting messages about running out of disk space, and the cursor pointer keeps freezing up. Have been researching how to free up disk space - these darn new programs are way more stuff than I need - I hate updates, and having to waste time figuring out new stuff to do what I used to do quickly.
Anyway the weather in MO. has been Hot. THE HEAT IS ON!!! We did have a little rain this week, but garden needed some additional watering. Swimming pool is full, so we should be okay. I got some additional lettuce and green stuff planted in a somewhat shady location for summer salads later on.
Volunteer tomato has some flowers, and the volunteer summer squash is doing great, but now covers the walkway. Hubby is using pavers to expand the patio outside the greenhouse door. The patio furniture from Springfield will go there. I have rearranged some things in the greenhouse too.
Paid most of the mortgage, home equity, and charge card balances off-left an amount about equal to one monthly payment which will hit automatically next month as the last payment. Avoids the hassle with getting final payoff amount. I got the air conditioner fixed this past week.
I am now shopping for a better used car, and reading up on solar and wind power in Mo. and sun room design. We want to build a back porch style sunroom with plenty of double paned windows, skylights, insulation, wood stove, and attic style fan as a place to congregate in the winter and also grow many more veggies in the winter. Life is very good!!!
We closed on the Springfield house sale on Friday, and got everything loaded into a 15 ft uhaul truck and suv on Friday afternoon/evening. Took off from Springfield on Saturday Morning, and unloaded Saturday afternoon.
The Garage is now stuffed full of furniture and boxes. I have worked all week on "spring" cleaning - better name might be purge and reorganize. Some of the furniture was stuff that my daughter requested, and she is also redoing stuff in order to move the stuff in.
Prayers up for all. Have a great father's day weekend. God Bless.
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Welcome Back greeneyes!!!
Thank you tubebender!
Sounds like a big move and lots to do. Glad you could still get the garden in. I got some in a while back when the ground thawed out. Several rows of potatoes, and later when risk of frost was over I put in several varieties of heirloom tomatoes, some winter squash and jalapeno peppers (which the chipmunks ate immediately). I just added many rows of black eyed peas and Kentucky blue pole beans around the boundaries of the fences. We are getting hit from the remnants of a Pacific hurricane/tropical storm and expect rain for the next week. Got everything in at a good time for here in the Colorado Rockies.
Working on getting fire wood cut and dried for next winter. We have a wood burning stove insert in the fireplace and it keeps much of the house toasty. We go through about 5-6 cords of wood in a winter and I have gotten a pretty good start this year. I use the sawdust to compost in between gadden rows and it gets mixed in in fall when I harvest. The lousy mountain soil is getting pretty good in my garden patches.
Update on my everlasting war with this squirrel.
I swear he’s sentient. He knows I hate him. He finds it funny.
Shaved my head. Spread the hair around the tomato plants.
Peed in a thing all day. Watered the shrubs around the plants with it.
Got grease pencils from walmart...now applying camo.
She won’t let me kill it, so I have 2 nerf bats with noisemakers at the end.
Imma hide in the cactus till he shows.
(The last few lines may be exaggerated)
Thanks for the pics - nice looking maters and cages.
It was a big job. Thank goodness for my nephew’s help loading and my daughter’s help unloading. I had to lay down flat on the floor to relieve my back after we loaded up.
There was a time when we would have gone ahead and started out Friday night-but we had to rest up before starting the drive home. Sunday was also a recovery day. The spirit is willing, but the body is weaker than it used to be. LOL
Curious...if you have any pics of the top of the plant. See the pruning you did at the bottom. Looks a lot like something you’d do for another plant I’m familiar with.
So...the tops nice and bushy?
LOL. Our dog used to keep the squirrels out of my gardens which are along the patios and the exercise yard for the dog.
However, hubby’s garden is another thing. This year we put up a birdbath - the worst year was the drought year - they pulled all the green tomatoes etc. just to get the water.
So now we have a swimming pool which they sometimes drown in, and a bird bath so the birds don’t get too thirsty. I just laugh - I don’t think it will help at all. LOL
I have not heard from Red Devil 232 in over a year. I used to hear from him very often. Hope he is OK. His posts went way down when he moved out of Mississippi.
*BUMP* for late morning coffee...after I finish cleaning dog kennels and watering the garden & porch pots at the crack of dawn before it gets too bloody HOT!
Heat advisories all weekend. Blech! But - great Tomato & Pepper growing weather, for sure.
Always look on the bright side of life! :)
Sorry about your tech issues. Those stink.
Rest up from your move! Sounds tiring. You need a jacuzzi :)
I ordered 100 assorted sweet potato slips from Sand Hill Preservation, they were having a half price sale. Ended up getting TWO hundred. That was the first order. Before I got the first order I decided I wanted another hundred so I ordered another hundred. Got those in yesterday. Looks to be at LEAST 150 slips in the second order. I will end up with somewhere between 350 and 400 slips.
Anyone want any sweet potatoes?
Sale is still on BTW. Sandhillpreservation.com I think. Have had super luck with Glenn’s stuff in the past.
Been picking blueberries, 22 gallons so far. Dehydrating them to use in oatmeal, muffins, pancakes, granola, etc. Also got a couple 5 gal buckets of apples (Anna) from a neighbor. Will probably pick more of those tomorrow. Dehydrating apple dices all week. Still have at least 15 gal. of blueberries left on the bushes.
Had some family medical drama early in spring so bailed on spring garden, i’m planning (and planting) accordingly to have a fall garden.
Anyone know anything about snake gourds? Mine bloom but never seem to set any females :(
I posred these for another gardener and now I’m having problems with my Flikr account and can’t get the HTML come up correctly...
Yes, but he moved back to Mississippi and back into the same house. I hope he is ok too. He made it through the election purges, when we lost so many FReepers who now hang out on other web sites. I was hoping someone would know for sure what is up.
Nothing will help....I’m resigned to the fact that I’m growing produce for some a-hole squirrel.
Gramma gets one or two tho. That’ll do.
XD
That’s my strategy too. Early Am get the outdoor work done. Then do the indoor stuff. Early evening work on the basement kitchen patio - which is in heavy shade and very much cooler than the rest of the outdoors, and serves as the potting area and processing area for all thing garden related or BBQ related.
I would really like to have a jacuzzi. Sounds like you have some good perennial providers at least. We might get some apples this year. Maybe a peach or two.
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