Posted on 07/01/2024 6:30:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Plumerias and Southern Magnolias! Heaven “scent”!
LOL
I love that movie!
A wise man once said, “An optimist is an 80 year old who plants a nut tree that will never bear in his lifetime.
I am an 85 year old who planted a fig tree 10 years ago, another one 3 years ago, and a short bushy one five years ago that my partner in ignorance mowed the first year. It fortunately revived and I put a short fence around it. In April they all had a few fig buds. I kept looking for blossoms, but figs don’t seem to do that. Just little round buds coming out of the joint between new main stem growth and the leaf stems. A month later the buds were gone. There had been a brief freeze, I think. In early June there were some new buds, and by the end of the month all three were developing figs for sure. I drove into the yard one night and a deer was nibbling my little fig bush. I found a 2 foot wide left over strip of metal roofing and laid it in front of the bushy fig. I don’t think the deer has bothered it again. This was in the mid Atlantic area, probably areas 7 inland, or maybe six near the ocean. Two properties 150 miles apart.
Has this happened to anyone else, also are other plants or trees similarly affected by a brief chill in spring?
It’s a regular for us every several years. We have quite a few like that as well as TV series that we watch when it’s been long enough to forget a lot of it.
Beats the new stuff.
I have THREE gauges. All have been FULL to BURSTING this season. We are 12” ABOVE average this season. I can’t believe more of Wisconsin isn’t at flood stage, but the Governor DID declare a State of Emergency with all the tornadoes and wind damage. Can’t STAND him, but I’ll give him Kudos for THAT, at least.
Maybe running naked through the garden will help? It’ll scare the children and the livestock, but it might be worth it, LOL!
More rain on the way tonight and all. day. tomorrow. UNCLE! Grrrrr!
I make a habit of not watching new stuff…most of the time. I hate almost all of it.
When my dear sweet mom was still alive, and I would go take care of her for a week every month, Forrest Gump was on pretty frequently. I know I watched it several times in her last year. I didn’t get bored with it.
Btw, since we mentioned new stuff, we watched a “new stuff” the other night, something we RARELY do, called “Unfrosted” on Netflix. Totally geared towards Baby Boomers. (I fit the definition by a little bit.) It’s about the battles between Kellogg’s and Post cereals in Battle Creek, Michigan. We laughed a good bit.
I don’t often recommend shows, but this one worked for us. It was nostalgic.
*** Maybe running naked through the garden will help? It’ll scare the children and the livestock, but it might be worth it, LOL!***
Gave me a chuckle just picturing myself doing the same thing. Do you have long hair like Lady Godiva? I’ve been working on mine, but it’s not there yet.
Re: Post #43
Help me remember who among us are fig growers?
Below the waist but I wear it up for the most part.
Still trying to decide if I want to give in and go gray. I think I’m still going to fight that for a while, yet. ;)
I’m not familiar with it, but I will check that out. Granted, I am my husband’s freshman year (of college) girlfriend. Sometimes it’s hard to believe we were just 18 when we were introduced (blind group date) and fell head over heels the first night. It’s crazy to look back on our years together. We are blessed. We both chose well.
Unless you are well south of the mid Atlantic area, see my comment $43, your figs are probably nowhere near ripe. My largest are only half size, and I still have little ones the size of my pinky nail just starting to grow.
Mine isn’t to my waist yet, middle of my back, and I don’t feel old enough to go for all the gray I really have (does she, or doesn’t she? only her hairdresser knows for sure). So yeah, I’m fighting it for now.
Last year, I was introduced to a family friend of our daughter’s in-laws. He said to our daughter just a few minutes later, “how young ARE your parents?”. That made my year! Mission accomplished!
I gave in some years ago & let my hair go ‘gray’. Pre-gray, it was dark brown, almost black. Trying to keep the ‘skunk stripe’ away (gray stripe along the part where growing out) got to be a pain. Anyway, BEST thing I could have done for my hair - no more dye & currently in a very healthy state. My hair was naturally curly & liked to ‘frizz’ in humidity & we have plenty of that. The gray is much straighter & not as frizzy. It’s also a ‘silver’/white gray & I have people tell me it’s a beautiful color (I got lucky!). My paternal grandmother was silver/white in her mid-thirties ... 7 kids, making life work on a farm, some of it during Depression years. I’d like to think my hair is a throwback to her.
My brown turkey figs are grass green & some are the size of golf balls. The majority will probably start ripening in about a month. The crows are being ‘optimistic’ that maybe there’s something in the fig bush they can eat.
I’m glad to hear someone is rocking the gray. I was an early gray like your paternal grandmother, and I wasn’t ready to be called “old” at such a young age. I know it’s just a number, but I’m not ready to be viewed that way. I know my kids think I have one foot in the grave already, but I’ve been working hard to get them to stop thinking of me that way. They believed all of the hype about CoVid, so I have worked extra hard these last few years to change their minds about my health status. I think they’re starting to realize that I am pretty healthy, and in good shape. We get very few colds around here.
Love the pictures as usual. That tiger lily shot is spectacular. I saved it for my jigsaw puzzle app. Happy 4th!
Hi, been thinking about you. Thanks for posting. Looks great. Picked our first two cherry tomatoes yesterday and had a toast.
You didn’t mention if you are pinching off suckers. Too much leaf growth will give you smaller tomatoes.
I would agree about the water and curled cukes. We experienced that one year. Not enough water.
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