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Posted on 11/21/2008 5:30:10 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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And no thank you for the set up?
And to answer your question, yes I am humbled by you generosity...
You are quite welcome sir. :)
Was in the middle of a bid and couldn’t stop.
My favorite part as well. I love going to practice and qualifying, being in the pits and skipping the race.
Yep, we were talking greenhouses a while back. Didja get an acceptable one? I sure hope so cause it sounds like your wife is almost a professional and I wish I could apprentice under her for seed starting season!
After having 2 occasions so far this winter with more than 36 hours of below freezing weather I am happy with my new greenhouse. I had to remove some succulents that need drier conditions but my bromeliads look wonderful, much better than they ever have being wintered in the house. Hopefully I’ll see about this seed starting business in the next weeks.
There are several great things about living in Texas. Long gardening season is definitely high on my list!
I want to learn about this myself. I’m tired of buying crummy tomatoes and veggies at the market.
We got the Farm House model for $315 delivered from Home Depot. 8 X 8 Went up in 2 hours. The condensation is a concern because of possible damping off...
You will have to come up and have lunch and see my garden one day after it’s up and producing. That way I can send the excess home with ya and take a break from canning!
I greatly alleviated my condensation problem by unzipping one of the lower windows just a bit. It was bugging me too and I lost some basil seedlings to damping off.
I open my upper windows during the day but the night time condensate was a killer. When I first thought of it, I unzipped a window on the south side all across the bottom and halfway up each side. I didn’t velcro it, I just left it loose.
I left it like that night and day for a few days till we were supposed to have a freezing night. It was just supposed to drop to 32 that night but I went ahead and zipped that window down both sides but left the bottom horizontally unzipped for the light freeze. It was fine.
The only nights since then that I’ve zipped that one all the way up is the last 3 nights when we’ve been down in the 20’s. It seems to have done away with my problem. Although, after 2 wet days and having that part zipped there was a LOT of condensate this morning.
I didn’t do but one lower window that way because it took care of my condensation. If you needed to you could always do a little more and get some cross-ventilation.
Just my $.02. Hope it helps.
not quite the wizzer, eh?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
What would Dale Earnhardt think of what’s happened to DEI?
By Jerry Bonkowski
It was about two years ago this week that Kevin Harvick caused quite a stir in the NASCAR world when he called Teresa Earnhardt a “deadbeat owner.”
Harvick’s assessment was based upon a number of things, particularly the fact that the widow of the late Dale Earnhardt rarely made appearances at races, never spoke to the media, was hardly ever around to congratulate the team’s drivers in victory lane or for an otherwise job well done, and seemed to have little visible participation in day-to-day operations of Dale Earnhardt Inc.
And don’t forget what was still to come in the months after Harvick’s comments: the power struggle for control of DEI between Teresa Earnhardt and her stepson and the company’s franchise star, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
It was a battle that would play out in the media for several months before Junior begrudgingly threw in the towel, gave up hopes of wrestling away controlling interest and decided to move to Hendrick Motorsports to begin the next phase of his racing career.
While the loss of Junior was significant, the party line trotted out by Teresa and company executives was that DEI would rebuild without its star, the most popular driver in the sport now six years running, and grow to become stronger than ever.
A few months later, reporters gathered at DEI last January for a lunch soiree thrown by widow Earnhardt. She was as hospitable and sociable as she could be, smiling almost constantly.
But one thing was so stark in its conspicuous absence that many reporters didn’t realize it at first until some of their fellow peers asked, “Where’s Junior?”
That’s right, just two months after he had competed in his last race for DEI, virtually every vestige of Junior’s 12-year tenure with his father’s company had been wiped away … albeit for a couple of souvenirs still for sale in the company gift shop.
Gone were photos, trophies, race cars and virtually any other reminder that Junior was ever there. When first informed, Junior was as shocked as anyone, even lamenting how DEI wouldn’t even sell him a few prized helmets that he wanted to buy.
Much more here..........
http://jerrybonkowski.com/2009/01/what-would-earnhardt-think-of-what-has.html
Sounds great.
Let me know when the crop is ready. :)
Thanks :)This is also somehow connected to the Alabama Motorsports Park that they are part of in Mobile. He was down there looking for an apartment recently.
Info.......
Alabama Motorsports Park gates will be fully operational by 2010 in South Alabama. The complex will boast three racing venues: an oval track, which is branded A Dale Earnhardt Jr Speedway, a road course and a karting track—and will accommodate stock car, truck, open wheel, sprint and motorcycle racing.
In addition to motorsports, the master plan includes a wide variety of commercial enterprises including residential, hospitality, retail, restaurants and location based entertainment.
The world’s fascination with the automobile has morphed into a mainstream love affair. The automobile as we know it today was not invented in a single day by a single person. Ideas built upon previous successes and new ideas reflect the evolution that took place worldwide to invent the automobile. As the car itself was an evolution so has been the vast world of racing. Some enthusiasts like to collect and restore vehicles. There are others that browse car shows annually. Then there are those who are race fans.
Alabama Motorsports Park invites racers, fans, sanctioning bodies and entertainment seekers to come and feel the thrill of A Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway.
The sanctuary will give Earnhardt a place to escape the demands that come from his popularity, even though it's his ease in front of the camera, his off-the-cuff comments and his Generation X appeal that makes him the idol of the “Junior Nation.”
While the house may be lavish by everyday standards, there are other drivers in the series who have built bigger, more elaborate homes, according to Mike Davis, a close personal aide to Earnhardt. “You have to remember,” Davis says, “that for most of his career, Junior has lived in a two-level modular home. So this is something that he's been waiting to build. It's going to be nice, but it won't be as elaborate as one might expect.”
Earnhardt would also be happy if less were expected of drivers. Case in point. At a recent round-table discussion involving the track promoters of Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI), several stressed that they'd like to see drivers do more to help the fans and the tracks in order to sell more tickets at those facilities.
Upon hearing that during a break in his commercial shoot, Earnhardt fired back with a message of his own.
“The race track owners want drivers to do more? Yeah, right. They need to go back to work,” he said. “They forgot what it's like to sell tickets. That's their problem. They ain't had to sell tickets for a long time and none of them remember how or knew how or ever learned how.
“They need to get back to working hard and doing their promotions and putting packages together for race fans. They don't want to cut the ticket price but they probably should and get these hotels to quit gouging these people. They can dump that responsibility on drivers all they want but the responsibility really lies in their hands to sell race tickets and they have to get creative in doing it. We already do a lot. We do [bleeping] plenty and they are full of [bleep].”
Earnhardt believes the risk versus reward for a driver offering his opinion often leads to ridicule. That is why some drivers don't open up to the fans and the media.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bruce_martin/01/30/dalejr/?eref=sircrc
The signs now dotting the Preston Hollow neighbourhood, where thick shrubbery and wrought iron gates with shining monograms shield the McMansions and verdant football-field-sized lawns from unwelcome eyes, are the work of an entrepreneurial-minded college student. The student, since Christmas, has since sold nearly 800 signs at $20 (£13) each - most to supporters of Barack Obama, according to his father, Bill Bibb. About $2 from each sign goes to a local primary school. [snip] Unlike some of their neighbours, whose homes include Olympian-scale swimming pools and helicopter pads, the Bush home on Daria Place is a fairly modest four-bedroom ranch style home.
But their reduced circumstances do not seem to have affected the neighbours' enthusiasm for the former first family. "Ninety per cent of the homes on Bush's street have a sign," Bibb said. Bush's realtor alone bought 20. Other neighbours, some of whom have been generous donors to Bush's political campaigns, have supplemented the signs with banners.
I think that little article reflected a lot of our sentiments out here in fan-land. I tried real hard to give Theresa the benefit of the doubt when she refused to sell to Junior. But, she's repeatedly proven in the last 2 years that I wasted my effort.
I will! It would be fun to have a little company one day and there's always a point where I want a break from canning and freezing. You know, when my kids think, "well, mom's coming, wonder how much produce she's palming off this time?"
I would love to see the greenhouse and the art of canning as I have never done that and I think we may need to know about those type of things soon.
There is another thread started by our wonderful friend granny over here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1990507/posts?q=1&;page=9405#9405
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