Posted on 03/09/2012 10:51:08 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
Congrats on the weight loss! I’ve lost 10 too, by reducing the size of my portions to half. Finally got straightened out on the Lyme disease I’ve battled for nearly 4 years, and was able to stop some medications that had weight gain as a side effect.
Before I figured out it was Java, I was so disgusted I was considering a switch to Firefox (which I have used before) or Chrome. Thanks for the input on Chrome. BTW, when I ‘googled’ the error message and got answers, it did give the versions of Java that had the ‘bug’ that was causing my problem.
My nephew was in California playing tennis and the match was underway, my brother was frantically texting me to watch & couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get it .... I didn’t have time to download the latest Java. Thank goodness someone suggested the compatability view .... I pulled it up, typed in the web address for the livestreaming link and voila ... tennis! I saw the last couple of points of his doubles match, but it was better than seeing nothing. :-)
BTW, see this post on the Recipe Thread ... I think you will find it most interesting:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2857329/posts?page=37#37
Lots of rain here in the last three or four days and it looks like most of the rest of today will be rain.
Congrats on your weight loss too. I didn’t know you’d picked up the lyme desease. I’m so sorry to hear you did. It is a terrible thing to experience. I’m happy, thought, that you are licking it.
I love the rain. Of course I was born and raised in a “rain forest”, SE Alaska. We don’t get inches of rain up there, we measure by the year/foot.
We are planning on taking our camper up there during summer 2013. My late inlaws, back in the 60's and 70's, used to make that drive at least every other year! From Louisiana, seems like a once-in-a-lifetime drive to me and they did it a dozen times. Took 5 or 6 days to get there.
Feature that I'm enjoying in Chrome ... it spell checks while you are typing, just like Word does.
FireFox does that same spell check as you finish typing a word. When posting on FR you don’t have to do that extra step to check spelling.
Seed starting question for anyone:
I have one grow light (2 bulbs in a 48” reflecting shop light) over an old table in the basement. I have no access to the two sunny windows in my house.
How can I keep the grow-light close enough to the seedlings, when they grow at different rates, and are planted at different times?
Our pup is SO happy the sun is out again and she can go for walks and play in the yard. We have been stuck in the house with a 50+ lb Old English Sheep dog that thinks she is a lap dog. Not good.
I’ve never travelled the Alcan, but my sister has done it quite a few times. She and her husband would travel in May to take advantage of the berries, which she canned as they travelled and the fiddle head ferns, plus other wild veggies along the way.
They took their time, sometimes 2/3 weeks, depending on their schedule, picking berries, canning, goofing around, and whatever they did. She loved it.
Oh my stars, I can imagine the pups happiness, after being cooped up all those days.
Your 50# sheep dog sounds like my Dad’s boxer, he thought he was a lap dog too...and he liked to “kiss” whoever allowed him on their lap. Thank goodness my lap wasn’t long enough for him.
FanFan, (I’m new at least so.....) I would just focus on the taller of the bunch, they say you can keep them 2” away from most seedlings.
I’m planning on using jack chain attached to ceiling hooks and shortening the chains with zip ties as I go.
I just picked up full spectrum 4’ T8s lamps @ Home Depot and changed my ballast for T8s, I’m an electrician so that part was easy, just hoping the full spectrum lamps will work - they’re certainly bright enough!
I really don't have a good answer for that one, fanfan. Think what I would do is try to group the seedlings into 2 heights and put them under the light for 12-hour shifts, and adjust the light for the other group. Might be able to do three 8-hours. You can always keep the shorter ones around when lighting the taller group(s).
We were planning on doing some fishing and I was going to can some along the way, but I had never even thought about the berries. Great idea! I’d like to charter a boat for halibut, and I’m not sure what part of Alaska is the best for that. The trip is still in the planning stages and I have research to do.
Another thing you could do - put a 2x6 or two under the short seedlings to bring them up to the height of the taller seedlings perhaps?
Great idea Sparky. Then you don’t have to adjust the light up and down.
Ketchikan,Junea, Sitka are about the best for halibut, I think, but I’m from the panhandle and think they have the best fish, clams, etc.
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