Posted on 09/06/2013 11:58:59 AM PDT by greeneyes
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Oh, that is sad/painful. (Your before picture is gorgeous.)
Yes, temp AND humidity change
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That's excellent! Another advantage to container gardening is not having to stoop down as much, which is a blessing to those of us with old knee injuries (or even just old knees!). With containers on the elevated deck, slugs are never a problem, either.
Next year, we're definitely going to have to grow some lettuce and other greens after our unexpected success with our years-old basil seeds. What a wonderful surprise that was!
It was cloudy this morning, not hot, so I gassed up the car in the cool and went to Lowes to get potting soil mix and those 6 wonderful pots I got for $2+. The garden area outside door was locked. Damn. Went in main store and got the pots and took them to car. Had to go back in regular store door and walk to the back to go in gardening area from the back - they were repairing/replacing some of the roof in the garden area so that was roped off. Put the potting soil in cart and went back into the store proper in order to check out.
An older male clerk walked to the front with me and said he couldn't lift anything with his left arm as he had pulled some muscles on that side while on an exercise machine and his arm and ribs hurt. rightly, I thought about you and your hurting muscles from falling.
This clerk sounded like he needed some encouragement about his pain, so I said I had been an EMT and I knew how that must hurt. Then, he told me his whole medical problems as we were still heading to check out. By the time we got to check out, I told him to go back to his heart doctor and get that heart cath that had been recommended by the hospital when he had to go there, so he would know he is okay or must have the stint before he does have a heart attack.
So, I'm walking out with the bags in the cart and here he comes to help me put the bags in the trunk - using his right arm. He just felt he had to help me and he thanked me for talking to him. I think he will go to the heart doctor now - he just needed someone to say that.
Those 6 pots I got for $2+ instead of $13, are so strong, they will be here for another 200 years or more. That was a super buy. Even the clerk looked at that and commented about the pots for that small amount of money.
Then, it was off to Home Depot. It is still cool outside. I was going to park in a handicapped spot and someone got that one so had to drive to the next aisle and pulled in one there. Walked in the nearest door and that was the exact spot I needed to be to pick up an on line order.
As that process was ongoing, the lady clerk, maybe in her 30s, told me my pink blouse brought out the rose in my skin and I was so beautiful. I told her I had on no makeup and I was 80. Then, she tells others around her I am 80 and they don't believe it. Clerk wanted to know what I did to my skin for it to be this way - told her I stayed out of the sun (that is my stock answer to that question). I finally made it out of the store with my adoring fans left in there. That was the two long planters for lettuce. (No, I did not feel beautiful, I just wanted the planters so I could go home.)
The sun is out now and I won't unload the car trunk until the sun goes down this evening. I think I did a good deed for the hurting male clerk so he will go to his heart doctor. He is frightened about his heart so he needs to get the cath and know the truth instead of worrying all the time.
Beautiful tomatoes. The sun did that in two days? I believe it as this Texas sun baked/cooked bean plants I had.
Darn - Prissy took off to the back glass door barking up a storm. There was a damn killer squirrel on the deck. I grabbed her and went out. The squirrel took off. The strawberry plants are the only ones I think he would be interested in so picked them up and sat them on a table. I’ll get them planted in those cheap but great pots tomorrow but I’ll have to cover them up with the row cover or that killer squirrel will eat those tender plants.
He was an adult squirrel. Wonder what a squirrel trapper cage costs? I could trap them and I would kill them with my pellet gun.
Thank goodness for Prissy Yorkie - she saved my plants.
You could probably get some good squirrel recipes from Johnny.
$30 http://store.pestproducts.com/Catalog/Squirrel-and-Rat-Live-Traps
There is a city park not far from me, if I catch the squirrel, and put him out at the park, will he stay there or come back?
If you have a squirrel, there are more nearby.
“You get around great too.”
That’s what the 30+ lady clerk said. She said I get around better than she does.
There was a time that “getting around good” hit me hard: When I had Bill in the rehab hospital, there were long term care nursing home elderly people there. There were many old ladies sitting in wheel chairs and moving themselves around using their feet. I felt sorry for these ladies and one day, it hit me - some of them must be younger than I am. I thought, “I am supposed to be old like that.” I don’t want to, therefore, I’m not going to.
I also found out, if you can’t stand up - even on one leg holding onto something to stay up, you will be put in a nursing home. With one leg working, you can transfer into a wheelchair, but if neither leg will hold you up, you end up in the nursing home, for there will have to be someone in the house strong enough to lift you and take care of your sanitary needs. If that can’t happen, the nursing home can do that so there you go. Bill’s arms and legs would not work anymore, so he had to be there.
“If you have a squirrel, there are more nearby.”
They live in the two tall oak trees behind my back fence and I saw babies in the spring. There must be many.
I have thunder - do you have thunder?
I’m sorry to hear about Bill’s problems. I know it was hard on you, too.
I ran out there and he's gone but he had broken the smallest leaf at the bottom of the plant. He was actually in the barrel. HE JUST GOT THE DEATH PENALTY! I'll see if Walmart has a cage at my store and I'll check Lowes and Home Dept. I'll get a cage fast somewhere and HE DIES.
/johnny
I have not seen live traps locally, they are not a PC product to display. Maybe at Mrs. Henderson’s seed store in downtown. (936) 756-2423
Lowes has one in stock at my store. Customer says he caught 11 squirrels in it, catching them day after day, in his attic. He used peanut butter and in they went.
I have netting AND row cover over the squash now. He can’t get past both of those. And put netting over the tomatoes and sweet potatoes. The strawberries are on a table and not covered but I will cover them with row cover before night.
Will get cage in the morning and set it before I remove the cover from the plants. Damn.
It did rain some, plants are wet.
I got a bit of it. Haven’t been out to check the gauge, maybe 1/8 - 1/4” at best. We take it all, and give thanks for it.
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