Posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Like when you throw spaghetti against a wall? Lol!
Sounds sensible.
I hate when that happens. And don’t you just wonder how the wackers could have been so lucky as to do it on the very night the system was off?
Well, I find that my typing is increasingly randomly incorrect. I just don’t catch it like I used to. Drat.
Yeh. kinda like that. No rhyme nor reason to what my brain remembers. It’s all kinda chaotic. Stuff I would rather forget sticks like glue, and stuff I really want to remember goes down the rabbit hole to never see the light of day.LOL
Well it sounds like it will work. I just have to convince hubby to let loose of those tires. I mean who wants to keep 15 year old tires?
Or find a used garbage can or a really cheap new one for them tators...
I thought I was the only one who had a fascination with glass jars....lol....of course I have tons of canning jars but I use many other jars for long term storage...
Yeh, but the tires are here, and they won’t cost anymore money. And it would free up space in the garage.LOL
Well, I guess I’m just a thrifty pack rat. I have trouble throwing away anything that looks like it might have a useful purpose.
I especially like the jars for storage. Like old buttons, beans, etc. You can see what’s there at a glance.
I also prefer open shelving in a closet rather than dresser draawers to stack sweaters, and t shirts, and slacks etc. Just so you can open the door and see it all at a glance.
I dont know about that, but the county ext service holds a HUGE plant and tree sale here in the early spring at the ext office and grounds. It’s a HUGE event having many traffic cops and parking across the road at the convention center. It draws many thousands of people. Plus they have a fall plant sale on Oct 12 this year. And it’s not far from Marcella.
You have a point there especially freeing up space in the garage. My biggest fear is coming home some day to find all my “Treasures” in the yard where Lady Bender tossed them...
Lest anyone get a false impression about my admitted and vaunted prowess... /sarc
For the third year in a row my okra has achieved the mighty, magnificent height of 10-14" tall, and averaged 2-3 pods/plant. The first year, in fact, they only got to about 6" before croaking entirely.
As to the bush speckled butterbeans, I planted them as an after thought; they should have gone in about 2-3 weeks sooner than they did; and I originally planted over 100 of them: 2 double rows about 25' long; barely half made it to the surface, and about 1/3 of those died. Had I done things right, I would have had a wheelbarrow load of them, with plenty to share.
2 out of the 3 new raspberries we bought died at less than a foot tall, though the third one is doing well.
Out of 15 cucumber seeds planted--fresh, new seed--only 5 sprouted, but all grew and bore well.
Last year, I planted my buttercup squash too close to my pink banana squash--and only got ONE small banana squash off of 10 vines, most of which ended up dying mid summer--and thus contaminated my buttercups via unwanted cross pollination: they are both the same genus of squash. That meant that this year, the six I planted from my saved seed gave me 3 vines with squash that look like buttercups; and 3 vines with something that mainly looks more like a peachy-orange ribbed basketball, except for one that looks more like a crenshaw melon, with a few warts.
I STILL can't grow bell type peppers, though we did get a few 3-4" long "giant" marconi peppers, and ONE 2" diameter red bell.
The horseradish--horseradish!!!--is struggling, and will be mulched and left in the ground rather than harvested.
I get a lot, because I plant a lot, then concentrate on keeping alive what seems to want to live; than do it again the next year, trying to correct mistakes.
I seem to do a lot because I have a lot of help from Mrs. A.R., and tools, gadgets, and equipment that make the job easier & quicker; and been blessed by the good Lord with strength, decent health, and stubborn perseverance. Believe me, it is a lot easier for me to rototill & tend a large area, leaving room to work, than to dig and tend by hand a smaller area.
I looked at the list thinking of herbs of which I have none. They will have sage, oregano, and rosemary. I might go.
For the last two night and it will be again tonight, I didn't cover all my plants like I have been doing. So far, nothing has eaten them in the night, and I didn't go out there today at all since I was gone all day and it was dark when I got home. I can only hope all the plants are still there tomorrow morning.
Yes, it is true, I have to watch each plant since I have so few of them of every kind.
I had a nice day at the architect's house today and his plants are in large fancy containers on his very large deck. There are three fig trees in pots and one of those is the 5 foot high one grown from one fig leaf and one grew from a stick he got from a fig tree. Whatever he plants, grows. I hate people like that.
He also has the A&M non hot Jalapeno plants but none of those are producing yet. One regular Jalapeno plant did have a red Jalapeno on it.
He has a nice place on the lake. Walk down a concrete path to his dock, sit in a chair, drop the hook and plastic worm in the water and jerk up a Bass fish.
He is in his 80s and you probably couldn't keep up with him. He was a bomber pilot in WWII and was in England two years flying out of there to bomb Germany. He wants to buy two airplanes and one helicopter and someone he knows is a helicopter pilot and that guy has agreed to teach this fellow to fly that helicopter when he gets it.
He has so many interests he stays busy every minute and still has construction jobs going on using his plans for these buildings.
Don't worry about being in the high 80s of age - just keep doing what you want. He is.
The extension office is a great help, since they are experts on local growing and conveniently located. All you have to do is just walk in or call to get help. They have pretty elaborate gardens out in the growing areas.
Oh, yeah, I know exactly what you’re thinking. So did we and still do. A lot more went on. I’m just glad the husband eventually got away from the wife although not whole and healthy. Pets know if a person is good or evil long before we do sometimes.
Back in the Spring, out of the blue, mother decided she’d take the morning glory vines off the fence. They were the beans. I replanted and a couple months later, hubby decided I needed help pulling weeds. I tried and tried to tell him no because outside of tilling, he’s a plague if he gets within a mile of the garden. Yep, wiped out the beans. Once a year for the past quarter century, he’ll mow through the garden and pull “weeds”, sigh.
Psst. Little mailbox inside a big mailbox with cement between the two.
I love (ripe) persimmons! Two stories:
As a little girl, I traipsed about behind my dad when he would walk around his home place farm (100+ acres). One day, we came across a persimmon tree. He was telling me about how much ‘possums loved persimmons and handed me (a green) one and told me to try it. There’s not a whole lot that can compare to the “pucker power” of a non-ripe persimmon! To this day, I haven’t quite forgiven him for doing that to me!
As an adult, I took up hiking and do a lot in the mountains. On a beautiful fall day, after quite a cold night, some friends and I hiked down the mountain on an old road that runs beside a ‘river’ to a reservoir that serves a small city (that is some distance away) and pretty much in ‘wild’ condition around the edges of the water. There were all sorts of fall wildflowers, poke berries, seeds .... deer & turkey tracks, etc. We came across a persimmon tree and the fruit was so ripe it was falling off on the ground. We ate what was intact and it was just delicious. I still have good memories of that great hike and those luscious persimmons. :-)
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