Posted on 01/04/2018 8:59:54 PM PST by greeneyes
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Still battling a cold - feeling a bit better. Posting early this week. Hubby is in the hospital. Has been waiting 2 days for transportation to St. Louis for potential surgery - no room in the hospitals, and the emergency rooms were also closed, so they couldn't transfer that way.
They did another xray this morning, but there was no improvement. Very concerned about this. Please pray for him.
Have a great weekend. Sorry I haven't been able to do much posting lately. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
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Sorry to hear about your cold, hope it improves pronto! Prayers up for your husband; may Merciful God grant him full recovery, and may His Grace provide you both with strength and peace of mind.
Anyway, enjoy your sunshine while it lasts -- here in Upstate NY, we're having a blizzard, it's averaging about +1F, and it's supposed to hit -10F in the next day or two, with windchill around -25F.
All the outdoor plants in the yard have pulled themselves up, marched to the front door, and are pleading piteously to be let inside with the indoor plants. ;-)
The mice in the field found a way into the house (they're very industrious that way), so we got out the Havaharts and set up a Habitrail to keep them alive until we can release them without them turning into mouse-sicles 5 minutes after release. True.
The little evergreens we nurtured over last winter and the past summer are looking rather forelorn and I hope they make it.
This is tough time for gardeners, everything we did all summer is frozen solid and much of it may die off. But we are resilient, and will wait patiently for spring.
God Bless.
We have read where it's wise to pull the whole thing up when harvesting the rhizomes. Evidently one boils them for 45 min, then dries them, peels them, and 'powderizes' them.
Some have indicated that the leaves and stems are useful, too but we have not found any commentary about how to use the leaves and stems. Does anyone hereon know?
Prayers offered up for your husband, greeneyes. May all go well with his transfer to the hospital and may you have peace of mind as his support person.
Greetings from Pittsburgh PA where the wind chill is four below zero. I cleared off a small space of back patio to feed the birds. Haven’t seen a squirrel in three days.
I’ll repot my tabletop Christmas evergreen in a large indoor planter now that the last vestiges of the shamrock plants from March have died off. Won’t be too long before I head to the greenhouse in March and buy shamrock plants for St. Patrick’s Day.
Good Morning. We are digging out from our latest example of Algore’s Global Warming. High winds are drifting the light fluffy global warming that dropped, yesterday.
The cast iron sink I got for Household Six’s basement planting room is frozen to the ground outside the bulkhead. I hope I can free it during the January thaw and move it down into the basement and install and plumb it.
Prayers for your husband and for you at this difficult time.
Bitter cold here and we also have snow. Further east, there have been strong winds and power outages. This weekend, we’ll be down to single digits, perhaps ‘one’ or ‘zero’ at night. Next week, we are supposed to experience a ‘January thaw’ - highs in the 40’s, which will feel positively balmy after the last two weeks.
Before the snow hit on Wednesday, I went to the feed store and replenished my bird seed supply. The little guys (and gals) are chowing down like crazy in this weather. I’m seeing birds at the feeders before sunrise (just getting light) which is not ‘the usual’. All the birds are puffing up their feathers to stay warm - the doves are huge! Flocks of red-winged blackbirds are in the area - one flock found the feeders yesterday afternoon - I don’t begrudge them some food, but there are so many, they take over and dominate. There are quite a few woodpeckers coming to the suet cakes - several different ones - red-bellied, flickers, downies, etc. The nuthatches seem to like suet, too. There is one eastern towhee at the feeders - handsome bird & not afraid to tangle with the male cardinals over a sunflower seed. We are fortunate that our place is loaded with birds all year long and we really enjoy them.
18° above zero when I left the house this morning. It’s a veritable heat wave here in Central Missouri.
I’m mostly over the pneumonia, enough to get back to work earning my keep this week.
Weather guessers are saying temps in the 40s this weekend. Maybe get some pruning done on my orchard trees? Still need to finish cleaning up the kitchen garden.
Ugh.
Prayers up for you and your husband, Greeneyes.
My Very Small Very Fierce mouser cat would like to talk to you about testing mouse-sicles for wider distribution.
Sorry to hear about your hubby. He will be in my prayers.
I guess I am missing gardening. I am planning on playing with sprouting wheat berries. just because.
This last week of cold have certainly been the demise of my arugula and Romain plants. They were the last to survive.
“The mice in the field found a way into the house (they’re very industrious that way), so we got out the Havaharts and set up a Habitrail to keep them alive until we can release them without them turning into mouse-sicles 5 minutes after release. True.”
awww you are sweet people.
i fed my strays in town today. i don’t know how they survive this cold. i worry about them often
Sorry to hear about your husband greeneyes and we offer our prayers for a quick recovery. To offer a little cheer to everyone Eureka Cal set a record high temp of 67 degrees yesterday 1/4/18. Our little patch of garlic is the only semblance of a garden at this time...
Prayers for your hubby greeneyes!
We had a few warm days and 53 today and rain! Back down into the 20’s and then teens - West Michigan. Been doing lots of alfalfa sprouts. With the warm up there have been a lot of deer tracks in the garden.
Thanks for the sympathy and prayers. We truly are luckier here, so far than the Eastern states with respect to the cold.
We do sometimes have winters when the snow is deep and so bad that school is out for almost 2 months straight-but that has been rare, in my lifetime.
We almost always have some warmer days in the 40s and 50s to recover until the next storm hits.
My spice book does not mention any uses for turmeric leaves.
Thanks for the prayers. I just saw a news report where some lady took her Christmas tree back to a store for a refund - and got it. It didn’t look to be a potted one either. Just had to shake my head.
The warming stopped over a decade ago. The sea levels have also started going down. They got caught in the lie and changed the dialog to climate change.
There are scientists that believe it’s mostly due to the sun’s activity cycles-makes more sense to me. At any rate, their proposed solution - a carbon tax was ridiculous.
I always told anyone who was concerned about the issue, that they should buy some trees and plant them, if they really thought we had too much CO2.
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