Posted on 04/06/2018 8:07:45 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Thanks for that link. I nabbed it for my kindle too.
Cheers fellow boomer. Any day at our age is a GIFT. LOL
I hate the yellow jacket buggers too. Got stung by one when I was just knee high to a grasshopper. Hated them ever since. Granny put wet tobacco on the sting.
Not sprung yet. Spring is getting pretty tight. That reminds me, I forgot to post Bastardi Report, so here it is:
Re: Bastardi April 4 2018
From Tilted Irish Kilt | 04/04/2018 9:30:04 AM PDT read
Bastardi says the conditions are similar to 1962.
At 4:58 on Weatherbell.com he gives the reasons for it.
We will go from exceptional cold as in previous years(1962)
to suddenly summer.
Change will occur at the end of April (25 -30 days out), and not until.
Plan accordingly !
I will probably have to wait till June or later to harvest my wheat at the rate we are going here.
No asparagus for us. Plan to stick to tomatoes and butternut squash. Last year the latter was still good 7 months after picking. Takes little care and provides much. Praise God.
Looks like the street clock is broke again...
Thanks for sharing the pic. Beautiful - Nice looking city block.
Thanks for the beautiful rody pic. I wish we had some. We planted a whole bunch in the front yard, but none survived.
They thrive here on the bay...
You do have some advantages there.
Fortunately I decided to just transplant my tomatoes and peppers into bigger pots last weekend instead of my new garden spaces. Still wanting to work some compost into the new soil hubby bought. It’s supposed to have some compost mixed in but the feel of it led me to think I wanted more organic stuff. I’ve probably got a yard of finished compost ready to work in but haven’t had the time with only 3 weeks to organize a nice wedding shower. The last 2 nights have dived to freezing even here in central Texas so I brought about 2 dozen pots in our sunroom for protection.
I think our peaches look ok. They are past blossom stage and after checking yesterday and today they look good. Pomegranate bush is in full blossom and a little more exposed than the peaches so I’m in “wait and see” mode on those.
My son-in-law up on the Red River was madly wrapping his peach trees when he got home Friday. Their trees are covered in blooms and he called me Friday night to ask if I thought wrapping with every available piece of fabric and plastic would save the fruit. I told him the thing to do is just pray while wrapping because only God can show that answer. I’m adding my prayers to that because I’m the one who gets to can up the extras on the halves.
Today I get to cart all those pots back out after I finish another item of shower prep, meaning if i have the time. Shower is next Saturday so I’m hoping that this time next week I’m working soil again. It is past time I get some food in the ground for our area but perhaps God also threw me this shower work knowing this weekend’s freeze would mess up any spring seedlings out there. I think I’m going to stick with that reasoning to belay my frustration of not having time to garden the past 2 weeks.
Hello Wneighbor . . . I am in South Central Texas and my Pomegranate has never bloomed . . . what do you feed yours?
I got called and subsequently picked for jury duty once. I am in a pretty conservative law-and-order area so my responses to questions are average for our area. I surprised myself by being one to argue in the jury room for the defense. A lady was (in my opinion) trying to railroad a deputy sheriff. Verdict was not guilty unanimously. Lady couldn’t even keep her story straight on the witness stand and came across as a spiteful witch. Was not even a serious charge against the man but his job was on the line. This was 20+ years ago. Being in a sparsely populated area I’ve made it a point to listen to any local chatter about the man and his kin. Sounds like we were correct in our verdict and gives me a fraction more faith in our jury system.
Thanks for that link! I just snatched it up for my late night reading :)
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