I had never seen that one until a week ago when the PBS station ran it.
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I hadn't seen it either but had to watch it a bit ago.
doing well. Keeps on thunder storming here. 1 more day I think and then a few days break. Maybe.
I'll take any rain nobody wants.
Had a Frog Drowner here in the middle of the night last night. Big boomers too, jar the house kind of boomers.
Woke me up.
Woke me up.
Yep lots of black thunderhead clouds around today.
Was in Tractor Supply and got stuck in there for a bit from a downpour.
Not just an issue of getting wet but might have inhaled too much water if one goes out in it.
Would have been soaked to the skin within 10 feet....
They live organ donors. A doctor that used to work at our hospital would dance when a patient died, because of the money she could make harvesting their organs.
I'll second that. We're saving water that drips from the air conditioners for the garden.
Not humid enough here yet to create any condensate.
Why that swamp coolers will work there.
They will not work at all here.
Swamp coolers work best in dry weather. High humidity defeats the purpose. Right now, we still have 84° with 50% humidity.
That's fer sure
Down to 70 here with 87% humidity.
A few more, but the last couple days were full of... ummm, lemme see...
Helping Lannie in the garden with weeding and spraying the cabbages (some damn bug got under the cabbage hat and chewed up a plant), then harvesting Mother Wort and putting that on the drying rack, trying to pull enough Mullen and Purslane to find the squash plants (the large amount of rain and sun has caused the weeds to go absolutely crazy), cutting/pulling grass and weeds out of my Iris garden, then today was trash burning (very light winds dictate which day I can burn the garbage - about once every 6 weeks), then mowing another zillion acres.
(and on and on he goes). I did manage a few minutes of trying to prune the lilacs after they cut my hand pretty deep when the mower got too close to the bush. Gonna work on storm damage in the dog yard tomorrow (I hope).
Does vinegar deter critters?A few more, but the last couple days were full of... ummm, lemme see...
Helping Lannie in the garden with weeding and spraying the cabbages (some damn bug got under the cabbage hat and chewed up a plant), then harvesting Mother Wort and putting that on the drying rack, trying to pull enough Mullen and Purslane to find the squash plants (the large amount of rain and sun has caused the weeds to go absolutely crazy), cutting/pulling grass and weeds out of my Iris garden, then today was trash burning (very light winds dictate which day I can burn the garbage - about once every 6 weeks), then mowing another zillion acres.
Sulfur usually does the trick. I'm gonna hafta go pick up a bag soon.
Active volcanoes seems to run em off.
Yeah we got our second rain since the thaw which was in the middle of March this time we got 4 inches in 2 hours really came down hard but a lot ran off.
Lots of sulfur dioxide in Hawaii right about now. Perhaps Lucy can send some?
That's about how it did here a week or so ago but it didn't stop for two hours,
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Actually, the heat index suggests that 103 @ 10% RH "feels like" 99.Think the humidity was in the 10% range today....was 103, felt like 103......
Hi Sarah, that's pretty cold hearted .....Wait......You said Doctor right..... ok i can see it now
103...99....I can't tell the difference.....
Probably does for some, but for cabbage moths, you need something like Sevin (3oz/gal of water).
Yeah. She was a fucked up monster of a bitch. Enough people complained about her that she got fired. Still can't trust the hospital. In case of emergency, we drive for 45 minutes to Abilene.
12 gauge does a pretty good job of it.
So does fire, but that's bad for plants.
Nite, Dale
Only if you want pellets embedded in your cabbage.
Carbaol (sevin) is some nasty stuff to use if you go out early there will be little green worms usually on the bottoms of the leaves just plck them off ans mash them
G'night Dale see you tomorrow my friend
Only if you want pellets embedded in your cabbage.
- just shoot over it they will take off.
Only if they have wings. The rest will continue to feast.
What are you trying to run off rabbitsOnly if you want pellets embedded in your cabbage.
Now hold it what are we talking about here rabbits? Deer?
Be safe!
The biggest problem is usually bugs.
Lannie does most of her her garden work while it is still cool, like at Oh-dark-thirty in the morning while I am still in bed. It takes both of us to lift the cabbage hat off that raised bed; she cannot do it by herself, and I am still asleep while she is out there. For the things that require my help, she has to wait until I am up and have stared into my coffee cup for a couple hours.
No, bugs. We have most of the plants protected from the bunnies by using wire mesh around the pots or raised beds. One year, however, after the wabbits dug under the perimeter fence, they ate all the flowers off the squash plants (which are in the open tilled area), so we got nothing that year.
The flowers ain't been eaten off ours, but the tiny fruit-like parts never get bigger than a marble before disappearing. Not sure if it's bugs or birds. We have ours elevated as well.Lannie does most of her her garden work while it is still cool, like at Oh-dark-thirty in the morning while I am still in bed. It takes both of us to lift the cabbage hat off that raised bed; she cannot do it by herself, and I am still asleep while she is out there. For the things that require my help, she has to wait until I am up and have stared into my coffee cup for a couple hours.
No, bugs. We have most of the plants protected from the bunnies by using wire mesh around the pots or raised beds. One year, however, after the wabbits dug under the perimeter fence, they ate all the flowers off the squash plants (which are in the open tilled area), so we got nothing that year.
At least we got tomatoes this year. Last year was a total bust except for a couple bell peppers.
Good night, phartz. I'm off to bed.
One of the neighboring ranchers, who has about a zillion Angus, gives me his used lick tubs. If you don't know what that is, it is a plasticy tub about 18" deep by 24" in diameter, filled with minerals that the cattle lick out as they need it. I don't know why they don't put a deposit on those things like most states do with pop cans/bottles (SD doesn't even do that) so he could get his money back on those tubs... In any case, I get out my largest drill bit and put about 6-8 holes around the bottom, then fill them with compost. The bunnies won't climb them, especially if I put a wire mesh around inside, adding another 18" in height. I have about 30 of those that each get 2 tomato plants. There is a string of half a dozen wires running the full length of all those pots for the 'maters to climb, so very few hang over the edge far enough for the wabbits to be able to reach them. I do the same thing for another 20 pots for peppers and melons, etc. Then there are half a dozen cinder blocks raised beds about 4'x4'... but the squash likes to spread out and grows outward about 10-20 feet so they go in the large tilled ground-level area and I have created no protection around them (yet).
One year we had a huge hoard of black birds invade us and stick around most of the summer. I have never seen so many -- like a thousand of those little assholes. They ate everything in the garden, regardless of my intended protections.