BYC Café

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe, and thanks, Shad. @DobieLover take care in the heat today.

 

[DobieLover]

@DobieLover take care in the heat today.

You too.
Yesterday was brutal. We were just shy of 100 at the peak. I did all those chores at home (where I could retreat to my air conditioned house) to avoid working on my mom's house in that heat.
I won't be working at mom's too long today as I have to go to work this afternoon when it gets really hot. Again, air conditioned retreat!

 

[aart]

but I find it heartbreaking.

TrueDat.....happens here too, probably most everywhere.
The price we pay for 'progress'.

 

[aart]

Cooled down after the storms passed yesterday.
Supposed to stay in the mid to low 80's all week, with nights in the 60's.
The humidity is still oppressively clingy tho.

 

[Perris]

This place could feed a large family and leave enough to sell to raise some cash.

that is, of course, what it was designed to do, in an age when intensive labour was available and was (ordinarily) the same people that profited from the work.
The industrialization of farming is imo one of our generation's biggest mistakes. I get that it has made food cheap, but it hasn't stopped people starving, which would have been a better outcome, and I fear it is an incredibly fragile system - as we saw during the first month of the covid lockdowns.

 

[bruceha2000]

Natural gas is $15.00.

So cheap! You must not be running much on NG with that monthly electric bill.

Is that calculated at your electrical costs?

That $1.26 is about what it would be here. $0.18/kWh (not including daily "connection" fee and other fees. At that rate the plug-in part of my car breaks even at about $2.60/gallon. Given the current price is about $0.50 less it would cost more/mile to charge and run on the battery until it is depleted ... but I have solar panels with excess capacity over what the house uses.

Ron you need some solar panels! Get out of that stepped electric pricing.

TrueDat.....happens here too, probably most everywhere.
The price we pay for 'progress'.

Yep, thought the same thing hearing a "story" on the radio this morning. Coal River in WV, the guy was saying maybe $100K/yr people from the big cities who are working from home now could move to small towns like his and spend money. I say "Be VERY careful what you ask for". I doubt he would much like his town after all those people move there ... all it needs is "the amenities I'm used to in the big city".

 

[pennyJo1960]

There are people wanting moving here trying to buy but cannot find the find the big tree farms to sell out ...
Lot's of christmas tree operations here..

 

[sourland]

Good morning, penny.

 

[Shadrach]

Another warm one today. Low 30's at mid day.
I got the last of the peaches picked. They are seriously flavorsome. Not very big and thicker skinned than those I've bought in the past.
Getting a lot of early unripe figs dropping.
It looks like I'm going to have at least some cherry tomatoes. I've got a couple of plants that are doing okay. Neither of the plants were sprayed with copper sulphate and they avoided the problems of the larger varieties.

 

[aart]

Blessedly cooler day, curtains and windows open all day!
Finally got some mowing done, first time since the big storm, what a mess.