Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[3goodeggs]

Hi Vehve
I'm in a crazy cold pocket of an already cold region of northern Wisconsin, USA.

Wisconsin? I figured Churchill and polar bears.
Now I'm thinking cows and cheese.

No ice flows and seals?
No polar bears on ice-flows eating cheese?


The fantasy is dashed.

 

[Highcotton]

Puddin Fluff, "After a certain point, tomatoes only need heat to ripen, not sun. We have had luck the last couple of years collecting the green tomatoes prior to first frost, putting them on trays, not touching, under our couch and they will ripen. Some won't but we had tomatoes into December last year."

I have wrapped them in newspaper and put them in boxes and they would ripen. Just keep them in a cool place.

 

[vehve]

@chickisoup _o/ \o/ \o_

 

[ronott1]

I only had one cup of coffee at home this morning so I needed to pick up some coffee from the Memorial Union on Campus.

Now I am starting to get going!

 

[Bunnylady]

Technology. I have had issues with BYC lately that sometimes I hit quote and it takes me to reply but there is no box and the computer won't let me type. That is happening on more than one computer/device so it isn't in my equipment.

That isn't necessarily diagnostic. We had a problem that was occurring on multiple computers, and it turned out our router was infected.

 

[Alaskan]

Hi Vehve I'm in a crazy cold pocket of an already cold region of northern Wisconsin, USA.

Wisconsin? I figured Churchill and polar bears. Now I'm thinking cows and cheese. :/ No ice flows and seals? No polar bears on ice-flows eating cheese? The fantasy is dashed.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh, interesting tidbit.

Monday I came home at lunch and was doing a round of all the animals, making sure they had food and water.

I looked into the white chicken tractor and saw no quail (it has three quail and a bunch of 8 week old chicks.)

I counted the chicks several times, yep, all chicks, no quail.

I looked around, found a tiny spot where the chicken wire had been pulled back just due to use, just big enough to lose a quail.

I called the kids, and kid#2 crawled into the coop and found one quail. I asked what sec, he said a girl, I said are you sure, he said yes. Right then, I heard a quail rooster crow (or whatever they are called). We looked, there against the house, in the tall grass and weeds (nope, we have done no mowing or weed eating this summer) was the male! We caught him up, and looked and looked for the second girl, couldn't find her.

I obviously spent the next hour reinforcing that white tractor, LOTS!

This morning, when I went out to check the chicks, there was the second girl, coming out of the thick bush on our slope! I was close enough to the house that I could bang on the window to rally the boys. They all came out (one only with undies and a shirt), we corralled her, caught her, and popped her back into the newly reinforced white tractor!

(But, last night I ordered 3 dozen quail eggs)

 

[vehve]

Alaskan, good that you found them. You must have been worried.

 

[chickisoup]

Oh, interesting tidbit.

Monday I came home at lunch and was doing a round of all the animals, making sure they had food and water.

I looked into the white chicken tractor and saw no quail (it has three quail and a bunch of 8 week old chicks.)

I counted the chicks several times, yep, all chicks, no quail.

I looked around, found a tiny spot where the chicken wire had been pulled back just due to use, just big enough to lose a quail.

I called the kids, and kid#2 crawled into the coop and found one quail. I asked what sec, he said a girl, I said are you sure, he said yes. Right then, I heard a quail rooster crow (or whatever they are called). We looked, there against the house, in the tall grass and weeds (nope, we have done no mowing or weed eating this summer) was the male! We caught him up, and looked and looked for the second girl, couldn't find her.

I obviously spent the next hour reinforcing that white tractor, LOTS!

This morning, when I went out to check the chicks, there was the second girl, coming out of the thick bush on our slope! I was close enough to the house that I could bang on the window to rally the boys. They all came out (one only with undies and a shirt), we corralled her, caught her, and popped her back into the newly reinforced white tractor!

(But, last night I ordered 3 dozen quail eggs)

you have good voles.

 

[chickisoup]

Puddin Fluff, "After a certain point, tomatoes only need heat to ripen, not sun. We have had luck the last couple of years collecting the green tomatoes prior to first frost, putting them on trays, not touching, under our couch and they will ripen. Some won't but we had tomatoes into December last year."

I have wrapped them in newspaper and put them in boxes and they would ripen. Just keep them in a cool place.

yep. I've always managed to get some well into winter every year by storing them in our cool front bedroom. If I have a lot of green toms then I pile them in my bay window where they ripen pretty much all at once so I can process them into tomato sauce, etc. Problem with all that is they never have that wonderful vine ripened, taste. Looks like I may have to settle for that this year tho, sigh. No nice big slicers (they haven't even gotten big enough to "star" on the bottom) it's going to be all paste toms this year unless we have a big heatwave in a hurry but with my luck this year it will be so HOT it will shut them down.