Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TeaChick]

John 15:13 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

Thank you. =)

 

[TeaChick]

X's 2 if I'm next in line, if I'm not the X's 3 or 4 lol

We are in the same boat! They say Monday and Tuesday we could see record lows. Crazy weather!!!

Yup, us too. Heat index over 100* (F).

And now we are under a tornado watch!

Oh, no! I hope everything's alright now!!!

I miss my café con leches in Spain.

I have switched to iced tea for the afternoon and am looking forward to a tinto verano as the sun goes down.

I switch to iced tea for the afternoons too.
What is tinto verano?

 

[Highcotton]

Morning Cold but no frost! :yiipchick Boy does my coffee taste good this morning! I think the tomatoes are probably a loss this year (again). As all you garden folks know, even if there's no frost, if the temp drops to 50oF or lower stuff stops growing and it takes a while for tomatoes to start up again. They were way behind this year anyway and we only have maybe 4 or 5 growing weeks left. We have had a year or two where the growing season stretched into September so maybe this year , but then you start running into the problem of shorter days and the sun not getting high enough in the sky. Such is the down side of living in the beautiful northwoods. Well, should be warm enough to let girls and chicks out so I better grab my coffee mug and get outside. They REALLY squawk at me when I'm late! Spoiled chooks

Tomatoes won't pollinate that cool. They self pollinate so a bit of thumping the stem or shaking it will help the pollination.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

(Cutting and pasting posts was too problematic for me today, so, here are all the things I wanted to respond to)


1. Yes! Yes! Let us have a "what units should we use" war!

We can start doing all temps in Réaumur, and all length in rods! Rods I say, RODS!

I think I only heard thunder twice while we lived in Anchorage.

I switch to iced tea for the afternoons too.
What is tinto verano?

A tinto verano is red wine mixed with something similar to Sprite. The Spanish drink it a lot in the summer when it is very hot and you need a little more hydration.

As for kids (adult or otherwise) CHORES!!! 'Nuf said.

 

[chickisoup]

Quote: Thanks Hagar but pollination's not the problem. Had lots of that when it was warmer. Problem now is flowers are no longer forming and the fruit I already have is not ripening because of the night lows are now consistently in the 40's which is slowing the maturity rate to the point that they'll not make it before the first hard frost due in a few weeks. Going to be lots of green tomato stuff being cooked.

 

[chickisoup]

Evening everyone!
Sorry I'm not as chatty lately. Been too busy!!! Hope you all are having a great summer! Not much of one weatherwise here. We did have a beautiful high of 69oF today with a nice breeze which made it great for working outside and the critters are loving it. Except for a bit cooler, it's supposed to be the same for the rest of the week so I should finally get most of those projects the weather wouldn't let me get to like painting, everything.

Alaskan=thunder, really??? wow. There has been some really nasty weather the last couple days but we've gotten none of it. We actually need some of the rain now. Just can't win this year.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Thanks Hagar but pollination's not the problem. Had lots of that when it was warmer. Problem now is flowers are no longer forming and the fruit I already have is not ripening because of the night lows are now consistently in the 40's which is slowing the maturity rate to the point that they'll not make it before the first hard frost due in a few weeks. Going to be lots of green tomato stuff being cooked.
Where are you located when tomato growing seems more difficult there than in Finland? Our cherry tomatoes are coming along nicely here.

 

[chickisoup]

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

 

[chickisoup]

WHEW!!! Finally able to get back on!!! My ISP decided yesterday that this site was "evil" and wouldn't let me get back on then this morning I kept getting illegal redirect errors so I had to clear my cache, run a cleaner and all that fun stuff before I could log back in!



Boy am I glad I didn't run out of coffee!!!

Oh, and now the BYC emoticons won't work! (insert falling down face first emoticon here)

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Thanks Hagar but pollination's not the problem. Had lots of that when it was warmer. Problem now is flowers are no longer forming and the fruit I already have is not ripening because of the night lows are now consistently in the 40's which is slowing the maturity rate to the point that they'll not make it before the first hard frost due in a few weeks. Going to be lots of green tomato stuff being cooked.

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.

WHEW!!! Finally able to get back on!!! My ISP decided yesterday that this site was "evil" and wouldn't let me get back on then this morning I kept getting illegal redirect errors so I had to clear my cache, run a cleaner and all that fun stuff before I could log back in!



Boy am I glad I didn't run out of coffee!!!

Oh, and now the BYC emoticons won't work! (insert falling down face first emoticon here)

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.