Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

It has stopped snowing here we got slightly more than an inch.

 

[duluthralphie]

It has stopped snowing here we got slightly more than an inch.

Good, I want a brown Christmas.

We are watching the Christmas Eve forecast closely. 4 Degrees F is not acceptable for our holiday plans.

Our children along with their cousins who live next door are planning a Christmas Caroling Extravaganza. We will be riding around in the back of a 1950 GMC pick up and a 2 cylinder tractor with buckboard seat wagon to go caroling to 2 different neighbors that are shut in. The nearest neighbor is 2 miles down the gravel road. All would be fine and dandy except that I am not old or young enough to ride inside the cab of the truck. Grandma's denim blankets will be put to good use.

May the week leading up to Christmas be uneventful and bright! May the cleaning elves pay you an overnight visit.

what time should I be expecting to be serenaded?

Could be a long cold ride for you, I will have the peppermint schnapps waiting.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

We got about 2 inches. At 28 degrees it was slick and settling . I’d be surprised if any of its left by Christmas.

 

[duluthralphie]

We got about 2 inches. At 28 degrees it was slick and settling . I’d be surprised if any of its left by Christmas.

That’s good to know. Can’t have that white fungi ruining my fishing trip.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . So thinking about gardens . I have a question for garden at the lake . BC may be the one with an answer . Gabbage family and cabbage worms . Never seen any of the white cabbage butterflies at the lake . Might be a pest free planting . So how bad are they up north .

 

[duluthralphie]

They aren’t all that bad, (cabbage worms). I see them every once in a while and more on the Broccoli than the cabbage.

The birds love them and they patrol my garden regularly, so that might be why I don’t see many.

 

[duluthralphie]

I saw my first fish house on the lakes yesterday.

A darkhouse and it appears they pulled it out with an ATV.

 

[bobbi-j]

I saw my first fish house on the lakes yesterday.

A darkhouse and it appears they pulled it out with an ATV.

We had 4 ATVs on the little lake behind our place today. First fish house went out a few days ago.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Jerry: beautiful cabbages up here. Here is mom and dads garden with their cabbages 3 years ago. They did plant dill on one side and tomatoes on the other. Do the smells of those plants have a repellent effect. Possible.
That’s a thought. They did harvest. Might have been a hole or two. But the cabbages really were beautiful specimens I remember and delicious. And gorgeous contrast next to that dill.

Mom and dad’s black dirt was two dump trucks from a dairy farm cow yard and then years later from the golf course. Boy you could see the gray powder clay in that “black dirt” against the cow composted dirt. And then every year for seven years they got my winter chicken poop cicles to thaw a rain on for 2-3 months then tilled in with egg shells for worm grit and calcium for plants. They were excellent gardeners. Well they were farmers as kids and young married couple really.
Potato bugs... now there were issues there

 

[duluthralphie]

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Jerry: beautiful cabbages up here. Here is mom and dads garden with their cabbages 3 years ago. They did plant dill on one side and tomatoes on the other. Do the smells of those plants have a repellent effect. Possible.
That’s a thought. They did harvest. Might have been a hole or two. But the cabbages really were beautiful specimens I remember and delicious. And gorgeous contrast next to that dill.

Mom and dad’s black dirt was two dump trucks from a dairy farm cow yard and then years later from the golf course. Boy you could see the gray powder clay in that “black dirt” against the cow composted dirt. And then every year for seven years they got my winter chicken poop cicles to thaw a rain on for 2-3 months then tilled in with egg shells for worm grit and calcium for plants. They were excellent gardeners. Well they were farmers as kids and young married couple really.
Potato bugs... now there were issues there

Potato bugs are terrible, and the birds don’t seem to like them.