The Old Folks Home

[Nomadicus]

Off to the lumberyard for 3 boards. Then once back home I can really get into big trouble.

 

[Sally PB]

I think garden math is a first cousin to chicken math.

No, it's a closer relationship, it's a sibling. Both live at my house.

Yes that can work after years of trial and error. But the object is to have a years supply canned now. Seed from most tomatoes do not produce a plant that produces that same tomato and they come from productive hybrids.

But if you save seeds from your heirlooms, you'll never have to buy seeds again.

I have saved seeds from heirloom tomatoes that have done well for me. I only buy seeds of new heirloom varieties I want to try. Ditto with beans. And seed potatoes.

I hear roosters trying to get the sun to come up.

Aren't they crowing to scare it into staying down?

 

[microchick]

Morning folks.

Been fighting a cold for the past few days. You know the type where you feel sick enough to die and wonder why you don't kind of cold.

Weird thing is that this is the first one I have had in years and I haven't been anywhere in well over a week so it makes me wonder where I picked it up. Maybe off an incoming package? I told my husband to remind me to either wash or sanitize my hands after opening incoming packages and mail. Got out of that habit. My bad.

We are in Indian Summer here. Last day of mild temps in the upper 60s before reality strikes. I'm even seeing the S word in the forecast the day after Thanksgiving.

Just curious. What are y'all paying for turkeys where you live? I got a 13.5 pound bird for 98 cents a pound at Wally World yesterday. I usually buy at Hyvee but their turkeys were starting at 20$ this year. Since I'm the only one who likes turkey (husband gets a roast beef on Thanksgiving) I plan to cut it into quarters and roast a quarter. Freeze the rest.

The local roosters (including mine) start singing the song of their people about 4AM it seems. I am never amused.

 

[ronott1]

Isn't Ferndale the place where Mary Hartman Mary Hartman lived?

Wiki says it was Fernwood. I remember that show!

 

[ronott1]

Morning folks.

Been fighting a cold for the past few days. You know the type where you feel sick enough to die and wonder why you don't kind of cold.

Weird thing is that this is the first one I have had in years and I haven't been anywhere in well over a week so it makes me wonder where I picked it up. Maybe off an incoming package? I told my husband to remind me to either wash or sanitize my hands after opening incoming packages and mail. Got out of that habit. My bad.

We are in Indian Summer here. Last day of mild temps in the upper 60s before reality strikes. I'm even seeing the S word in the forecast the day after Thanksgiving.

Just curious. What are y'all paying for turkeys where you live? I got a 13.5 pound bird for 98 cents a pound at Wally World yesterday. I usually buy at Hyvee but their turkeys were starting at 20$ this year. Since I'm the only one who likes turkey (husband gets a roast beef on Thanksgiving) I plan to cut it into quarters and roast a quarter. Freeze the rest.

The local roosters (including mine) start singing the song of their people about 4AM it seems. I am never amused.

No Snow here! (we almost never have show!) I am waiting to see rain still. That might happen tomorrow.

I have had a cough for a week or so but it is nearly gone now.

 

[Nomadicus]

Made the trip to town without incident. I even remembered to get the stuff to spray my pet roosters butt with so the hens will stop picking it and a bag of pine shavings. I did good without a list. Told the lady at checkout I needed my member # written on my forehead so I wouldn't have to remember it. She offered to write it down for me but I told her I'd just lose it.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Hybrids are usually made from heirlooms with those traits. That's why the companies thst sell the seeds are so careful to hide the ancestry of their seeds.

The real advantage of hybrids is "hybrid vigor," or as I have seen it called, "lack of inbreeding depression."

I.e., if plants are outcrossed instead of being self pollinated, they're stronger and healthier.

 

[pertnear09]

Wiki says it was Fernwood. I remember that show!

Fernwood, that's right. I remembered wrong.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good Morning Old Folks! We have sun here right now!
We will see more rain.

 

[Nomadicus]

I am so thankful that for once the forecast from last night for today was wrong. I had 70+ and sunshine instead of cloudy and cool rain. It's about time I won one with the weather guesser messing up my for my good.