The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

TBH my mattress is from the 70's no joke. Every time I had the money, I used it on something else. My mother was always very fatalistic. Whenever she bought something she'd say "this is the last 'whatever,' till I die." I started saying that too. Now that I'm 70 I think a new mattress would last a lot longer than I would.

Sheets are clean but, ran out of closet space. I have a full size bed and only sleep on the out side. So stacks of clothes are usually piled up on the other side. It makes a very lumpy, crowded space.

kick the clothes to the floor?

 

[Alaskan]

I'm a little embarrassed to say I sleep with a grown man, 3 dogs & a cat in my bed. That also makes for a lumpy crowded space.

at least you don't sleep with a emu

 

[Beer can]

My daffodils are done blooming.
My grape vine is loaded with buds ready to blossom. The blueberries are getting ripe.
I had to staple wax sandwich bags over the berry clusters to keep the bird from eating them.
I will do the same on the grape vine when they start.

Your spring will come soon.

We've seen one daffodil flower, dw and the girls were pointing it out, five yr old boy went out awhile later and picked it, boy did he get in trouble with the girls lol.
My grape vines this morn

Got my winter tires removed yesterday... flat tire this morning.

My SCG-style luck continues.

Changed ours out yesterday also, snow this morn. Glad I don't have to go anywhere till later lol.
Those donuts say 50 miles I believe? I drove all summer on one in the back once yrs ago lol.

Seriously? Even if you sold it as a craft item? Greedy so and so's makes me glad I sold my Buell Blast!

This is as close as I ever got to owning a Harley:

Great bike, only it shifted like crap. I'd have a sore foot by the time I got home with it.

My brother had a blue Blast new. We called it his 'half a Harley'. 70 some mpg.
I rode it once, thought it shifted and rode great...but I was used to riding a old yamaha tri-moto 175 two stroke three wheeler around with a solid axle no suspension in the rear, and a auto tran. Had to shift it but no clutch. So I rode his Blast to town and back and never gave using the clutch a thought till I had to stop. Maybe they shifted better without using the clutch? lol.

I drive a 1985 Mercedes. The trunk is huge on it. One day I was at the gas station buying gas for the lawnmower and somebody walked by and comment about the huge trunk while I was bungee tying it in. I was tired, so my inner snarkiness just burst forth and I said--It's great for transporting bodies. I can get two in depending on their size and weight--I got a strange look and the commenter hurried away.

We see a trunk like that here and the comment will be, 'wow, you could fit three deer in there!'

 

[Beer can]

Pretty funny to see this morn (not the snow)
Cat licking the pussy willows the girls picked yesterday

 

[chickadoodles]

Bc when will you start your garden?
Love the cat pic!
She must know it was named after her kind!

 

[Beer can]

Bc when will you start your garden?
Love the cat pic!
She must know it was named after her kind!

Garden usually gets in Memorial weekend, not safe from late frosts till then. I usually have cold hardy stuff, peas and spinach up pretty good by now. Had peas up two foot one yr by middle of April and then a foot of snow knocked them down. They recovered. Not doing either this yr.
My kale and collards were poking out of the soil yesterday. I don't think this snow will hurt them supposed to warm right up and be HOT the rest of the week.
Garden getting tilled by the birds this morn. They don't look happy either.

 

[chickadoodles]

Garden usually gets in Memorial weekend, not safe from late frosts till then. I usually have cold hardy stuff, peas and spinach up pretty good by now. Had peas up two foot one yr by middle of April and then a foot of snow knocked them down. They recovered. Not doing either this yr.
My kale and collards were poking out of the soil yesterday. I don't think this snow will hurt them supposed to warm right up and be HOT the rest of the week.
Garden getting tilled by the birds this morn. They don't look happy either.
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Garden usually gets in Memorial weekend, not safe from late frosts till then. I usually have cold hardy stuff, peas and spinach up pretty good by now. Had peas up two foot one yr by middle of April and then a foot of snow knocked them down. They recovered. Not doing either this yr.
My kale and collards were poking out of the soil yesterday. I don't think this snow will hurt them supposed to warm right up and be HOT the rest of the week.
Garden getting tilled by the birds this morn. They don't look happy either.
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Nice sized garden. I'll bet your chickens wish the snow would go away!

 

[ronott1]

TBH my mattress is from the 70's no joke. Every time I had the money, I used it on something else. My mother was always very fatalistic. Whenever she bought something she'd say "this is the last 'whatever,' till I die." I started saying that too. Now that I'm 70 I think a new mattress would last a lot longer than I would.

Sheets are clean but, ran out of closet space. I have a full size bed and only sleep on the out side. So stacks of clothes are usually piled up on the other side. It makes a very lumpy, crowded space.

Your sleeping enviroment is very important. A new mattress would be nice. If you cannot afford one, there are some very nice memory foam toppers out now.

 

[ronott1]

Garden usually gets in Memorial weekend, not safe from late frosts till then. I usually have cold hardy stuff, peas and spinach up pretty good by now. Had peas up two foot one yr by middle of April and then a foot of snow knocked them down. They recovered. Not doing either this yr.
My kale and collards were poking out of the soil yesterday. I don't think this snow will hurt them supposed to warm right up and be HOT the rest of the week.
Garden getting tilled by the birds this morn. They don't look happy either.
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Too much snow!

 

[Peep_Show]

Hey! I got a "Likes" trophy yesterday. Thanks, guys!

Also a notification that it has been 8 years that BYC has lit up my screen. Time flies when you're having fun!

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Ron -- A wondrous story. Seriously, though, very few remember their threshhold experiences and in such vivid detail. The old guys most likely sent you back because you were too innocent and naive. Most likely a different scenario now, eh? I wonder if they send old women to fetch we gals?

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Diva -- There's some mattress company that had a TV ad that stated that due to debris and mites and dander that the average mattress doubles in weight every 8 years. I had to laugh at that statistic because in that case we had about 3 tons of mattresses at Mom's house. My folks were both children of the Depression and never threw anything away if it had an nth of utility to it. I swear, those mattresses were just one decade above being stuffed with straw and moss.
(IMHO, get a new mattress. Let the remainder of your slumber years be blissful. If not feasible for a new mattress, you can get a pillow topper or gel topper. $.02)

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My garden doesn't know what it's doing. We're still having heckawinds (my term for a dessicating and relentless April weather bane of this state), so don't want to set out any transplants until sometime in May when they abate. The peas have come up, but they aren't growing for some reason. Normally they're climbing the trellises by now, but they've been small and shrubby. Cool weather crops just aren't thriving, except for the overwintered garlic which is now providing yummy scapes. My gro-light plantings -- alas -- have suffered due to inattention (so many other projects!) and so I may have to purchase peppers and eggplant seedlings this year. However, I have a nifty crop of unknown volunteer tomato plants coming up in the peas, so I'll probably transplant those over to the sauce bed. Canning surprise!
The orchard, though, is going bonkers as we had a lot of warmth early this year, so nearly every tree has oodles of fruit on it except for one very early-blooming apricot that found a frost shortly thereafter. Most of the fruit is sticking, so will have to thin it later.
So much to do... If I ever won the lottery my first indulgence would be to get garden minions!