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[Cowgirlgrace]

By Nature, Last summer I planted peppers outside late and without cover and harvested lots of peppers, serranos, new mex, jalepenos, anchos and sweet peppers like Gypsy however would have gotten a lot more had I got on the ball and planted them sooner and if the weather had been better. The bells I planted in the greenhouse since they are more fragile as far as handling wet. You just have to pick the early varieties and if you buy plants, buy the biggest ones you can find. I don't have a heated greenhouse but do have heat mats since bottom heat is the most important. I start tomatoes early March and peppers late March. I plant them into bigger containers only once before planting outside and I try to get them planted by the time they are 8 weeks. This year the peppers did better than the tomatoes. I am on the Western side.

 

[T Hi]

CL-I will call you tonight for directions!!! I'm getting eggcited!!!!!

 

[T Hi]

-------------------------------------ANY OF MY WASHINGTONIAN BYC FRIENDS!!!!!!!!--------------------------


I am heading down to Raymond tomorrow! Does anyone need me to take anything down that direction or to bring anything back up?

I do not have a truck but I have no problem making my girls hold anything!!

Plus, I do have a pretty big hatchback trunk.

PM me ASAP!!!

 

[hallerlake]

Christmas with your family sounds way too exciting. What melodrama!



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I cannot go through all posts,
DH is leaving in the wee hours, and ODOT (Oregon dept ofTrans) says snow showers all day tomorrow. I looked earlier and the travel cams on the Siskiyous showed 2 lanes (there is only 2 lanes) of semis, bumper to bumper parked,northbound, and nothing south bound....did not look good.
Anyway tomorrow looks OK...snow and snow showers is OK to drive in, the freezing rain he encountered from Weed to Eugene and again through Portland on the trip last winter was horrible...I-5 a sheet of glass through 3 states.
Snow is OK.

So he will get home tomorrow night.
Then T is going to be here Friday when ?
We will be here, just call.
At least your hat will be here too.
May be buried in a van full of boxes....but we will find it.
My "flu" continues but I think it is the seasonal stress...yikes I hate the holidaze !!!

I get hit with it everytime no matter who I speak to or where I am. And the bad part is I argue back, instead of letting it go.
That starts the war and constantly defending myself.
I am currently the big bad (the word that rymes with witch) cuz I sat here all throughout the holidays and never showed up at the dinner in Puyallup cus I had to "stay here with my stupid chickens and I need to get rid of them cus life is passing me by" according to my sis.
I am tired of telling them the chickens have nothing to do with my having to stay here, I stay here cuz I have no car DUH!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so sick of chicken attacks !!!
I have 19 chickens and my entire family thinks that is tying me here to this property.
It all started when, 2 days after the dreaded Christmas dinner I asked via e-mail if everyone had a good time and I sincerely wanted to the details: was there roast or ham ? Please tell me the story...what I got back was venom, as in if you wanted to be with your family instead of staying home with you G** Da*** chickens then you should have been here but you weren't, you love those G**** birds more than us so don't come looking to talk to me about...it went on and on...viscious.
If I did have a car, (and my sis knows I gave to my daughter cuz hers got repossed and my daughter also called and b***hed me out and called me names and selfish after she just cashed the $150 Christmas gift check...and sold my car for $800 after a full engine rebuild of over $1200 and new water pump, tires were over $800, heater core, everything but paint !!) so I am selfish ??
But I swear if I still had my car I most generously rebuilt and gave to my daughter, I would have drove to Puyallup and beat up my sister just like I did when I was 11.

So sis knows she is safe for the moment and says if I wasn't such an idiot and gave my car to my whiney looser daughter than I would have been able to show up so don't come b****g at me about what we had for Chritsmas dinner....EI YEI YEI YEI !!!!
It is funny, huh ?
Then DH is at his Dad's in Northern California...and gota call from his cousins in San Diego, and his Dad's brother with bad Parkinson's disease and Aunt with TIA's (ministrokes) has flown to dan Diego for Chritsmas, wheelchair, drooling diapers and all....and during dinner a distant cousin's dog threw up on thier carpet and the man of the house married to DH's cousin said "I am gonna kill that dog if it barfs or eats one more" Bam ! The niece hit him in the head with a wine bottle and cracked his skull open, and head wounds bleed !!!
DH thinks this is hysterical, but he was in Nor Cal they were in San Diego...
So after he (the cousin's husband) got up off the floor he promptly jumped over the Christmas dinner table and grabbed the 20 year old niece and gave her a right hook to rival Mohammud Ali....Ahh! What a great Christmas !!!

She has a black eye, and he had to go to the ER for stitches , and the wife, DH's cousin, left in a great huff, out of her own home, screaming at all the ""Guests"" and took her sick dad and mom to the RV outside, and drove straight away from San Diego to Clear Lake in Northern California. Quite a few hours. She is FUMING ticked. I am tired of everyone venting on me. DH thinks it is all hysterical..

.but I get it stuck in my crop and do get snapping, and I greatly apologize to anyone I may have snapped at.
Including Illia.
DH's Dad is the older and does not drive so he is worried that the cousin is going to dump the sick brother and wife on him, and it is a 3 hour drive to the Sacramento Airport...then DH figured it out::: They were coming up to hitch a ride with him back to WA..

.and they live in Spokane. Oh well, they are old and have need for our help, so ??
But apparently the cousin is staying with them and returning to San Diego and dropping her parents off at the Sac airport on the way south....

Can someone please explain to me why we as a family can get together for DAYS, weeks apart, and see each other every weekend, and camp, party, fish whatever with each other, but at Chritsmas,

http://bestsmileys.com/paranoid/1.gif
I am hiding during the holidays.

 

[hallerlake]

I'd love to. When?

I'm actually pretty talkative in person.

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[hallerlake]

If you want to go to Third Place Books, too. I could give you a lift.

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Nice your close to where I live.. Northgate Mall area here.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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I just ordered some artichoke seed, am gonna see if it will work here, and have to die back and regrow in the spring so have to protect them over winter with hay bales alongside the long boxes and heavily mulch the top but think it will work ?
I am going out to work a bit & will return in a few~~

Hay bales would be perfect. There are also varieties more hardy than others but can't recall them right now. We can grow them as annuals but overwintered ones would have chokes earlier. I grew about 4 one year from plants I purchased in spring just for the heck of it. Didn't protect over winter and one of them even survived.

 

[Ogress]

The Bug is at Greencar, whew! No squishies.


I love all the garden pics! Aside from the seeds friends asked for from my plants, I never tried saving seeds, but will try this year.

I can grow peppers here! Usually not bell peppers, but all the little hot ones! My growing season here is real short, and the winds come early in the fall and rip our any hoop house I've tried to make. I put them up in the spring just over my tomatoes and peppers. I'll have to try melons now that Cowgirl posted the how-to

My lilacs bloom about a month after the ones down in town do, and I only got about 5 tomatoes last summer (lots of peas and beans)

looking for garden pics.... Had to start over in a few locations as the evergreens got too big and shaded out much of the garden.

 

[Illia]

Alright, gardening talk.

I don't know about all you guys, but it is COLD and heavily frosted over here. Clear skies again. Little to no wind.

 

[Chickielady]

I am making a GF cake, DH should be here about5 PM, and will be egg-hausted and just want dinner, dessert and bed, no doubt, or maybe a romp with the pup dog and some smoking and guy fun in his fort
*************************T tomorrow will be great, hope the weather is nice like today though!!
egg in a carton, big end up, unwashed and kept at 55-60 degrees, turn every so often (I use a block of 2x4 under the carton) and when I take in a car I put shavings in one of our large ice chests, about 6" deep and nestle the egg carton in there with a big blue freezy block we keep in the freezer.
You know the freezie block with the blue stuff inside that you can use over and over ?
Or a ziplock of ice will work next to the eggs but not ob them, keep the enterior of the ice chest cool.
Shavings help with vibrations.
I can PM you directions.

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And streaming through my little kitchen window !
And now I can see all the dust !! Yikes! No matter how much you dust when you have critters, you get dust.