What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

I have heard of micro climates etc but this is rediculous.
First off, i swear my house is built on an indian burial ground or something because i get some weird ass weather at times, and you can literally watch the radar and see storms part and miss me.... until they don't and I get hit by lightning, (3 times in 15 years :X )

The weather service been missing the forecast BAD for me. They predicted a low of 40 here, it's now 31.1 degrees and im getting just a teensy bit of frost on the far reaches of the yard. I won't hit my low temp for the day until about an hour or two so still have some more droppage to deal with.

It is not a bad thermometer either, They are K T/C's I got tuned to 1/1ooth of a degree accuracy. I have 3 thermometers too and they typically are in a few tenths of a degree of each other so it is NOT a bad reading ! It's not so much evaporative cooling either, frost IS FROST and it kills tropical plants !

Missed it by 8 degrees, come on guys you can do better than that geez. I can see a degree or two but 8? One more reason I need my darned greenhouse so i can quit playing these stupid games. Better yet I need to win the damned lottery, just 500k, let me get 10 acres, and put a small house with HUGE kitchen and greenhouse and I'll be happy !!

Aaron

 

[Leo1]

Do you KNOW this as fact? Save a body or two, call the game warden and law enforcement and file charges against them. You know the mushrooms that destroy livers right? why not make your neighbor some sphagetti and meatballs with mushroom marinara sauce as a 'lets bury the hatchet' lunch? Then you get the joy of watching them die over the course of a month with nothing that will stop it.

Actually, don't do anything to them, at least not right away, it'll come straight back at you. Revenge is best served cold. There are other ways too. HFl is another fun toy as well. What comes around goes around.,

Yes. I know it as fact. Proving it was him in a court would have been a huge challenge.
I don't think he knew he succeeded and I never let on that I knew he poisoned them.
You have no idea what I wanted to do to him, but I'm not going to prison over him. But, let's just say, a row of 10 trees he planted a year or so later died, mysteriously, one every couple of weeks and the same thing happened to the replacement trees....and the next round of replacement trees. And, let's just say, there are ways to kill trees that don't harm anything else.

 

[igorsMistress]

All the big pines are gone. I have a couple of giant stumps and a lit of tree debris. I’m looking forward to seeing this area cleaned up, fenced in and grass growing. The soil looks very rich and dark so more garden space. Before and after photos. View attachment 3371896View attachment 3371897View attachment 3371898View attachment 3371899

Wow, that’s a huge difference Sarah. I can’t wait to see what you do with all the new space.

 

[igorsMistress]

I have heard of micro climates etc but this is rediculous.
First off, i swear my house is built on an indian burial ground or something because i get some weird ass weather at times, and you can literally watch the radar and see storms part and miss me.... until they don't and I get hit by lightning, (3 times in 15 years :X )

The weather service been missing the forecast BAD for me. They predicted a low of 40 here, it's now 31.1 degrees and im getting just a teensy bit of frost on the far reaches of the yard. I won't hit my low temp for the day until about an hour or two so still have some more droppage to deal with.

It is not a bad thermometer either, They are K T/C's I got tuned to 1/1ooth of a degree accuracy. I have 3 thermometers too and they typically are in a few tenths of a degree of each other so it is NOT a bad reading ! It's not so much evaporative cooling either, frost IS FROST and it kills tropical plants !

Missed it by 8 degrees, come on guys you can do better than that geez. I can see a degree or two but 8? One more reason I need my darned greenhouse so i can quit playing these stupid games. Better yet I need to win the damned lottery, just 500k, let me get 10 acres, and put a small house with HUGE kitchen and greenhouse and I'll be happy !!

Aaron

Monitoring what you’ve got and predicting what you

I bought a dozen eggs today. I really HOPE it's the last dozen I have to buy! These were the "cheap eggs" that used to be $1.88. Now they are $4.79.

Right now, I'm getting an egg every other day, sometimes 2 days out of 3. It's DH's birthday on Thursday, and I need 3 eggs to make his birthday pie, which is lemon meringue. We use 8 eggs every weekend for weekend breakfasts. I'd like to have fried rice 2-3 times a week like I do in the summer.

Come on, girls, get it in gear!

My DHs birthday is also Thursday. Don’t you hate it when you might have enough of your own eggs, but can’t depend on it so you have to buy? At least there’s some to buy, our shelves were empty of eggs at our stores the last time I went.

 

[Sally PB]

At least there’s some to buy

True!

One thing the grocery has been out of for MONTHS is vermicelli. It's the only pasta DH likes for our weekly spaghetti night. I finally did a count of the boxes I have stored in the basement. We have 20. I didn't know it was anywhere near that many, because I only saw 2-3 at a time, depending on which tote I was looking through. Maybe the grocery store will have it again in a year. SOOO glad I bought a box or two to "stock up" last year!

 

[PicoFarm]

So I hooked my tilapia heater up to a bank of solar panels, thinking they could heat the water when the batteries are full and nowhere else to put the juice. Well it's nice and warm in there now, they should be happy. Hopefully we don't get too many horribly cold days but now that I know my solar heating experiment is going to work well, I can go ahead and get the other one set up and run them in tandem to kick in as needed for bad weather and just dump back to the grid when I don't need the power. good to have multiple sources of power, one of them essentially free for keeping the fish warm. Now I only need to get enough of them to start producing food for

Sounds like quite the operation

 

[PicoFarm]

Thoughts on growing these in midwest: Butterbur; Nettle; Marshmallow Root; Calendula flower; sow thistle; milk thistle; chickweed.

 

[igorsMistress]

True!

One thing the grocery has been out of for MONTHS is vermicelli. It's the only pasta DH likes for our weekly spaghetti night. I finally did a count of the boxes I have stored in the basement. We have 20. I didn't know it was anywhere near that many, because I only saw 2-3 at a time, depending on which tote I was looking through. Maybe the grocery store will have it again in a year. SOOO glad I bought a box or two to "stock up" last year!

For sure! I have a ton of pasta that I stocked up on also. I bought some, forgot I did and bought some more, then bought a different kind lol. The thing we have a hard time with is the creamer hubby likes. And right after the holidays there wasn’t an oz of heavy cream anywhere nearby. Crazy.

 

[igorsMistress]

For sure! I have a ton of pasta that I stocked up on also. I bought some, forgot I did and bought some more, then bought a different kind lol. The thing we have a hard time with is the creamer hubby likes. And right after the holidays there wasn’t an oz of heavy cream anywhere nearby. Crazy.

Also, California has implemented a ban on commercial vehicles over 14000 lbs older than 2010 to drive on their roads. That’s going to cause some problems

 

[jerryse]

I had 2 days of sun but cloudy today. I have always had back problems. Had surgery in 1973. Now the good news is I watched a lot of videos about SI joint self help. Found an easy fix and feeling much better. Use a belt below the hip. I now wear my belt below my hip. I have done this for 3 days and the results are amazing.