What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Well ran around all day today, finally got in to see my primary care provider who I ended up at, only to be referred to an ortheopedic surgeon and told, we don't know why the hospital didn't do this or even take care of your foot right there, we'll get you right in.

Baptist hospital sucks ass, i wouldn't take my dog there to put the damned thing to sleep at this point. Hopefully tomorrow I can get to see someone about my damned foot.

Aaron

 

[Sueby]

I have shared this info before. FYI dahlia tubers are edible like potatoes .

Oohh, I do remember u saying that now! I’ll look into it. Ty.

 

[TJAnonymous]

OMG that is my life story - gonna hafta google that!

On the DH thing - I was so impressed with mine today, he came in all worried saying Red hasn’t laid an egg in 3 days. Impressed he knows who red is & what her eggs are! I told him its ok, the poor old girl deserves a few days off. She is a 4 year old RSL that still lays every couple days, she’s a machine.

Yeah, APD (auditory processing disorder) really sucks. I wish I was just deaf instead... I do have partial hearing loss too but the APD is far more aggravating. It is a disorder of the nerves that run from your inner ear to the brain. It causes the electrical impulses that run along the nerve to be jumbled. So if someone talks to me, their words sound like a foreign language. I might be able to pick one or two words out of the entire sentence. The rest is just gibberish. I have to think really hard to put what words I DO hear into some kind of mental context and then I might be able to deduce what the person said. By that time, I've missed everything they said afterwards.... This problem happens about 40-50% of the time right now. If there is any background noise in the area or if the person is not looking directly at me (such as talking with their back turned), the percentage goes up to 75-80%. Then there is also the complete inability to locate sound origination. I may hear a sound but I couldn't tell you where it's coming from.... Even if it's right next to me. APD is the real reason why I use closed captions. I'm also signed up for a class this January to learn basic sign language. I'm technically not deaf but as bad as I am struggling, it's probably a matter of time before I truly can't hear at all. Sad because I'm not even 50 yo yet! They can correct APD with an implant but I am not comfortable with someone cutting into my brain. No thanks. I'll stick with sign language and closed captions....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Well ran around all day today, finally got in to see my primary care provider who I ended up at, only to be referred to an ortheopedic surgeon and told, we don't know why the hospital didn't do this or even take care of your foot right there, we'll get you right in.

Baptist hospital sucks ass, i wouldn't take my dog there to put the damned thing to sleep at this point. Hopefully tomorrow I can get to see someone about my damned foot.

Aaron

Didn't anyone tell you NOT to run around on a broken foot.... Sheesh....

 

[TJAnonymous]

My chicken aren't afraid of cats. Before I got chickens my yard was the go to place for cats to poop. I hardly see cats anymore. I think the cat is afraid of my rooster.

Yeah, I can't imagine mine were afraid of a cat. I have 7 heavy breed roosters who probably weigh somewhere around 12-13 lbs a piece. I have seen them attack foxes bigger than that cat. It wasn't a big cat.

 

[WthrLady]

Good info, thank you. I’m almost as allergic & sensitive as you are to thing so good to know.

I can't do peppermint or wintergreen or spearmint oils, they give me hives.
The lemongrass is high temp and just enough.
Lavender is fine too, but makes me gag.

 

[Ascholten]

My washer is one of those sensing ones as well but I always end up adding water to the load up front to get it to fill to a decent level to wash. Fk saving 2 gallons of water if you have to redo your laundry because it's nasty dirty. Most of those water saving brands crapped on the rinse cycle too, they'll give you an option of rinsing the entire load 2, 3, 4, sometimes up to 5 times to get it 'clean' but why not just piss water on it for a minute while it's rotating. They won't do that anymore because some tard spooge decided THAT was wasting water. You want to save water fine, do so, but USE IT when you NEED IT, then REUSE IT to save on it, don't skimp when you need it because you just waste more of it to redo the job you did not do right the first time. let's throw a bunch of perfumes in to cover the smell of ass on the clothes because they did not get cleaned properly is NOT a solution.

Throw a half cup of phosphates in your laundry that'll clean them better than they ever were, plus it's great for the plants too.

Aaron

 

[Sueby]

Yeah, APD (auditory processing disorder) really sucks. I wish I was just deaf instead... I do have partial hearing loss too but the APD is far more aggravating. It is a disorder of the nerves that run from your inner ear to the brain. It causes the electrical impulses that run along the nerve to be jumbled. So if someone talks to me, their words sound like a foreign language. I might be able to pick one or two words out of the entire sentence. The rest is just gibberish. I have to think really hard to put what words I DO hear into some kind of mental context and then I might be able to deduce what the person said. By that time, I've missed everything they said afterwards.... This problem happens about 40-50% of the time right now. If there is any background noise in the area or if the person is not looking directly at me (such as talking with their back turned), the percentage goes up to 75-80%. Then there is also the complete inability to locate sound origination. I may hear a sound but I couldn't tell you where it's coming from.... Even if it's right next to me. APD is the real reason why I use closed captions. I'm also signed up for a class this January to learn basic sign language. I'm technically not deaf but as bad as I am struggling, it's probably a matter of time before I truly can't hear at all. Sad because I'm not even 50 yo yet! They can correct APD with an implant but I am not comfortable with someone cutting into my brain. No thanks. I'll stick with sign language and closed captions....

Wow, that is tough! But I agree on the cutting into the brain, that sounds scary. A lot of the things you say do fit me, if you arent looking at me when you talk, I won’t get half of what you say - but much more so with female voices. I cannot ever tell you which way a sound came from. Interesting, thank you for sharing. Hearing is a hard loss, my mom is deaf (I know, not what you have, but just in general) & its so hard Especially since it happened to her so late in life so she never learned to sign or read lips.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good afternoon Gardeners. Have used dryer balls here for years.
Be sure to wash them from time to time.
I do not use scents of any kind I am allergic to many.

 

[Ascholten]

well kiss my ass !!
Just got done changing out the chips in the coop, the old ones were getting kind of funky etc, and a t storm was coming thru, ok it happens, no biggie. HUGE cust of wind came, blew the side door of the coop open, im thinking from the pressure surge and blew every one of the new chips out and everywhere all over the yard. well, they poop on plywood tonight until i get to TSC and get more chips. where the hell did that come from?
it also blew my blood orange over too, that is in a 60 gallon potter. Now it's not unheard of for that to tip over but exceedingly rare, so now mr bum foot gets to wrastle a damned tree back upright as well. Those 10 oranges i was wondering if I should harvest or not, I think mother nature just made my mind for me.

Aaron

Ps. if you left a blood orange on the tree, can they rot on the vine??? or will they fall off on their own once they get ripe enough /wo being over ripe and rotting? this is my first year / harvest of blood oranges and trying to figure the right time to snag em.