Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good one PJ, that's the idea!

some women can't go out without their warpaint. It is what it is...

wonderful time delivering the first bin of pak choy to food bank. They are coming out Friday afternoon for inspection and bringing the grandmom cook with them who is trying to
teach healthier eating habits to the clients. The first batch of cabbages was for staff, and I gave them a little container of lettuce also.

what I did not like finding this morning was the pak choy starting to bolt. I'm late!
I picked the biggest ones but after this storm goes through, I'll pick some more.
Figure I have about five of those bin fulls, maybe six.

 

[jbrumberg]

Good morning every one.

A fog/drizzle/frizzle start to the AM. I believe that Brogen saw his very first live turkey yesterday through the slider door. He did not know how to react. There are coy-wolf tracks in the snow again = lot's of "marking." We have a scheduled trip to the vets today. This should be interesting. The foster caregiver blames the dog's MMM on the "rabies" vaccine.

LS- Good luck with the surgery. It's like the pot calling the kettle black; I hope your post-op behavior will be better than your pre-op. One of my old colleagues used to chide me with "If you do not take care of your body; your body will take care of you. Unfortunately for me, she was correct and I will add- "and the results are rarely pleasant." Take care and stop upsetting wifey.

Eric- If your son is still calling you asking for advise and he's not in jail you were a good dad. Nylock awareness was you son's responsibility.

Drew- I have had poor results with pal chop. There is no early growing season and the fall growing season is too short. I had my best luck using a cold frame.

Wifey never wore makeup and never will.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for all.

 

[daugen]

headed out to mow some giant weeds I see have popped up along the driveway, sigh, first mow,
plus need to mow the dandelions on the roadside after picking up a big mass of fast food
trash I spotted on the way in. 20mph winds gusting to 35mph. Going to eat a lot of pollen and dust, almost wonder if I should
wear a nuisance mask

Then what I really need to do is put up another row of five foot tall mesh webbing in the garden. That should
be fun in the wind...one zip tie at a time. I planted a few tomatoes out there and they are going to get blown to bits.
Think I might cheat and go put a straw bale in front of the fragile stuff, cut the wind. It really howls out on that field, shows me how protected my
inner space is.
I'm being a poor parent allowing my kiddos to get blown to bits...

 

[daugen]

Jay, I wasn't feeling too successful this morning in just the other manner...the
cabbages all of a sudden jumped up and matured and started sending up seed pods.
Whoa, speedy little guys, and I need to cut their heads off and get them in a cool place.
So maybe there will be more carnage this afternoon before it rains.
The French Revolution was nothing compared to this.
Off with their heads!

 

[jbrumberg]

Enjoy your harvest. I consider gathering a meal of anything to be a success. How warm was your greenhouse?

I am no expert on gardening. I was always under the impression that cabbage varieties could not be transplanted easily. You guys are proving otherwise. I sense that pok choy will bolt whenever it gets stressed. MY DIY insulated/cold frame extended my growing season a couple of weeks on both ends of the growing season. It "worked" in theory, but not in "utility." It's now an "eyesore" in the garden. :embarrassed:

My area is under a High Wind Warning for today with the cold front rolling in. I may even experience a Tstorm with this frontal passage.I am not liking what I am seeing on the weather models. An active period with snow is modeled. I may see 5" of snow before it melts with this pending weekend system.

RNG- I am not seeing a lot of your media weather hysteria with your storm out this way. Are not mudslides a seasonal reality in "geological(?)" unstable areas?. I read some recent (unverified) research that weather events like this can rigger earthquakes.

Lot's of challenges for lots of people. That drought area seems to be a permanent fixture not good.

I need to return to my coffee.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and no rain, but looks to be a major storm coming from Kauai.

Must have a new UPS driver as package was dropped at a neighbor’s gate. Drove right past my open gate.

Prayers for all

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Looking4new]

Sounds like you're exercising some increasingly uncommon common sense, Bill. There will always be other meetings to attend, and missing one isn't the end of the world. Any chance you can teleconference in to it?

Teleconference is out of the question. My bandwidth won't support that.
It is only the spring start up meeting for the tanker division, which is only a review of the current D.O.T. rules and crap. Usually it is an almost all day meeting with a free lunch of sandwiches. Morning coffee and donuts are also free.
The powers that be usually sort out who goes where, too. They already know that I am going Northwest again.
I will go down about a week early, like I did last year and the manager and I can cover everything they did tomorrow in about 2 hours, one on one.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning-afternoon, 54 now going to 63 and breezy. My easy day turned into wife and I putting the weight machine together. Almost finished when the boy needed us. Got up this morning as usual and after a little bit fell back to sleep in my recliner. Wife and I are realizing that we are still stressed but are getting better. Wife got her blood work back today and her thyroid is super high, Dr has pills for her at the RX. I have to mow SOON or I will be raking clippings. Have a great day. Ed

LS. Prayers for you and your DR.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG- I am not seeing a lot of your media weather hysteria with your storm out this way. Are not mudslides a seasonal reality in "geological(?)" unstable areas?. I read some recent (unverified) research that weather events like this can rigger earthquakes.

This is the latest weather hype out of San Francisco:
A year after crumbling, Oroville Dam’s rebuilt spillway could be tested by coming storm - SFGate

The biggest danger of mudslides comes when high rainfall rates hit the areas burned in last year's fires. This storm is squarely aimed at the Napa/Sonoma areas and the folks like me farther north, and I'm seeing warnings to stay alert for unusual noises like rocks rolling and trees breaking. No danger here, but significant fires did occur in the Quincy, Cherokee, and Bangor areas, both to the north and south of here.

For years people have been postulating that water somehow lubricates the faults along which earthquakes move, and I suppose the earthquakes linked to fracking activity in places like Oklahoma bear this out. Closer to home, the USGS has studied the phenomena at Parkfield, a well instrumented location in California, and has also found correlation. Jay will love that citation, as the wording should really "speak" to him.:laughing: But those are all related to injected water, and I'm not sure storms like the one we're waiting on could have much effect unless it is due to increased pressure on faults laying under the reservoirs. Curiously, such quakes did happen in the years immediately following the first filling of Lake Oroville, and we still see very small quakes today when large amounts of water are released during the summer.

 

[toppop52]

I mowed this morning, looks much better!
Got the hood supports for my Borrego yesterday and installed them, mail lady rolls up while I’m mowing and leaves a box on the porch. Another set of hood supports! It’s like hitting the lottery for $37!

 

[Thomas]

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That's what its all about no matter how you look at it. :thumbsup:

 

[toppop52]

Ellen wears a little makeup to work and church, as well as fanciers outings, but not for mowing, fishing, horseback riding and such. I never know the difference because I don’t care, but I try to tell get how nice she looks all dressed up. Honestly she’s way sexier in her tight jeans on horseback. I usually ride Jack the mule, I’m more a Festus kind of guy!

 

[PJSprog]

Honestly she’s way sexier in her tight jeans on horseback.

Right on, Randy! I've always believed if a woman looks great in jeans and a t-shirt, she'll look great in anything. Personally, that's my favorite look anyway. :thumbsup:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Dinner is mostly used in the South of this country for the evening meal. There they call their mid-day meal "lunch".

Those names may be recognised by the rest of us, however people raised in the North have different names for our meals. Our "dinner" is eaten mid-day and our evening meal is called "tea" (regardless of what you drink). A meal or snack eaten late in the evening is a supper.

Both North & South agree that the first meal of the day is called breakfast and few things are tastier (or artery clogging ?) than a "Full English Breakfast".
How to Make Breakfast Like a Brit - Anglophenia Ep 32 - YouTube Don, don't worry, I'm only eating cereals

Lost me at the kidney sausage...and the seaweed oatmeal didn't look too good.

 

[jbrumberg]

Eric- Are Cumberland sausages all beef instead of a mix of meats? I like the English cut of bacon. I never developed a taste for "bangers"; something in the spice mix is disagreeable.

RNG- Thanks for the link. I enjoy reading this research stuff and researching topics raised here.

An interesting time at the vets this PM. As with a lot of dog rescues one really knows what to expect regarding the dog being rescued. Brogen probably does not have MMM, but rhabdomyolosis which raises questions as to the dog's history and he may be 5 yo instead of 3 as reported. What was not surprising was the required 4 on 1 for nail clipping, ear cleaning, and bloodwork. The vet techs and I have been this route quite few times with a few other dogs together in the past. Brogen never had a chance, although he gave a decent kung foo exhibition of paw/other paw trying to fend off his "assailants." He reportedly chases cats. Although he was videoed being a "good dog" with other St.B.'s on Facebook, he was not so "friendly" with a little male dog in the vets' waiting room. I was able to redirect 151 pounds of "B" w/o problems. He's losing his "jewels" once he is more settled which should bring his weight down a couple of "pounds."

We are trying to get more history of this dog other than a vaccination slip from the vet who vaccinated him.

Ed- It takes time to "process" everything, and everyone does it in their own way w/i their own timeframes. Hang in there.








That's the news.

 

[Bird]

I may have posted this before, but when I was growing up we had breakfast, dinner, and supper (and NO eating between meals). I guess I was grown before I ever ate "lunch". Breakfast ALWAYS included eggs (fried or scrambled) and biscuits (my Dad did NOT eat any of that store bought bread until I was 16 years old). There was milk to drink, sometimes some fruit juice. There might, or might not, be any bacon or sausage. But there was always several cereal choices; Post Toasties, Wheaties, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, Raisin Bran, Grape Nuts. Cereal with sugar and milk (personally I preferred very thick cream) was considered the "dessert" after the eggs and biscuits.

Waffles and/or pancakes were for supper; never for breakfast.

 

[daugen]

It never rained here, only very windy blowing dust and pollen around so I didn't stay outside very long.
81 and sunny, row temp 72 degrees
I really wanted that rain to set the corn. Really do not feel like watering it.

Going to take some pak choy I picked today and try over gas grill.
I hosed down the back porch this afternoon so I could walk to the grill in bare feet
without getting coated in pollen. Tomorrow I hose off the front porch. Hopefully this wave of pine
pollen is now passed.

 

[daugen]

Pollen Storm Looks Like Snow in North Carolina | The Weather Channel

 

[ronjhall]

Pollen Storm Looks Like Snow in North Carolina | The Weather Channel

My son took his Mustang to a car show in Charlotte last weekend. All he had to say was wiping down then starting all over again. Pollen was bad.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I may have posted this before, but when I was growing up we had breakfast, dinner, and supper (and NO eating between meals). I guess I was grown before I ever ate "lunch". Breakfast ALWAYS included eggs (fried or scrambled) and biscuits (my Dad did NOT eat any of that store bought bread until I was 16 years old). There was milk to drink, sometimes some fruit juice. There might, or might not, be any bacon or sausage. But there was always several cereal choices; Post Toasties, Wheaties, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat, Raisin Bran, Grape Nuts. Cereal with sugar and milk (personally I preferred very thick cream) was considered the "dessert" after the eggs and biscuits.

Waffles and/or pancakes were for supper; never for breakfast.

We had breakfast, dinner and supper. Breakfast was eggs and sausage or bacon, all home grown with home made biscuits. Dinner was leftover biscuits beef or deer, two veg and potatoes. Supper was Beef or deer two veg and potatoes with a moist corn bread made in a cast iron skillet. Chicken was for sunday lunch with home made rolls. and fish was a breakfast food. We grew it all an even got our wheet and corn ground at the mill. Ed