Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Jd, interesting about the "point system". Can anyone explain it?????

 

[TomSeller]

Planted two rows of potatoes today as well as some carrots and turnips.

 

[WayneB]

22 degrees this morning going to be windy partly cloudy and then rain in the PM, sounds like a great day for baseball on TV.
Early to bed early to raise up at 4 AM this morning!
Has a slight chimney fire yesterday morning, no damage just a few moments of panic.
It was actually in the connecting pipe to the chimney so I had that under control in minutes,
then up on the roof and do a brushing of the chimney.

 

[WayneB]

Planted two rows of potatoes today as well as some carrots and turnips.

We are down to less than a foot of snow on the gardens, I am sure we will be able to work the soil by May first….
We have to wait for the black flies to get active before we start serious gardening

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I am back at my regular couch since yesterday afternoon.

Accountant emailed me, taxes are almost done, tracking down reciepts from charitable donations.

Weather is going to be very nice this week. I need to move one of my Harley's over so I have an option besides my truck to drive...

Be well all,

David

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking extra cups of coffee today. 54 degrees with wind, clouds and light rain. Heading to 57 with breaking sun and wind. Not a good night for me. Spent most of the night with my mother at hospital. Left her in stable condition. Hospital is going to run test to determine what she is suffering from. I need sleep. But my mind will not let me get any.
Good Morning All.

 

[dave1949]

21*F at 6am, clouds moved in late overnight, so it was a warm 21* if you know what I mean. Chance of rain today.

Took a long walk along the backside of our lot yesterday, noticed the deer's winter snow trail is now a muddy streak about 4 hooves wide through the remaining snow. Robins showed up early this week and the turkey vultures are here in numbers now.

We have had a nice spring melt, slow and drawn out. The streams are running good but not gushing.

I've never had much luck with early planting here. Stuff will come up and just sit there stalled until the soil gets really warmed up. By picking time, I usually can't see the difference between the early plantings and those done 2-3 weeks later. And sometimes, the frost kills off the early stuff. If I were using a grow tunnel or hoop house, I'm sure it would be different.

 

[txdon]

Good Morning! 63˚ going up to 80˚ this afternoon, again. Potatoes are 6" high.

We went to the Austin VegFest yesterday, there were thousands of people there and hundreds of venders. They had speakers going non-stop on one side and bands on the other. The speakers were chefs and Doctors. The cardiologist that spoke was Dr. Baxter Montgomery from Houston. He is getting good results from his patients on a plant based diet and they are reversing their heart disease. He showed the impressive angiograms he took. Looks like I'm on track.

 

[GBOUTDOORS]

26 this am at coffee time now up to 28 going to 50 but windy. Did not get the yard done yesterday as Jane broke out the wine at lunch time and the wind had kicked up to 20 mph so we sat in the patio room and enjoyed the sun and the wine Heavy frost on the grass this morning so that will set the clean up back a little this am. Off to clean the chicks

 

[JDgreen227]

Down here just last month we had an incident where someone hacked into an ISP (Yahoo/xtra). Harvested everybodies addressed from their accounts and then spammed all and sundry. Everybody on my list in there (including me) got an email from me. I think they got into over 200,000 accounts and I, along with 75,000 others, had to change our passwords.

Could this be what happened to you ???

No..Bird says their system is set up so they only have the option of telling a member they spammed or posted **** on the site. My infraction was bitching about the biased moderation one time too many, and I got a PM from Muhammad saying they were considering changing the policies here so that a member COULD gripe about moderation.

 

[sixdogs]

I kind of said that and I do not have a big enough garden. But I think I said it is not a good cardiac exercise (or at least insinuated that).

I think you proved me right if you can also dance (and sing) while hoeing.

I will put hoeing on the cardiac exercise list If you tell me your heart rate and how long you sustained that elevated heart rate while hoeing. I can wait a few weeks for the weeds to return but then I will be expecting a report. :reminder:

Well,I just do the normal cardio that we all should do and the hoeing (and associated dancing; no singing) is icing on the cake. It doesn't hurt and I can easily walk thousands of steps in the yard/farm area while just doing what I normally do and a lot of it works up a pretty good sweat. Plant a big garden and you win in a couple different ways. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

 

[farmgirl19]

I kind of said that and I do not have a big enough garden. But I think I said it is not a good cardiac exercise (or at least insinuated that).

I think you proved me right if you can also dance (and sing) while hoeing.

I will put hoeing on the cardiac exercise list If you tell me your heart rate and how long you sustained that elevated heart rate while hoeing. I can wait a few weeks for the weeds to return but then I will be expecting a report. :reminder:

Well, I wasn't singing, but was hoeing to the beat of the music. I was keeping that activity sustained for an hour at a time, then came in to rehydrate, and back out again. Bet it was as good as jogging for an hour!

I have a good sized garden, and it was pretty overgorwn in a lot of areas. I had hoed out the tomato section, in March, but not the rest of it. Last summer, at the peak of growing season, my mom ended up in the hospital for 3 months. The garden went to seed and weeds and grass. Made it more of a chore, than it should have been, but only have 24 more feet to go!

And it is really sad when a girl's dancing partner is a hoe. It means I have to lead! :dance1:

 

[sixdogs]

We plant a 54' by 60' garden and that's a workout, but I do keep the weeds down. Going to put down nearly three acres of lawn fertilizer soon--1700 lbs--with a hand/push fertilizer spreader and I'd say it would qualify as a cardio workout. You can get a lot of excellent exercise just doing yardwork and other chores the hard way. Works for me. But no dancing in the garden. People would talk.

 

[RoyJackson]

2013-04-07, 0840

37 right now and a high of 55 predicted. Probably some light snow and rain, per the forecast.

I must admit, I'm surprised most of you gardeners aren't using PTO powered tillers.

Keep up the good work, farmgirl19!!!

 

[deerseeker001]

its overcast now suppose to get partly sunny today.its 31 now getting up 44 today.the snow is going slowly and its a muddy mess.

 

[300UGUY]

Got some respitory crud going here. Wife and I are both having a hard time.

 

[Buppies]

Today is supposed to be almost 70 by afternoon but have been visiting in S.C. Since Friday so only keeping up with weather via computer. Today's weather here is supposed to be low 70s so trip home should be delightful. Grass will probably need to be mowed again but no chance of rain or snow until Friday

 

[farmgirl19]

2013-04-07, 0840

37 right now and a high of 55 predicted. Probably some light snow and rain, per the forecast.

I must admit, I'm surprised most of you gardeners aren't using PTO powered tillers.

Keep up the good work, farmgirl19!!!

Thanks, Roy!

I have the garden area fenced off from wildlife, such as deer, etc. Can't get the tractor in there. Besides, gardening by hand is good for the mind, soul and waistline!

 

[RoyJackson]

Thanks, Roy!

I have the garden area fenced off from wildlife, such as deer, etc. Can't get the tractor in there. Besides, gardening by hand is good for the mind, soul and waistline!

Good points!

 

[JDgreen227]

2013-04-07, 0840

37 right now and a high of 55 predicted. Probably some light snow and rain, per the forecast.

I must admit, I'm surprised most of you gardeners aren't using PTO powered tillers
Keep up the good work, farmgirl19!!!

Roy, my garden is about 28'X60' and completely fenced in, although there is a 7 foot wide gate at one end, putting a $3,000 PTO mount tiller on the back of my Deere would be a really futile exercise...to till the garden plot would require backing up constantly and the turning required would compress all the tilled soil. I have always used a 5 HP Rally 24" front tine tiller, it's really good exercise manhandling that thing around the plot...and when it digs up a stone I can use a pick up tool to reach the stone and put it in a pail. Try doing that from a tractor seat.