Good morning!!!!

[bakerg]

Got home from work this afternnon to find the rain gauge with another 1 1/2" in it. Luckly they are saying the rain is suppose to stay away for the rest of the week.

 

[300UGUY]

Jinman, it sounds like your garden is doing good. We started off with just peppers. The last few years have been rough on my tomatoes. They would turn black on the bottom just as they started to get ripe. So we were not going to do any.
Then one of Margie's friends gave her 13 banana cantaloupe seeds. I planted those and 11 or 12 of them came up. As they were growing, she decided she wanted some cukes and melons too. And a few tomato plants. I planted a few melons seeds from the freezer. Some labeled 'long green good' and some 'icebox.' I squeezed the cukes right up against the fence, past the cantaloupes.
Seeing the young melons growing made me want more. I took down the fence and tilled as far as the waterline would let me. I planted more of the Long green good, and icebox, plus some yellow meat and what I think is Crimson Sweet. I used to truck farm, and CS were my favorite melon to sale. The older ones have small melons on them and the newest ones have blooms.

I did buy three of the larger jalapeno. Either two jumbo and one mammoth, or vice versa. They were $3.00 per plant. But the rest of the jalapeno are just the cheapo four packs from Walmart. Some of them are just as big as the expensive ones. I noticed I didn't post any pictures of the sweet banana before. I took some pictures today while I was out there, so I'll post a couple. The big long green pepper is a Marconi. From the name, I'm guessing it is Italian. They are a mild pepper and good for stuffing. And the small ones are habaneros. They are just beginning to turn.

I'm having trouble posting pictures from photobucket. I will try to upload a few straight from my computer. It's much slower, but I'll do as many as I can before I get off work.
Alright, it finally finished. Left to right, two of the sweet banana, two of the cukes, my biggest melon[about nine inches], a small melon beside a banana cantaloupe, baby icebox, Marconi peppers, Habanero peppers, the biggest cantaloupe and Jalapeno peppers.

I've grown several peppers, but not any Marconi's. I might look into that!! Good pics!

 

[Larro Darro]

300UGUY, the Marconi's have good flavor. Another mild pepper I like a lot is the Cubanelle. We always go to the fields and pick tomatoes and peppers once they open them up to the public. I eat four or five of the Cubanelle's right in the field. I can't find the plants though. And I always forget that I saved seeds until it is too late to be doing seedbeds.

 

[Larro Darro]

Larry, I have two Land Pride field mowers and both have done a beautiful job. I'm dealing with purely field grass, not small trees, so I have the blades sharpened and they mow
fields very cleanly. Since I also mow a few fields where I don't know what's in there, I prefer the durability of the swinging blade mower.
Both Land Prides are very quiet also.

Thanks for the info. Today when I looked at the mowers, they seemed to be well made. I think I will like the rear discharge. And quiet is good. My little B7500 is quieter than either of my gas riders. I listen to a MP3 player while I mow, and it is nice to be able to hear it.
I have seven acres of sand and prickly pear for a front yard. For the last four years I have been mowing it with a 42" bush hog that came with the B7500, just not very often. I have found that if you mow often with a finish mower, it greatly reduces the prickly pear. Up close to the house where I use the gas riders, there is almost no prickly pear. But if you walk down toward the other end, you had better have on a good pair of boots. I'll post a picture of what the bush hog does to the prickly pear. It just cuts the top off them.
Other than thousands of prickly pear, a few small persimmon bushes is the worst thing I will mow. And I can walk the field and cut them below the ground before I mow.

With the amount a gas my riders use, I think I will save the $2K in ten years. But I showed my wife the new Skag we just bought at work. Several of her friends have ZRM, so she ask if that was what I wanted. I told her what it cost, which was most of $7K. Then she didn't even blink when I told her I was thinking about spending $2K. In fact she looked at the big diesel Kubota FWD ATV while I was looking at the mowers.

 

[jmurray01]

Good morning folks from a sunny Scotland. Maybe summer has arrived after all, I'm still dubious though.

I need to try and find the crevice tool for my Numatic vacuum cleaner so I can vacuum the car before we go out later on, but don't hold out much hope on that one (I searched for it yesterday to no avail).

I do have other vacuums but the Numatic is the only one that will reach the driveway without an extension cord, which I do have but it is currently powering the computer (whoever designed the power socket layout of this house must have been on drugs) and I can't be bothered unplugging all of that.

Anyway, still to have my coffee (the coffee machine is brewing as I type) so I'll get a cup or five down me then go on search of the elusive crevice tool and get to some sort of work.

Good day.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is brewing. 59° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 78° with mostly clear skies and less humidity. Going to me a great MI summer day. I am headed to east side today to collect paper work for my mothers care.
Good Morning All.

 

[farmgirl19]

Finished my pot of coffee, and will be heading to work soon! We hit triple digits yesterday. Summer has arrived in Texas, and we still need RAIN!

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Up at 0530, must be my new natural clock time.

Lookslike I'm moving to a new basement this weekend. this buddie won't let me bring my g u n s though.

Hmmm. That is a minor complication, I need to keep them somewhere safe. Not really a guest room, it is a family room with a big TV, a fridge, dishwasher & mirowave...

Beggars cannot be choosers. I am flattered people open their hearts and homes to me.

I will probably be back at this place where I am at in a month or so. I've been here 2 months today I believe...

God Bless & be well all,
David

 

[RoyJackson]

2013-07-11, 0655

Had some internet connectivity problems this morning.

It's another overcast day...doubt we see much sun. The current temperature is 68 with a high of 82 predicted. We'RE OK with the high temperatures...the humidity is a killer though.

Not having much success with replacing that universal joint in my reverser linkage. It's held in place by roll pins which I'm trying to push out by using clamps and sockets. I really hope I don't have to pull the whole linkage out. I did put some PB Blaster on the linkage...hope it works.

 

[bakerg]

Sunny this morniing, no rain in the forcast.

 

[daugen]

we have showers in the forecast but likely not much will happen.
Did some mowing yesterday, and my neck was ok when I was done. Boy is that a relief.
The surgeon said six weeks and he meant six weeks, and with another week plus to go,
my neck thoroughly agrees. With three vertebrae held together by magnesium, it's the one right below
the fused ones that is most worrisome. Less flex above, more desire to flex below, and those vertebrae I'm sure
aren't much better than the ones they fixed... So I worry a bit about getting rearended, and will wear some form of soft collar while
driving for a long time.

In the heat of summer, which I must admit with a touch of wuss is nothing in this area compared to our sweltering friends out West,
wearing a hard collar is a very hot and sweaty affair. My wife made soft cloth liners that come out and are washable, which after a day of sweat
and garden/field dirt on them, is a must. one more week. I can do this.

I hope to hear back today on the motorhome we made an offer on. Once the garden is done, and the fields mowed, I'm looking to roll.

 

[sam5570]

good morning 71 degrees got 3/4 " of rain yesterday evening and night. running a little late today had to see the wife off to Gatlinburg this morning. I don't do trip's very good, had enough of it looking out the windshield of a big truck for hours at a time. everyone have a great day

 

[murphy1244]

I hope it don't rain need to paint a new barn.

 

[toppop52]

Weather is typical, hot humid and overcast, more rain yesterday and an inch predicted today. I'm glad I got my weds and vines sprayed a couple of times or I'd be wondering the jungle in my grass skirt!

David old buddy, you've lived in limbo long enough, rent a place if it's just a room. You need a place that's yours, bad for the psyche living a displaced lifestyle. Move on my friend, life will be what it is, you may as well be along for the ride.

Drew, good luck my friend, happy trails.

 

[sam5570]

I hope it don't rain need to paint a new barn.

murph put your paint brush up till after aug 17. just kidden I can't even think about outside work so wet.

 

[toppop52]

I hope it don't rain need to paint a new barn.

After the drought of last year and before, I'm not complaining...yet!

 

[txdon]

Good morning from sunny hot and brown central Texas! No rain forecasted. The roof rain water collection cistern has been dry for a month. What I don't spend in fuel to mow I'm spending double for water.
The county is still butchering the trees between my fence and the road, at least they are taking down an old fence, that was a project that I did not finish before the heat.
Whirlpool's suggestion for the hot water heater smell was to replace the original anode with a tin/zinc/aluminum anode. Leaving the anode out would cancel the warranty and lead to premature corrosion.

 

[daugen]

just seems to be spritzing and threatening here, most of the rain has gone over to NJ heading North.
All my field mowing is done, need to ride the Gravely rider to do some neatening up and frankly am kind of leery of
it. Very high effort machine, marvelous machine, but I grew up with a JD B with a similar hand clutch and all that moving
around catches up with you. It hasn't been run in a while and I need to exercise it. And likely I should wait until next week.
But maybe if I go slowly...with my martian head gear on. drip. drip. drip.

Or maybe I'll stay in the a/c cab and play with the loader lever.
Drove the smaller open tractor yesterday to exercise it too and I enjoyed the wonderful
feeling of grasshoppers and unidentified flying bug objects all over me. And layers of field dust.
The feel of the sun on my face was still worth it. I've been cooped up so long I feel the need to work on my tan...

 

[Bird]

I got the hoses and sprinklers set in place yesterday evening, then got up a 4 a.m. this morning and turned the water on front and back. It's officially only gotten up to 99 degrees each of the last 2 days and 102 forecast for today.

 

[jinman]

Today, I'm a cherry picker. . . cherry tomatoes, that is. Every other day we pick around a gallon of them and then let them ripen more inside for a day or two before putting them in the refrigerator. I'm having a double handful of cherry tomatoes for breakfast. I love the sharp sweet/sour taste of the Sweet 100 variety. I'll probably pick 10 pods of okra today too since it is ramping up to full production. The rest of my garden is still doing great too. I picked and shelled just over 4 lb (shelled weight) of blackeyed peas yesterday. I still have lot's of healthy looking bean plants with blooms all over them, but they aren't setting beans. I think the heat has them beggin' for mercy. Anyhow, we are still getting great production in spite of the triple-digit heatwave. I water every day. Thanks to all my soaker hoses, watering is not difficult, but it is time consuming. But hey! I'm retired, so time is what I have a lot of.