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Post by epaul on Jun 20, 2024 11:09:03 GMT -5
Morning!
Making a run to L&M Meats for some bacon. It's time.
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Post by epaul on Jun 20, 2024 11:06:15 GMT -5
For instance, right now, at 11 AM it is 68 degrees outside and 82 inside my greenhouse (as soon as the sun hits it, it warms right up). Tomatoes love, love, love 82 degrees, 68, eh, ok, not so much. Every day, I pick up a hour or two of good growing temperatures. On a sunny but cool day, maybe more. (and, as dew doesn't settle on the leaves leaving them wet for several hours every morning, there is a lot less disease pressure)
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Post by epaul on Jun 20, 2024 10:50:12 GMT -5
I'd say, rough guess, I was able to keep my plants 10 degrees above ambient for the May and early June, turning North Dakota into Indiana. They eat well in Indiana. And now, so I do.
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Post by epaul on Jun 20, 2024 10:37:04 GMT -5
I'm a month ahead of average me.
I've been able to get little early variety tomatoes as early as the first week of July, but full-sized slicers have been end of July (and for average in the dirt garden starts, early August). But, my new little greenhouse with double wall poly sheets holds heat better than my old single layer poly tent style. So, I started the plants early March under lights in the basement and popped them in the greenhouse early May... with a space heater in place if needed for cold nights.
I kept the plants in their gallon pots to begin with, in case the weather took a nasty turn.
But, early May was mild and the forecast promised continued mild, so around the 10th, I planted them. I ran the heater five or six nights when the temps dropped into the 30s (or threatened to) and all day a couple times the temps didn't get out of the 40s. (extended temps in the 40s will make tomatoes unhappy, and you can lose up to a week of growth before they get going again).
So, there was some electricity burned, but, what price passion? At least there isn't a boat involved.
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Post by epaul on Jun 20, 2024 9:31:49 GMT -5
I miss Eisenhower. I had the coolest bike, a two-speed Schwinn.
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 22:09:10 GMT -5
I use a clip and string support system inside the greenhouse. Works great. Look for the clear plastic clip (circular when closed upon a string. Add clips as plant grows. Prune as desired.   |
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 22:05:22 GMT -5
Inside my little House of Magic.  |
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 22:02:41 GMT -5
Oh, there's more.  |
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 22:01:06 GMT -5
Yes, it is.  |
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 21:58:51 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 21:22:23 GMT -5
Crap, all the fresh water is in the the north. Back to the drawing board.
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 19:18:49 GMT -5
Well, if Israel obliterates Gaza, leaving nothing but rubble, that would remove the major stumbling block to establishing the borders of the two states. It's impossible to link Gaza to the West Bank without slicing Israel into two separate pieces, and that won't fly, and is too stupid to even think of flying. But, with no Gaza to worry about, the territory can be divided north and south into two equal sections, equal ocean front for all, with Jerusalem falling safely within the Israel south half (and leaving the Palestinian north half as a buffer between Israel and crazy Hezbollah in Lebanon. (note, most Palestinians are Sunni while Iran's toy boys in Lebanon are Shite. The buffer could work, and if not, back to war.)  |
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 15:37:35 GMT -5
I got Wordle in 1!
Now, I don't count my two starter words as starter words shouldn't count, they are just starter words used to get started.
And once I got started, I got it in 1!
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 10:19:12 GMT -5
The piano player (composer, multi-instrumentalist, uber-talent)
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Post by epaul on Jun 19, 2024 9:56:38 GMT -5
The opening comments concerning the "Ultra Orthodox". Wow! Wow, Wow, Wow!
I am starting to envision a "two state solution" that could actually work, and work really well. The two states will not be Israel and Palestine. The two states will be "The Religious Nuts & Crazies" and "Normal People who will wear a bathing suit in mixed company and eat a hot dog"*. The names of the two states would have to be shortened somewhat, but the details would be spelled out in the respective constitutions.
But it would work. The Ultra Orthodox and their counterpart Sharia Law Loonies on the other side would be put on large rock somewhere where they could commence with happily stoning each other. And the Secular, governed by personal faith, tolerance, and civic good instead of archaic religious laws that were nuts from the git go and have only gotten dumber, would have a really nice land with palm trees and great beaches.
*Vegans and such would only have to eat one hot dog to get in the new country, and, like everyone else, another each time they want to register to vote. Oh, and they would have to go to the polls in their brightly colored bathing suits.
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Post by epaul on Jun 18, 2024 22:23:06 GMT -5
War, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, timeout, war, time ... time... time...
I don't think time is Israel's friend.
Maybe it's time to skip the timeout part. Before Iran gets the bomb. While the 6th Fleet is in the neighborhood blasting Houthis. While Russia's hands are full and pocketbook is empty. While the U.S., England, and France (for how much longer) are still its allies. While Saudi Arabia is still ruled by a monarchy that secretly supports it in an enemy of my enemy sense.
Time.
No, time is not Israel's friend. Not as Israel.
Israel could turn Muslim, er, I mean, into an open secular state, with a resultant mass exodus of white Jews with money and means to America and Europe, leaving Palestine for the Palestinians. That is the likely outcome for a colony that just can't sustain itself against time.
My heart is with Israel, to any end. But the attempt to re-create Israel, in non-Biblical reality a colony founded by European Jews in an alien land that had its own occupants, was a mistake. America was the Promised Land. And still is.
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Post by epaul on Jun 18, 2024 21:46:52 GMT -5
I practiced basket catches one entire summer.
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Post by epaul on Jun 18, 2024 19:59:12 GMT -5
The dealer is in Christiansburg, VA. You could send Aqua on a scouting trip!
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Post by epaul on Jun 18, 2024 19:53:59 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on Jun 18, 2024 19:53:04 GMT -5
I took a peek at Duncan imports and they had several 1998-2000 Honda CRVs with around 50,000 miles on them for 14-16,000. The 25 years part isn't good, but the 50,000 miles part is wonderful. Those were good models, and if they are free from rust, they should have a lot of miles left. Key is free from rust (poke around the rocker panels and make sure they aren't painted duct tape)
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