Posted on 01/08/2016 1:36:46 PM PST by greeneyes
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It's a cold day here, but actually not too bad considering the season. Hubby is working on putting in a new door, so the cold air is rushing in and my feet are freezing more than usual.
We have had very little sunshine today, but a bit has peeped out now and then. Drinking hot liquids today and trying to make myself do the dishes which are now running over the sink and counter. UGH.
Hope all is well with you and yours. Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the List.
Dishes do that.
Hi Greeneyes!
It’s C-C-C-Cold here in Boston. The waves lapping up on the beach are turning to beach ice!
I guess i won’t be planting anything for a while.
I miss my bananas, plantains, mangoes and avocados.
Lots of ripe citrus around the area.. Most going to waste..
I have a nice crop of lemons and some tangerines are ready for picking.. A single beefmaster is still growing tho all the tomaties are green .. So green fried it is on the menu soon.
Here’s hoping the waters recede and the skies clear for some..
Nice crop of weeds coming too..
Temps may hit 60 as the pineapple expresses get ready to rumble thru. Snowpacks look good so far.
FRom Overcast San Jose.. And out.
The only thing we’re growing here in NW Iowa is icicles!
Although, since it is caucus season, we seem to have a bumper crop of politicians and media types.
Gonna have to get out the Roundup....
:-)
A warm hello from Massachusetts! My potting soil arrived a few days ago. I had planned to start some seeds on Thursday, but I’ve just been too busy. I’ve got everything that I need, though and I’m definitely going to begin tomorrow.
My potting soil is organic, with worm castings. I have lots of paper cups and trays. My kitchen table is ready and waiting. :)
Mr. trisham and I went to the eye doctor today, and our RR dog Joey ripped apart the cardboard box that the bags of potting soil were in, but through some miracle didn’t disturb the plastic bags of dirt. Thank goodness.
Excellent!
I look out the kitchen window and see nothing but gray and brown. Kinda depressing! I need to get out there and clean up at the very least, but since I need to do that in the house as well, the garden is on the back burner for a little while more. I noticed yesterday evening that Walmart is getting all their garden supplies out so it can’t be too much longer when we are busting our rumps outside.
Still training the puppy who is now 7 months old. He is a handful at about 70 pounds. At least he is house-trained and he has the sweetest temperament. Such a good-looking mixed breed - shepherd/boxer/great pyrenees. He’s a bit dominant but funny and good-natured overall. I already know he’s a garden digger-upper. I’ll have to get more garden fencing.
Especially when dishes are last on you list of items to do every day. LOL
Plant some spinach or chives or something in a pot. At least you’ll have something green that is edible.
And here I am hoarding my few lemons that I have managed to grow. A rare treat this time of the year in Missouri. They are so much tastier and juicier than what we buy in the stores.
LOL. Roundup sounds like a good idea for most of the current crop.
It’s a bit early to start the stuff I usually grow here, but I have some leftover stuff from last year, so I might give it a go sometime after I get the dishes done, and the kitchen table cleared with the grow lights on it.
This is the time of year that I wish I had planted more winter rye, so it would look like spring when the sun shines. LOL
Sounds like a good idea, except that I don’t have a home right now...camped out in a room in my Mom’s house which is for sale.
I feel like packing the dog, my guitar, my computer, and my motorcycle into a Uhaul and driving back to FL.
Who knows?
Of all the chores one has to do around the house, dishes are at absolute dead bottom.
I *HATE* washing dishes.
Fortunately, mr. mm doesn’t mind at all so he helps with them a lot.
We have one grow light on our overwintering tomato plant in the living room. The kitchen table is in front of a slider, with two windows on either side of it. It would be nice to have skylights there, but this is a two story house. It would be difficult to set up grow lights there, but we have had success as is. I’m hoping that we will again.
Greetings from Decatur, AL. We have had a few decent days this week so I spent that time pulling henbit weeds from the garlic patch. The weather will be turning much colder next week so I have filled the propane tanks and set up the heaters in the greenhouse.
Started my first 50ct plug flats of Giant Russian and Flat Dutch cabbage last week and they are up and looking for some sun. It’s hard to believe next week I will begin planting 244ct plug flats of tomatoes.
Yesterday I ordered a 12X24 greenhouse that I will use as a grow out house for my vegetable plants and the ones that I sell to area farmers. It’s hard to believe what started three years ago as a post Army retirement hobby of growing 100 heirloom tomato plants and selling at the local farmers market has turned into a full time job, with no slowdown in sight.
Aside from picking a bushel of kale there will be no gardening for me this weekend, but I will be spending time in the shop doing some fixing on my box blade. I tore up the hitch the last time I used it, then while it was sitting out in the fencerow waiting on me to fix it a whopping big oak tree fell on it and added insult to injury. The workshop furnace has been repaired so I can stay comfy while I’m out there. Last weekend with no furnace was no bueno!
Also need to drop my trailer off at the sawmill for another load of slab wood, and make a run to the feed store to fetch provisions for Mrs. Augie’s welfare eaters.
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