Once upon a time on usenet George Shirley wrote:
On 3/3/2015 6:40 PM, ~misfit~ wrote:
Once upon a time on usenet George Shirley wrote:

[snipped for brevity's sake and to save srcolling]

That's exactly why the family friend who owned the rose farm hired
young boys, eleven to thirteen years old. Older boys in their late
teens carried a two by twelve board down the rows, bent the bushes
over, young guys did the bud graft and wrapped a powdered rubber
band above and below the graft. I got 25 cents an hour US plus room
and board. Big meal of the day was noon, called "dinner." Came back
to the farm house around noon, all kinds of home grown, home cooked
with care, food. Hams, chickens, turkey's, all sorts of vegetables
and desserts. After dinner we laid under the shade trees and rested
for two hours then back to the field. Big breakfast in the morning,
small supper when work stopped for the day. I grew two inches
taller and twenty lbs heavier that summer. Put some muscle on too.
Folks that owned the rose farm had been friends with my parents
since they were very young. Good people, long gone.

Sounds like one of those summers that that go a long way to defining
a developing young person.

Particularly since we had Sunday off, went to church with the family,
came home, ate a big lunch, about 2 pm we began the baseball game,
went on until oh dark thirty. The boss's son made it to the minor
leagues as a pitcher but came home after two years, said he knew he
would never make the majors and he would just as soon raise roses. He
did raise roses until in his early sixties he fell over dead with a
heart attack. I guess it went to his kids after that. That area of
Texas used to be well known for growing rose bushes.


Yeah, that sounds like a really great summer for a young fella. No wonder
you're such a nice person.

Your LED grow light sounds handy for what you need. I am slowly
moving to LED everywhere on the property for better efficiency,
longer life, and lower electric bills.

When I get the wiring finished I'll put a pic of it up somewhere and link to
it.

Gosh, I wrote more than I inteded. Time to go to the pharmacy and
get my pain meds. They are so tightly controlled so as to try to
avoid misuse / diversion that the maximum anyone can pick up at one
time is 10 days supply. That got old five years ago!

Our son-in-law was injured in a fork truck accident over ten years
ago, the only thing that helps with the pain is oxycodone, think he
has a permanent prescription for that. Plus he has had multiple
operations on both feet and lower legs.

I'm on morphine, slow release morning and night and four pills / day
standard release 'prn', to take as and when the pain is worst. I keep my
dose as low as I can, just enough to take the edge off (40mg morn and night,
4 x 10mg pills for during the day) but not enough to mess too much with my
head and motivation.

I was on oxycodone for a while but it messes with my head too much, makes me
feel spaced out - I can see why it's abused so much. I tried hydrocodone for
a while, supplied by a friend from NYC (who I met on usenet in a pain
support group) who came to visit for a few weeks. It was great, faster
acting than morphine with less side effects (like constipation shudder)
but it didn't make me feel thick and slow. Alas, it's not commonly
prescribed in NZ and I'd rather not chase up specialists to try to get it -
I already got a note on my medical jacket ~15 years ago as a 'drug seeker'
that was hard to get away from[*]. I really don't want to get labelled a
drug seeker again - medical professionals hate it when a patient has the
temerity to tell them what meds work best for them.

I try to steer away from anything stronger than aspirin,

Believe me I wish I could!

was addicted to nicotine for 42 years
and finally got off the cigarettes and want to stay that way.

Same here! Only 38 years in my case but I was a heavy smoker. I've been quit
for over five years now and hate the smell of the stuff and wouldn't ever
touch it again. It took me a few attempts over a decade to give up and the
method that finally worked wash to brainwash myself into being disgusted by
it. It wasn't that hard as it IS disgusting. The hardest bit wasn't just to
convince myself logically but drum it into myself to the extent that I
overcame the cravings and triggers.

I think
I'm getting addicted to diet cola though. Naw, not really, about half
a liter a day.
Late afternoon temperature was 81F, startled me as the house temp was
still about 72F, reckon this house is better insulated than I thought.

Cooler today, only around 26C in and out. However there's thunderheads on
the horizon (have been for 36 hours though) and the humidity's so high I'm
all clammy. I really don't like this weather.

To bring it back on topic I'm fighting a spider mite infestation on my
Flying Dragon treelets before it gets to all of the rather crowded potted
citrus on my deck. The FD plants came direct from a wholesale nursery, I
think just before a major blitz was due. I dislike strong chemical
insecticides as they kill beneficial critters too so I've been trying neem
oil. I have no experience with it so it's an education.

Big fat raindrops just started hitting the roof. Yay!!! The ground is /so/
dry. Large parts of my lawn are brown. However I doubt this weather will
stay long enough to be more than a leaf-wash. (Which in itself is a good
thing though.)

Cheers.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)