On 3/6/2015 4:54 PM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 7/03/2015 2:58 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 3/5/2015 10:34 PM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 6/03/2015 11:16 AM, George Shirley wrote:


Snort! You mean you didn't learn to dish it out to them when they
dished it out to you?
Back then if I came home from school with a note from the teacher or the
principal I got whopped good by all five of those women. It was the old
timer way of teaching kids to be a) polite to their elders, b) do well
in school and not cause problems, c) don't make Mama mad, you might die.
Of course there were lots of hugs and kisses after the punishment. My
grandmother taught me how to play board games, my big sisters taught me
to read and write at four years of age, great grannie let me cut the
sweet gum small branches she brushed her teeth with. She dipped snuff
and brushed her teeth with snuff. Died at 89 years of age with a full
set of teeth. I loved all of them to pieces just like they loved me.
They did make sure I would grow up to be polite, courteous, and not a
trouble maker. Seems to have worked.

It sounds like it did.

I think I'll make a blackberry cobbler tomorrow and maybe a loaf of
zucchini bread.

Show off! My poor old zucchinis have got so much powdery mildew on them
that I'll be amazed if I get another zucchini off them before the frosts
come.



Last summer's zucchini crop was sparse, only picked about six or seven
fruit, they all weighed more than three pounds and were seedless. Put up
a lot of shredded zukes and also yellow squash, which also makes a good
squash bread and can be used in casseroles.

I like to pick mine smaller than that size and eat them. The big ones
usually go to the chooks after I slice then right down the middle. They
loooooovvvvve them and the next day all that is left is a very thin
shell of skin. zucchini is such a great summer veg and like you, I too
like it in various b read forms (including cake, but then I love food).

Our problem was a lot of rain, blooms on the zukes one day, two days
later a giant zuke was there.It's like they sucked up all that rain and
just exploded to size. Foliage was so big and so thick they were hard to
find.

Got down to almost freezing again early this morning, the rest of the
week the weather heads are predicting temps in the 70's and 80's. So
much for climate change.

Odd weather is consistent with climate change - it's about variability
as much as anything.


Will plant spring carrots today and clean out
the last of the fall garden. Then will amend those two beds and get
ready for all the seeds we have on the counter now. We have tomatoes and
sweet chiles nearly a foot tall under the grow light and others coming
on steadily. It's either plant out or fight the jungle inside.

So will you plant out and put protection over them? IME, I find it's no
real use in planting anything out until the soil is warm for thier
liking because the plants just sit there and sulk until the soil warmth
suits them.

We can plant carrots starting in mid-February through mid-April and then
it gets to hot to plant them. Probably should have put them in last
month for a good start. The soil stays fairly warm as we mostly have
sunshine every day.

I used to fly in and out of both Australia and New Zealand back in the
late nineteen fifties, was a crew member in a U.S. Navy transport
squadron. We flew stuff all over the world and it was a hoot for a rural
Texas farmboy. Don't miss it because wife and I averaged over 100,000
miles a year in flight time when we worked and lived in the Middle East
and other parts of the world. I haven't flown since 1990 when we came
home for good. Met a lot of nice people though, at least the sober ones.
G

:-)) I'm not much of a drinker so I avoid nearly all drunks unless they
are family and they know to avoid over consumption (99% of the time).
these days I don't like planes much either (or at elast cattle class
travel) and international travel is a PITA since ever airport now seems
ot be filled with little men with mostly dumb bossees who all seem to
think that all travellers are terrorists. Although Vietnam and Cambodia
don't yet fit that mould.

I quit drinking in 1979, had Hep A in 76, didn't drink until 79, had a
couple of shots of Kentucky bourbon, doubled up in pain, never had
another snort. Never did drink much anyway. Don't miss that or the
cigarettes I was addicted to for 42 years. I reckon getting old wakes
you up some. G

Air travel used to be a lot of fun, we could go around the world for
about US$1500 each back in the early eighties so every trip home was an
around the world trip with TWA and Singapore Air. As long as we didn't
backtrack we could stop and go anywhere we wanted. Always went through
Thailand, some of the nicest people in the world and lots of good food.
Mostly flew business as that's what the company paid for, a little more
room than cattle car and, from what I'm hearing, the seats are smaller
and jammed in together nowadays. Reckon I will drive or take a train
nowadays within the States.