On 4/29/2016 8:04 AM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
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Many moons ago I worked in the rice fields of SE Texas. Opened and
closed levees to flood, waved off crop dusters with a cane pole with a
red flag on it. Pretty good way to make a little money back then. Hardly
any rice fields in SE Texas anymore, some of them are now crawfish
ponds. Arkansas out did us in rice and, now, I hear it's mostly
California rice. I don't care, I like my brown rice.

i like brown rice too. they have dryer varieties
now that don't even need flooding. not as much yield
from them, but better than nothing.

wild rice will grow around here.

would like a bazooka for crop dusters and farm
sprayers along with the mosquito control idiots.


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I'm exhausted just reading how much work you do bird.

not really that much. i've probably been outside a
dozen hours this week. too much rain/snow and cold
windy days still.

and even when i'm out there, i'm as often as not
just sitting there watching the birds and other
critters. takes me a while to get into shape after
winter. dig 5 minutes, rest 10, bird watch 15, ...


songbird

We're expecting 84F by afternoon today and then the rain starts again.
Hot, humid, sweaty.

Harvested about a dozen sweet chiles this morning, Mostly from the Gypsy
we planted in February last year, it survived our mild winter, we pruned
it back earlier this year and it is really producing. The Swiss chard
from last year is still going strong so there's lots of chard for
cooking and salads.

Unfortunately the mosquitoes are out and about, I get hit about three
times in 20 minutes in the garden. Haven't seen any swallows, red winged
blackbirds, purple martins, etc. for a couple of days. They must be
holed up somewhere waiting for better weather.