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mleblanca wrote:

On Dec 5, 6:00 pm, Billy wrote:
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"Dan L." wrote:



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mleblanca wrote:

Well it was COLD this am. It has been in the 60-70 range
the last few days, but last night was 33 F the coldest so far
Add to that the fact that it was foggy and damp and it was
definitely Cold. I guess that took care of the last tomato plant.
( We had the last toms for Thanksgiving)
I have in the garden Lettuces, spinach, broccoli and onions.
Only a tiny trace of rain, alas..................It did get up to 60
this pm for about 2 minutes!
Emilie
Nor Cal

Hmmmm...

Well it was COLD this am. It has been in the 20-29 range
the last few days, but last night was 17 F the coldest so far
Add to that the fact that it was snowy and damp and it was
definitely Cold. Last month took care of the last tomato plant.
( We got the last turkey in the store for Thanksgiving)
Looking to next spring to grow Lettuces, spinach, broccoli and onions.
Only a tiny trace of snow, alas..................It did get up to 29
this pm for about 2 minutes!

Enjoy Life ... Dan
South East Michigan

Dan seems to be very competitive with his adversities ;O)
Me thinks that we need a gardening report from bungadora to
put him in his place, otherwise I fear that we will soon be reading
the account of his upbringing, which features him and his twenty
siblings growing up in a shoe box, in the middle of an interstate, where
he had to get up, half an hour before he went to bed, so that he could
work twenty-eight hours a day, eight days a week, down at the mill, and
when he got home his dad would cut into him with a bread knife, and then
sing glory halleluja while dancing around his grave.
So, Bungadora, if you be there, please put this up start in his place ;O)
--

Billy
Republican and Democratic "Leadership" Behind
Barshttp://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtmlhttp://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg&ref=patrick.net

Ah Billy, you eloquent devil, you. Howz it going in the
more southerly areas of CA?
Em in the North parts

How are you doing up there, Emilie, one hundred miles south of Mt.
Lassen (an active volcano, The Juan de Fuca plate is being subducted
under the North American plate which gives rise to volcanoes north of
Mt. Lassen. This subduction zone used to extend down to southern
California but is being replaced by the San Andres slip fault)?

Being less than 200 miles south of you. I guess I qualify as southernly.
Was a time that I knew when it was Spring in Southern California (the
tumbleweed was in bloom). But now I've traded that in on the wild onions.

Our weather is tracking pretty much as you are, according to the
local "fish wrap".

We are doing about mid-sixties during the day to the mid-thirties at
night. I think that I should remind our mid-western gardening friends
that the walls of our homes are made of wood framing and (with luck)
insulation) on 4" thick walls. Our homes are smaller, because most
of the year we are trying to get out of them. So, mid-westerners are
better actually better prepared for winter than Californians. We just
can't believe that it, Summer, is over (basically a guy thing, I think).

But I still fetch my paper in my bathrobe (those synthetics are great
for warmth). I set out a walnut and some of the "black oil"
sunflower seeds for our resident Squirrel along the way. And this will
be the habit, rain or not (I wear a hat when it rains), until Spring
returns. Hopefully, I will have made some sage decisions about next
year's gardening by then.

You planning anything new or expanding for next year, vegetablewise?

Anything new flowerwise?

I really think that this Winter's planning of next Summer's garden
drags me into the future and keeps me alive, not to put too fine a point
on it.

Hope you are doing well.
--

Billy
Republican and Democratic "Leadership" Behind Bars
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net