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On 8/24/2017 3:24 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/24/2017 1:49 PM, Frank wrote: Well water better than city water and when they were still alive my mother and father would often come for water when theirs was tasting like chemicals.Â* Water is abundant here but not cheap and I figure over the years well and septic have saved me a bundle.Â* I'm a retired chemist and have seen wells analysis free from plumber that wanted to put in treatment but calcium was borderline so all I have is a sediment filter. I have a generator for power outages but wish transfer box included AC. None recently but outages have lasted as long as a week.Â* Lines here run along treed roads and since we are in a small area we are usually last to get back service.Â* I do have a portable AC that I bought a few months ago when home AC was down for 3 days and it was very hot.Â* I could run that off the generator. Hope storm does not bring problems to you. Frank We live right on the verge of The Woodlands of Texas. Pretty far from the Gulf, and a higher elevation (barely) than Houston area. I've been watching hurricanes come ashore since I could read and write and that was age four. Wife and I just had a conversation about this storm, she's from Maryland and we've been through a few hurricanes and tornadoes together over our long married life. She gets nervous and wants to run and lock everything down, I'm not to concerned about this storm. Mostly because of where we live now, how high the area is above sea level, and, I guess, just because I've lived through a great many hurricanes. That doesn't mean we won't stock the SUV with clothing, food, etc. just in case but I don't have that weird feeling I get when hurricanes are coming ashore. Over the next 48 hours we shall see what happens. George Looks far enough from Houston, probably as far as we were from Sandy when it hit NJ a few years ago but we lost power a half day and a lot of trees were down. I told my wife the other day when power when out for a couple of hours in the evening that we were spoiled as it was not a threat but just an inconvenience. All the wealth of things we have now like TV, internet, phones, we feel bad when one is lost even for a brief period. |
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On 8/24/2017 3:42 PM, T wrote:
On 08/24/2017 12:35 PM, Gary Woods wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:04:31 -0700, T wrote: I am cutting over a new server at a business.Â* It is endless acres of fun!Â* mumble, mumble. I'm reminded of a horse owner friend who had a cartoon tacked up in the barn:Â* Grinning horse in stall; sweating woman with steaming wheelbarrow full of poo, muttering "I love horses, I love horses..." You may apply this to digital technology if you wish. And I'm in garden recovery mode; planting fall things and trying to get the upper hand on the weeds. Chuckle! -T Death to Weeds! Death to Squash Bugs! Death to Earwigs! You forgot a lot of things. Most prominent to me are yellow jackets after getting my ankle stung 4 times a couple of weeks ago when I was spraying leaves. |
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On 08/24/2017 01:03 PM, Frank wrote:
On 8/24/2017 3:42 PM, T wrote: On 08/24/2017 12:35 PM, Gary Woods wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:04:31 -0700, T wrote: I am cutting over a new server at a business. It is endless acres of fun! mumble, mumble. I'm reminded of a horse owner friend who had a cartoon tacked up in the barn: Grinning horse in stall; sweating woman with steaming wheelbarrow full of poo, muttering "I love horses, I love horses..." You may apply this to digital technology if you wish. And I'm in garden recovery mode; planting fall things and trying to get the upper hand on the weeds. Chuckle! -T Death to Weeds! Death to Squash Bugs! Death to Earwigs! You forgot a lot of things. Most prominent to me are yellow jackets after getting my ankle stung 4 times a couple of weeks ago when I was spraying leaves. I stand corrected! Death to Weeds! Death to Squash Bugs! Death to Earwigs! Death to Yellow Jackets! |
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On 8/24/2017 2:52 PM, Frank wrote:
On 8/24/2017 3:24 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 8/24/2017 1:49 PM, Frank wrote: Well water better than city water and when they were still alive my mother and father would often come for water when theirs was tasting like chemicals.Â* Water is abundant here but not cheap and I figure over the years well and septic have saved me a bundle.Â* I'm a retired chemist and have seen wells analysis free from plumber that wanted to put in treatment but calcium was borderline so all I have is a sediment filter. I have a generator for power outages but wish transfer box included AC. None recently but outages have lasted as long as a week.Â* Lines here run along treed roads and since we are in a small area we are usually last to get back service.Â* I do have a portable AC that I bought a few months ago when home AC was down for 3 days and it was very hot. I could run that off the generator. Hope storm does not bring problems to you. Frank We live right on the verge of The Woodlands of Texas. Pretty far from the Gulf, and a higher elevation (barely) than Houston area. I've been watching hurricanes come ashore since I could read and write and that was age four. Wife and I just had a conversation about this storm, she's from Maryland and we've been through a few hurricanes and tornadoes together over our long married life. She gets nervous and wants to run and lock everything down, I'm not to concerned about this storm. Mostly because of where we live now, how high the area is above sea level, and, I guess, just because I've lived through a great many hurricanes. That doesn't mean we won't stock the SUV with clothing, food, etc. just in case but I don't have that weird feeling I get when hurricanes are coming ashore. Over the next 48 hours we shall see what happens. George Looks far enough from Houston, probably as far as we were from Sandy when it hit NJ a few years ago but we lost power a half day and a lot of trees were down. I told my wife the other day when power when out for a couple of hours in the evening that we were spoiled as it was not a threat but just an inconvenience.Â* All the wealth of things we have now like TV, internet, phones, we feel bad when one is lost even for a brief period. I can remember when my folks got a tv in 1953. On Saturday nights all the neighbors would come over to watch the old wrestling matches. The good part is that they brought stuff to eat and drink. I've never cared much for wrestling and boxing. I would like to have a NRA channel and some good shooting matches. I'm a better shooter than I am a hand fighter. G I started with the internet in 1982 with an Osbourne One. Took forever to get emails going so mostly used it like a typewriter with a tiny screen. Cost a good bit of money back then, now computers are fairly cheap compared to a big screen TV. I keep hoping someone will bring out a big screen with a computer set up. I wouldn't need my glasses to read the screen. VBG I stayed in my room with my books and kept the door closed. A lot mo |
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On 8/24/2017 5:23 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/24/2017 2:52 PM, Frank wrote: On 8/24/2017 3:24 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 8/24/2017 1:49 PM, Frank wrote: Well water better than city water and when they were still alive my mother and father would often come for water when theirs was tasting like chemicals.Â* Water is abundant here but not cheap and I figure over the years well and septic have saved me a bundle.Â* I'm a retired chemist and have seen wells analysis free from plumber that wanted to put in treatment but calcium was borderline so all I have is a sediment filter. I have a generator for power outages but wish transfer box included AC. None recently but outages have lasted as long as a week.Â* Lines here run along treed roads and since we are in a small area we are usually last to get back service.Â* I do have a portable AC that I bought a few months ago when home AC was down for 3 days and it was very hot. I could run that off the generator. Hope storm does not bring problems to you. Frank We live right on the verge of The Woodlands of Texas. Pretty far from the Gulf, and a higher elevation (barely) than Houston area. I've been watching hurricanes come ashore since I could read and write and that was age four. Wife and I just had a conversation about this storm, she's from Maryland and we've been through a few hurricanes and tornadoes together over our long married life. She gets nervous and wants to run and lock everything down, I'm not to concerned about this storm. Mostly because of where we live now, how high the area is above sea level, and, I guess, just because I've lived through a great many hurricanes. That doesn't mean we won't stock the SUV with clothing, food, etc. just in case but I don't have that weird feeling I get when hurricanes are coming ashore. Over the next 48 hours we shall see what happens. George Looks far enough from Houston, probably as far as we were from Sandy when it hit NJ a few years ago but we lost power a half day and a lot of trees were down. I told my wife the other day when power when out for a couple of hours in the evening that we were spoiled as it was not a threat but just an inconvenience.Â* All the wealth of things we have now like TV, internet, phones, we feel bad when one is lost even for a brief period. I can remember when my folks got a tv in 1953. On Saturday nights all the neighbors would come over to watch the old wrestling matches. The good part is that they brought stuff to eat and drink. I've never cared much for wrestling and boxing. I would like to have a NRA channel and some good shooting matches. I'm a better shooter than I am a hand fighter. G I started with the internet in 1982 with an Osbourne One. Took forever to get emails going so mostly used it like a typewriter with a tiny screen. Cost a good bit of money back then, now computers are fairly cheap compared to a big screen TV. I keep hoping someone will bring out a big screen with a computer set up. I wouldn't need my glasses to read the screen. VBG I stayed in my room with my books and kept the door closed. A lot mo I just checked and there are 3 sportsmen channel dealing with out door sports on Comcast cable. One channel is just fishing but Outdoor and Sportsman channel mostly shooting sports. Years ago I got an email from Jim Scouten who had a shooting show on NBC sports that got taken off for rodeo. I had asked him where to go and Dish was his recommendation. Got him back on Comcast cable when we went to HD channel a few years ago. Yesterday evening I watched his show after seeing Jerry Miculek's Shootout Lane show. Can't remember year we got a TV but an uncle in the neighborhood was first to get on circa 1950 and his living room was crowded every Saturday night watching Milton Berle show on, as I recall, a round 8 inch black and white screen. Looks like biggest threat from Gulf hurricane is rain. A foot over a couple of days will cause flooding where you normally don't see it. We live up hill but creek below can get flooded as well as stream to it and I've seen neighbors basements get flooded. |
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On 8/24/2017 6:04 PM, Frank wrote:
On 8/24/2017 5:23 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 8/24/2017 2:52 PM, Frank wrote: On 8/24/2017 3:24 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 8/24/2017 1:49 PM, Frank wrote: Well water better than city water and when they were still alive my mother and father would often come for water when theirs was tasting like chemicals.Â* Water is abundant here but not cheap and I figure over the years well and septic have saved me a bundle.Â* I'm a retired chemist and have seen wells analysis free from plumber that wanted to put in treatment but calcium was borderline so all I have is a sediment filter. I have a generator for power outages but wish transfer box included AC. None recently but outages have lasted as long as a week.Â* Lines here run along treed roads and since we are in a small area we are usually last to get back service.Â* I do have a portable AC that I bought a few months ago when home AC was down for 3 days and it was very hot. I could run that off the generator. Hope storm does not bring problems to you. Frank We live right on the verge of The Woodlands of Texas. Pretty far from the Gulf, and a higher elevation (barely) than Houston area. I've been watching hurricanes come ashore since I could read and write and that was age four. Wife and I just had a conversation about this storm, she's from Maryland and we've been through a few hurricanes and tornadoes together over our long married life. She gets nervous and wants to run and lock everything down, I'm not to concerned about this storm. Mostly because of where we live now, how high the area is above sea level, and, I guess, just because I've lived through a great many hurricanes. That doesn't mean we won't stock the SUV with clothing, food, etc. just in case but I don't have that weird feeling I get when hurricanes are coming ashore. Over the next 48 hours we shall see what happens. George Looks far enough from Houston, probably as far as we were from Sandy when it hit NJ a few years ago but we lost power a half day and a lot of trees were down. I told my wife the other day when power when out for a couple of hours in the evening that we were spoiled as it was not a threat but just an inconvenience.Â* All the wealth of things we have now like TV, internet, phones, we feel bad when one is lost even for a brief period. I can remember when my folks got a tv in 1953. On Saturday nights all the neighbors would come over to watch the old wrestling matches. The good part is that they brought stuff to eat and drink. I've never cared much for wrestling and boxing. I would like to have a NRA channel and some good shooting matches. I'm a better shooter than I am a hand fighter. G I started with the internet in 1982 with an Osbourne One. Took forever to get emails going so mostly used it like a typewriter with a tiny screen. Cost a good bit of money back then, now computers are fairly cheap compared to a big screen TV. I keep hoping someone will bring out a big screen with a computer set up. I wouldn't need my glasses to read the screen. VBG I stayed in my room with my books and kept the door closed. A lot mo I just checked and there are 3 sportsmen channel dealing with out door sports on Comcast cable.Â* One channel is just fishing but Outdoor and Sportsman channel mostly shooting sports.Â* Years ago I got an email from Jim Scouten who had a shooting show on NBC sports that got taken off for rodeo.Â* I had asked him where to go and Dish was his recommendation. Got him back on Comcast cable when we went to HD channel a few years ago. Yesterday evening I watched his show after seeing Jerry Miculek's Shootout Lane show. Can't remember year we got a TV but an uncle in the neighborhood was first to get on circa 1950 and his living room was crowded every Saturday night watching Milton Berle show on, as I recall, a round 8 inch black and white screen. Looks like biggest threat from Gulf hurricane is rain.Â* A foot over a couple of days will cause flooding where you normally don't see it.Â* We live up hill but creek below can get flooded as well as stream to it and I've seen neighbors basements get flooded. We're hoping for that rain to come here. Haven't had much free water this year and it's a pain watering our plants twice a day to keep them going. I think we're high enough up from the Gulf that we won't flood badly. Some of the smaller roads going here and yon haven't been built up yet so they will flood easily. |
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On 8/24/2017 10:03 PM, George Shirley wrote:
On 8/24/2017 6:04 PM, Frank wrote: On 8/24/2017 5:23 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 8/24/2017 2:52 PM, Frank wrote: On 8/24/2017 3:24 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 8/24/2017 1:49 PM, Frank wrote: Well water better than city water and when they were still alive my mother and father would often come for water when theirs was tasting like chemicals.Â* Water is abundant here but not cheap and I figure over the years well and septic have saved me a bundle. I'm a retired chemist and have seen wells analysis free from plumber that wanted to put in treatment but calcium was borderline so all I have is a sediment filter. I have a generator for power outages but wish transfer box included AC. None recently but outages have lasted as long as a week.Â* Lines here run along treed roads and since we are in a small area we are usually last to get back service.Â* I do have a portable AC that I bought a few months ago when home AC was down for 3 days and it was very hot. I could run that off the generator. Hope storm does not bring problems to you. Frank We live right on the verge of The Woodlands of Texas. Pretty far from the Gulf, and a higher elevation (barely) than Houston area. I've been watching hurricanes come ashore since I could read and write and that was age four. Wife and I just had a conversation about this storm, she's from Maryland and we've been through a few hurricanes and tornadoes together over our long married life. She gets nervous and wants to run and lock everything down, I'm not to concerned about this storm. Mostly because of where we live now, how high the area is above sea level, and, I guess, just because I've lived through a great many hurricanes. That doesn't mean we won't stock the SUV with clothing, food, etc. just in case but I don't have that weird feeling I get when hurricanes are coming ashore. Over the next 48 hours we shall see what happens. George Looks far enough from Houston, probably as far as we were from Sandy when it hit NJ a few years ago but we lost power a half day and a lot of trees were down. I told my wife the other day when power when out for a couple of hours in the evening that we were spoiled as it was not a threat but just an inconvenience.Â* All the wealth of things we have now like TV, internet, phones, we feel bad when one is lost even for a brief period. I can remember when my folks got a tv in 1953. On Saturday nights all the neighbors would come over to watch the old wrestling matches. The good part is that they brought stuff to eat and drink. I've never cared much for wrestling and boxing. I would like to have a NRA channel and some good shooting matches. I'm a better shooter than I am a hand fighter. G I started with the internet in 1982 with an Osbourne One. Took forever to get emails going so mostly used it like a typewriter with a tiny screen. Cost a good bit of money back then, now computers are fairly cheap compared to a big screen TV. I keep hoping someone will bring out a big screen with a computer set up. I wouldn't need my glasses to read the screen. VBG I stayed in my room with my books and kept the door closed. A lot mo I just checked and there are 3 sportsmen channel dealing with out door sports on Comcast cable.Â* One channel is just fishing but Outdoor and Sportsman channel mostly shooting sports.Â* Years ago I got an email from Jim Scouten who had a shooting show on NBC sports that got taken off for rodeo.Â* I had asked him where to go and Dish was his recommendation. Got him back on Comcast cable when we went to HD channel a few years ago. Yesterday evening I watched his show after seeing Jerry Miculek's Shootout Lane show. Can't remember year we got a TV but an uncle in the neighborhood was first to get on circa 1950 and his living room was crowded every Saturday night watching Milton Berle show on, as I recall, a round 8 inch black and white screen. Looks like biggest threat from Gulf hurricane is rain.Â* A foot over a couple of days will cause flooding where you normally don't see it. We live up hill but creek below can get flooded as well as stream to it and I've seen neighbors basements get flooded. We're hoping for that rain to come here. Haven't had much free water this year and it's a pain watering our plants twice a day to keep them going. I think we're high enough up from the Gulf that we won't flood badly. Some of the smaller roads going here and yon haven't been built up yet so they will flood easily. Media does tend to over hype things but no doubt there will be problems but to most just an annoyance. I have not had to water the lawn once this year. Couple of days ago I made slight mistake of washing my car on the lawn when it had rained the night before and now have unsightly tire tracks on the driveway. |
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Derald wrote:
.... and when to dump in more predators. The last were applied in Nov 2011. The predatory nematodes take out a couple of troublesome "leaf miner" gnats, beetle larvae, and some other nematodes. Of course they may be the reason I never see any _large_ earthworms in the garden but those things happen. Or maybe those worms just don't get big; who cares? At least the don't seem to molest ground–dwelling instars of wasps. some of the compost worms (that live on or near the surface don't get very large at all) as contrasted to the night crawlers which reach 6-12 inches and are quite fat. these usually like places with some clay in the soil. See what happens when you go around turning over rocks and poking at stuff with a stick? did some of that today. big honkin' rocks, probably weigh 300-500lbs each. they were in the way and needed to be moved for the most recent Mom project. not sure where they are going now, but i hope it is downhill (for some measure of hill that we do have here). in for a break now from weeding and continuing the work on that north garden. i hope in two more days and i can give it a quick once over again to get any weeds that have sprouted and then on to the next project. the strawberries i've transplanted as i've gone along have put on some new leaves. i wish i had enough mulch for the whole area but i have to be content with weed scraps and some leaf mold i dug up that was stuck under there a few years ago. all this digging in there is good to mix things up a bit but it is also letting me get all the pieces of plastics, metals, glass and shards of pottery that got in there some- how. most of it came from the bad batch of compost i'm sure. and of course, it is always good to be able to say hi to my wormie friends. songbird |
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