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Nice clear blue skies . 7lF and a slight breeze. 43-F overnight. Saving a bunch $ on heating oil thus spring.

Stunning weather here too. Warm and sunny. We're loving it! 😍

Officially, it was 70°f (21°C) yesterday. The last time it was that warm was the 26th of March, when we had 2 days with that warmth...

Sorry, don't remember the old phones. I can just tell you that the entire Chicago/suburban phone area had a "312" prefix. In the...

Spring! The prefix for our phone, when they arrived, was Spring! I suppose that says something, also. That I predate telephone # prefixes.

It is probably rude to post this but just so that you know that you are not alone — I remember all but 1 and yet, I recognize the name 🙄.

My neighbours and I grow a considerable number of zinnias. They are beautiful, useful for cut flower bouquets, and quite drought...

Corn grown with no irrigation .The Hopi Indians have a system of planting corn seeds that is handed down from generations in order to...

April 20-2025 Started 5 Turkish Orange Eggplant seeds Started 15 Long Purple Eggplant seeds Started 15 Casper White Eggplant seeds...

Mustard greens from the hoop house ... The few of those greens that we have had so far in 2025 were from the greenhouse and survived...

Cut down weeds, now ready for 2D4 around my firepit. Cleaned out and dumped most of the firepit ashes. Pulled up 2024 weeds, including...

Not especially weighing up anything except, perhaps, what i mostly missed th thir thirty-five years ago!

Been a bit sparse here, so far. We've gotten some blue and black violas, but that's it. There doesn't seem to be much interesting stuff...