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Last Saturday DW and I went to farmers mkt. to get some tomatoes to supplement our terrible harvest. This is canning time for us. I bought 4 dozen nice looking tomatoes from a guy I had never seen there before. A few hours later we decided that these tomatoes could not be home grown around...

Oh yes, I remember them well. Along with the Holley and Carter carbs. But a properly sized and tuned fuel injection of today's engines is 1,000 times better.

This is the worst year ever for my garden. Wet, wet, wet all season long. Our spring was soggy. June, July, and August soggy with a few days in the 90s. Most of our friends and neighbors agree that their gardens have been drowned. Ahhh but hope springs eternal - spring 2017 will be here...

So sorry to hear the news. Sometimes life keeps coming at us at breakneck speed. Slow down now and then and take time to breath deeply. I'm praying for you and the family.

I have visited my trees every day for the past two weeks to if there are any ripe enough to pick. I know, I know, the watched pot never boils :) Each day I have removed several peaches that have ugly spots or are deformed. And each day there are a few more on the ground. Some of them that were...

Here's a few pics. With the branches loaded and drooping to the ground a 10ft. two by four was just the right height. Ropes everywhere. Lots of peaches on the ground today.

There must be a thousand peaches on each tree. I'm not getting around too well these days but this morning I wired a ten foot 2x4 to the trunks of three trees and, sorta like an umbrella, ran ropes down to the low branches. I picked each branch up to a reasonable height and tied it off there...

I have 5 peach trees - 3 yrs. old - that are so heavily loaded with fruit that I'm very concerned about the limbs breaking. I have dozens of 2x4s and 2x2s propping up the branches but I'm afraid it isn't enough. What do you guys do? Is this a case where some thinking was needed two months ago...

I don't know of any cedar trees around here. Is cyprus a type of cedar?

@Nyboy - yep, it looks like apple cedar rust but all the apples are falling off. @journey11 - thanks. I read the article and it looks like maybe my apple harvest is doomed for this year. I guess this is really, really, really the school of hard knocks.

Our apple trees are looking pretty bad. I have sprayed and sprayed and sprayed and now my trees look very bad. I have followed very closely the instructions for the fruit tree spray I used. Once in February with dormant oil, once in April, May, and June with fruit tree spray that contains...

I used to really like Mythbusters but I haven't seen it for a while. Wouldn't you like to do some of the experiments they do? I think it would be great fun. As far as the photos being frauds, I think that most of the nay-sayers also still think that the world is flat.

Thanks everyone. And your hugs are always welcome. Are those things called emojies or something like that?

Our newest grape arbors are now 5 years old and I have not harvested one measly grape yet. I did not try to harvest anything the first three years and they had a bad case of black-rot the 4th year. Two weeks ago all of the vines had beautiful little bunches of tiny green grapes starting...

I know, I know, it's been a long time. Sorry. Here is quickie up-date on my hip and leg after the accident. For those of you who aren't aware . . . back in November I was involved in a freak accident here at PlayStation Farm. While we were handling 550# round bails of hay several bales rolled...

All of my six honey bee colonies made it through the winter this year. I'm sure the mild winter helped. They have been very active for a few of weeks and just yesterday I removed the candyboards (winter feeders) and added empty medium supers to all. I think this is earliest I have ever added...

An X-ray like that sure shows a lot. Amazing. Thanks @ninnymary

Boy! You're not kidding, Steve. I'm slowly getting to a point in my life where I hate snow, sleet, freezing rain, and in general the entire winter season. I'm tired of cutting firewood, stacking firewood, moving firewood, re-stacking firewood and all the mess it creates both outdoors and...

I have never paid any attention to time changes. I just set the clocks and forget it. No side effects at all. But I do think that daylight savings time is one of the dumbest things we do. It doesn't make any difference what the people had to do many years ago. That was then and this is now.

Yesterday I had two bluebirds attacking my rear-view mirrors on my truck. We usually have this problem with cardinals but this time it's bluebirds. I also watched a male and a female Baltimore Oriole flit around in a tree behind the house. They are rare in our area. I love this time of year.