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i'm watching the weather for CO mountains this coming week and hoping they get some significant rains. as for more local news, tomatoes did fine last night even if it did get into the 30sF. i did get the horseshoe garden prepped and planted with cosmos, turnips and daikon radishes, likely...

yeah, that would not work for me either. i have a severe dislike of certain repetitive music (and a few styles overall) and will leave stores if they have it piped in and loud enough to be annoying. as these are my personal preferences i'm quite ok if others have different ones (even if...

so did they keep your stock for someone else and it didn't actually get auctioned? i'd be rather bummed by that.

the morning playlist is Enya - these albums/cds (on the computer so i don't have to download them again and again, and yes i do own them)... Enya Watermark Shepherd Moons The Memory of Trees A Day Without Rain

i see no hard frost this morning and i don't think it got down as low as i was worried about so the tomato plants should be ok. i'll take a look at them later when we get going outside. i don't even want to open the garage up for a few more hours and hope it warms up more rather quickly. we...

hahaha! imagine going out and rolling around in the snow and making snowforts and snowmen just for fun!? now i think that's just nuts. at least as an adult and when i was up north i would go walking in the blizzards because i found it rather exhilarating and uplifting (dressed appropriately...

40F at the airport (which is quite a ways from here) as of a half hour ago. i don't see any frost outside so that's a good thing and if it only got to about 38F i think the tomatoes will be ok... sunny and 71F in the forecast for today. tonight 45F, tomorrow 82F, ... all warm enough for the...

yes 100 times. :) they do cook faster since they are still wet... if you have a bean that falls out of the shell rather easy that helps a great deal too. always a challenge without some genetic analysis.

it would certainly help if i weren't such an utter mooshball all winter (other than some light exercises and shovelling snow i just don't have much enthusiasm for indoor exercise). i really need to up my winter exercise schedule...

a few ties to the stem should secure them, but of course you don't want them too tight. yes, i wouldn't do that if i didn't absolutely have to, especially for just a few tomatoes and the short amount of time it would take (a few weeks or so).

Mom knits every morning. good laugh. :)

instead of covering the whole plant you can just bag with the mesh a few flowers/bunches until they form a fruit and then mark those tomatoes with a bit of yarn or something for later harvest and taking only those seeds.

we're still having to run the heat and it is June 1st! two more nights of cool enough weather and then the forecast goes up to 81F for Monday and 86F for Tuesday, 81F for Wednesday... [amused at me not noticing that today was not June 1st ... ]

Search function (upper right on my screen), put in Little Easy Bean Network, click on search titles only and then click search. :) plenty to read and lots of pretty pictures.

duct tape won't do it?

was able to hunt the groundhog today and so i hope that was the one using the burrow that i'd been trying to trap for a while, but no luck there until i saw it out in the back lawn eating some green stuff. plugged up the burrow entrance good and used a lot of wood stakes to make it very hard...

astalumbago...

the most surefire way to do tomatoes would be to use the fine mesh cover on the branch or bloom and then when the flower has developed enough to ding it well so it self-pollinates. i think @Zeedman does this for his peppers.

yes, that would be very frustrating.

i wasn't even planning on being able to get outside today with the forecast for rains and that it had rained last night and this morning, but the rain stopped and i needed to get some honeysuckle tree and grape vines cut up and dealt with. nice to have that pile taken care of. and of course...