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i don't watch tv, that avoids a lot of useless drama and political BS. i also don't listen to the radio or check the news on the internet very often (once a day or so). i do check the weather forecast once in a while. the phone i check some days and have to have it by me for certain times but...

you'll get to see her soon and i'm sure she'll be glad to see you too! :)

spiders and ants are pretty much all over the place and most of them won't really hurt you or bite. safe journeys!

picked most of the rest of the tomatoes today (about 100lbs aka 5 buckets, discarded 1 bucket worth as they were spotted or rotting down from the stem). a few are still out there but i don't plan on doing any more canning after we get these processed - we're out of jars and i'm quite ok calling...

i follow what is happening at various salt lakes just because water and life are interesting to me and how humans can change things. Mono Lake is one of them: https://latinamericanpost.com/life/argentina-to-california-phalaropes-stitch-continents-as-lakes-vanish/ and now i'm learning about...

very nice looking seeds from Andikove. :) i could get some but not very many that looked that nice.

it's a sensitive issue because in order to do it sustainably you have to know the recharge rate over time and geology can be complex. if you have too many people sucking up all the groundwater then you have wells going dry and eventually people won't be able to irrigate crops or gardens. many...

temperature, soil quality, light, wind, moisture, neighboring plants...

finished another batch of tomato canning last night. 12 quarts. today will be warmer, mid-to-high 70s, pretty much the rest of the week too into the low 80s again. no rains, i'll do some watering today and tomorrow.

yes. :)

they're gone. i only had the one. Mom took the rest to other people. i'll have to make do with chocolate frosting and graham crackers or chocolate chip cookies.

i will be going through withdrawals this morning but than you for the visual and virtual fix. :) and then, lo and behold there were cupcakes upon the counter and Mom said i had to try one out so i did and it was good...

tall deer like giraffes? our deer only trim up 5-6ft - makes them all look like funny green mushrooms.

there's no frost warning in the weather forecast but when walking back from taking out the trash there's frost on the roof of the house... brr! no frost on the grass or plants down lower. the weather station says it got down to 42F, that's quite a difference.

the deer have repeatedly trimmed our cedar trees up as high as they can reach. we've only trimmed a few otherwise as they were blocking some signals i needed to get. but i overall agree with you that planting them can be quite the wrong thing to do for some people or in our case they were...

yick! glad for that improvement! it was pretty icky here too for a while a few weeks ago.

i was reading your mind...

had to go around some places this morning and find the spiders and their egg cases and evict them. one in particular i had to get the chair out again to stand on so i could get up in the far corner of the closet to roust it out. this time i emptied the shelf below it of supplies so just in...

the solitary type of ground bees the most aggressive are the males and they will attack you repeatedly even if their stings are not as bad as many of the other bees, they make up for that in how persistent they are. once you are scent marked they do keep repeatedly attacking that location. i...