Well, I've realized this morning (81623) that a "little hiatus" from all the "electronic devices" might do me some good.....I'll be back later (in a week or so I reckon) to provide an update on the peppers.
So it is almost 5:30. At 3:30 I put the first coat of paint - chalk paint colored as desired - on the bottom set of cabinets. The paint takes 2 hours to seal sufficiently and after that tis time for a 2nd coat. I'll let the cabinet doors sit overnight before I put on the final coat official. Then, I'll use 400-grit sandpaper or some such on my rotary sander so fine - after that a little touch up and then time for the polyacrylate coating - 3 coats.
The top set of cabinet doors are ready now for the polyacrylate and seriously I don't have "cabinet fever" anymore, but I do have a fever of a sort - tis a fever fearsome.
It has been a lousy year for tomatoes in both of my Texas gardens, worst yet, so I won't have salsa canned as a Christmas gift like last year, though I have some for personal use.
I built my first house last year after getting fired. You can scroll through the (archive) pictures at drjohnsblog.substack.com
I designed, drew production scale drawings, general-contracted and did all of the insulation and internal cabinetry, wooden interior walls, oak stairway, oak flooring and trim.
I sourced all of the windows, doors, sinks. tub, etc, too.
It took me a long time, but I like being there now.
Welcome - besides being an MD, you seem to be a man of many talents! I think in the long run that will keep you a step ahead!
I recall (hell-bells it must be 3 years now) that you were "on top of things" pretty much right off the bat regarding some public health "issues".....(thank-you for that).......
Thanks Ken. Yess, I wasan early-treating physician for COVID from the beginning. I am very interested in how our world is developing, particularly now that there is a decline of the critical resource, oil.
Well in Tejas if that resource is diminished there will be consequence but I suspect there is plenty to go around.....or at least as much as we need.
I'm humbled in a way to hear you were "dismissed" by the board apparently in service to the pharmaceutical companies, but we all ought know there is no "exemption" from Consumer Protection Law cause that law is based on Common Law and Common Law has a long history strong and so those such as yourself who lost your job out of respect for principle, you will be known as a truth-teller I reckon cause the fact now are becoming so overwhelming and the nefarious forces acting with abandon....well it suggest to me Dr. John Day, that some new ideas are on the horizon and they are indomitable after going through the ringer a time or two.
You know, if you were "smart" which I reckon you were most likely when you got compensated for being a "Dr" in the system you made enough funds to pay off all debts and honestly that is step #1 to freedom.
I never sought much pay, but I did repay all my debts early. I worked my way through college and entered med school debt-free in 1982. I caught the tail end of cheap medical education in the US.
I was always giving public service to the underserved. I got paid in $US. It was fine.
What you think is right Ken - in all dimensions - and the pics are wonderful. Bean time is coming for me when I too will share some pics in a 'PART 2 Special' all about feeding the flock!
P&S - don't fret - I got out in the garden and I collected products - one of the chocolate peppers had begun to turn.....I ought take a picture of that tomorrow when my daughter and I make some salsa together with all the da-gong maters I collected from the garden - the one cherry tomato plant, the two of them together - oh my Lord, they had so much fruit to proffer.
Anyhow, based on lessons learned and input from my daughter, she and I are going to make some salsa tomorrow thanks to my good neighbor who shared with me and for that I am grateful.
Ken
ps - ghost pepper flowers (I hope) have emerged, but the proof will be when the pepper reveals itself I reckon cause some jalapeños have shown up unexpected and for that I am grateful as well.
Wonderful update Ken thank you. My radishes are growing - but slowly and the spinach is really slow. They have germinated but seem to have stopped at 2 inches, this is most unusual - they normally scream ahead. This season is not good here in UK and I don't know why. It has never happened in my 25+ years at my smallholding.
Pictures will follow in my SURVIVAL MONITOR on September 2.
Anecdotally, it seems many have been having an "unusual" gardening season.....anecdotes are not proof direct, but enough anecdotes add up and then the form the basis of solid information that it seems "something is amiss". That is the conclusion I've reached and of course there always is uncertainty, but after awhile the evidence becomes overwhelming....well then, that it a good time to have others you can interact with who sense - big changes are on the way.
I look forward to seeing the pictures you present when you are ready.
I think it is the sunlight that is too intense with UVB. My skin has many decades of experience, and I basically like sunlight, but I have had to shy away from midday sun in recent years, basically for 2 months either side of June 21st. I have quit morning chores and bike-ride by noon, and usually by 11AM this summer, though I am loosening back up again. It is not the heat, we are still in a draught and well ocer 100F daily.
It is the intensity of the suun's rays.
Okra is good with that, and eggplant, but not tomatoes, peppers, beans and so on. Most things rolled off hard in July, after grossly under-producing in June, usually the biggest month here.
Much of what you note are winter-crops in climate zones 8-9.
Well, I've realized this morning (81623) that a "little hiatus" from all the "electronic devices" might do me some good.....I'll be back later (in a week or so I reckon) to provide an update on the peppers.
Namaste
BK
So it is almost 5:30. At 3:30 I put the first coat of paint - chalk paint colored as desired - on the bottom set of cabinets. The paint takes 2 hours to seal sufficiently and after that tis time for a 2nd coat. I'll let the cabinet doors sit overnight before I put on the final coat official. Then, I'll use 400-grit sandpaper or some such on my rotary sander so fine - after that a little touch up and then time for the polyacrylate coating - 3 coats.
The top set of cabinet doors are ready now for the polyacrylate and seriously I don't have "cabinet fever" anymore, but I do have a fever of a sort - tis a fever fearsome.
It has been a lousy year for tomatoes in both of my Texas gardens, worst yet, so I won't have salsa canned as a Christmas gift like last year, though I have some for personal use.
I built my first house last year after getting fired. You can scroll through the (archive) pictures at drjohnsblog.substack.com
I designed, drew production scale drawings, general-contracted and did all of the insulation and internal cabinetry, wooden interior walls, oak stairway, oak flooring and trim.
I sourced all of the windows, doors, sinks. tub, etc, too.
It took me a long time, but I like being there now.
Welcome - besides being an MD, you seem to be a man of many talents! I think in the long run that will keep you a step ahead!
I recall (hell-bells it must be 3 years now) that you were "on top of things" pretty much right off the bat regarding some public health "issues".....(thank-you for that).......
Ken
Thanks Ken. Yess, I wasan early-treating physician for COVID from the beginning. I am very interested in how our world is developing, particularly now that there is a decline of the critical resource, oil.
Well in Tejas if that resource is diminished there will be consequence but I suspect there is plenty to go around.....or at least as much as we need.
I'm humbled in a way to hear you were "dismissed" by the board apparently in service to the pharmaceutical companies, but we all ought know there is no "exemption" from Consumer Protection Law cause that law is based on Common Law and Common Law has a long history strong and so those such as yourself who lost your job out of respect for principle, you will be known as a truth-teller I reckon cause the fact now are becoming so overwhelming and the nefarious forces acting with abandon....well it suggest to me Dr. John Day, that some new ideas are on the horizon and they are indomitable after going through the ringer a time or two.
Best to you,
Ken
Thanks Ken,
Your Amigo, Protect and Survive is OK, too.
:-)
Yeah - P&S tis a fine gentleman indeed.
You know, if you were "smart" which I reckon you were most likely when you got compensated for being a "Dr" in the system you made enough funds to pay off all debts and honestly that is step #1 to freedom.
I never sought much pay, but I did repay all my debts early. I worked my way through college and entered med school debt-free in 1982. I caught the tail end of cheap medical education in the US.
I was always giving public service to the underserved. I got paid in $US. It was fine.
We have entered a different era.
What you think is right Ken - in all dimensions - and the pics are wonderful. Bean time is coming for me when I too will share some pics in a 'PART 2 Special' all about feeding the flock!
Rumor I heard is beans just off the stalk eaten fresh in the field are best in September!
But - tis just a rumor and might not amount to what....
a hill of beans?
ha, ha.
Ken
LOL - get out in the garden Ken and enjoy the free gifts from heaven! I shall report soon, good buddy.
P&S - don't fret - I got out in the garden and I collected products - one of the chocolate peppers had begun to turn.....I ought take a picture of that tomorrow when my daughter and I make some salsa together with all the da-gong maters I collected from the garden - the one cherry tomato plant, the two of them together - oh my Lord, they had so much fruit to proffer.
Anyhow, based on lessons learned and input from my daughter, she and I are going to make some salsa tomorrow thanks to my good neighbor who shared with me and for that I am grateful.
Ken
ps - ghost pepper flowers (I hope) have emerged, but the proof will be when the pepper reveals itself I reckon cause some jalapeños have shown up unexpected and for that I am grateful as well.
Wonderful update Ken thank you. My radishes are growing - but slowly and the spinach is really slow. They have germinated but seem to have stopped at 2 inches, this is most unusual - they normally scream ahead. This season is not good here in UK and I don't know why. It has never happened in my 25+ years at my smallholding.
Pictures will follow in my SURVIVAL MONITOR on September 2.
Anecdotally, it seems many have been having an "unusual" gardening season.....anecdotes are not proof direct, but enough anecdotes add up and then the form the basis of solid information that it seems "something is amiss". That is the conclusion I've reached and of course there always is uncertainty, but after awhile the evidence becomes overwhelming....well then, that it a good time to have others you can interact with who sense - big changes are on the way.
I look forward to seeing the pictures you present when you are ready.
Ken
Thanks Ken - it's good to know that I am not alone. There is something amiss no doubt but as you say the truth will emerge in God's time - not mine.
I think it is the sunlight that is too intense with UVB. My skin has many decades of experience, and I basically like sunlight, but I have had to shy away from midday sun in recent years, basically for 2 months either side of June 21st. I have quit morning chores and bike-ride by noon, and usually by 11AM this summer, though I am loosening back up again. It is not the heat, we are still in a draught and well ocer 100F daily.
It is the intensity of the suun's rays.
Okra is good with that, and eggplant, but not tomatoes, peppers, beans and so on. Most things rolled off hard in July, after grossly under-producing in June, usually the biggest month here.
Much of what you note are winter-crops in climate zones 8-9.