Lovely pics Ken, thank you - we walk the same path. My Runner Beans are just in their pots and looking to take pics in 2 weeks. I will also take pics of the English garden we have here - a cooperative which not only provides healthy food - but is a social event too with people of same mindset. We are so fortunate to be here, deep in rural Somerset.
I just happen to be here presently to see your comment, so let me respond. Today I had to cut the grass, but I got up most of the last bit of fencing as well. I'll finish the fencing tomorrow and then I'm gonna dig some dirt or try to mix it up a bit in preparation of the planting which is going to happen in a few days regardless - these plants are tired of being inside - I can tell they want the real sun.
The weather has been discouraging with respect to some of what I want to do - specifically it has been too cold and too windy to set the plants outside to experience "natural" weather (hardening indoor plants makes sense to me). This cold spell that has hit my area hard - oh well, nobody controls the weather do they (....wink, wink.....). Still - talk about bad timing - oh well, tis the challenge of the farmer to get crops in the ground and weather does not always cooperate. It is a delicate balance.
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On a separate topic, I've basically finished explaining the rules in Chapter 3 of the "pee-wee" story and Chapter 4 is going to be written soon and it will include the first play of the game on April 8, 1979! This story could easily have been a "novel", but I think I declared it was a "short story" and so I'm sticking with what I declared and I suspect there are going to be 10 or less chapters in whole. So, I say that only because I think you know that I like to project out my thoughts and intent sometimes, but I don't typically try to project ideas out in a way to sway somebody this way or that - I do it because it helps me figure out the steps I want to take next.
Thanks for all you do, for sharing your wisdom at your place and elsewhere (I see you around sometimes and I appreciate somebody else checking out other places and posting comments), and for being somebody out there who shares sentiment - it is good to know we are not alone in sentiment.
Ken
ps - did you know on April 8, 2024 there is going to be an eclipse in Buffalo, NY in totality? I plan on being there in the ribbon of it all that day - I'm looking forward to it and have already made arrangements! I plan in advance! (ha, ha....
You are such a star Ken and thank you so much for your kind words - it is rare to find a 'real' human with all those lovely and healthy attributes that so many lack. I guess it's because we are close to the land and in my case, the sea, but it's the same thing - nature in the raw. So we have to adapt and bear the trials and tribulations that the Big Man provides - this is my lot!
We all find a stranger who is to be a friend I have not yet met, and who comes to me for a reason, a season or a lifetime. This for me is the joy of being alive and is my prayer of thanks even though I can't remember ever being asked if I wanted to come here in the first place!
I truly feel a 'not-belonging' on this planet when i witness all the unnecessary crises that my fellows create - I know it doesn't have to be this way; so i think my planet is elsewhere and maybe i will return there - or not!
Thanks Ken. Get ladybirds Ken they eat aphids! Must be a similar outlet for your country, like this UK one.
https://www.greengardener.co.uk/shop/pest-control-outdoors/ladybirds-and-lacewings-for-aphids/#:~:text=Clearance-,Ladybirds%20and%20Lacewings%20for%20Aphids,larvae%20into%20your%20garden%20%2F%20greenhouse.
My wife said the same thing......next year I'll know better.
Thanks,
Ken
Lovely pics Ken, thank you - we walk the same path. My Runner Beans are just in their pots and looking to take pics in 2 weeks. I will also take pics of the English garden we have here - a cooperative which not only provides healthy food - but is a social event too with people of same mindset. We are so fortunate to be here, deep in rural Somerset.
Hi P&S.
I just happen to be here presently to see your comment, so let me respond. Today I had to cut the grass, but I got up most of the last bit of fencing as well. I'll finish the fencing tomorrow and then I'm gonna dig some dirt or try to mix it up a bit in preparation of the planting which is going to happen in a few days regardless - these plants are tired of being inside - I can tell they want the real sun.
The weather has been discouraging with respect to some of what I want to do - specifically it has been too cold and too windy to set the plants outside to experience "natural" weather (hardening indoor plants makes sense to me). This cold spell that has hit my area hard - oh well, nobody controls the weather do they (....wink, wink.....). Still - talk about bad timing - oh well, tis the challenge of the farmer to get crops in the ground and weather does not always cooperate. It is a delicate balance.
~~~
On a separate topic, I've basically finished explaining the rules in Chapter 3 of the "pee-wee" story and Chapter 4 is going to be written soon and it will include the first play of the game on April 8, 1979! This story could easily have been a "novel", but I think I declared it was a "short story" and so I'm sticking with what I declared and I suspect there are going to be 10 or less chapters in whole. So, I say that only because I think you know that I like to project out my thoughts and intent sometimes, but I don't typically try to project ideas out in a way to sway somebody this way or that - I do it because it helps me figure out the steps I want to take next.
Thanks for all you do, for sharing your wisdom at your place and elsewhere (I see you around sometimes and I appreciate somebody else checking out other places and posting comments), and for being somebody out there who shares sentiment - it is good to know we are not alone in sentiment.
Ken
ps - did you know on April 8, 2024 there is going to be an eclipse in Buffalo, NY in totality? I plan on being there in the ribbon of it all that day - I'm looking forward to it and have already made arrangements! I plan in advance! (ha, ha....
You are such a star Ken and thank you so much for your kind words - it is rare to find a 'real' human with all those lovely and healthy attributes that so many lack. I guess it's because we are close to the land and in my case, the sea, but it's the same thing - nature in the raw. So we have to adapt and bear the trials and tribulations that the Big Man provides - this is my lot!
We all find a stranger who is to be a friend I have not yet met, and who comes to me for a reason, a season or a lifetime. This for me is the joy of being alive and is my prayer of thanks even though I can't remember ever being asked if I wanted to come here in the first place!
I truly feel a 'not-belonging' on this planet when i witness all the unnecessary crises that my fellows create - I know it doesn't have to be this way; so i think my planet is elsewhere and maybe i will return there - or not!
If it gives you any solace, odds are you will return there I think.
Day-by-day is a good way to live....and then lesson learned and the next day happens - hopefully.
With Respect,
Ken