OK, this is kind of a funny anecdote but maybe not - it has to do with injuries to the body and healing and what I've experienced over the last few weeks....I've already shared some of what happened, so I'll keep this succinct.
1. I was having too much fun in the rain and I slipped and strained the ligament in my left leg.
2. I had work that needed to be done and so while my left leg was not able, I relied upon my right leg to get me up and down from the floor and up and down stairways as well.
3. After awhile my right leg decided to mutiny on how it felt it has been treated perhaps not knowing about the injury my left leg had.....anyhow - my right leg started hurting.
4. I gave both my legs a break but then the effing refrigerator was confirmed to be broken and a new one was ordered.
5. When the fellas delivering the new fridge arrived we all realized soon enough - that it wasn't going to be easy to get this into the kitchen - that is when I made another mistake - I tried to lift up a refrigerator that was NOT going to go through the door and that is when I think I had a partial tear on the muscle in my forearm - there are a bunch there.....anyhow after this happened I could fell it in a way and I decided to stretch my arm out at that time....
6. Meanwhile, we all were determined to get the fridge in the kitchen and we did, so mission accomplished I reckon and I thanked the fellas who did the job - I think they had not been a team for long, but maybe this experience we all had will help them to work together in the future....and now get this.....I'm not kidding around - guess where they were from?
Salem, VA.
Life is mystery and my muscle in my arm is mostly healed and my legs are feeling better and I'm ready for some more work - I like to work hard!
Some of the jarring was somewhat jarring, and some of the zucchini in the jars may not be tasty, but some of it was and what I jar going forward will be similar to that while what's in the other jars has been more of an "experiment", but regardless lessons have been learned about jarring - for that I'm thankful! (ha, ha).
I think I'm going to have another post soon focused on jarring zucchini a simple and tasty way that I probably will settle on as a way to use zucchini in the future. When I came back here a couple of days ago there were three rather large new zucchini's that I have picked and there are a few out there still growing, but I think that is the last of the really "big" ones. Anyhow, I gave one big one to my neighbor, my wife claimed the other, and the last one - it is a very nice dark green fine looking veggie - is the one I will show in my next post focused on jarring!
I got plenty of cherry tomato as evidenced in the image above, and there is plenty of big green tomato and I think I saw a few red ones out there as well, but they were not captured in the images - as far as I know.
What is kind of amazing to me is quick the grass grows in the area by the driveways - but in that image....it is the same garden that has at least one beet still, a bunch of onion, some basil, an okra hanging in there and another cherry tomato plant that survived after I was starting to wonder.
You wouldn't believe the "jarring" experiences I've been having lately, so I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say: I've learned some lessons!
Cor blimey! I thought I had weeds - but you have them in spades, Ken! my bane in the arse is Couch Grass (Elymus repens). It's is an old enemy for many UK gardeners. Its wiry, underground stems and creeping shoots pop up around garden plants and before long can take over a bed. As a perennial weed thorough killing or eradication of the roots is necessary and that's difficult if I abhor chemicals.
I could show you updated pictures showing the work I did yesterday, but I trust you believe me when I tell you I did it - and now the gardens are much more tidy and the peppers are healthy and some rain showed up today unexpected and "in my book" - it is all good. It is good to be alive - I got a rain shower today literally and I seriously feel clean.
So there is a truly "local weather station" nearby, but I think the "dew point" measurement on that device is off....because yesterday I checked it and while the rain was happening the dewpoint measurement was way less than the ambient temperature and one don't need to be chemical engineer to know - that dewpoint reading is not accurate. Either way, today I checked the rainfall total for yesterday and is 1.48 inches and it is true I had one of the better rain showers of my life literal - but I've had better - I could tell you about the time my wife and I were in the "Dupont" guest house where the "triple falls" park now resides when there used to be a DuPont plant in Brevard, NC. They made x-ray film at the place - "ole-fashioned" style - and that place was impressive - clean water in abundance and basically I think the water there remains clean - so DuPont didn't despoil the land there, but I think that is mainly because of the ESHA manager at that site - his name was "Chet" - he was out of Jersey and he was a fine fella. I miss him.
Anyhow, nothing like getting wet in a natural show in the summertime unexpected but not unappreciated.
Ken
(edit - ps - here is a link to the weather stations only 100's of yards away from my premise - I think the rainfall measurement device is accurate - it says we had 1.48 inches yesterday - that sounds about correct - my guess before I checked was 1.2 inches and if you don't believe me - ask my wife! - oh yeah...the link - https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KVAFRIES2?cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash )
And here's my link Ken - I monitor the weather every day and this site seems OK. Here in UK the problem the weather men have is trying to judge the speed of the Lows running in from the Atlantic, which at present is often:
P&S - in regards to the weather station link you provided above....looks like there was a line of showers came through today....I like the way some of the data there is presented.....I think I'll check it out again....
Hey - did you hear - several new members approved for BRICS.
OK - truly this site has data of value that I'm going to link below and I give a salute metaphorical to WN3 over at sott.net - he was the one turned me on to this place and I'm not kidding - the data there proves some things I think I already know.....
Now be aware, you can go there and get data from many elevations under many different circumstances and at the upper levels of the atmosphere around the poles the windflows repeat and it is most interesting to me! I suspect magnetic influence P&S - and I suspect it is indomitable.
But what does mere man know or suspect? God's creation is beyond understanding which is why we are asked to have faith - even the miniscule has magic attached: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIJK3dwCWCw
But man can't match the magic of a seed growing into it's preordained species? I stand in wonder Ken of the great works endowed to us poor folk from a place we know not of.
I feel like in a way after the "witch wedding" in Salem and then some time swimming in the Atlantic - I just feel like things are happening, but I'm not going to fight it and I know my principles!
Can I interest you in some jarred zucchini?
(ha, ha)
When the rain came out yesterday I used it as an opportunity to check out my stormwater management and I was quite pleased with the way the water was flowing, but then I let my guard down just a bit and I slipped - but it ain't no big deal and I know about healing. I know you do as well P&S. To me you seem like a natural healer that happens to have been an accountant.
Good - we need healing, we need healers, and most of all we need some accountability - that is what I think.
What you think is right Ken. Yes, I am an accountant but that's not ME - it's what I did as a skill but it wasn't who I am. I am identified as a person because in Britain the zeitgeist is determined by what you DO, not what you ARE.
That's the problem with Britain. In South Africa it is very different - you are who you are - a real person, regardless of what you do. I guess it's the same in USA?
In the us of a I think folks are only now potentially "finding themselves" - it remains to be seen what conclusions are reached by folks who must really feel as if they have been taken advantage of.....and somehow that touches on something important I think I have learned in my life and speaks possibly to what you are "getting at" with how you describe South Africa - I've learned that I mostly enjoy the company of humble folk like myself. My Dad used to say: "Humble Hausle" is my name.....and my dad was a good man. A Navy Commander.
Just to get a bit personal here, I was in Mejico on assignment when my Dad had his heart attack. I chose to stay there and finish the job and not tell anybody and I suspect my Navy Commander Dad was proud of me then. I love you Dad.
I was working on assignment in 1979, Ken, when my loving dad passed away. I got there just in time for him to tell me on his death bed, as I held his hand, that he had nothing to leave me in a material sense, except his signet ring. I had it made into a 'Ring of Peace' seal ring in South Africa 2003. I wear it today in remembrance.
My dad had no truck with possessions which he saw as trinkets and which nobody can take with them on their final journey. But what he did leave me was his timeless wisdom and I hope that I have done him proud over all these years. He trained as a priest in the 1920s but became disillusioned with the Church.
He became a wayfarer plodding on the road for 6 months in order to find out what people really needed. He came to the conclusion that people needed shoes - so he became a cobbler's apprentice and spent 7 years learning his trade. In the 1930s he was building shoes for the gentry at £80 each even then!
He was an amazing philosopher with all manner of wisdom which he passed to me. For me, he was my Saint Francis (who gave up all his riches to follow the narrow path) and founded the brothers of St. Francis where dad went on retreat there in Cerne Abbas (Devon county): https://www.hilfieldfriary.org.uk/
This is a place of peace and serenity for me when on land - at sea of course I have my God close by - how can it be otherwise?
Every gardening season is a lesson in humility. Found a cure for the Japanese beetles, a scented bag they willingly dive into never to make it out alive.
There were numerous beetles we noticed here about a week and half ago, but it seems they have diminished. Still - if you have a link for the "scented bag" you are referring to, please share it. Thanks.
The Japanese Beetle Trap by Safer Brand. It works, I have a whole bag of dead beetles now. The bait adhesive part did not work so well so a piece of double rolled duct tape solved that problem.
ps - I am a little curious about the "attractant" used in this beetle trap, and I might study up on it a bit before I set it out. Thanks for sharing what worked for you.
ha, ha. I want to know more about the "Uses food and sex attractant to lure insects into the trap" - I am all for natural remedy, but some of the sex attractants lately have got me wondering about some scottish tunes I'm fond of....and sorry if that sounds "out there" - I don't mean for it to be, but on this thread here it has come up in the discourse:
Thanks Bert for sharing freely and I'm just happy presently the "beetles" seem to have departed, but if they show up later - I'll use these bags of "sexual messaging" to get them to come into it and never got out!
Interesting that your mind goes toward that type of topic. I get in trouble for my mind being 1000 miles away, metaphorically or a true distance measure.
OK, this is kind of a funny anecdote but maybe not - it has to do with injuries to the body and healing and what I've experienced over the last few weeks....I've already shared some of what happened, so I'll keep this succinct.
1. I was having too much fun in the rain and I slipped and strained the ligament in my left leg.
2. I had work that needed to be done and so while my left leg was not able, I relied upon my right leg to get me up and down from the floor and up and down stairways as well.
3. After awhile my right leg decided to mutiny on how it felt it has been treated perhaps not knowing about the injury my left leg had.....anyhow - my right leg started hurting.
4. I gave both my legs a break but then the effing refrigerator was confirmed to be broken and a new one was ordered.
5. When the fellas delivering the new fridge arrived we all realized soon enough - that it wasn't going to be easy to get this into the kitchen - that is when I made another mistake - I tried to lift up a refrigerator that was NOT going to go through the door and that is when I think I had a partial tear on the muscle in my forearm - there are a bunch there.....anyhow after this happened I could fell it in a way and I decided to stretch my arm out at that time....
6. Meanwhile, we all were determined to get the fridge in the kitchen and we did, so mission accomplished I reckon and I thanked the fellas who did the job - I think they had not been a team for long, but maybe this experience we all had will help them to work together in the future....and now get this.....I'm not kidding around - guess where they were from?
Salem, VA.
Life is mystery and my muscle in my arm is mostly healed and my legs are feeling better and I'm ready for some more work - I like to work hard!
Peace is easy,
BK
Deelicious looking!
Parizival - whats up!
~
Some of the jarring was somewhat jarring, and some of the zucchini in the jars may not be tasty, but some of it was and what I jar going forward will be similar to that while what's in the other jars has been more of an "experiment", but regardless lessons have been learned about jarring - for that I'm thankful! (ha, ha).
I think I'm going to have another post soon focused on jarring zucchini a simple and tasty way that I probably will settle on as a way to use zucchini in the future. When I came back here a couple of days ago there were three rather large new zucchini's that I have picked and there are a few out there still growing, but I think that is the last of the really "big" ones. Anyhow, I gave one big one to my neighbor, my wife claimed the other, and the last one - it is a very nice dark green fine looking veggie - is the one I will show in my next post focused on jarring!
Peace to you Brother!
Ken
Excellent Ken! Looking forward to viewing more photos of your garden, kitchen & pantry!
Lots of cucumber though
Hi there. Glad your back. Frank works every other day the grass and weeds seem to take over. Still no 🍅
I got plenty of cherry tomato as evidenced in the image above, and there is plenty of big green tomato and I think I saw a few red ones out there as well, but they were not captured in the images - as far as I know.
What is kind of amazing to me is quick the grass grows in the area by the driveways - but in that image....it is the same garden that has at least one beet still, a bunch of onion, some basil, an okra hanging in there and another cherry tomato plant that survived after I was starting to wonder.
You wouldn't believe the "jarring" experiences I've been having lately, so I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say: I've learned some lessons!
Ha, ha.
Ken
Cor blimey! I thought I had weeds - but you have them in spades, Ken! my bane in the arse is Couch Grass (Elymus repens). It's is an old enemy for many UK gardeners. Its wiry, underground stems and creeping shoots pop up around garden plants and before long can take over a bed. As a perennial weed thorough killing or eradication of the roots is necessary and that's difficult if I abhor chemicals.
https://www.lovethegarden.com/uk-en/garden-problem/couch-grass
I could show you updated pictures showing the work I did yesterday, but I trust you believe me when I tell you I did it - and now the gardens are much more tidy and the peppers are healthy and some rain showed up today unexpected and "in my book" - it is all good. It is good to be alive - I got a rain shower today literally and I seriously feel clean.
Peace!
Ken
Ah yes, Ken. I know the feeling when a rain squall arrives unexpectedly on deck and at last I can have a freshwater shower!
I find my peace at sea.
Blessings
AP
So there is a truly "local weather station" nearby, but I think the "dew point" measurement on that device is off....because yesterday I checked it and while the rain was happening the dewpoint measurement was way less than the ambient temperature and one don't need to be chemical engineer to know - that dewpoint reading is not accurate. Either way, today I checked the rainfall total for yesterday and is 1.48 inches and it is true I had one of the better rain showers of my life literal - but I've had better - I could tell you about the time my wife and I were in the "Dupont" guest house where the "triple falls" park now resides when there used to be a DuPont plant in Brevard, NC. They made x-ray film at the place - "ole-fashioned" style - and that place was impressive - clean water in abundance and basically I think the water there remains clean - so DuPont didn't despoil the land there, but I think that is mainly because of the ESHA manager at that site - his name was "Chet" - he was out of Jersey and he was a fine fella. I miss him.
Anyhow, nothing like getting wet in a natural show in the summertime unexpected but not unappreciated.
Ken
(edit - ps - here is a link to the weather stations only 100's of yards away from my premise - I think the rainfall measurement device is accurate - it says we had 1.48 inches yesterday - that sounds about correct - my guess before I checked was 1.2 inches and if you don't believe me - ask my wife! - oh yeah...the link - https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KVAFRIES2?cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash )
And here's my link Ken - I monitor the weather every day and this site seems OK. Here in UK the problem the weather men have is trying to judge the speed of the Lows running in from the Atlantic, which at present is often:
https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/7-day/BA100EU~BA100EU
And here is the synoptic chart:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/maps-and-charts/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1416052800
Look at those Lows! 996 and deepening as they move over the UK - one after another! It's tiring and I can't wait to get south!
P&S - in regards to the weather station link you provided above....looks like there was a line of showers came through today....I like the way some of the data there is presented.....I think I'll check it out again....
Hey - did you hear - several new members approved for BRICS.
Wow.
Ken
Yes - wonderful news Ken, because I will be in the Global South by November and feeling bloody good about it!
OK - truly this site has data of value that I'm going to link below and I give a salute metaphorical to WN3 over at sott.net - he was the one turned me on to this place and I'm not kidding - the data there proves some things I think I already know.....
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-25.59,88.71,278
Now be aware, you can go there and get data from many elevations under many different circumstances and at the upper levels of the atmosphere around the poles the windflows repeat and it is most interesting to me! I suspect magnetic influence P&S - and I suspect it is indomitable.
Ken
I suspect you are right Ken - the universe might be 'electric' IMHO.
https://www.gaia.com/article/electric-universe-theory-the-science-models-and-controversy
On the other hand it might be a hologram:
https://www.space.com/39510-are-we-living-in-a-hologram.html
But what does mere man know or suspect? God's creation is beyond understanding which is why we are asked to have faith - even the miniscule has magic attached: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIJK3dwCWCw
But man can't match the magic of a seed growing into it's preordained species? I stand in wonder Ken of the great works endowed to us poor folk from a place we know not of.
Blessings
AP
I feel like in a way after the "witch wedding" in Salem and then some time swimming in the Atlantic - I just feel like things are happening, but I'm not going to fight it and I know my principles!
Can I interest you in some jarred zucchini?
(ha, ha)
When the rain came out yesterday I used it as an opportunity to check out my stormwater management and I was quite pleased with the way the water was flowing, but then I let my guard down just a bit and I slipped - but it ain't no big deal and I know about healing. I know you do as well P&S. To me you seem like a natural healer that happens to have been an accountant.
Good - we need healing, we need healers, and most of all we need some accountability - that is what I think.
Yours truly,
Ken
What you think is right Ken. Yes, I am an accountant but that's not ME - it's what I did as a skill but it wasn't who I am. I am identified as a person because in Britain the zeitgeist is determined by what you DO, not what you ARE.
That's the problem with Britain. In South Africa it is very different - you are who you are - a real person, regardless of what you do. I guess it's the same in USA?
In the us of a I think folks are only now potentially "finding themselves" - it remains to be seen what conclusions are reached by folks who must really feel as if they have been taken advantage of.....and somehow that touches on something important I think I have learned in my life and speaks possibly to what you are "getting at" with how you describe South Africa - I've learned that I mostly enjoy the company of humble folk like myself. My Dad used to say: "Humble Hausle" is my name.....and my dad was a good man. A Navy Commander.
Just to get a bit personal here, I was in Mejico on assignment when my Dad had his heart attack. I chose to stay there and finish the job and not tell anybody and I suspect my Navy Commander Dad was proud of me then. I love you Dad.
Ken
I was working on assignment in 1979, Ken, when my loving dad passed away. I got there just in time for him to tell me on his death bed, as I held his hand, that he had nothing to leave me in a material sense, except his signet ring. I had it made into a 'Ring of Peace' seal ring in South Africa 2003. I wear it today in remembrance.
My dad had no truck with possessions which he saw as trinkets and which nobody can take with them on their final journey. But what he did leave me was his timeless wisdom and I hope that I have done him proud over all these years. He trained as a priest in the 1920s but became disillusioned with the Church.
He became a wayfarer plodding on the road for 6 months in order to find out what people really needed. He came to the conclusion that people needed shoes - so he became a cobbler's apprentice and spent 7 years learning his trade. In the 1930s he was building shoes for the gentry at £80 each even then!
He was an amazing philosopher with all manner of wisdom which he passed to me. For me, he was my Saint Francis (who gave up all his riches to follow the narrow path) and founded the brothers of St. Francis where dad went on retreat there in Cerne Abbas (Devon county): https://www.hilfieldfriary.org.uk/
This is a place of peace and serenity for me when on land - at sea of course I have my God close by - how can it be otherwise?
Blessings
AP
Every gardening season is a lesson in humility. Found a cure for the Japanese beetles, a scented bag they willingly dive into never to make it out alive.
There were numerous beetles we noticed here about a week and half ago, but it seems they have diminished. Still - if you have a link for the "scented bag" you are referring to, please share it. Thanks.
Ken
The Japanese Beetle Trap by Safer Brand. It works, I have a whole bag of dead beetles now. The bait adhesive part did not work so well so a piece of double rolled duct tape solved that problem.
Hey - I just ordered 5 of them and got some Captain Jack's neem oil for good measure. Total cost? $60.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007CRG4CW?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000BYCTG?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
Thanks,
Ken
ps - I am a little curious about the "attractant" used in this beetle trap, and I might study up on it a bit before I set it out. Thanks for sharing what worked for you.
You are welcome, hope you are a satisfied customer.
ha, ha. I want to know more about the "Uses food and sex attractant to lure insects into the trap" - I am all for natural remedy, but some of the sex attractants lately have got me wondering about some scottish tunes I'm fond of....and sorry if that sounds "out there" - I don't mean for it to be, but on this thread here it has come up in the discourse:
https://ponerology.substack.com/p/cold-blooded-kindness-the-longhouse
Thanks Bert for sharing freely and I'm just happy presently the "beetles" seem to have departed, but if they show up later - I'll use these bags of "sexual messaging" to get them to come into it and never got out!
Ken
Interesting that your mind goes toward that type of topic. I get in trouble for my mind being 1000 miles away, metaphorically or a true distance measure.