all good things must ...

the big wheel keeps on turning...

we have no frost in our forecast for at least the next week, but fall will be here soon enough. a high of 83F predicted for today, sunny and breezy, good as everything can use a good drying out.

:)

it has been raining and foggy wet weather that today is the first day in a while that i'll be able to get outside and get some gardening done.

my main plans are to get the gardens ready for winter and i have some garlic to plant.

songbird

And this morning we all woke up to snow! At least it means the end to Burn California and we can all breath fresh air again. My goji's seems to be loving the snow!

Time to plant my garlic too.

Do you have a favorite over winter onion?

T wrote: ...

it rained here again last night. we don't need any more rain.

we're not picky about onions as we like to eat them often and a lot of them. whatever survives and stores ok. i don't have my starts for next spring in storage yet. i'll need to do that sometime soon. we have some milder sweet onions to use up in the next few weeks that i grew this summer. then we'll be buying onions again. the larger of the starts will get eaten up or if they spoil i'll feed them to the worms.

songbird

Well, you might consider relocating to a place where it's 75 degrees at 9:30 PM. Just promise not to drive 30mph in the inside lane....

Sorry about the dupe. I'm still tring to figure out this new and improved (pointlesslly complicated, IMO) news/mail reader.

Ya, but those zones have no trout and come with 4" long cockroaches

:'(

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at least you're able to post. configuration issues can take some time to sort out.

it's not like this is a high traffic group any more where we can't figure some things out on the other end. :)

it has been so rainy the past month and a half that i've been trying to get large projects done before winter sets in.

i finally got one long garden along the pathway outside the fence finished up and have moved to getting the gardens inside the fence ready for winter.

we have snow and rain in the forecast so i may not get back outside again until next week - unless i can get a few hours done today, which may be possible. we'll see how it turns out. :)

songbird

Good luck. I'm hoping to get some weeding done,too, but I must sort some woodworking tools and decide which,if any, to sell: A large collection of "traditional" hand tools as well as a group of quality power tools (all of them Porter-Cable) that I don't expect to use again.

snipped-for-privacy@invalid.net wrote: ...

:( i hope you can find a good home for all of them with someone who'll appreciate them and take care of them.

i finished up one garden last week but didn't get to the next yet. the weather turned to rain and now snow for a while so maybe next week i'll be able to get back outside again.

last night we rearranged part of the garage and i got some of the squash inside to see if the seeds/flesh were useful or not. these were squash grown from some green seeded hulless seeds a friend sent in the hopes that we'd be able to help him make progress on his project of just selecting out the kinds that are the right size and shape. with only so much room and these plants growing 20ft in random directions it can take some time to go through all the seeds he sent me. so far i have green seeds that are edible from most of the squash that grew, but the size of the fruits is bigger than what he was after and the flesh of the squash is really blah so it's not edible unless you're starving. last night two of the three squash i brought in had white seeds and they weren't hulless at all so those i did roast and will eat them eventually and i also roasted the green seeds that i got from the other squash too as those are very good to eat. the flesh from the squash i'll feed to the worm farm here today sometime along with the part i cooked up to see if was worth cooking the rest or not. not. decidedly not...

sorting beans and getting packages sent out to people who requested some. after the first of the year i'll send out a few more packages. it is fun and now i have some of my original cross-breeds overseas so at least those eggs are no longer in one small geological basket. :)

songbird

As do I. As you might suppose, success with the human-powered tools implies a different mindset and relationshp to the materials than with the electric machines. I'll be surprised if anyone shows interest in both, BTW, I await a complete email update on your progress with the TT photography, color-correction, etc.

Damned if I know why this sucker doesn't thread messages properly.

if i were close enough and had room enough it would be a great find to have, but there's no more room at the inn here and i am way too far away. :(

it is all worth enough to make it a more formal auction?

TT? i did get a calibration device and that greatly improved my ability to see different colors on my screen that were not there before but sadly this screen has limits and short of getting a better screen it's not going to change. so i'm stuck with what i have for another year or two or until this monitor gives out - my budget doesn't currently include a new monitor so i have to start saving some funds for that. with winter coming on now heat is more a priority. :)

some newer pictures are at the end of the bean page on my website, some of them are better than others. i have the process down very well for taking pictures and getting them to the computer and then getting them to the website, but the basic issue right now is that my lighting sucks and i don't know what i'm doing well enough to improve it much. so for the moment i adjust the exposure and colors somewhat but it's not nearly as nice as what shows up when i get some sunshine through the window that lights up the beans.

the camera does take good enough pictures - i do need to improve my skills and understanding there too so it is a gradual process as i learn more and have the time and patience for it.

right now being almost done with bean sorting i'm hoping to start take a few more pictures of some of the best of the new finds and other interesting things but i never know how they turn out. i'm not a professional on this for sure. :)

songbird

snipped-for-privacy@invalid.net wrote: ...

do you have it set up to thread based upon subject or on references? i don't know how that particular newsreader works at all, but sometimes there are options that let you adjust what is used for threading.

songbird

Two choices, each of which is binary. They are: "Enable threading by subject" and "Start a new thread when the subject changes", which seems a bit redundant. I have no clue what happens when either is diabled but well soon find out....

oops: It's "Start a new thread when follow-up subject changes" which is the same behavior as the earlier version that I've used for many years.

I have had to change news servers, when my ISP drop newsgroups without mentioning it.

AND now I discover al the people that had stopped posting have, in reality, been carrying on without me.

Just in time to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Mike

hahaha! stuff happens! :)

happy post solstice day! on the other side of the hump now for six months.

songbird

Merry Christmas to all of the friendly and helpful folks that *still* inhabit this newsgroup.

Let's hope for a better New Year too with plenty of good weather to coddle our crops and MANY fewer virus bugs floating around to infect our lives.

Nyssa, who still has one tiny half-green tomato on her kitchen counter trying to turn red

Nyssa wrote: ...

i'm glad to see California and Colorado get some snow and rains the past few days.

:) we used to have tables in the garage of green tomatoes getting ripe through the fall, but as the weather gets colder there's no way to keep the garage from freezing that makes sense so anything that went too long either got eaten as green tomatoes or was discarded and turned into worm food.

but i suppose diced green tomatoes and red peppers or something similar might be suitably festive and seasonally appropriate. :)

songbird