The harvest begins ...

Why can't you refer to her as MY wife? Refering to her as THE wife puts her on the same level as THE dog.... and perhaps not, I'll bet you say MY dog. Anyway my garden is finally picking up, finally some rain and a heat wave is expected. I hope there's enough growing season for the melons; cantaloupe/watermelon. My wife does most of the vegetable gardening and I do most all other gardening; flowers, bulbs, trees. mowing, and brush clearing which is substantial. Some 7 years ago a disease has killed all the yellow pine around here. I have a stand of about 100 large yellow pine alongside my back field that have begun to fall. I don't care about those that fall into the woods but those that fall into the open field need to be removed so I can keep that area mowed. I've been sawing some up as firewood as I can but it's tricky as I don't need a tree to fall on me. More will fall over winter and soon there won't be any ready to fall where I need to work. Those trees and other conifers were planted by the last owner, probably more than fifty years ago. It's a shame they are all dead but we can't see them from our house, we'll just need to be patient. I invited my next door neighbor to help himself to the firewood so he's been removing some too. Meanwhile with the yellow pine no longer producing shade other saplings are growing, mostly ash and shagbark hickory... critters are bringing seeds from the other side of the field, I see squirrels planting the seeds.

He's been married a number of times so that should answer your question. :)

Cheri

Terry Coombs wrote: ...

they don't move as fast in the morning when it is cooler, that's when i go out and scout/pick them off and instead of squashing them i drop them in a container of very mild soapy water to drown them. then i take them and toss them at the end of the driveway for the birds to eat (hoping to train the birds to recognize them :)). not sure that is working but something does eat them.

it's rare we have a complete bust on all crops. certain ones may not do as well each year but most do ok. it's my main form of exercise so i'd be doing it even if we got nothing from it other than flowers (we used to grow very little in the way of vegetables).

tomatoes and cucumbers are the main crops we like to put up. beans i eat as many fresh as i can and then dry the rest. shellies (some lima beans and a few of the others) are good too, but i tend to not always have time for those unless the weather is looking threatening and there's a lot of pods i want to pick while i'm out there also getting the dry beans off the plants.

when i've been able to have an edamame crop those are one we like a lot for shellies.

songbird

i think Popeye is jealous. I bet he doesn't have any wife now, so he's made himself an imaginary wife.

This is from the guy who denied he even had a wife for 10+ years, bitched about how all women sucked (especially his ex), and demeaned many women here on RFC often.

Yeah, you tell him, Pussy Katz!

-sw

Answers nothing, every woman I've ever been with has a NAME. All you are saying is that whoever you live with refers to you as as a THE, same as THE Trash. And from your posts here I believe whoever you cohabit with knows you are trash. I also believe you are trash.

Thank you Sheldon, I needed a good laugh. Especially for you:

Cheri