Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Guess I better find my decoder ring before Wednesday.

Thomas, may I borrow it after you are done please?
I need to know if my snow peas are going to freeze.
That's all, where the upper level cold air is going
doesn't matter, are the first half of my beets going to freeze?

What does the ring say?

If only it would stop freezing March 1 every year and rain every Wednesday night.
That's not asking for much, is it?

sun is coming up and hopefully the temps will rise quickly. Otherwise it will be a slow quiet morning waiting for 50 degrees to show up.

 

[ronjhall]

Good morning! 60˚ this morning.

Buckeye you should be a detective, you figure things out pretty fast and RNG figured out why I didn't post it. Next time I'll PM Kyle and he can just report that everything is OK and info later. Now don't forget this post next year Ron.

Well I had the info down right. I did not post it. Figured if you wanted everyone to know you would have posted it. I did reply to a couple of PM's with the info.
Then again, who could find your place without the special pass code. I guess a couple of us know it. :mischievous:

 

[wngsprd]

I知 a UNC fan so it痴 always good when Duke loses!

Ditto, plus a bonus that the Hokies did it.

 

[farmer2009]

Good luck, hope no-one else gets it. We had in January two weeks of some virus or flu going around all of our kids and us.

Glad y’all are feeling better.

Wife’s been on me to go to doctor. I haven’t yet. Mainly because I took our youngest twice last week. Here’s results.
Flu- negative
Strep throat- negative
RSV- negative
Chest X-ray- clear
So doc what’s wrong with him? Hhhhmmmmmmmmmmm. Virus I guess. Give him time.

Sitting here beside the oldest who woke me up just before 5am vomiting. (Different set of symptoms from what I and youngest have). Wife has already gone to school to make her sub plans. Which is good considering I have dentist appointment today that’s been rescheduled twice already for sick kids.

Welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy. Nice place you have.

 

[daugen]

as someone who learned his geography in the 1950's studying a large bound set of maps from National Geographic that my father carefully kept up, and each new map would either replace one or be a new one altogether. No tv, no internet, just big color maps with all those strange places on them. My father would ask me to find Ougadoogoo, phonetically..., and I've have to show him on the right map in Africa where it was. Those quizzes were fun, but my father knew the maps a lot better than I did, and then I'd be given hints.

And now I have to go on Google Maps and look at Europe once again for our Slovak friend to make sure I really knew where he was. All those new country names, that part of the world sure has changed hands and subdivided a lot hasn't it? My father's grandparents came from Brody, Ukraine, several hundred miles East of Slovakia, where I believe they were farmers.
Thankfully my grandfather left in 1901 as everyone who remained were killed by the Nazis. Truly exterminated, none left. I will Never Forget.

The history of that area is remarkable, a battle ground between forces of the East and West, and the poor folks living there caught in the middle.

Of course the history of the US includes our own extermination of the Native Indian population.
In the name of progress and the God of the moment, a lot of bad things have been done.

Can you imagine first one Army crashing through in one direction, then another coming the other way, all stripping your farm bare for food?
Perhaps in our Civil War.

Friends from Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Canada, Europe remind us this is one world. With all kinds of cool tractors in it.
I wish we had more involvement from folks in Mexico, Central and South America. We all love to learn about other places.
Can you imagine how much fun we'd have with a member showing his tractor and llamas against a mountain backdrop?
Or a rancher with tractors on those huge cattle ranches in Argentina.

Or raking the topless beaches of Rio with a Ford 8N...:thumbsup:

 

[wngsprd]

13 going to a high of 41. Wind S 9mph. Partly cloudy today.

Eric, my gcs are 'Stealth Cam' Model STC-PX22. They were $159.98 + shipping + tax = $102.21 ea
PX22

They were got from Radioworld in Toronto.

I'm going to town late this afternoon (3:30). I should have a package at the courier depot to pick up.

Have a good day all

Eric,
Have several different model Moultrie trail cams, two Muddy cams and one really old Bushnell. I think the ones with the longest range trigger have slightly less battery life.

 

[farmer2009]

Brrrr here too, 36 out, this is a week of much lower temps, around freezing posted for three nights, have no idea how veggies will like that.

Off early this morning now that rain has stopped to deliver a loaner riding mower to a friend. 28 hours of use in two years. Friend wipes down mower after every use, very appreciative of not pushing a little mower at our ages.

I transplanted almost 500 onions and I don't think many are going to make it. Just little hairs sticking out, garden looks bare. So....saw some onion sets at Tractor Supply, bought 80 onions that way and planted them yesterday as the rain started to come down lightly. Came in with a wet back when done. At least it looks like proper onions now...
Have reached a good appreciation of what Bonnie Bell does to get such nice fat plants for sale. Only way to get them that way is to have a greenhouse; my living room sunroom was just for this first year.

I think if I don't freeze everything this week the biggest danger is past.

beans planted in cold or wet ground will rot.
need to be patient....three 80 degree days just passed have spoiled us all.

Ed, Buppies and all others under the weather, hope you feel better.

Drew. Be careful planting beans too early. Most beans don’t like cold ground. Can cause them to catch some diseases. Although SDS (sudden death syndrome) in soybeans is the only one I can readily remember. It’s main cause is cold souls at planting. Some Peas are the exception. http://extension.oregonstate.edu/co...conditions_for_vegetable_seed_germination.pdf
When I did research work we always used this thermometer to take soil temperatures. At every planting and every spraying. 4 3/4" Digital Probe Thermometer

 

[daugen]

Drew. Be careful planting beans too early.

thanks, I'm waiting until April 1. They will sit in their little packages lined up until then.
Those packages have more patience than I do...
Foot long Thai beans. Beans of wild colors.
And four leftover packages of Burpee green beans of various types.
Some packages say to soak them the night before planting.
Oh, last but for me not least,
Fordhook lima beans, the big fat ones you can't find easily at the store.

April 1 and not a day before.

I have all my carrots to plant today. They say March 1 or one month before last frost date so
the time has come. I'll do half today, half again in two weeks.
Never put it all down on Red...

 

[Looking4new]

Eric, the resolution isn't movie quality, that is for sure. Here is a 10 second clip from one of them,

 

[ronjhall]

I have all my carrots to plant today. They say March 1 or one month before last frost date so
the time has come. I'll do half today, half again in two weeks.
Never put it all down on Red...

Doing a quick Google search for last frost date for your area. Says April 11 to 20. I hope you have a lot of sheets ready.