In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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It sounds like we're all being careful about the virus. I hope for us all to be safe and healthy when all is said and done.
Crummy weather outside ... and you in your nice, cozy place inside.
Well, good night, all.
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Night Kiki.
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Gotta go out tomorrow and get my meds and a little bit of groceries.
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Went out and got my meds. Thanked the pharmacy workers. Was going to do a little grocery shopping in the Safeway that is there but once the snow flakes started I thought better of it as I had to take a bus to get there. As I ran for the bus that I saw at the stop, it started hailing for a couple of seconds.
Glad I made the bus I did my shopping near where I live and ran into one of my mah jong group. Just barely heard her calling my name as she was wearing a mask, so voice was muffled. We spoke for a few minutes at the 6 foot distance then went on our ways.
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Honest to god, just the other night I was thinking with all this COVID stuff going on, all we need now is an earthquake ... and wouldn't you know there was one this eve (that I didn't feel at all) by Anza quite a bit east and south of here.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Honest to god, just the other night I was thinking with all this COVID stuff going on, all we need now is an earthquake ... and wouldn't you know there was one this eve (that I didn't feel at all) by Anza quite a bit east and south of here.
FB friend just posted that. He just moved out to California last summer and its his first experience with them.
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Hubby and I were sitting still, so we felt it even tho it was a pretty mild rocking. And then another, milder rocking. After a while, you start to wonder if it's your middle ears, paranoia, or another aftershock.
Anyway, very mild. You wouldn't have felt it unless you were sitting.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
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Hurricane season is coming up. Mother nature isn't going to follow any stay-at-home orders.
I don't even want to imagine what life would be like in the Superdome if Katrina makes a comeback this year. Bet they're all shitting themselves in Puerto Rico right now too.
I'm absolutely thrilled that my parents decided to uproot their retirement and move from the relative safety of the middle of Arizona to the Florida coasts of the Gulf of Mexico to help his good for nothing kid try to start a business. I guarantee that business is all but dead right now and his kid's family are nowhere to be found, leaving my folks high and dry (or low and wet) without anybody to help them out of they need it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Meanwhile, whatever I have had seems to be coming to fruition. Without going into too much detail, things are "solidifying" and resembling more what one would expect when the fever from a flu breaks and you're left with all sorts of nastiness for a few days or more as you finish recovering, albeit on a much smaller scale.
I definitely had something. In some ways, it's reminiscent of the flu, but just without the fever, fatigue, full-body aches and pains and loss of appetite. Whatever it is, it's new to me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So SIX, are you talking about lots of goop in your bronchi?
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AT this end, weather has been a little warmer which means dear daughter and I can get back to gardening. (Not that she wants to.) Taught her how to use the weed torch ... the thing works fine, but the jury is still out on how effective it is.
We used it on teeny-tiny little weed sprouts which prolly won't come back, but I have some sedge-like things in the back that I literally burned to a crisp - twice - and they're resprouting. Buggers sure are fire-resistant! So I think I'm going to an "integrated" approach: What I can't burn, I'll spray, and what I can't spray I'll dig.I'll look at how things look after the rainstorm coming up. I'll be able to judge the weed torch then.
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The coffee trees that I so rudely separated all survived, altho some of them dropped their lower leaves since their roots hadn't grown back enough to support a full complement of leaves, so the growing tips absorbed nutrients from the older leaves. Will continue to tend them as best I can until they get robust enough to separate one more time. After that, they'll be two or three per pot, and then they can continue to grow that way, undisturbed, for the rest of their lives.
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I made a new kind of turkey pot pie today. I tried to reproduce the Marie Callendar's texture, where the vegetables are meat are in a kind of chicken broth and milk custard. So I used three cups of canned milk and 2T flour plus 1T cornstarch percup, plus 1T margarine per cup and a little salt and Bell's poultry seasoning. Plus the usual diced sauteed onion, carrots, celery, and green beans (daughter cannot eat peas) and pre-prepared pie crust top. I think I got the texture right, not sure about the flavor, but I think it turned out better than other versions.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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