In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Rain today
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So, Signy ... to continue with a conversation from a LONG time ago - there were some conifers that by the photos I thought were cypress, simply because they had multiple leaders (and AFAIK cypress is the only conifer that does that). Did you ever positively identify them? I think I recall you had, but I forget the answer.
And ... leaders produce some kind of auxin the suppresses lateral buds. Maybe there's something in your neighborhood soil that can mess with that, given your oak and those conifers ...
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And today, when I was running errands, I gave away my umbrella to some poor old lady in an electric wheelchair who was riding in the rain. It wasn't supposed to rain today. That's what everyone's been telling me all day long, from the waitresses at the restaurant to the cashiers at all the stores I've been to. (But I have to say Wunderground had it right.) Anyway, I hope I made the day at least a little less miserable for one person.
Between today, sat and sun Wunderground predicts all of a half an inch. Whoopee. /sarcasm
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Quote:The one thing that kept me from IDing them was lack of "cones" either on the tree or ground. I FINALLY found a cone that leads me to think they are cedars. Not sure if Atlas or Lebanon, maybe both.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So, Signy ... to continue with a conversation from a LONG time ago - there were some conifers that by the photos I thought were cypress, simply because they had multiple leaders (and AFAIK cypress is the only conifer that does that). Did you ever positively identify them? I think I recall you had, but I forget the answer.
And ... leaders produce some kind of auxin the suppresses lateral buds. Maybe there's something in your neighborhood soil that can mess with that, given your oak and those conifers ...
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Oh yeah, I think cedars do that as well as cypress.
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Quote:Oh, the poor woman! And good for you!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
And today, when I was running errands, I gave away my umbrella to some poor old lady in an electric wheelchair who was riding in the rain. It wasn't supposed to rain today. That's what everyone's been telling me all day long, from the waitresses at the restaurant to the cashiers at all the stores I've been to. (But I have to say Wunderground had it right.) Anyway, I hope I made the day at least a little less miserable for one person.
Between today, sat and sun Wunderground predicts all of a half an inch. Whoopee. /sarcasm
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Laundry to do.
Also yesterday last of Christmas cards in the mail. Thank goodness.
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Alright... 
My computer is flying (it's never going to reach outer space, but relatively speaking it's working better than it ever has).
I created a backup partition on the very same drive that now houses a full backup of the Win10 installation on the C:\ Drive. It won't help me at all if the entire drive fails, but in the case that I ever screw something up royally, introduce tricky malware or I just find that over time it gets slow, it will be easy to frag that setup and re-install it and it will take less than 20 minutes to do so. :)
I've also got the entire hard drive backed up to another external drive using the same program. I may consider automating a weekly or monthly backup for this in the future when I get back to my projects, but I don't want to just leave an external plugged in 24/7 for that purpose and needlessly shorten the life of the drive.
I'm actually considering doing a weekly or monthly backup to the SSD after I get it all hooked up to the router for sharing. The backup would take just a little more than half of the size of the SSD. It would make for extremely fast backup and restore features that work right off the network, but SSDs do have a finite amount of write processes before they fail. I will do more research on this. I might choose just to put static stuff on there that I don't have plans of changing or moving in the future.
Picked up all of my special order stuff today. Thirteen 12' 4 1/4" base board trim, Forty Three 7 1/2' 3 1/4" window and door casings, and Nine rolls of 18' long R-15 insulation.
After I get my rebates and the credit to my card account, all of that will have cost me around 70 bucks. :)
Going to drag in my miter saw and horses tomorrow and start getting ready to put it together. I'll make my cuts first, then paint over the pre-primered boards, then figure out how I'm going to install them. I might see if one of my friends has a brad nailer I could borrow, otherwise I'm going to need an extremely steady hand when installing it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Have one more Christmas present to buy and then a couple of more Christmas cards to deliver. Those are to my GP and my chiropractor.
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