santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and a still cool 60°, heading up into the 90's for a few days. Long range forecast, for whatever that's worth, shows rain every day next week. Cooler days beginning Saturday if you call 87° cooler. Air quality alert today due to no wind. Maybe I should not have grilled the past two days! The alert includes the county 1 mile south of us but not our county; it mainly centers around Dallas county, which is another county south from us.
I finished installing the remaining Tomato cages yesterday, although I still have a few plants to set out. They're from seeds that my wife planted, albeit 6 weeks later than they should have been planted. Those plants probably won't bear in the Spring, but they will in the Fall. Unless we have another Summer like 2023 where there were a few spells where the nighttime temperature fell below 75°for a week or more and the flowers pollinated. We're still using Tomato sauce canned that season.
Mowing and weedeating took a big chunk out of my day, just trying to stay ahead of Sunday's rain. Maybe 3/4 acre on the North and Northwest sides. I should do the Southwest side today. Used the weedeater around the garden fence...today it's around the pool.
But first up today is the dishwasher and a trip out to the dumpster with the trash.
Found this critter walking around the yard this morning.
It's about 14" across the shell. I have seen and maybe photographed/posted this turtle in the past.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I resumed cleaning various structures in the current cleanup area. Nothing special of note. I also put the Autorack train back on it's storage shelf after running it a few more laps.
Todd - Congratulations on the new addition. It might soon be following the dog through the doggie door!
David (Marlin) - That Black-Seeded Simpson Lettuce variety is one of my standard varieties. It never fails me.
Mike - I remember taking driver's ed 60 years ago. I had previously driven maybe 3-4 miles with my Mom in the neighborhood before riding the bus to the driver's ed class. We drove a car for about 5 minutes when the instructor told me to get on the ramp and drive on IH30 and head east! I was somewhat unsettled as I had never driven over 40 mph prior to that.
Stevie Wonder turns 76 today. He'll always be known as "Little" Stevie Wonder to me, based on his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in the 60's! Saw him live only one time in 1972 opening for the Rolling Stones in Ft Worth. The audience was quite raucous.
Everybody have a great Wednesday.
I finished installing the remaining Tomato cages yesterday, although I still have a few plants to set out. They're from seeds that my wife planted, albeit 6 weeks later than they should have been planted. Those plants probably won't bear in the Spring, but they will in the Fall. Unless we have another Summer like 2023 where there were a few spells where the nighttime temperature fell below 75°for a week or more and the flowers pollinated. We're still using Tomato sauce canned that season.
Mowing and weedeating took a big chunk out of my day, just trying to stay ahead of Sunday's rain. Maybe 3/4 acre on the North and Northwest sides. I should do the Southwest side today. Used the weedeater around the garden fence...today it's around the pool.
But first up today is the dishwasher and a trip out to the dumpster with the trash.
Found this critter walking around the yard this morning.
It's about 14" across the shell. I have seen and maybe photographed/posted this turtle in the past.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I resumed cleaning various structures in the current cleanup area. Nothing special of note. I also put the Autorack train back on it's storage shelf after running it a few more laps.
Todd - Congratulations on the new addition. It might soon be following the dog through the doggie door!
David (Marlin) - That Black-Seeded Simpson Lettuce variety is one of my standard varieties. It never fails me.
Mike - I remember taking driver's ed 60 years ago. I had previously driven maybe 3-4 miles with my Mom in the neighborhood before riding the bus to the driver's ed class. We drove a car for about 5 minutes when the instructor told me to get on the ramp and drive on IH30 and head east! I was somewhat unsettled as I had never driven over 40 mph prior to that.
Stevie Wonder turns 76 today. He'll always be known as "Little" Stevie Wonder to me, based on his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in the 60's! Saw him live only one time in 1972 opening for the Rolling Stones in Ft Worth. The audience was quite raucous.
Everybody have a great Wednesday.
I will probably go to a couple of the layout tours, 2-3 clinics, Saturday night banquet, and buy a table at the swap meet. I going just to see what the organization does/is with no perceived prejudices.
