From two nights ago
Weather’s been hot and nasty the last few days, temps in the 80’s, humid, with thunderstorms. Course, tomorrow (Friday) the predicted high is 55……
Garden update
Lets see…
The pumpkins are happy happy plants. A few leaves got damaged by the frost, but the plants themselves are bigger than ever.
Zucchini is also very very happy. I only planted 3 plants, and I’m seriously considering pulling one and making it only two. At the rate their growing even those three plants are going to produce a ton of zucchinis….
Cantalope is less happy, but not dead, I’ll take it.
Watermellon is refusing to germinate.
Onions are doing well, I lost a few when I first put them out, but most of them are doing well.
Carrots have all sprouted and I’ve been working on thinning them out.
Peppers…..sigh. I’m down to TWO surviving seedlings out of 15 or so I started. And although all of the seeds I planted for the 2nd round sprouted about half of THEM have died off TOO (and they’re not even out of the seedling tray yet!!). I have NO idea what I’m doing wrong there….I put the rest of the seeds double bagged in ziplocks in the freezer and I guess I’ll do alot of reading over the winter and see what I can do differently next year.
Popcorn is doing well. The ones I planted in the container are several inches tall, the ones I planted in the ground only got planted this last week so they haven’t sprouted yet.
Sunflowers which I planted at the same time as the last batch of corn are sprouting and look good.
The various herbs (pepermint, spearmint, and horehound) that I planted in containers last year are sprouting away no problem.
Garlic hasn’t sprouted…..I think I planted it to early in the fall (it sprouted before winter hit), and I think I THEN un-covered the containers to early this spring….oh well, will try again next fall with what I learned.
The giant tire flower planter is planted and done, pictures pending. Its got strawberries, purple Asters (they look like purple Daisys, so cool), purple Blazing Star, some daffodils, some iris, and hopefully some night blooming primrose.
I’ve got the remainder of the daffodils around the property dug up and I’m waiting for them to dry out a bit before I ship them off to their new homes.
Gentle big puppy
Over at Weer’d World he posted a video of a handsome male pitty playing with a variety of small prey type animals. He was amazed at the gentleness of the dog. It reminded me of this video.
Yes there’s no sound, the phone was being wonky recording the sound (and some video that I had to cut out), so I just deleted all of it.
This was recorded mid-March. Just about the same time that Apollo weighed in at 118lbs. He’s two years old. No, he’s not done growing yet.
I do have to admit that I don’t think I’d trust him around a guinea pig though, he definetly thinks bunnies are food, and I’m not sure the pig would be safe from that.
Baby Robin and a Raven
I couldn’t find the nest this little guy came out of so I moved him a couple feet into the brush where the dogs are less likely to spot him.
Then a while later this guy soared over. I had an instant of HOLY COW GIANT CROW, wait, thats not a crow…..
Trail camera pics
I’m thinking thats the same doe who wandered by before. She’s definetly showing some waddle…..
Juvi Bald Eagle
In molt, hence the notches in his wings
I actually thought this was another Osprey, and was taking the pictures to try to figure out why his wings looked weird. Wasn’t till I was looking at the pictures later that I realized that wasn’t an Osprey…..dammit, now I’m going to be taking pictures of every “Osprey” I see…..
Not a new problem
Sabra over at Trailer Park Paradise has a post up about the problem she see’s with kids today.
The adults. And I totally agree
She sites specific examples, and although I don’t have kids so I can’t compare, I can say that at least one of those examples isn’t new.
When I was in fourth grade (1989) I had several run ins with the teacher who taught most of the 4th grade level classes (and one 5th grade level class, yes, I had to deal with her again the next year, and then my parents wondered why I ended up having to repeat 5th grade, in retrospect, its obvious). Now at least part of the problem was my undiagnosed ADD, and its entirely possible that if we’d figured THAT out sooner some of run-ins wouldn’t have been a problem. But not all of it.
One incident rather stood out. We had a small in class library that we were allowed to check out books from to read in class when we finished an assignment before the time was up. I was a voracious reader, reading well ahead of my grade level, as well as reading much faster than most adults much less my peers, but there were books in that little library that I’d not read before, so I proceeded to check out books from it as often as we were allowed.
I remember turning in one book, and checking out another. Something we were allowed to do for ourselves. I returned to my seat and started the new book, only to have the teacher stand up, in the middle of the quiet classroom, and ask me why I’d turned in the book if I hadn’t finished it.
I told her I had finished it. I was informed that lying was a sin.
I said I wasn’t lying, I’d finished the book. I was informed that it wasn’t physically possible to have finished the book in the time I’d read it.
I said, again, that I’d finished the book, and that I read faster than most people. At which point she opened the book up to a random page and demanded that I tell her what the first word was on that page.
I’m pretty sure I rolled my eyes as I informed her that I’d said I read it, not that I had a photographic memory, and would she like me to write a report on it?
She said that wasn’t necessary, she now knew who the liar was in her classroom.
I don’t recall why I didn’t tell my mother about the incident. I know it stuck with me. I spent several years holding onto library books (and similar) for several days longer than I needed to because I was afraid that someone in authority would get on my case for it. I wish I had said something to my mother. She reads at least as quickly as I do, and would not have tolerated me being called a liar for reading as quickly as I did (and still do).
Unfortunately I know she continued to teach at that school for several more years at least.
