My Boring Life
And here’s my giant baby pumpkin so far:
The yellow side was down till I decided I wanted to know how big it was. I’m determined that it’ll get as big as possible. Course, we might freeze this weekend. *sigh*
Stupid Question: so, do I give up and bring it in cause they’re predicting a possible freeze, or do I hope they’re wrong (like they’ve already been 3 times with the date of first frost) and bring it in the morning after the freeze?
Theres still a good sized baby pumpkin coming along. Still quite green though, hopefully the freeze will continue to hold off….
Jalapeno’s are still going strong……
Honeydews produced two melons the size of my fist and then died back. Oh well, I did plant them late!
Herbs are all going strong…
Bleg:though three containers will hopefully still have herbs in them come spring, three won’t. I was kinda thinking to put garlic in one or two of them. Growing garlic in containers appears to be quite possible, even in my cold climate….anyone with any experience growing garlic? Suggestions as to varieties? General suggestions?
So in our first 7 days of having the solar panels on it rained at least some every day….but we managed to generate 47.7kWh anyway, so I’ll take it.
Wind Turbine that generates power when the wind speed is as low as 5mph.
Note: I have never purchased anything from that company, and my entire knowledge of them is whats on that site, but I found it interesting non-the-less.
Seriously, who falls for these?
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who was murdered in South Africa, before his death he was the CEO of porsche
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Found in my spam box this morning:
Attention,
This is for real,
Please get back to me. I know there are a lot of internet frauds but this is real and I can proof it to you by all means. I am barrister Wang Wong a citizen of Hong Kong, and i work here in United kingdom. unfortunately my late client Engineer Thomas P. Johnson was amoung the victim of the Hurricana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hurricana_earl_%282010%29 as he traveled for august holiday in USA with his family.
Meanwhile. Ever since years i have always know that he deposited a fixed deposit of amount $2.5 Million dollars with UBS bank here, and as i am talking with you he died with his family and for about two years now no trace as the bank has inform me to present his Next of Kin as says on his will.
My dear, I have all the paper works and with my legal right i will make you the next of kin and the bank will release the money to you. let’s get to know each other, I promise to give you 30% of the total funds transferred to you vital bank account as compensation for your help.
Thanks for taking this offer and opportunity.
Barrister Wang Wong Esq. For: Principal Attorney,
Its for REAL!!! I KNOW it!!! *sigh*
The only thing I did was break the one link in the email, though interestingly enough it actually led to where it said it did.
So, finding the pair of volunteer wild onions in my flower patch got me thinking.
I know we’ve got wild onions and chives in several spots on the property.
Husband and I aren’t much for onions, but there are occasions where we want them. But not often enough to make it worth while to buy them usually.
I’ve debated buying onions and dehydrating them for easy storage so we have them when we want them.
Why not do the same with the wild ones? I’ll have to think on this. By the accounts online the best time to pick them is spring anyways, so I have time to think….
Spent this morning pulling apart the old flower beds in front, removing the bulbs and flattening the dirt out level.
The boards were rotted, and the beds full of weeds, mostly dandilions and some volunteer tree of some kind, and it wasn’t worth trying to save them or the dirt in them. I’ve got cedar boards to replace them with, and some fresh topsoil and manure.
Apparently the folks we bought the house from liked daffodils. There are little clumps of them ALL OVER, at least three different varieties, plus the ones in the beds. I also knew they were in desperate need of being seperated just from the way they were clumped together.
This is a 15x15x6″ box. Its full to over flowing with bulbs.
I’m not sure they’re all daffodils either…I DID pull out what appeared to be a couple volunteer wild onions, but even taking into account the different shapes that occur when a baby bulb splits off there are more than 3 different sizes/shapes/varieties of bulbs there…..
(if you click on the picture to see it big you’ll see a face peering out the door trying to figure out what I was doing)
The install finished last Friday. Today the power company came out and swapped out the meter for one that will role backwards, and we turned on the panels. Course, its raining today, with a pretty heavy cloud cover. But they’re pulling in some power anyway, just from the ambient light. Currently the monitor says 30-31wh per panel.
Right now this is just a standard grid tie system. Eventually our intention is to put in a battery back up system, but that’ll have to wait a couple years probly.
I’m going to try to make this a regular thing, to report on what we’re getting for power in (basically the sort of thing I was trying to find when doing my own research).
In that spirit, here’s the upfront information on this:
This is 16 250w Solar World Monocrystalline panels, with 16 Enphase micro-inverters.
Full cost, including labor: $18,000
NYSERDA 2012 incentive:-$6,000
County incentive: -$2,000
Our upfront cost: $10,000
Federal tax rebate: -$3,000
NY state tax rebate: -$2,500
Our total cost after tax rebates: $4,500
