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Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on September 01, 2024, 03:09 AM:

Hello peanut gallery!

It's been hot and so smoky this past couple of weeks.
Wapiti fire is pumping smoke in bad with the right winds.
Last couple of days couldn't see over a quarter of a mile.
Usually late afternoon the inversion will lift and we can make out the peaks, see across the valley and almost breath clean air.

I've just been busy with the garden watering and watering and watering the lawn and all the trees.

Canning salsa when I get enough tomatoes ahead. Made the last batch a few days back and now done with all the canning. Really didn't do that much this year. Still well stocked up on most things.

Garden has been a pain. Could never get green beans to germinate after the bunnies ate off the first ones. Took the cantaloupe forever to take off and set fruit the same with the Armenian cucumbers. I'm also not the only one having this kind of trouble. Everyone I've talked too has had the same type of problems from all over the state.

Only thing that has done well was the wild flowers I plant for the bees, butterflies and humming birds. Even the hummers acted strange this spring when they first arrived.

Cooler weather coming in starting tomorrow with a chance of rain. Sure hope so it's too crunchy and too hot easy to start fires right now.

My old lookout took another big fire earlier. It burned 190k acres all around the mountain. Never did get on top by the lookout. Burned quite a few out buildings and a home it sounded like.

Wapiti fire has burned 13 buildings in the Grandjean area. Now has spread all the way over into Stanley and all along the Hwy 21 corridor area down to Warm Springs landing field and headed into upper Lowman. Big nasty fire.

This is the news from the high country.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 01, 2024, 10:08 AM:

Welcome back, Stranger!

Maybe those lookouts can't do it without you?

Gardens are, or can be frustrating, no doubt. To be quite truthful, I planted concrete where my little garden used to be. That solved that problem! If I want to see success, all I have to do is look over the fence. My neighbor is still at it and she already picked the corn. Her pumpkins are always healthy. Anyway, too much work for me.

Say hi to your better half!

Good hunting. El Bee

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 01, 2024, 08:01 PM:

Greetings from S.E. Arizona.
I've thought about a garden but I'm lucky to get cactus to grow. Going to try to make up a batch of prickly pear fruit / honey mead.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 02, 2024, 08:43 AM:

ko ko, is that false Ocatillo thriving? I have one potted that's about a four footer you can have. Mine in the ground are over twenty foot tall and 5" in diameter.

Good hunting. El Bee

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 02, 2024, 11:48 AM:

It's doing well but can't be planted. During a couple of our winter cold snaps I have to move it on the patio up close to the house.

Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on September 03, 2024, 06:13 AM:

I've been looking in but nothing WOW going on in my life. So nothing to say.

Our dog is aging fast and has arthritis bad in his left front elbow.
So he hobbles and I hobble we are not fast chasing grouse. He did get his first grouse yesterday. The heart/brain is very willing the body is failing. He's 11 now.

Garden is slowing down. Dug and stored red potatoes yesterday. Have a row of russets to dig yet. Have a ton of white onions hoping some people come take some off my hands.

I'm having left shoulder problems. Dreading going to a doctor but it's getting to the point I need to go. Can't weed or hoe which is killing me. Just glad the weeds are on the way out.

Covered in smoke daily from the Wapiti fire. Had lightning yesterday and it's set the desert on fire from the look of the fire map. More smoke. Got some much needed rain last night .23 here at the house.

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 03, 2024, 08:08 AM:

I'm getting next to NO rain for this entire Non-soon season. Picture a rock in a stream with the water going around it but not getting it wet. That's the way the rain clouds have been. I've looked out of my patio and could see rain coming down hard in three different directions and not get a drop. Ten miles in any direction and the desert is green but right around Safford it's pretty dry. Dry as in I'm hauling water to my shriveled prickly pear cactus.

Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on September 03, 2024, 09:50 AM:

We're always in the donut hole here when it comes to rain. Too many tall mountains and rain shadows.

Went to the chiropractor and the left shoulder was out 3 degrees and down. It hurt a little but the pressure is gone and I'm feeling so much better.

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 03, 2024, 09:57 AM:

Well, stay out of Power Lifting Competitions for a couple of weeks.

[Big Grin]

Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on September 05, 2024, 03:35 AM:

More like too much weeding and figured out it's how I get on my tractor. I pull up with right arm and push with the left arm for the final rise up. That's what got me. So now I'll use a step to get on the tractor.
Stil sore and being real careful what I do with the left arm.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 05, 2024, 09:13 AM:

ko ko? Why do you think that xOcotillo can't take frost? We get frost here?

Now, with my plumaria, we had a hell of a freeze one year and it died back to the ground level, but came back, sprouted and it's 20 feet tall now. But, I've had other stuff that did actually die from sub zero weather.

I forget our zone but it might be 9?

Good hunting. El Bee

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 05, 2024, 10:13 AM:

We get down into the 'teens here sometimes. The plant was out near the very edge of the patio one time and about four inches of the top froze.
We had one week-end a few years ago when it got down to 17* and didn't get above freezing for a couple of days. By Monday, everybody had frozen pipes including City Hall. What a mess !!!
Not sure what Zone we're in but I know that we're right on the edge of two of them.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 05, 2024, 10:59 AM:

I didn't mean Zip Code? You know how they classify growing zones that plants like because they can tolerate freezing or if it gets too hot for other plants? You know!

There are always individuals that buck the trend. Like, take Coconut Palm. Costal California will grow MANY species of palm, but not the Coconut Palm. However, there is one particular Coconut Palm in San Diego that is famous for defying the conditions and has flourished for many years. But many others have tried and failed.

No doubt that Hawaii is rather famous for their plumeria and they damned near grow wild, as do the Guava and the mango and the Papaya. And, of course, the Coco palm. In Honolulu, especially around Waikiki, there have been many tourists knocked silly by falling coconuts. The city has a crew that makes sure all coconuts are removed from the trees along the sidewalks so they do not get sued! Again!

But, as you said, putting the plant on the edge of the patio, if it is covered. I have a plumeria that was halfway protected by patio cover and it was split in half, both five foot tall and the unprotected half died, that was sticking out and was killed by frost. The other half is going strong. this year it has about 20 flushes on it.

So, anyway, just being under a roof is usually protection from frost. Around here anyway.

Good hunting. El Bee

edit: I might be wrong on where it is or WAS?
Anyway, they do not do well in The People's Republik.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/californias-coconut-palm

[ September 05, 2024, 11:13 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 05, 2024, 12:07 PM:

[Razz]

Yeah, I know what Zip Code I'm in. It's which one of those 'life zones' that I'm not too sure about. I think that there's about 12 of them, desert to Artic and Arizona has about 7 or 8 of them.
Off to Google to get knowed up on this.

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 05, 2024, 12:20 PM:

Ok ........... Sorta right. Az. has 6 life zones, from 70' to 12670' above sea level. Something for everybody.
Apparently, I'm in the Lower Sonoran on the edge of the Upper Sonoran. Just enough that half of the plants they sell at Home Depot won't make it thru summer / winter.

Still nothing on Google about the NRA refund, either. [Confused]

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 05, 2024, 12:53 PM:

Mail call; Nothing from the NRA. My 'scam alarm' is blinking and beeping.

Some time ago, I donated $47.00 to Trump in a 'matching funds' promotion from Lara Trump. I think that they've blown the entire amount on postage trying to get more $$$ from me. [Frown]

Got three letters today from the GOP, Trump & the Republican National Committee all desperately needing my $$$$

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 05, 2024, 04:40 PM:

Oh man! you are now a target, Dude!

You are listed some where and just about anybody hankering to solicit funds can see who donated and it don't matter who you donated, just that ko ko is a registered DONATOR!

It's sorta like being CONVICTED!

They will never leave you alone, Dude!

Request a refund! That should be good for a laugh!

Good hunting. El Bee

[ September 05, 2024, 04:40 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]

Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on September 05, 2024, 09:09 PM:

Yeah, but I had to do SOMETHING.

'Somebody' with a twisted sense of humor, got ahold of some of those 'I Voted' stickers and they are appearing on the Halloween Deco Tombstones in the stores. [Big Grin]

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