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I'll bet her Mom, Dad and Bon will outbid me in a heartbeat!

Gonna have any doll babys for sale? I see a really cute one right now!

Lovely! Ny husband's niece was in from Minnesota and I stopped to pick her up for a late lunch. After seeing the helicopter circle Pifer Street about 5 times and several police cars, I got nervous and decided we needed to load up and get the heck out of there.

Hubby and I always get our gas at Jim's Atlantic, a local family business that has been there for many years. They are citizens, friends and neighbors who spend their money locally. Unless it got way higher than big gas, I would still get my gas there. You pull in, they come out to pump your gas, they smile and sometimes give you a loaf of Zucchini Bread. You can get your oil changed there with a smile and no line up. The good old days are still here if you look for them. Don't expect mega advertising, just gas pumped for you.

They are shipped with two train cars under them that are specially designed for the job. Then they are lifted off and into the storage position by the crane there. Blades are all in one piece which is making it increasingly hard to transport them by truck.

When he said charcoal, he meant the stuff that is made into briquettes, not regular natural charcoal. Humphrey Charcoal is plain old charcoal, nothing added, nothing changed which is why we're so lucky to have it close to us. Making your own isn't that hard, but breaking it down to soil sized pieces is terrible. Trust me, we've tried to smash it, and my husband's tamper didn't make it through the process in one piece. Just ask for the small particles, not the stuff you would put in a BBQ. You have to go to Brookville to get it at the plant. Stop at the pretty little building right where you turn in and pay for it there. Then you go back to the plant and give them your receipt. They will even load it for you. I think it comes in a 50 pound bag. That will make enough BioChar (that's the proper name AFTER it's been charged properly) for your gardens. It goes a long way, and remember it is not a soil nutrient, it is what allows you to inoculate your garden soil with the bacteria every plant needs in abundance to use the nutrients already in the soil.

Like the DuBois Iceberg, this too shall roll to the surface. It's just time consuming to do it right.

It's just more of the old crap rolling to the surface. It's like an iceberg, most of it is still hidden. Watch for calves!

Charcoal does not absorb the nutrients from your garden. It helps multiply the bacteria that break down the minerals and nutrients already present in your garden which then get fed to the plant. Without sufficient mycorrhiza in your soil, the organic macro and micro nutrients in the soil can't be broken down to be used by the plants. The microorganisms are the only way to break down minerals into a liquid that can be absorbed into the roots. I get bags of fine charcoal from Humphrey Charcoal in Brookville. It gets dumped into a child's swimming pool along with a bag of composted manure, some yard and kitchen compost, and a bale of Pro Mix which also contains Mycorrhiza. It gets very well mixed, then covered with water which will eventually soak into the pores of charcoal, inoculating the pores of the charcoal with the bacteria which will fill every pore, ready to multiply and move out into the soil of the garden, almost forever. It improves the tilth of the soil, which in turn allows more oxygen down into the soil, and makes weeds much easier to pull. Your plants will be healthier, the watering should balance out with fewer very wet or very dry spells, and you should need less fertilizer as the bacteria will be creating more usable minerals for the plants. Mushroom compost has little to add nutrient wise to the garden. It is being sold because it is no longer rich enough for growing mushrooms, but it still has enough body to provide oxygen to the garden soil and prevent compaction. Together with the Bio Char, it is even better.

And will Trudo be taken to task for causing the problem or will he be patted on the back for helping make it look like something other than what it actually is?

The Amish don't sanitize everything that touches them from the time they are born, so their immune systems are built to protect them. They still get sick, but their immune system has been prepped by every other bug they have ever run into and not took an antibiotic for. When a strange bug hits their body, there's something somewhere in the mix ready to attack the invader because a cousin of it has already been there. COVID is a cousin of the common cold.

Harbor Freight has a larger one also and it's a reasonable price if you find them on sale.

I doubt it without tissue culture, and that's weird complicated scientific stuff done in a lab. The roots have to come from cells meant to develop roots which would be at a live leaf node. Short of a minor miracle, I would say no.

I have a book of really unusual solar greenhouses that you could borrow. It's older but very ingenious.

You can make your own hoops if you can't find them on here or elsewhere. Since I don't heat my greenhouses over the coldest part of the winter, I have two of the 6 x 8 from Harbor Freight. We've had one of them for 20 years. The only thing that happened to them was the huge summer hailstorm about 5 years or so ago. New panels are a fortune, but I just changed the thinner ones out for thicker and made some alterations. I raise between 1000 and 1500 plants for two different plant sales every year. One Milkhouse heater will do fine for the late spring nights when it drops to 20-30.

Tractor Supply has them (1 year) for $40 depending on the weight of your dog. It's early afternoon on every other Sunday. They will no longer go to your car if you have a large or difficult dog. You must be able to get them into the building yourself.

Do you mean the church in Oklahoma off of Maple Avenue? I didn't pay attention because I thought it was in another town called Eastern.

Unless a dog park is supervised, the vaccination status is not necessary. However, up to date rabies vaccine is always a must.

You can see the relaxation in her face!

The building alarm should have been reset also. How did Toni get in to find the money cache to begin with when this was already a criminal investigation?

Is this behavior in the city water?

Anyone who had any knowledge of this should resign immediately including Toni.

Actually our sale ended last week but we still have great plants left over. Each one is a donation of $1 or more if you can afford it. Choose what you want, I will pack the order and deliver it to an area of Kurt Johnson's Car Sales. Just e-mail me at gardenladyx@gmail.com or you can call to 814-590-9010.

That's one of the best things you can do besides making a close friend with your garden plants so you can see when they are not right and do something about it before there is permanent damage. Want to do a Bio Char workshop at your house? I'd be happy to present it for you and any friends.

Canada needs to learn how to monitor their forests in preparation for forest fires. Yes, there's a LOT of acreage there, but they can cover it before, or cover it after! In the US, they do not clean forests by controlled burns or build fire lines before a potential fire. Forest fires are inevitable. If they put 1 100th of the time and money into preparation that they use cleaning up the aftermath, the smoke wouldn't be threatening the green nuts.