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Fauci will be waiting at the dock to inoculate them with the Covid vaccine. Then there will be a huge discussion as to whether his teams will have to go into supermarkets and vaccinate the bananas. The next step will be booster shots for all tropical fruit. If they decide that it has been passed on to domestic fruit they will be out there sticking needles in apples and blueberries. The fruit police will be at your door and you had better not be harboring any unvaccinated fruit. 

If she ever gets involved in a filibuster she could try twerking instead of babbling.  

There remains one sane man in the state of New York.

I've never tried head lettuce . I was just wondering what made it  head up. Out of curiosity I looked it up. It says short days and cool night temperatures. We have had  cool nights. Don't know about short days. I was thinking lots of water. Cabbage heads up really tight after a good rain. 

I'm sure that yours will be tastier than the stuff that passes for head lettuce at the supermarket.

Are you watering?

Yes, newspaper makes a fine mulch. It is especially good with crops that don't like the heat generated by plastic. I killed Brussel sprouts one year by planting them in black plastic. Before Denny Bonavita retired I used to send out mental apologies every time I mulched with his column. Sometimes more reading than mulching went on. 

You have put in a lot of work there !

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Impressive! I think it is going to be a great year for gardens. 

2 hours ago, Keyser Soze said:

These planes still use jet fuel. They are hybrids.

 https://www.aviationtoday.com/2021/07/20/electric-cessna-grand-caravan-development-fly-2024/

I did see that and it is somewhat reassuring. It is not as though you can pull off the road and call a tow truck if your battery fails. However, it also makes me think that they are not too sure of the technology if they have a built in back-up system. 

OK, I'm playing devil's advocate but it is because deep down I don't really believe that planes can fly. Yes, I know  pressure, lift and all that stuff they teach you in physics class. The 21st century part of my brain says all is good. The caveman part of my brain says no way. He is still not sure how he got from DuBois to San Francisco. 

57 minutes ago, Pompeii said:

I'm sure there will be numerous battery back-ups in place in case anything happens ... especially on a plane,  just like most airlines have 4 or 2 engines running. 

Hang in there, many changes are coming,

Hope you are right but I am still remembering that self-driving car that ran under a truck because it couldn't differentiate between the truck and the skyline. For awhile at least I'm sticking with a human driver who has two eyes and two hands even if it has to be me.  Technology in its infancy is like a medical test group. They should pay you to get into those vehicles be they on the ground or airborne. 

I'm wondering about lightening strikes. I did look it up and apparently modern planes are built to direct lightening through the hull of the plane. It keeps the instruments from getting fried.  Is it going to work on a battery operated plane? Do I see all those batteries discharging at once. Pass the parachute. 

Not going to be in any hurry to get on one of those. I'm also not keen on driving across the Arizona desert or touring the Alaskan bush in an electric vehicle. I don't care to be roasted, frozen or fall 30,000 feet because a battery goes dead. I never met a battery that could be trusted. 

I'm betting that large numbers of people were planning on cancelling their insurance and let State Farm know about it. People have been pushed over the line with all of the goofy stuff that is going on. Don't mess with the kids. People will put up with quite a bit out of sheer apathy but most of them are going to go ballistic over their kids. Posing kids for a political stand is immoral. I wonder if they got permission from parents for all of the pictures on the internet of kids on that rainbow? If those pictures aren't staged by some pro-gay group using kids who are hired then there should be an investigation of the schools or whoever is doing it. If they did that to my kid I'd be at the school the next day with my lawyer in tow. 

12 hours ago, fadedgenes said:

I believe there is a silent "k" in "Monkeypox."

 

Cleaver! They have found that fear is useful in herding people in the desired direction. We will have a mandatory vaccine here shortly and the taxpayers will be paying for test kits, inoculations, booster shots and whatever.  Congressmen with stock or contacts with pharmaceuticals will be smiling all the way to the bank. It is going to take more than that proverbial "Lantern" to find an honest member of government. Disgusted here!

I don't think that even threat of imminent death is going to stop the human race from indulging in sex. Can you actually die of monkey pox? The threat of death didn't stop AIDS or syphilis from spreading and they were a death sentence when they made their appearance. It is amazing how science has become political. Feed the dummies the party line and tell them it is "science." After listening to Fauci the term science has become meaningless to me. 

Maybe, no definitely, they should let kids be kids. Kindergarteners do not need an in depth discussion of sexuality. It sounds like some kind of mental pedophilia. Let the little ones to play in the sandbox and not worry about which bathroom they should use. Some of them probably want to grow up to be horses anyway. 

"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."

Read T.S. Elliott's poem The Hollow Men.

And they have terrible coffee as well. I'm trying to decide which is the greater outrage. 

If men ever manage to get pregnant all the rules are going to change. 

If you are too dumb to get a voter ID and vote in the usual manner you are too dumb to be deciding which candidate should be elected. If I were a member of a minority group that was being insulted by being told that I couldn't manage to get a voter ID or go through the normal voting process I would take grave offence. I would take my insulted self to the polls and vote against any candidate or party that suggested it. Why doesn't this suggestion offend people of color or whoever it is being aimed at? It is a larger insult that the usual stuff that seems to offend people currently. 

It also violates HIPAA laws. When will those in public office or aspire to public office learn that the laws apply to all? Or maybe they just need to learn the law. Political office should not be a career but a service. Time for term limits since those who find political office more lucrative and less work than the private sector won't step down gracefully. 

I planted potatoes in a barrel one year. I wish I could remember what I planted them in. Whatever it was it didn't work. I know it wasn't soil. There are two huge piles of composted mulch in the one garden. Think that would work with the potatoes if I spread it? 

We have been having the worst time getting seeds to germinate. I think something is eating them. I've got some lettuce coming up in a raised bed so nothing got those seeds.  I'm hoping that the ones that go into the ground are going to do better this year. It is frustrating. I've planted some peas along a fence. Whatever is eating them didn't find them there last year. I'm hiding my seeds from the critters!   I'm starting even squash and cucumbers indoors and have been for several years. It's a nuisance. 

2 hours ago, Gator11 said:

Do not use chicken manure on potatoes if you plant them. I have used horse manure in the past and have not had problems I may try and find someone with to much of that also.

I do not believe the 4h kids are raising anything this year because of the cost of feed. I read an article somewhere about that but was not sure if that was in our area.

Our soil is too heavy to grow potatoes or any other root crop. We used to be able to grow beets because they form so near the surface but they haven't been good for the last 3 years. 

9 hours ago, Gator11 said:

Cow manure is quite possibly the best fertilizer one can get for their garden but it can also be the worst.

Herbicides like Grazon are no joke, and they can be in your hay and manure.

If a field was sprayed with this herbicide and then hay was made off this field or cows grazed on it then you have a recipe for disaster in your garden if you use the manure from these cows. Your garden will just die off.

If you use cow manure make sure that the hay, etc was not sprayed with Grazon before you use it.

Just a little tip for those that may have had gardens but everything always died off. This could be your problem.

I have been using Black Kow manure in my garden along with mushroom compost.  I would like to find someone with cow manure they would like to get rid of to help my garden. I am finally going to try composting and I would like to add cow manure to it and let it all turn into black gold for my garden.

If you happen to know anyone who has to much cow manure and they don't know what to do with it well I can help them out.

 

That is certainly interesting. Thank you. We use chicken manure mostly for the compost pile. I have learned that with the shutting down of the coal powered plants there is less acid rain and you can over-lime your garden. 

Maybe you could contact 4-H  and find someone who keeps a cow or two for a project. I think most of the farmers aren't going to give it away. You can usually get horse manure easier. I've been told that it is full of weed seeds though as horses don't digest them. We've used it without any new kinds of weeds at least. Proper composting on a large scale isn't easy. It's heavy work.  Good luck! 

There is always a price for messing with Mother Nature. Short term gain, long term consequences. 

Stinkbugs or parachuting spiders as big as my hand?  I think I’d rather cohabitate with the stinkbugs.