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These were taken around 7:30 this morning. I counted 13 total. 

 

 

 
 

The key would be enough of the correct light, a cooler temperature since they have already fruited and are temporarily going to rest for the winter, enough humidity to keep they from drying out and sufficient soil to support the roots while not letting enough water accumulate around them to allow root rot.
 
Great experiment!!  Get some really good grow lights and put it right down about an inch from the tips of the plant.  Then run them for about 18 hours a day.  You can put a table in the basement with a remote thermometer and a hygrometer to get the moisture and temperature right.  You can also get a light meter to measure that depending on how much you want to invest into the experiment.  If your basement is too cold then you can tape some plastic like a tent around the lights to raise it a bit.

Here is Wiener Dog with a big wiener dog!!
 

Weighing in at 44.5 lbs.....Minnie Pearl! she is growing so fast, mischievous as can be, back yard has so many holes filled with gravel, starting to look like a penn dot highway! along with the dismembered bodies of what was once were stuffed toys everywhere, she is a lot of fun, little skittish yet, vet says to socialize her more with adults as she is with young kids and dogs all the time and then just me and hubby....sooooo grandma is "grand dog sitting" next weekend for us to go hunting, I've got the "mommy anxiety" due to this being her first time away from me ever overnight but I know she will be in good hands and come back even more spoiled.
 
 
 

Look, a wiener dog!
 

Alcohol
Make sure you keep alcohol far away from your pets, advises Klau. Beer, liquor or wine damages your pet

When you're ready we have Apprentices who need hours before the end of March so call and we'll send them out to show you want to cut.  849-7361  It's free!

My spider has made a bigger web!! I like how she has drops of water on her legs.
 

Hey Bon if it gets lonely it can come visit the hundred thousand or so spiders I have at work. Took theses pics a couple weeks ago at work when someone didn't believe me about all the spiders there.
 
BTW what kind of camera did you use. I have a nice camera but it never takes close up pics it keeps refocusing or is quite blurry. I tried getting close ups of these spiders especiallty where there were a a half dozen or so bunched up but it would not take them without getting blurry of course it could be the operator. I must need to put it on a certain setting. Gues I should read the instructions sometime.

That spider would make a great meal.
 

I got "it" to turn over ... had to poke it a few times!!
 

this spider has been living in our yucca for a few weeks. Tonight we took pics of it. We think its Spotted Orbweaver, but not sure.
 
 

Is there such a thing as a bad mountain pie combo 

Is there such a thing as a bad mountain pie combo 

Not only that but it swipes on the way out.

No problem with anything this year in my garden. It is doing great.

One tree, 40 types of fruit
 
 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, AUGUST 7,2014(CBS/AP)---------Ideas don't grow on trees, until now.
Syracuse University Professor Sam Van Aken is the proud father of a single tree that grows 40 types of fruit. The artist's rendering of his creation is getting attention worldwide, CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor reports.
 
Artist rendering of The Tree of 40 Fruits Courtesy of Sam Van Aken  
"It's flattering. It's amazing. But yeah, it's overwhelming," Van Aken said.
The art professor grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. A few years ago, he learned New York's agricultural experiment station -- a 125-year-old institution that preserves and produces fruit -- was going to rip up its stone fruit orchards.
So he set out to find a permanent home for seeds that trace back thousands of years.
"When I started, it was a matter of essentially collapsing an entire orchard down onto one tree. That was the practical application for it."
The result is not an entire orchard in one, but "a couple orchards in one."
 
Tree of 40 Fruits CBS News  
The tree contains 40 varieties of peaches, apricots, cherries, nectarines and European plums that date back to the 17th and 18th century.
Growing multiple stone fruits, like peaches or plums, on one tree is possible because what Van Aken does, perhaps better than anybody, is graft.
In essence, he tricks a tree into adopting a new limb, or in this case, dozens of them.
The Tree of 40 Fruit has been growing for nine years. Fourteen are installed around the country, most in public places, like Van Aken's at the center of the Syracuse campus -- alive and edible.
The professor says his project has grown beyond expectation.
"There's a pastor in Norfolk, Virginia that did a sermon," he said. "And a big part of the sermon was using The Tree of 40 Fruit as a symbol. And to me, that was amazing that it reached that far."
Van Aken acknowledges the biblical implications of his tree.
"I mean, the tree of life; it's the beginning of a story," he said.
But if nothing else, the tree is pretty fascinating food for thought.
"I saw somewhere on a website where somebody said that the Tree of 40 Fruit will end world hunger," he said. "And it's like, 'No, it won't. Not at all.' But what it can do is, I like to think, that it can lead to that type of thinking."
SEE VIDEO;   http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tree-of-40-forty-fruit-sam-van-aken/