Ronstar
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Spent my 60th birthday bike riding, and testing out my new gopro chest mount. Now getting ready to go to a bridal shower after party,
Spent my 60th birthday bike riding, and testing out my new gopro chest mount. Now getting ready to go to a bridal shower after party,
My grandson turns 4 and we are celebrating his birthday at our house. I put this together for him (though it stays in our basement).
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For the past 2 days I have been at the National flute convention in Washington D.C. I woke up from dreaming in flute music the past two mornings (including today). Yesterday I heard Emma Respini play--oh my. (Check her out on YouTube), she's a child prodigy, now is 15. Today James Galway will be here.
I've played in the flute orchestra (200 flutes) and a flute choir, played duets with my friend in the hotel room. Everywhere you walk you hear amazing flute players. It's been a magical week so far. A leap forward in my playing too.
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Worked for one hour this morning, walked the dog early to beat the heat and all day I've been sitting in front of a fan. The SF Bay Area's summer climate has changed so much from when I was a kid - we never had hot, hot summers like this. Looking for a cooler climate to move to to!!
Worked for one hour this morning, walked the dog early to beat the heat and all day I've been sitting in front of a fan. The SF Bay Area's summer climate has changed so much from when I was a kid - we never had hot, hot summers like this. Looking for a cooler climate to move to to!!
We had a squirrel stretched out under a lawn chair on the cement patio most of the afternoon trying to keep cool.
Well, this was yesterday. Sometimes it takes me a while to get back to civilization (and wi-fi) to post pictures.
That's DW paddling ahead of me...another magical day of FIRE in the Salish Sea/Puget Sound region.
There were so many salmon jumping around us that I was actually afraid one of us were going to get a leaping salmon right in the face!
It's already 86F outside, so I am going to do some planting indoors in my grow room where it's much cooler. Mostly salad greens and herbs for the fall.
I downloaded some really cool kindle books about compact vertical gardening. I already have several sturdy shelf units indoors, so I might try out some of the vertical gardening system ideas I've read about. I have plenty of seeds, plastic glasses and food storage containers on hand, and JumpStart T5 grow lights, so it won't cost me anything extra to set up a vertical growing system.
All I need is a small drill bit to poke holes for drainage and assemble the system on the existing shelf units using tie straps. I have plenty of catch basin containers, i.e. I have saved plastic jars and trays for the bottom rung of the water draining process.
Stuff like this is fun for me to do, and keeps my noodle sharp.
I decided to go with standard quart size clear plastic food containers, standing up straight. The room is carpeted, so I decided it would not be prudent to do drainage holes or try the cascading soda bottle configuration.I've been doing some experimental vertical gardening this year, outside. I grew zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe, and cukes vertically. It's been interesting and fairly successful. Always before we lost most of our melons to the muskrats. I used 2"x4" hardware cloth on 8' t-stakes for the melons, and did the cutting off the bottom leaves and tying the stems to a 2x2 wooden stake for the zucchini. It worked fairly well for keeping the fruit off the ground, and seems to have kept down the mildew on the leaves. I've used cheesecloth and t-shirt material to make slings to support the melons, and used surveyors tape to tie the vines to the frame. The cukes I just built a wooden A-frame with the hardware cloth and trained the vines up one side and down the other. It's been fun, and I wish I had more space and time to play with it. I'll be watching to seehow your indoor experiments go.