Random thoughts from the moose cave.

Memorial Day. (traditional)

gram and I always celebrate this one on the real day, not the Monday. not sure why...

less busy and rushed, I guess. always rains.

we arranged new silks for my grandfather. she cried a bit. she still misses him so much. then we did her sister's grave with some different but similar colored flowers. (we hadda fill out a survey while there. how crappy is that...she would not let me participate... ...)

then we went over into the old city and visited my great gramma and her husband. (gram's mom was way ahead of her time on the liberation front...)

now i gotta make a sammich and go finish a car...

a thank you to our veterans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oEsQ1I3zoE

Your Great Gramma is still alive? That is impressive. How old is she?

I am a little too tightly wound right now...

right now???

anyways, no, silly.

we were doing our memorial day thing.

gramma tillie is in some verra early photos with a little naked guy that resembles me, but she passed on before I knew her.

gram is my oldest surviving relative now at 90.

she was raised by a single mom in the 1930's. it was kinda unusual in these parts then. there's still an extra dose of feisty in her from it, i think...

I have more to do than I want today, but it is absolutely beautiful after the heavy rains last night.

(saw my turtle)

I think I'm going to put the fishes outside in the pond later.

just cuz...

Bailey's would have been nice. It's not too cold at night for the fishies? Not that I would know. I can't keep fish alive.

Headed to the pool for a bit. Then baseball.

water temps don't fall much at night in a decent pool. (this is a coupla hunderd gallon or so.)

the temps now are the same as my indoor tanks.

they will explode in population after they been there a couple of weeks. they like real nature best...

be safe, feather.

still building an acura.

just got a phone call from Oklahoma.

dunno anyone there I really wanna talk to. (i was underneath and grubby, let my secretary catch it)

gonna have to go check my messages now, it's got me curious...

Hey...I am SO dadgum sick and tired of these afternoon T-storms. It just makes things all sauna like. Makes for bad hair days.

You out from under the acura yet?

soon as I figger out what kinda fluid it wants.

(they shipped it dry...)

i need a shower.

Well...I wasn't gonna' say anything but yeah...you do.

I am still up. I seem to go through phases.

phases huh...

my sympathies to the perfesser.

it's hot. and still. (still is uncommon on the prairie. eerie even...)

gave everything a good drink before we climb toward triple digits. (japaneser begonias looking primo)

I got lots and lots and lots of baby grapes. (and i'm already tired of strawberries)

now I think ima fire up the torch and build a funky assed battery cable that I don't wanna buy from the Acura dealer.

soldering is fun in small doses...

dammit.

i am officially the most skeeter bit ever (except the boyscout camp episode, but that memory is blocked)

they even got in my shoes. (we won't get into where else...)

and my business venture is not going to sail.

guy's a liar. we don't do that any more here at the ranch.

out to roll an acura off the tarmac and into the weeds. (no coil wire, just in case)


be safe kids...

hot and humid. skeeters the size of dragonflies.

making salmon patties. (brought the shop fan into the kitchen)

bubba is happily slurping salmon juice. (dink will secretly get a chunk when she's not looking, he don't like the juice)

think tomorrow ima go play carpenter dude.

gotta replace the bathroom floor in a trailer house. (it's air conditioned)

off to chop onions I am...

is it fall yet???

my garden likes this weather better'n me...

gonna go spend a month working on the farm.

just cuz.

(anybody wanna buy a tractor?)

while we are talking about the farm...

got some pesky ass bugs eating the crap outta my broccoli.

'twas suggested to me that I spray salt water on the plants to discourage the buggers.

thoughts?

now, from left field...

thought about starting a new thread about cool old commercials, but.

i got enough threads. so...

here is one from 69. i like the way they are pushing whitewalls and vinyl...

beep beep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhf54rs4ze8&feature=related

The other day while browsing a favorite gardening website, I found a nifty little thing they call the Garden Pest Detective. What is great about it is you select what type of plant has the problem, then select what part of the plant has the problem: leaves, stem, flowers, roots, etc. It then shows photos of what the common pests and diseases for that plant look like so you can match it to what you see on your plant.

For example, I tried it for tomatoes and the dreaded tomato worm. When I clicked on the photo of the tomato worm, I got a whole page of info about the pest and how to control it.
Give it a try!

Here's a link:
http://www.gardeners.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-Gardeners-Site/default/Search-PestsDiseases

that's verra cool.

gonna go mow out to the farm soonish. i'll bring my big glasses and look for pests.

i got little holes all over the leaves.

Reflect on your strengths, realize your worth; only then will you truly see pests for what they are. You must learn to surrender yourself peacefully.

it's all about boundaries, chum...

same with wabbits.