Garden 2008

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1100 AM CDT TUE OCT 28 2008

...HARD FREEZE ENDS THE GROWING SEASON...

No Shit.

This had to be the worst growing season I have had since I moved into this house.

For starters this year, this happend Mothers Day 2008, day after I planted all 112 tomato plants. The tree just to the west of the garden dropped dead center in the middle of the garden. I was lucky enough to only loose one plant. Took most of the day to clean up and bend the conduit back into shape. For someone who uses Autocad to design and layout the garden followed by a day of using string line to make each row and stake perfectly straight, this was a killer.

Next picture is what my garden looked like at the end of July 2007. That's my fat ass standing in the middle of the patch. The conduit is in the ground about 18"-24" and 10' long.

During 2007 and pretty much every summer EXCEPT this one, this is what I got out of the garden about every 4 days. ( we make LOTS of salsa) Had soo much that I regularly took them to work. Not this year.Here's what it looked like at the end of Sept of this year. Not a damned ripe tomato hanging. Most of the ones I got this years rotted on the vine while they ripened. The fatality rate was about 25% in early July and went to better than 50% by August.

Not a good year for peppers either. Had 12 Jalapeno plants and got only 6 peppers.

Growing season was done long ago.

Freeze Warning !!

CITIES OF...QUINCY...HANNIBAL...BOWLING GREEN
341 PM CDT SUN OCT 26 2008
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT
MONDAY...

Remember to disconnect your outside garden hoses.

Baggage Cart 10.10.08

Updated 10.22.08

10.13.08

Here's my next project.

It's whats left of a old CB&Q baggage cart. The wheels and support assembly is about the only thing left. The wood has rotted off and most of the metal attachments are gone.

My first intent was to try to restore it back to original. After trying to find the exact dimensions and trying to fabricate new parts that looked old, I'm just going to make it look close to what it did.

Closest thing I found on the internet was one here.

10.22.08

Been busy as hell this week with other things around the house. Main thing was to clean out my woodworking shed so I could finally find things.

Also have been drying out the treated lumber purchased at the local lumber yard. This crap is so wet, the might as well have is sitting in a tank of water.

Back to the project....while my neighbor and I were cleaning, he found several other metal pieces to the cart. I had already had most of the bed support in place. Lucky the dimensions I started with are damned close to matching up with the metal found.




Added the two support rods that were used on both ends and this really seemed to stiffen up the middle of the bed.

Hopefully this weekend I'll have more time to work on this since the weather will be cold and crappy.

Winter Dryer Attachment

Here's a little attachment that can save you some coins every winter if you have an ELECTRIC dryer. It attaches to your dryer hose and vents the dryer exhaust back into the house. If ya think about it, the dryer produces heat (furnace) and moisture ( humidifier) that can be used inside during the winter rather than ducted outside. This is close to the one I have but there are several different model out there now. Toss some cheap ass dryer sheets in and sorta works like an air freshener too.

Just remember to take it off before summer.


Don't try this with a GAS dryer !!!!

Cleaning your Razr

I have had 2 Razrs in the past 4 years and have dunked them both.

First one went thru the washing machine. Yes, the full cycle. Second one went into the dog's water dish for a few brief seconds. Both times, after realizing what happened, I quickly removed the battery, removed the covers and placed all of it in my food dehydrator. Left it in there for at about 18 hrs, removed and installed battery and put on charger.

Hour or so later it was back to life.

Don't know how it works on other phones, but have told this to a few friends that have had dunked theirs and it has worked for them too.