Well I bought the seeds from seedrack.com. I will be moving into an apartment so I have to change gardening tactics. Plus I would rather decorate with interesting plants. I'm also in Thompson cannot commit to change my zone to a colder one. Today was a good day three new friends came home with me today because the garden center opened up with plants. I couldn't stop myself from buying new plants. Nothing special some Oregano, Coleus, and Vinca vine. You mostly find annuals up here. I wish there were some greenhouses to shop at. Well it saves me some money if I cannot buy plants up here. Gardening in Thompson is an adventure!!!

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Whip up some ammonia water into a froth and use your white cloth to clean the arm fabric with the froth only. Then rinse cloth, dip into a bowl of cool water with a dab of clear vinegar, wring out completely and go over the fabric again a couple of times. Let dry. If it wrinkles, you could press it a little with a smaller travel sized iron, but I suspect with that SMALL amount of dampness, it will dry just fine! If you clean the seat cover, you may have to dampen it a bit with a mister to get it back onto the cushion. Damp linen goes on a bit easier if it seems to be too tight after cleaning. Personally, I would soak the seat cover overnight in a bit of Biz and cold water, rinse with a little clear vinegar in the water and then hang on a pants hanger to dry. No hand wringing or spinning in a washing machine...just let it drip almost dry and then return to the cushion.

Looking good, Liz! I found out today that an IHMS actually only works if it's set up. Luckily my tomatoes and eggplant are covered under see-through material so it stays up all the time, but, the potatoes and lettuce I cant leave under bed sheets and plastic pots all day everyday, especially when the temp gauges are reading 80+. Leafy greens might be a bust this year, but the potatoes ought weather the storm just fine, I think the flea beetles have made them so the hail just goes passes right through the leaves. Steve, We might have some glacial till up in the mountains, but, since the Laurentide Ice Sheet never made it as far south as Colorado, all the glaciers we've ever had are/were isolated ones up in the high country. What we DO have is eroded mountains that were either washed down or blew across the prairie and at times even built sand dunes along the front range during REALLY dry years, and sometimes as far away as Nebraska (the Sand Hills region of the Cornhusker State is made out of sediment that was once our foothills and peaks). Consistent flash flooding deposited alluvium at the base of the mountains, so our native topsoil is surprisingly a very sandy loam! However, since modern times, agriculture and development have stripped us of that and we are left with clay. Around Denver, one way to tell if your property was either farmed or ranched is how bad your clay is. If your subdivision was historically farmland, your clay will be much worse than if it was ranch land. As far as I know, the area I live in was owned by a rancher, George W. Harriman, and later it was a dairy farm run by the Beers Sisters. I have clay, but it's a friable, crumbly clay that drains fairly quick as opposed to heavy dense "potters clay" that a lot of other folks have, especially closer to the river where irrigation was much more accessible. So, that's much more than you ever wanted to know about that. I think was 2011 or 2012 we broke the record for highs, and broke the record for days in a row of record highs! In July I think it was we had 1-2 weeks straight of days in the 95-110* range. I was working at the power plant then, and it was almost a safety hazard to go inside, where the thermometer was registering above 140*. That was the year I got really good at running the dozer because it was the only place besides the office that had AC. What a contrast to last summer. I think we had a total of about 4 days above 89 and we were getting lows in the 40's even in late June, maybe even 1-2 nights in July! You know Steve, if you want to borrow the kid for a little while to keep your sanity, I think it could be arranged LOL!