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Comments (15)Howdy Neighbors! Thought I'd pop in from Oklahoma to see how y'all are doing over there. From ceresone's comments, I gather that some of y'all are not having a lot of rain? Well, you can have ours if you can figure out how to get it from here to there. I dearly wish we could send you the rain that is tormenting our state. It is flooding all over the place and many Oklahoma gardeners are deeply depressed as the continuing rain has wiped out many veggie gardens and is making normal gardening chores impossible to accomplish. While the rain has been beneficial in many ways....like refilling the aquifers after the 2005-2006 drought and, of course, refilling ponds and causing trees, shrubs, groundcovers, etc. to grow like crazy.....it has been harmful in others, including the flooding of agricultural fields, loss of crops, widespread fungal and bacterial disease, etc. etc. After the big wildfires of '05-'06, we all swore we wouldn't whine about too much rain ever again, but we've already had as much rain here in Love County as what we get in an average year (over 30" and more rain is falling right now), and the Red River is flooding. Vickie, I had never heard of the Rainbow people. How fascinating that some hippies are still around. When I was a child in the 1960s, we had hippies living in a local park near our house in Fort Worth. They were very peaceable and quiet, but law enforcement ran them off....saying public parks were not living places. And, I didn't know you had bears....but I haven't visited this forum in a long time. I am not terribly afraid of wildlife (we have panthers and mountain lions pass through our property occasionally and they DO scare me a bit, especially when they roar, growl or snarl at me) but I think I would lose it if I ever walked outside and saw a bear! In southern Oklahoma the plums and peaches have been wonderful, having barely squeaked by and survived the late freezes. The further north you go in Oklahoma, the greater the losses of fruit to those same late freezes in April. A lot of gardeners are having trouble with their tomato plants. Too much rain is waterlogging roots, even in normally well-drained soil, foliar diseases are much more prevalent than usual, and the darned green tomatoes just won't ripen for many people due to the constant clouds and a lack of sunshine all this growing season. My tomatoes are doing better than most, but I am very far south and may have had a bit more sun than most. Ceresone, I hope you get the rain you are praying for. Your garden sounds terrific, though, in spite of all the weather and wildlife. It was a great onion year here for us since they like all the moisture. Dawn...See MoreDisappointed with my LED recessed lights ... what now?
Comments (48)Light sources have a spectrum. In some cases it is narrow, and in others wider. The sun, for example, emits through the entire visual spectral band, as well as UV and IR. tungsten and tungsten halogen are hot emitters with various spectral bands generally characterized by their apparent color temperature. The sun's spectrum is close to that of a 6000K (degrees kelvin) black body, whereas tungsten lights may be 2700K and tungsten halogens up to 3300K. The latter color temperatures are considered lower than the sun color temperatures, but are called warmer. Arc lamps that are spectrally broad may fall into the same color temperature range as the sun, but depending on line structure from the gasses used and the pressure that they are running at, may appear redder or bluer than the sun. Note that as these thermal sources are turned down with a dimmer, they become redder (warmer color) even though they are getting colder, physically. Now, getting to light emitting diodes, there are two types that I'm aware of being used for illumination (excluding variants). One type emits mainly at a single color, but because they are not true laser sources, this color band may be somewhat wide. Combinations of these sources may be used to try to match the tristimulus diagram of human eye response and look like a black body emitter at some color temperature. High color temperatures are considered colder because they have more blue; lower temperatures are considered warmer because they have more red. Note that this is referring to color temperature, and not LED physical temperature. The Cree LR4s had a scheme for re-balancing the color temperature as the LEDs aged. As I recall they were available in two different color temperatures for different applications. A clothing store, for example, might want a higher (colder) color temperature for interior illumination, whereas a kitchen might prefer something warmer (lower color temperature). (No one should be embarrassed if confused by this contradictory nomenclature.) Cree provided me a (proprietary) spectral chart that showed that their color spectrum was broad, but not particularly close to matching a black body spectral diagram. To avoid any post construction complaints I bought a single lamp and tested it against my soapstone and granite to ensure that the green highlights in each were being properly illuminated to provide a pleasing color balance when illuminated with the warmer LR4 option. The second type of LED source uses a deep blue or UV LED (or array of LEDs) to illuminate a phosphor or a combination of phosphors intended to emit a particular "whitish" color temperature. These phosphors tend to look yellow when viewed with the lamp off. By choosing the phosphor chemistry, and possibly over coating with filters, different color temperature sources are created. The goal is to know what color temperature one wants before specifying the particular lights to be used. If you want a tungsten halogen color temperature, specify 3200K - 3300K. For regular tungsten, 2700K - 2800K is good. Higher values toward 4000K will be bluer and more blue sky matching. As an aside, LG was able to cut the cost of organic LED (OLED) TVs by using all white (phosphor) blue-emitting OLEDs with red/green*/blue filters rather than the more difficult to manufacture sets of red/green/blue single color LEDs. kas *maybe yellow, I'm to lazy to go look...See MoreWhere to Start
Comments (18)Is your business something that you can sell? Have you considered talking to a business broker about that? It would take some work to find and vet a good one, but it might be in your interest. Let me also tell you everything I know (I am not a professional, I hasten to say) about handling depression on your own. If you are having thoughts that scare you, then the hell with the cost...go to your county health clinic, or call mental health professionals until you can find one who will at least give you an initial consult at a price you can afford. If this is hard, ask a friend or your husband to sit with you while you make the calls, and remind you that you are not being personally rejected by those who won't. But if you judge that you have the kind of low grade depression that comes from grief over a life left behind, try these things. Don't drink any alcohol for a month. I am a light social drinker, and if I do more than have a glass or two of wine on the weekends, it causes me to sink. Try to stay away from sugar. The up and down in your blood sugar is hard on your energy, and whatever is hard on your energy is hard on your spirit. Take the time to get 30 minutes of vigorous exercise every morning. Brisk walking is perfect. If you aren't in shape for that, work up to it with ten minutes, and add five every couple of days. Go to bed earlier so you can get up earlier and do it before you start your work day. In a week or two, you will get the time back in energy and lightness of heart...exercise releases endorphins, and you need them. Get plenty of sleep. Choose a bedtime, and keep it holy. A glass of milk or a cup of chamomile tea, and a little light reading at bedtime helps. If you wake up anxious, get up, turn on a light (somewhere else if it disturbs your husband), sit somewhere comfortable, and do some simple deep breathing to relax. Then go back to bed and imagine something lovely, like a mountain top or a lovely beach...birdsong, surf...whatever makes you happy. You will get better at concentrating the more you do it. Keep yourself really clean, and attend to your grooming. I know this sounds odd, but don't let yourself slob about. Your own self should come first in the cleaning and organizing, every day. Try to let go of any anger you are feeling about what is happening in your life. Even if you are entitled to it, it takes away the tools you need to maintain yourself. An old friend who is a recovering alcoholic told me about something they say in AA, and I thought it was really good for all of us...think "HALT" - don't let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. All of these things will help you until you can find the solutions you need to the underlying trouble you are having. And know that we are all pulling for you. Keep in touch here, and let us help you keep your spirits up....See MoreCarrara, not Carrera
Comments (78)Gosh, I'm just a lurker on this forum but I've got to chime in on this conversation! My pet peeve is the misuse of literally. Literally means that something actually, truly, in fact occurred. So people saying things like "I was so angry my head literally exploded" always makes me wonder 1) who had to clean up that unfortunate mess and 2) how the speaker managed to either patch that shattered head together or procure a new one that looks completely normal. I'm a Southerner myself and I know people who put their clothes in a chester drawers. They try to avoid running over porky-pines. And they certainly dread nuc-uh-lar warfare (personally I've always cynically assumed Bush is attempting to talk Texan when he uses that phrase). And while I"m here the 'needs washed/painted' phrasing grates on me like no other mis-locution. It gives me the instant impression of someone too lazy to complete a sentence at best or totally ignorant of how to speak correct English at worst....See More
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