Brandy Boy Contest -2015 (4)
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Comments (8)Julie, I am sorry you won't be able to attend the swap, and I do hope you maybe just happen to stumble across a Brandy Boy somewhere. I'm sorry to hear you work for a CEO who makes such "brilliant" (or not-so-brilliant) decisions. Those evening students should be mad that no one is there to assist them. Maybe if you asked Lisa Merrell to add it, she'd grow a few next year. (Because of the high cost of the seed though, i wouldn't blame her if she declined to grow it.) She does have a handful of hybrids on her grow list I think. Have you tried Randy's Brandy from The Tomatoman's Daughter? I haven't grown it, but many who have grown it speak very highly of it. I love the original Brandywine but it only produces a fairly large crop for me about 1 year in 10, so I finally have decided not to grow it any more. Having Brandy Boy, which is very close in flavor most years, made that decision easier. Dawn...See MoreBurpee's Brandy Boy Tomatoes
Comments (19)I don't ever remember a year like this one where I have planted cool season crops one week, and started planting summer crops the next. LOL Robert, I have lived a lot of places also and when I read your post, I didn't see anything that upset me. I have visited the 'rude' places of the world, and Okies are not normally like that. We are just much more laid-back and less intense than in a lot of places I have been....unless your talking football or politics. LOL Actually, I don't even remember how my mother got her tomato plants when I was a child growing up in southern Oklahoma, but I would imagine that they were bought on the sidewalk in front of the feed store. I can remember that spring time always meant that you would see those wooden crates of onions, and containers of transplants sitting at an angle so you could see into the box when you drove down the street. Later in life, I remember that they went to a store that was in a part of the next town (Ardmore) that we never went to for any other reason, but at gardening time you had to go get the bulk seeds and some plants from that store. Our climate in the NE part of the state does not get really hot so fast most years, but does get hot. I know several people who try to get their first ripe regular size tomato by the 4th of July, and others who don't put them in the ground until May. One year a man told my DH that it was time to put the tomatoes in the garden, and we had already had 3 ripe ones that week. I had a few in WOW's and we had the first ones on the 3rd of June, but I got lucky that year. Our lowest temp this month has been 34 which is also the lowest recorded temp for the stations that I looked at in the southernmost parts of Oklahoma. Sometimes they get storms that never hit us. You would think from our northern location that we would be cold much later in the spring, and much earlier in the winter, but it doesn't always happen that way. We do normally have a lot more rain tho. I met Melissa at Braum's parking lot yesterday, and I ran in and bought breakfast while I was waiting for her. As soon as I walked in, I heard a man say, "Got you garden in yet?". I thought he was talking to me, but he was talking to the man behind me. Later the conversation will begin with, "How's your garden doing?", then "Had any tomatoes yet?" It sure becomes the topic of conversation for the old timers around here. (of course, I'm not one of the 'old timers'). LOL...See MoreBrandy Boy
Comments (20)Kenny: I'm not the tomatovator (like that name!) but you can click on the link below that will take you to tomatofest, where they list Crnkovic Ygoslavian. **** At this point I don't think I'd get seeds for that variety from Tomatofest. Earlier this year someone pointed to the fact that Gary was equating Crnkovic Yugoslavian and Yasha Yugoslavian in his blub. While seeds for both I originally got from Yasha Crnkovic, a former colleage, they are quite different. For starters Yasha Yugoslavian is a heart and Crnkovic Yugoslavian is not. So I don't think he really knows which one he's selling and I offered to send him seeds of both and he graciously accepted, and he was to grow them out this season. Sandhill Preservation also lists Crnkovic Yugoslavian and I'm the source of seeds to them. And TGS also lists it and at this point I can't remember if I'm the seed source there, but I think so, b'c over the years I've sent many to Linda at TGS. She keeps the lists, I don't. LOL Carolyn...See MoreTrustee 4 wrg-ful death lawsuit of H- $ split contested by SS's m
Comments (2)I guess I maybe shared that much because I wanted to paint the entire picture. I wouldn't bring up how she treated him (in court), because I know no one will care. However since this is a wrongful death lawsuit and not anything to do with an estate (he didn't have one), the attorney's of a very large lawfirm told me that I will have to prove my husband's relationship to myself, our son and the other son. This is when it was believed to be a muti million dollar lawsuit and I am very practical and don't believe anything until I see it but sadly the entire family and the stepmom were spending the money before it is even here. I had to have conversations with his family about RV's they thought they would be able to buy and that my H supposedly promised them. I was around since he was 15 and it was a different thing he would say he would buy "if I ever become a millionaire". That was in his youth or when we were up late at night and just daydreaming of winning the lottery and what we'd do for people. I will not paint her in any bad light but I don't know what to do if she paints it in a way as if he was something wonderful yet I have tons of emails proving otherwise. I'm not sure why my lawyer ever said that those emails I will want to bring, but this was again back when it may be millions. The facts are that in 2006 I became gravely ill and have since had 10 surgeries that were huge. I am now on full disability and am not the big money earner I was from 2000-2006. 2007 changed everything for me and I became a person who has nurse visits and lives on tube feedings and my H who did everything has been replaced by at least 5 pepole. I guess that is something they thought was important, that he was my primary caregiver, set up my feedings, came home every afternoon during lunch to get my meds put into me via a tube, etc. They said that my need to rely on him would be of benefit, when/if it went to how $$ would be split up. That came from the atty but back then I tried not to think of any of this yet it's now here and I'm seeking guidance. I don't know that there's any standard as to how a lawsuit is split and since there's so many various factors. I want the children to get an equal amount. I don't want to show any favortism to my son, it should be equal and I love my ss still, she just won't let him around. When we got married my H was self employed and was in arrears due to his young ignorance of how to manage $$ and the courts, even down to never asking for a set visitation schedule which came back to bite him later. He didn't have anything then but knowing him as long as I did, I knew he just needed the help to tap into his gifts and get a good career. He did so well they wanted him to be a teacher but that's just how it was with him even since h/s. He was truly gifted with many talents but didn't have much direction. I shouldn't have brought up what I paid off, I was trying to be open to share the whole story b/c I read others on here where there was too much left out. A will wouldn't help him because he died w/o an estate but mainly b/c this is a lawsuit due to a tragic death. Where I got my direction from was the atty who thought a wife who also relied on her H for caregiving needs, as well as the financial loss from now until retirement and after, 50% sounded fair to him. The kids, well actually his first son got child support and my H was very, very good after he got past that intial hump and was paying $540/mo and now the son gets over $1300 and my son also gets the same amount because of Social Security. I don't get his SS because I get SSD, so the kids split their dads full SS. I'm really trying to be fair yet I share my worries of what to do or how to act if I am hearing how wonderful he was. Drama, I agree and I don't know if I sit there or what to do, b/c of course there is a long history of bad stuff and it was directed one way. My H- was really good at just ignoring and waiting for that side of her to cool off but the things that she got mad over was like a memorial service we were going to, 2 wks prior to my H's death and she didn't want her son going since he can't handle death. The week of the funeral I was being yelled at b/c I didn't have my ss carrying the casket of his dad and had him down as an honorary pallbearer. 2 wks earlier he can't handle a memorial service and now I'm to even think that he can handle carrying the casket of his dad? I never dreamed that I'd be dealing with that but there was much, much more that went on for almost 2 years post death. I was getting hit all the time, even told I removed Life Support too soon, etc. I dealt w/ alot of painful things said and done during that time. So not to repeat but I do know this is very long and I try to touch on the points to show how things went. We got a certain amount of $$ that is being contested by my ss's mom. I was told that no judge would think 50% to a wife and 50% to kids, split, is unfair esp. w/ the fact of how many people it's taken to fill in the gap of my deceased H and the care he gave me. I didn't know what to do, what to ask for, or anything, I just took the advice of the atty who then seemed to change with each person he spoke with afterward. Finally he got the rest of the family to see that this is not enough money for the type of death and loss and w/ that, he found it best to just go to the wife and kids. What is being contested is the first 50% to me and of course the children getting and splitting equally the other 50%. I have a son to care for too, for 9 years longer and that is going to come from my portion of course. The children I want to have theirs put into an acct. where 1st access is 21 (so grants for college don't get affected by access to money at 18). As for me, I bring up my past only b/c it's something I have to deal with. After the death, everyone came up to me saying that what he couldn't provide in life(from the beginning when I paid off a lot of his debts to the end), will now come back in this lawsuit. I never took that seriously b/c why would I count on something not here? Secretly I was excited only by the fact that if it were big, how that would be fun to split up amongst the family since I'm the trustee but I don't get that chance to do that now. I just never thought I'd be going to court over this. I went with what the atty said and it's being contested. I just hope I'm well enough to go b/c I am in a hospital 1-2 times or sometimes weeks every month or so. Hope this made more sense. I know I give lots of info but I try to make it so the whole story is told. Hopefully I don't sound like a greedy stepmom, that is the farthest thing from the truth. But I need to look out for us too, b/c I can never provide ins. for us if I needed to. I can never get private ins., I'd be in a high risk pool. Thanks for reading this whole thing....See Moredaniel_nyc
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