Reading in March 2020
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NEWBIE SEED PROJECT MARCH 2020 -- FLOWERS ONLY
Comments (2)Technical Help for Newbies PLEASE GO TO YOUR EDIT PROFILE PAGE AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS LISTED CORRECTLY. Then go to ADVANCED SETTINGS (<<--click here) (located under “Account” on the left side of the “edit profile” page or at- https://www.houzz.com/settingsAdvanced ) Scroll down to "Privacy settings" and select the option of “ALLOW ANYONE TO MESSAGE ME” under "Who can message me". click on "UPDATE" when you are done to store your settings. ========================================== To add your growing zone: Go to ADVANCED SETTINGS Look for - Climate Zone for Garden Forums - and fill in your zone. ====================================================== To make/edit your wants list: Go to ADVANCED SETTINGS -Then click on the box under “My GardenWeb Trading List” -Type/paste in your seeds in a vertical list (much easier to read than a horizontal list with commas between). ========================================================== To access these settings: if you are currently logged in, click on your name anywhere on the site, or the “Your Houzz” button at the top right of any page. Then go to ===> Edit Profile ===> Advanced Settings (located under “Account”on the left) also, this page can be accessed by going directly to the web address - https://www.houzz.com/settingsAdvanced this is the page where you can edit your preferences, allow people to email you, list your growing zone, and fill in your have/ want lists. (THANKS LEILA for putting this together!)...See MoreWhat are we reading in March 2020?
Comments (121)I inhaled the latest Joe Pickett novelwhich was a pretty good installment. The protagonist is a Wyoming game warden who manages to get embroiled in all kinds of murder and mayhem. Since this is the 20th installment the cast of characters is familiar and I have to say these series books are definitely reading comfort food during this stressful time. I also just finished All That You Leave Behind by Erin Lee Carr. This quote from the Amazon reviews expresses exactly how I felt about this one: This is a challenging book to comment on, because I totally didn't like Erin Carr (but "liking" is not a requirement for a memoir, and actually can be a detriment), didn't especially like the affected way of including direct emails because it felt dated already, and was generally put off by a lot of Carr's traits - but I was totally connected to it the whole way through and it never flagged and never struck me as anything less than honest. This book - and basically Erin Lee Carr's career - is 100 percent nepotism-driven. This book's blurbs from her father's professional acquaintances are more evidence that if you're born into connection, you're going to get a break that 99.9 percent of the world will never see. I thought her father David Carr's book The Night of the Gun was remarkable, and I always enjoyed his NYT pieces. So in a way, I am guilty of feeding into what clearly was her life pattern of pretty much riding on dad's coattails. I downloaded The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo which was recommended by my daughter. We both read Daisy Jones and the Six, and since I loved that book (she was meh) she suggested this one by the same author; she says it is a much better read so we shall see....See MoreMarch 2020 Blooms
Comments (22)We're back in L.A. after 10 days in Palm Springs/Cathedral City, and we're going back to Cathedral City tomorrow for two months. Anyway, here are some photos of my front yard, taken today.I have more aloes blooming, but they are almost bloomed out. Please excuse the weeds - it rained while we were gone, and I haven't had time to pull them up. It looks like I am going to miss epiphyllum season this year in L.A. 😭, but I'll be much happier in Cathedral City😎 during this crisis....See MoreIs It Hot Enough For You: March 25, 2020
Comments (12)Marleigh, I read that book every time we have a dry, hot summer, which generally is pretty common in my area, to remind myself that whatever drought we are having in any given year is not nearly as bad as what they went through in the Dust Bowl years. I truly love that book. I felt so much more connected to our history after I read it. My dad was a Dust Bowl baby, having been born to a poor, white, sharecropper family in 1919 in Texas just across the Red River from the western corner of the county where I live now in OK. As a child, all the kids in his family quit school after 2nd or 3rd grade in order to help their dad try to raise enough crops to feed the family. They never had a cash crop to sell because times were so hard and the rain so scarce. He didn't talk much about the hard times they endured, but opened up and spoke a little more about it after all of us kids were adults with kids of our own. In the few photos they have from the 1920s and 1930s, everyone in his family was as thin as a skeleton and looked like they barely had enough to eat to stay alive. My grandmother and aunts can and did preserve anything/everything they could (even stuff we consider weeds) because whatever meager food supplies they grew often ran out in the winter time. Back then, every jar of food in the root cellar truly mattered. A neighbor of ours who grew up on the property that abuts our western fence line used to tell me stories her mother told her about life right here in our neighborhood during the Dust Bowl, and it was horrifying what the people went through. One of the old timers here told me often about what great soil our property used to have before the Dust Bowl took it all away. I guess that is why we have such horrid red clay---it is the subsoil that was left after all the good sandy loam flew away. Jennifer, That was too hot!!!! Our weather behaved pretty well after overachieving the day before---we only went to 90 degrees. A lot of plants wilted in the heat and sunlight, but perked off as the sun went down and the heat faded. We still awoke this morning to an overnight low that was lower than our usual high temperature for this date. dbarron, I'm allergic to spring too. It is horrible. I'll be glad when allergy season is over, but for me that won't be for a very long time yet. Everything is pollinating like mad now. I'm glad you survived the trip. Here's the map showing maximum temperatures yesterday: Yesterday's Maximum Record Temperature at Mesonet Stations Note that it hit 100 degrees in Hollis. That might not even be the earliest that Hollis has hit 100 because they often have these early hot days, but I bet folks weren't happy to see those triple digits. Dawn...See Moresheri_z6
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