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Almost February Week 1 but it's actually still January

2 years ago

Friday I set up my seed-shelf. Someone gave me some free shelves... but only 7 posts (the top half, one is missing) and none of the little black clips. I found the correct size I needed on Amazon, and could fit that lower half of the shelf under what I used last year. Yipeee. :)

Went to a lecture/presentation on the Jefferson highway, of which I knew nothing prior to. It was at the Honeyfield battleground. Saw they caught me in a picture on their facebook page. I invited my friend Esther (non gardening, but cycling friend) and never take pictures when she is along, as she doesn't want to be on FB at all.

She is sitting to the right of me in the picture.

Danny, for heavens sake, get WELL!

Moni

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dbarron

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Hey, I wandered outside to go to the mailbox and this caught my eye from across the yard. I haven't been out much so it was a total surprise.

I LOVE crocus...one of my favorite genuses.

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Rick bumped old Dawn posts up for our edification.
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Farmgardenerok--Pinetree. Aspabroc

Yes, Amy--great reading them all.
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Nancy, I am already beat! Another roughly day and a half of all this activity and I might be dead, but we are having fun. It is good training for the upcoming planting season. Kim, I hope the meeting with the landlady isn't about her having different plans for your house. Enjoy your time with the little man. Jennifer, His name is Frankie and we've been trying for about three years to tame his feral side well enough that we can pick him up, touch him, pet him or exert any sort of control over him. Some feral cats never can acclimate to more domestic behavior, but we are winning him over with canned food. He still looks pretty wild and is incredibly lean and muscular as are many feral to semi-feral cats, but we were able to get him into a crate and take him to be neutered (and to get his shots). He was mad at us yesterday but also at the same time relieved to be back here and no longer at the vet's office, but not so mad he wouldn't let us feed him and pet him. A lot of people say feral cats cannot be tamed, but they can. Sometimes it takes a few years to do it though, and often it is a very slow process where you're forever taking one step forward and two steps back. He and Lucky seem to know each other from their feral journeys. Lucky is fully domesticated now, and I think there is hope for Frankie to someday be as calm and gentle as she is now. Kim, I'm sorry you're ill and hope you recover quickly. Your seeds and planner are a sign, I think, that you'll be gardening somewhere. Bon, The good thing about the cold weather here is that it usually passes through fairly quickly, as least compared to many other states. I hope y'all are toasty warm again soon....without the need for the wood-burning stove to provide that warmth. I think it stays cold here for two more days and the warming trend starts around Monday. If that has changed, I don't want to know it because I'm just hanging on and waiting for the warm weather to come back. Jennifer, Great job, Finbar! He's doing his job as far as he is concerned, and I think dbarron's ID as a shrew is the right one. You have something I've never seen here. I'm not saying we might not have shrews around, just that of all the god-forsaken-wild-things that ours cats and dogs have killed and brought home, there's never been a shrew among them. Nancy, This does feel like a more normal winter although we still haven't been nearly as consistently cold as we were our first few years here. Everything seemed to change around 2005 and since then winters just have gotten warmer and warmer, except for 2010-2011 which was the last really persistently cold winter that I can remember. Rebecca, They really expected more snow and ice flurries in north and central Texas than they received in general, but it isn't because the clouds weren't trying. A lot of snow and ice were falling from the upper levels of the atmosphere but in the very low dewpoints closer to the surface level, the precipitation was evaporating before it could reach the ground. Our dewpoint here was only 12 so I'm not surprised that adjacent areas of north Texas were the same. It was odd to see the Winter Weather Advisory covering the area south of the D-FW metroplex yesterday, but I bet everyone in the DFW area is glad the precip missed them. Nancy, I doubt DFW gets much warmer than we will today, but I think they usually warm up a day earlier than us, so if we are expecting the warmup on Monday, they may get it beginning Sunday. So much flu is running rampant down there now that we are carefully avoiding going south this weekend. Of course, flu is running rampant to our immediate north, so we aren't going far from home at all since Love County seems to have, so far, avoided the widespread flu and strep that now have closed down 8 school districts in the Texoma region. I cannot believe how cold it has been the last couple of days. We are up to 38 degrees and it isn't even noon yet, but I don't think we're expected to get much warmer than what we are right now. The 4 year old is lobbying to go to the playground in Gainesville, but I think it is still too cold for that. Maybe tomorrow will be a touch warmer. Or maybe the sun will come out. Dawn
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Moni, Tim and I think the cedar trees started pollinating here about 4-6 weeks ago, which of course is so much earlier than usual, so maybe what I should have said is that they might be peaking now. There is a property next to us that has a solid couple of acres of them just about as thick as grass, and another that has probably 45 to 60 acres of them not quite as thick. While many of us try to cut them down and keep them to a minimum, many others just let them run wild and reseed all over, so we have a shocking number of cedar trees around here. I'd been trying to stay away from taking allergy medicine, but it is time to take it daily again. Amy, I know! I was so happy to be over the flu and feeling good again, and then here come the allergy symptoms after just a few days of feeling really good again. I even told Tim that it felt like cedar season had begun, but surely not....and I believe that was in late November. 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Aurora had a cough for a couple of days, but it lasted no time at all, and Lillie hasn't been sick at all. Perhaps they are just old enough that they aren't bringing us every virus they encounter any more. I do remember what it is like with infants and toddlers who seem to have a runny nose more often than not at this time of the year. I did see that meme about seed buying and seed planting and it made me laugh out loud. The seed buying....that is the dream, right? The seed planting, though, that is the actual reality. Some gardeners live more in the dream and others live more in the reality, and most of us have some sort of combination of both the dream and the reality. I have really, really cut back on the seed buying, but still have a huge accumulation of tomato seeds from past years. With everything else, from veggies to herbs to flowers, I've stopped buying more than I can plant, and am trying harder to plant all the ones I buy. So, at least I'm partially reining in the seed madness. This is the first year I haven't ordered a single veggie or tomato seed, and most of the flowers I ordered were wildflower seeds. It feels odd to not have seed deliveries flooding in. Because of the landscaping projects, I suspect I'll be buying more plants than seeds this year, which is a big change. Kim, I'm glad you're getting all settled in and ready to have a big garden again. I know how much you've missed having that garden. Jennifer, Last year we bought the orange storage tubs for all the autumn, Halloween and Thanksgiving décor and I am so glad we did. It was so easy to spot them and pull them out immediately when it was time for autumn decorating and I was thrilled with not having to figure out which tub in the attic had which stuff in it. So, this year, we bit the bullet and invested in the red ones for the Christmas décor. I am so excited to have them, and they immediately made me feel more organized. We are going to recycle the previously used gray storage tubs to the garage to store Tim's junk. Did it hurt to go out and buy all these red storage tubs right after Christmas at full price? Of course it did, and the miser who lives inside my head kept telling me to wait another 2 or 3 weeks and they'd be on clearance, but I couldn't do it. I wanted the Christmas stuff taken down and put away promptly. I do consider them a worthwhile investment because they'll keep us organized and save time and frustration each year when it is time to bring out the holiday decorations. We even moved the 2 artificial Christmas trees from their old, torn, tattered and taped up original cardboard boxes to the red plastic tubs. I believe overall it will simplify our lives and decorating a lot. Rebecca, I'll see if Chris and Jana want to come to the Spring Fling. They both usually work on weekends though, so it is the luck of the draw, schedule-wise. 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We took him 6 or 8 of them, he filled them up with soil-less mix, packed in the bulbs close together since the tubs were just their temporary home, and the lilies and daylilies have been happily growing in them ever since. Now he is ready this month to move all those to the planting beds he created in his front yard this week. I believe that this week he planted his carefully selected mix of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, anemone, guinea hen flower, red fritillaria, and whatever else he ordered. Back to the lilies...Once he knew he could temporarily plant them in the molasses feed tubs, he went back and ordered more lilies and more daylilies on sale all summer long, so now he has amassed an army of lily and daylily bulbs, ready to move to the garden whenever he has time to transplant them. I'm not even sure he has room for all of them, much less anything else. It is possible that Chris is a gardening maniac who wants to plant it all, and we didn't even realize that before he bought the house. They have specific rose varieties picked to plant this spring, etc. They really did their planning last spring while it was raining every day, and that carried over into summer along with all the bulb purchases, and then this week they built and planted the first two beds. He said they've been stopping traffic because everyone in their neighborhood wants to see what they are doing to replace all the lawn grass they've torn out. Moni, To label our tubs, I tape clear plastic page protectors to them. Then, we can slide a sheet of paper inside the page protector on each tub and, if the contents change, we slide out that sheet of paper and slide in the new one. I write on the sheets of paper with black permanent markers. I'm the most organized I've ever been, but it has taken me 60 years to get to this point. Now, if only we could apply all the great household organization techniques to Tim's garage/shop, where junk just piles up. When we were younger, he knew where everything was from memory. It would amaze his friends. Some friend would stop by and say "do you have a whatever..." and he could go straight to a location and get it in the blink of an eye. Now he stands there and looks around and says "it is in here somewhere". Then he has to dig and paw through everything to find it. So, just like last year, cleaning out/cleaning up/reorganizing that building is on our To Do list, and I hope we have more success with it in 2020 than we did in 2019. Larry, I hate that the mud is slowing you down. It is the same here...mud everywhere. I hope you and Madge recover quickly from the bug you have. I'm hoping the mud dried up before spring. We cannot rent a sod cutter and remove all the Bermuda grass until our clay dries out more. Right now it is so wet that I fear the sod cutter would bog down in the wet soil and get stuck. It is hard to have just the right conditions for cutting sod....you need the soil a bit moist, and certainly not rock hard like it is in the summer, but you don't need it wet and soupy like it is right now. I look at all the mud and puddles and just roll my eyes because I'm so tired of looking at all of it. We need to get Elvis to come spread a new load of gravel on the driveway, but it is in the same boat---probably too wet to be workable at this point, so we need it a bit drier so his equipment doesn't bog down in the mud. The good news is there is no rain in our local forecast until at least next Thursday, but the bad news is that the ground dries up so slowly in the lower temperatures and less intense sunlight in the winter. Jennifer, I have no idea what lights we have because Tim chose them while I was elsewhere in the store doing something else, but I know he bought LEDs and they are nice and bright, but the lights themselves stay cooler than the other ones we had before and don't build up a lot of heat, and you can put more strings of them together since they use less energy. It is good to see your little Brussels Sprouts. Yay! I've been working on my tomato grow list and it is an unbearable form of torture to keep chopping it down smaller and smaller. I was aiming for only 6-8 varieties since they are going to be grown in containers, but I think that when I'm done with it, it will be closer to 12 varieties. There's just no way to make it any smaller if you factor in needing a couple of cherry types, (I could do only one cherry tomato plant, but how can you choose between SunGold and Black Cherry?), some blacks/purples, some pinks, some reds, at least one orange (Tim's favorite Nebraska Wedding) and a couple of late types for production in late summer and early autumn....then 10-12 varieties is the bare minimum. I think if I can cut the list to 10-12, then I will have done really well when you consider my usual long grow lists. Rotating all the nightshades out of the front garden this year and next as a form of crop rotation means growing no potatoes this year. I don't like growing tomatoes in feed tubs, and there's nowhere else to grow them where voles won't get them. (Voles will go up through the drainage holes in the feed tubs, but only for potatoes....not for tomatoes or peppers.) I am feeling iffy about using the back garden at all with all the other stuff we have going on because, realistically speaking, there's only so many hours in the day for planting and maintenance,, so there likely won't be many other veggies. Probably onions, cucumbers, beans and southern peas, maybe all squeezed into one raised bed in the front garden, with all the surrounding beds filled with flowers. That means that onions will be the only cool-season veggie, and I am okay with that. Oh, maybe kale and lettuce. See there....cutting back is impossibly hard. Anyhow, I'm going to finish my tomato grow list and post it in the next few minutes. I've been working on it all week. I went through the seed box, pulled out all the packets of tomato seed that I wanted to plant, then began editing that big pile down to an ever-increasingly smaller pile. I piled up the seed packets in groups by color, then had to choose our favorites from each color, and while doing that, I tried to take into consideration which ones produce early, mid-season and late, as well as which ones' flavor we absolutely, positively must have this year. Ultimately I put back tons of seed packets into the seed box, and ended up with the ones that made the final cut this morning. It is odd to not plant any paste tomatoes, but not planting them is essential if I am to have the year off from canning (still gonna make pickles though) so I can focus on the landscaping projects. If I had more self-discipline and didn't love all the various types of tomato flavor so much, I probably could cut the current tomato grow list in half, but I lack that self-discipline and enjoy the wide variety of flavors too much to do another round of cutting. 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dbarron, The time is flying by, but I think it is because I'm keeping myself busy with other projects since gardening is a dud so far. Tim and I should put all these long-standing water puddles to use and open a fish hatchery, because we're never going to dry up ever again. We have more rain in our forecast for tonight, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. After that, we are supposed to have a few days with no rain. We'll see if that happens. Our soil is squishy and squishy is not good. The only flowers we have blooming here are wildflowers, but they are early. The little Spring Beauty flowers have been in bloom (at least on the occasional sunny day or sunny portion of a day) for about a week, so they are slightly behind the henbit and about six weeks or so later than the dandelions. Normally the Spring Beauties do not bloom this early, but once we had that 83-degree day last week, all the plants here declared that it is Spring and they are rushing headlong into blooming....probably too early and undoubtedly they will suffer from later cold weather. We walk past a big Burford Holly each time we walk in or out of the mudroom's exterior doorway. I only have to take a few steps south of the door to look at that holly up close, and so I did...and there's tiny flower buds all over the stems. They aren't nearly big enough to bloom yet, but their presence this early is a bit shocking. I want to knock them upside the head and remind them it is only early February, but they probably wouldn't listen. Larry, You have a lot going on in the garden considering how wet it has been. We have winter grass (poa annua) dying now, leaving bare patches where the dormant Bermuda grass is visible, because the poa annua cannot handle all the standing water. I wish the Bermuda grass would do the same, but it won't. Nancy, All the plants are so confused, and it alarms me. Most years when we get the really early blooms combined with the erratic temperatures, we get enough cold later on to freeze back the plants that have bloomed really early. It is different when we have a consistently warm winter....the early bloomers sometimes get away with it, but not in the yo-yo winters. Just in the last week our temperatures have gone from the low 80s here to the low 20s and back up into the low 60s. Most nights have been pretty darn cold, in the 20s, and with frost, so it doesn't matter if you have a lovely 60-degree afternoon as you're still likely to have a 20-something degree morning. It drives me crazy, and I'm guessing the plants don't love it either. I noticed poppy plants popping up in the front wildflower meadow. They must have been in the wildflower seed mix I sowed back in November...or October....or whenever it was. Normally the poppies don't pop up here until late March or early April, so it is odd to see them sprouting in early February. Everything is odd this year. I still have no veggie seeds sown indoors. Maybe Monday. I won't get it done any earlier because the grandkids are here and they are keeping me busy. I'm totally not in the mood to grow veggies this year---I wanted to focus almost 100% on renovating the landscape and just let the front veggie garden be mostly all wildflowers, but the rain is ruining those plans. You cannot rent a sod cutter and cut up remove sod that has saturated soil (and standing water), so we cannot start on that most important part of redoing the landscape and it is making me crazy. I'm wondering if it will stay too wet all Spring to work on the landscape. That really would drive me crazy. I may have to revise my plans and postpone the landscaping (and I am not happy about that prospect) until we dry out this summer, and just plant more veggies than intended in order to keep myself busy and out of trouble. I hate this rainy year already. Larry, I am planting tomatoes and peppers in containers this year, and will fill the bottom half of the containers with old half-rotted wood, chopped/shredded autumn leaves, twigs and compost....hügelkultur style. I'll then fill the top half of the containers with a good soil-less mix. I've been "consulting" with our son on his gardening all week...starting seeds, building raised beds, etc. I even picked up some supplies for him today while I was out grocery shopping because he was at work. It is fun watching him getting heavily into gardening. They have a new worm bin and are really getting into vermicomposting so the girls can learn how that works. He knows more than he thinks he knows because he always helped me with the garden when he was a kid, right up until the time he got his driver's license and decided he had better stuff to do. I think he fears he has forgotten everything he ever knew about gardening, but I can tell that he has not. The apple does not fall far from the tree.... It is late, I am awake and everyone else is asleep, so I'm going to go start next week's thread before I go to bed myself. Dawn
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jlhart76
2 years ago
Nothing exciting as far as tractor stories, other than Cliff's breaking it in by clearing the field & moving a huge pile of rotted wood out from under an evergreen. I have a load of railroad ties coming so I can start on my beds the next time we have decent weather. Signed up for chipdrop, so maybe I'll get a load quickly. First time it took me a year to get a load, second time it took 24 hours.
hazelinok
2 years ago
Amy (and Nancy), I just ordered Persian cucumbers from Renee's Garden. (Amy, you actually recommended Renee's to a person at the FB group.) They are called Green Fingers. I'm really looking forward to trying them this year.

I ordered Persian cukes from Amazon last year and never got them. I was inspired by a young woman in the FB group last year. Her name is Phuong Dao. She has done some pretty amazing things. ANYWAY, I'm really excited to try these.
dbarron
2 years ago
Well, I had a rough day yesterday. I dislocated a rib while coughing yesterday morning. I just knew it hurt when I coughed, so bad that I went to bed at 4 pm (and stayed) hoping to ease it. While flopping around in bed about midnight, I released it (felt it and knew what it was). Oh my, I hope that doesn't become a common occurrence. The things you learn as you grow older.
Kim Reiss
2 years ago
Jennifer I have several types of Persian and gherkins from SHPC. I didn’t get any cukes last year but I will grow under tunnel this year and hope to get some. They grow better close to the ground then trellising anyway. My neighbors cat keeps mice in check so it should be ok.

Today is my last day babysitting my granddaughter. I really never knew that my daughter wanted to be stay at home mom so I envisioned being the granny nanny forever.
There are better days ahead but this isn’t one of them.
OklaMoni
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2 years ago
Jen I am crossing my fingers for a fast chipdrop delivery. :)

Danny I hope and wish, your crap leaves you, and you feel closer to a Danny normal soon! did you see my FB post, with "that info"?

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Kim I hope, you can enjoy today without feeling to sad. Without being the granny nanny, I am sure, you can stay involved. Hugs to you!

I'll be out in the back yard working today. Got to make the most of a nice day, before SHTF.

Moni
Nancy Waggoner
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Thank you so much for mentioning them, Jennifer! I ordered them. If anyone else wants some, I'll share, if you don't want to order. Amy? Larry? Anyone? They look great!

Rotting wood? Good stuff, Jen--hugelkultur perhaps?

Farmgardenerok. . . be sure to check out the Dawn posts that Rick bumped. Tons of Dawn stuff.

Danny. Stop it with the cold! Later, everyone.

Also, to Kim. Thanks for the recommendation of the honey butternut little ones! I ordered those, too, along with the Persian cukes at Renee's.
AmyinOwasso/zone 6b
2 years ago
Lost a post.

I didn't like asperbroc when I grew it. But it was a new bed and nothing grew well. Piracicaba I love. Dawn said it got aphids in her garden, didn't find that in mine. It tolerates heat AND cold. There is also sprouting broccoli at kitazawa. I have grown Happy Rich, I want to say that came from Johnny's. Yu choy Sum is similar. It is yu choy before flowering and yu choy sum after.

Oh, Danny, you know I think you have covid. DIL is complaining of awful cough today. On the other hand, pneumonia? What antibiotics are you taking?

Cukes don't grow well for me. I can't remember if I actually planted Persian cucumbers, but I know I didn't get any fruit if I did.

I'm going to loose this post, too, so, stay warm, don't walk on ice. Be safe.
dbarron
2 years ago
I'm much improved today..almost no coughs at all and (related) almost no blowing either.

My pills were done yesterday.

I got out to get ingredients for a super pot of soup for the incoming cold....I did a wal-mart pickup order..while kinda sleepy (that's my excuse at least). I chose the wrong Wal-Mart (we have at least six in town and I really don't know the addresses of the side streets)...so I waited at the wrong one this morning (and they probably wondered why no car in the lot at the right one). We figured it out and I went there (still within time slot), I didn't even know there was a Neighborhood Market there. So, it was an adventures of sorts.
After I got home, I started looking for the split peas that I was sure I bought several days ago (couldn't find them..maybe some year I will..or maybe I didn't buy them). So I headed to the little grocery store less than a mile away, got lentils (out of split peas...maybe that's why I didn't get them?)...anyway that was for lunch. There'll be enough for tomorrow, then it's soup time I'm sure.

I will have to bring some pots in (just a few) like Wed, to avoid the 1F that's in the forecast (I drag them in at 20F, just to be safe). I will also bring in the columbine seed from the fridge that is now in pots sitting on my bbq grill draining.

The weather sounds potentially hideous (1-10 inches of sleet/ice). Who knows...

I have a Wild Ones meeting Thursday (coldest day of course), who knows if I can go 3 miles to get there or if it'll just be best to stay in.
Nancy RW (zone 7)
2 years ago
oooo! I LOVE split pea soup. Garry doesn't. I'll have to fix him something else. He can have a chili dog while I have split pea soup. Yeah, Danny. . . doesn't it just figure, re Wild Ones Meeting. Could be dicey, huh.

I'm so glad you seem to be better today !
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
I have gad a good day. I pulled about half of the turnips in the south garden and cut them into bite size for the livestock. I sit out in the pasture feeding the critters, I think I am creating monsters, while I am feeding them by hand on one side if the rtv, one or two of the others want to climb in from the other side. I want the animals to be tame, but I have got to just dump the feed on the ground and leave.

I brought a bale of old hay from the wildlife garden and sit it in a hay ring. The hay is old and sorry. it is some I had over at the wildlife garden to use for mulch, but it is better than nothing at all. I will try to pick up some more range cubes and mineral tomorrow.

I had planned on tilling some today, but got to helping my neighbor and ran out of time. I did however get his okra stalks brush hogged and pushed up some cedar brush piles
dbarron
2 years ago
I'm preparing for Icemageddon, Winter Storm Landon (they named it). I'm kinda concerned that i really have no alternative heat sources if the electricity is gone. They're really talking it up about how travel could become impossible, etc.
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
Danny it might be time for some kind of generator? I bit the bullet during the Oklahoma ICE storm in 2020 and bought a gasoline generator. But then, with no car, getting gasoline can still be a problem.

Now I also have a solar generator/battery. I keep it charged up. Checked it yesterday it's at 100%. I should go and get some gasoline too... but I hate to store such over the winter.

Moni
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
I need to get out and start my generator. It has sit so long I expect the battery to be dead. I think I have a 5 gal. can of gas, and a full tank on the generator, but that wont do any good if I cant start it. I don't like the fuel to get old like that, but there are so few times that you need a generator.

We have propane also, but there again, a tank last so long that we forget about filling. We only use the propane for cooking, so a tank will last for 2 years or more.

Moni, I am interested in the " solar generator/battery ", just what is it, and how do you use it? How much power can you get from it, and how long will it last?
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
Fire at fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem. I know most of us use little, or no fertilizer, but most of the world is fed be the use of fertilizer. I don't know how this fire is going to affect food productions in the us. I just thought I would throw this out as a " heads up ", just in case anyone may need to adjust their gardening needs.

I Have plenty fertilizer ( I don t use much ) for now. I expect I will need a much larger supply this fall when I start building up my pastures. I plan on plant grass and grain after the lease has expired.
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
Larry, don't take my word for what kind, and how big you need.

I bought on a recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/MAXOAK-Inverter-Generator-Emergency-Multi-use/dp/B082CWRGTR/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=YPNXQNJIU4VK&keywords=bluetti+eb240&qid=1643738187&sprefix=bluetti+eb240%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExNTNZREFONzc1Vks3JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODE2MjI0RFZYQzdDQTlKUTNOJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA3MTAzNDEyRjA2TUdQWk5HOVFSJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

and first one, then another of the same: https://www.amazon.com/BLUETTI-Portable-Station-Foldable-Charging/dp/B08JZ62F8L/ref=sxts_rp_s_a1_0?crid=379B1K2XGS68M&cv_ct_cx=bluetti+120w+solar+panel&keywords=bluetti+120w+solar+panel&pd_rd_i=B08JZ62F8L&pd_rd_r=5d512676-826e-49e4-8941-b96d9806e361&pd_rd_w=eIzlt&pd_rd_wg=teMbn&pf_rd_p=ef09fc8b-f6fe-450c-ac89-05f354bc6e1d&pf_rd_r=CVNNJETSSWGRXKC4F6PZ&psc=1&qid=1643738268&sprefix=bluetti+12%2Caps%2C175&sr=1-1-5985efba-8948-4f09-9122-d605505c9d1e

Before you buy, you should know what kind of power you need. I bought:

https://www.amazon.com/BALDR-Electricity-Monitor-Consumption-Killawatt/dp/B07Y1SLZ8W/ref=sr_1_6?crid=GT7BA35ZHWTY&keywords=baldr+electricity+power+energy+usage+meter&qid=1643738510&sprefix=baldr+electicity+power+energy+usage+meter%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-6

yes, all over amazon

there are so many different power sources... at first I thought I would buy a jackery... but like said, I bought what was suggested.
AmyinOwasso/zone 6b
2 years ago
We went to get blood drawn today. Yeah I know I said Monday, but it didn't happen. 3 people tried to get blood from me.hope I don't have any reason to have it done again soon, I don't have any veins left.

I was sorry about your rib Danny, but glad you're better today.

I'm worried we'll lose power. House is all electric. We have plenty of outdoor cooking options, and a fireplace, but experience shows the fireplace doesn't warm the house much.

Nothing else going on...well I should not be allowed on the Avenue website (clothes). I ordered some I don't need.
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
Moni, thanks for the info. All of that stuff is over my head. I would have to seek advice also, but it looks like you are ready for anything. I may still have an inverter from my truck driving days, but really think I have given them all away, plus that has been over 20 years, if I found one it may not work.

I really need to get out and buy some batteries for some of my junk. I think I have a good battery in the car and truck, but nothing else.
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
Amy all electric could be a problem. I was able to have a warm room during the ice storm, because I have a gas stove. Luckily I had bought that one the year before... my house came with an electric one.

I have not tried the solar thing with the heater. My gasoline generator could not get my heater going.

Moni
Nancy RW (zone 7)
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
I've talked with GDW about a generator a few times, but he has balked. Idiot. Meanwhile. . . not worried about the big storm. Even if electricity were to go out, cold enough that the freezer contents wouldn't spoil. :) We still have a bit of firewood (he gave most of it away)--idiot. I'll find his favorite wood things and throw 'em in the fireplace if we run out of firewood. But best, it isn't going to be THAT cold for very long. I suppose his cavalier attitude and my somewhat cavalier attitude is because we're both transplants from the north. But I'm at least realistic.

I'm reminded of electric outages in Minneapolis. They always came because of tornadic conditions in the spring or summer. And the danger was never the cold, but rather NO cold. And biggest worries were food spoiling in the fridge and freezers. With one bad one, tornado ripping through nearby, took the electricity out for 6 days. That was the longest, though we had other ones that were 2 or 3 days. . . but with that bad one, Wade (son) called his father-in-law 200 miles away and told him to go buy every generator he could find and bring them down to us. Chuck found 4 (5?) and came down. Wade needed them for business and some of the elderly in our neighborhood. What a mess. What I am remembering is having to clean up with cold water and get to work (where at least they DID have electricity).

Now, every time there is a natural disaster anywhere (often in our own country, but in many parts around the world with so many fewer resources than we have), it makes me so aware of and so sad for what the people are going through.

I visited John from the school today--we had a marvelous 2-hr visit. John and his counterpart Suzanne--such lovely people, who give so much to our community--to the disenfranchised and underprivileged here. What a blessing they are to the community and to me.

Well. . . . here we go, friends, into the icebox. Stay warm. Hugs to all.
dbarron
2 years ago
Well it's 42 here and I should probably be up till it's below freezing to witness the events? To use the power while I can ? (I hope not...hope it just changes over to snow).
jlhart76
2 years ago
I remember the ice storm in 2011. Parts of Tulsa were without power for a week (my house was one of them). I wound up going to work just to get hot coffee and take a shower.

This house is all electric, we have a fireplace but no wood so we'll just have to hope for the best.
AmyinOwasso/zone 6b
2 years ago
Ok, I woke up to a ddusting of what might be sleet, since it blew off (or melted?) the patio but coated the table. Weather station says 1/4 inch of precip.

When we lost power in 2007 ice storm, the office, half a mile from me had power. We washed our hair there and took a little TV there. I want to say we had no power for 5 days. Candles actually warmed the room up more than the fireplace, but I remember it being 65 in the house. It started Saturday and was above freezing on Monday. I'm not sure when the power went out.

Worst thing about power being out is no internet. Then no land line. Then no TV. Ron camped with boy scouts for years, he can cook outside. Even make coffee. One year we came home from Christmas Eve service to a dead stove. Power surge had fried the electronics. We were hosting Christmas dinner. Ron cooked it all outside on propane grill and charcoal grill. I might also point out he bought a 2 burner propane stove (for me to CAN on, I ranted about that when he bought it), and a 1 burner butane I'm not sure he even told me about. We still have big propane grill, a charcoal grill and a smoker. We will not starve. Might have to make room for some dry ice in the deep freeze. I'm hoping the lack of precipitation up to now will bring only snow the rest of the time. Since everything closed in advance of the storm I kind of expect it to be nothing. We'll see. I used to go buy canned meat and get videos when they talked about snow, then it wouldn't come. 4 kids stuck in the house bickering was not a fun thing.

Stay warm, stay off ice (I broke my ankle 42 years ago in Jan on ice.)
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
Danny, it is 42 here also.

I bought my generator to have portable power out away from the house. I have a shoulder with a delta reverse joint in it, and the other shoulder is damaged to where starting a chain saw is a painful task ( and surgeon said not to over work this type of joint) so I bought the cheapest generator with electric start and started clearing land with an electric chain saw. The surgeon was not happy about me putting my shoulder through that kind of stress either. I was really not man enough for clearing land anyway. But I still have a pretty good generator, but don't use it enough. I think all engines do better if they are started every few weeks. and run a while, and keep fresh gas in them. It seems hard for me to do that, I get busy with life and forget about caring for the generator.

Moni, my generator should run 3 space heaters, but it wont run my central heater, it also does a good job of running my small welder. I have my generator on the porch now, but the battery is dead, I need to put the charger on it and see if I can get it started.

Danny, it has dropped to 41 now, I think it is to keep dropping till well below freezing.
Nancy Waggoner
2 years ago
Hi everyone. It's 28 and we're supposed to have a high of 30. Woo-hoo. No measurable precipitation, though it rained for a short while. I think it's a good day to read and write. Oh, Amy. . . you spoke of no internet. Yikes . BUT I'm glad I have so many books to read and so much writing to do, which is a lot of fun on the Rocketbook.

I checked--and have enough seed starting mix to begin planting, but am going to hold off for just a while longer. It's a very lazy Wednesday, so I'll be back later.
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
My pallet back stoop is slick. The birdbath was frozen... I hadn't plugged it in yesterday. Changed that. Plug in is in the garage, extension cord under the house, out the vent for usage in the back yard. :)

I consider today to be a cold day. Might not get out for long. But will meet Esther at SAMS she is looking for a new phone... the "free" one she got sucks according to her. Her old one is 3 G and was slated to no longer work after Jan. 31.

No real plans for today... just a lazy day. :)

Stay warm everyone.

Moni
dbarron
2 years ago
Yep, better get a 5g phone...I went to grocery store (again), there was a bit of ice on windshield but not much. They're giving ice all night, but I bet that means sleet with temps as low as 19. Sure hope it's not freezing rain!

I made a big big pot of soup today. I enjoyed it, and will put the rest out on the back porch where it should be cool as a fridge (if not cooler soon). That's one thing I love about cold weather, I don't have to stuff things in the fridge as much. Gotta find those tiny silver linings.
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
Danny during the bad ice storm in Tulsa (07 or 08 I forgot) we had all our stuff from the freezer on the back porch, and the stuff from the fridge in a cooler, also on the back porch. That was a fun time... NOT

I am so much better prepared now a days.

Esther didn't find what she was looking for (she doesn't have a SAMS membership) and was going to Best Buy next... meanwhile I found chicken reasonably priced at WINCO, also bought bacon and some other stuff I felt the need for. LOL, I actually went in for paprika... and some walking.... I need my steps, but not outside today.

:)

Moni
dbarron
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
So far so good, I haven't really been out, but I'm pretty sure everything is snow topped. It's 18 F and hopefully no more falling freezing rain. So the preparation was wasted, but better to have stuff than to not have stuff when needed. I guess I have extra snacks sometimes (stuff that can be eaten w/o power) before they go bad.

Edit: By dawn's early light (4:30 am) and by Pixel's NightVision mode....
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
I don't have a picture, but 23 degrees at 8:10. Lawn grass still sticking up through the snow. There may be ice under the snow because it was misting and 31 degrees before going to bed, but all seems well.

I did not go get a battery for the generator yesterday, I did pull the pickup up nest to the back porch and jumped the generator off the truck battery and let the generator run about an hour. The generator is heavy and I have to move it with a tractor, so the generator will sit where it is through this cold spell.
Nancy Waggoner
2 years ago
It's 8:50 am, and 16 degrees on our deck, which agrees with weather.com showing Wagoner's temp. It took considerable courage for me to walk the 10 feet on the deck to the thermometer. Both because it's cold and because it's slippery. Would not be good to fall down only 5 months post-op hip replacement. But by gosh with my warm fuzzy robe on, it wasn't that bad. Makes a big difference if the wind isn't blowing--and it isn't.

Looks like we got about the same amount of snow you did, Danny--maybe 2 inches? Sure glad we got snow and not ice.

Is this Jasper's first snow experience? Bet he'll love it. Titan didn't love it. He went out at 6 and was back 5 minutes later. The cats weren't remotely interested in going out.

It would be a fine day for a pork shoulder roast, except I already have sausage thawed. SO. Sausage/cabbage/noodles for dinner this evening. I love it when I don't have to think and think about what to fix for dinner.
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
I just came in from feeding the 6 head of stock in the pasture, all of them had ice on then. It rained light yesterday, then turned to freezing rain, then to sleet, it is still sleeting very lightly. The weather may get worse, but I expect to keep power unless a tree falls on the power line.

The cattle are trying to eat the old hay I have put out for them. The hay is sorry hay, it was given to me to use as mulch, it is just clean-up hay, where the guy was paid to mow the pasture just to remove the weeds and brush. I would like to have something better to feed, but this is the best I can do. If I am going to have to feed livestock, they may as well be mine.
dbarron
2 years ago
More like 8-10 inches now ;0
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
I got out earlier, and snapped pictures. My new thermometer is such a great thing. It shows me the temp without me going out. It was 13 earlier... and is 15 now, 28 in the cold frame I am monitoring.

I will go back out a few more times today... just to be out... and just to be doing SOMETHING... besides sitting in the sauna again (did 45 minutes yesterday).

Hopefully we all don't loose power.

Moni

PS, it is snowing.
dbarron
2 years ago
Err, either everyone is snuggled in and reading or they're likely without power. Pretty much all snow here. I'm happy to wait for it to melt (this after seeing neighbor shoveling driveway while still snowing).
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
I took another layer of snow off in front... and buried the smaller cold frame a bit more.
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago

The cow and calf with ice.

3 of the 4 donkeys. I am trying to feed them enough to keep their body heat up. I am so hacked off because the owner wont feed them. I just checked the water south of the house, it is a small running creek that I have built a dam on and the water is moving enough that they can drink, but I doubt they are wanting a cold drink right now.
hazelinok
2 years ago
I had a lot to catch up on here.

Looks like everyone got cold and snow.

We did too.

We bought a generator October 2020 during that ice storm. We didn't have electricity for 10 days. We went to Lowes and the guy said to come back in the morning because they were expecting a truck of generators. (Everyone was sold out.) Tom was there when the truck arrived and there was no discussing or thinking about it. You bought what they had. It ended up being a nice one. It was able to power our freezers, refrigerator, a couple of lamps, a space heater, and the internet box thing. We don't have cable, we have YouTubeTV (much cheaper than cable and we get all the same channels) and it's through the internet. After talking to our neighbor we learned that it would even power our hot water tank and he was going to come over to help with that, but this was at the end of the 10 days and the power returned. Our water well is electric but it's connected to the man who built our house down the road and he can flip a switch so we can have water. It's cold water, but it's water.

I would love to have a wood burning stove. Goals.

Thankful to have kept power this time around.

The lettuce, broccoli and cabbage seedlings are coming along. They have true leaves now. They'll probably be up-potted at the end of next week. I started kale and spinach seed today.

Is anyone starting tomatoes on Super Bowl Sunday in honor of Dawn? I'll probably do a couple of cups of them just because.

It's been nice having a couple of days off work. I don't even mind doing animal chores in the snow. I do feel bad for the chickens. They're pretty cold.
jlhart76
2 years ago
The fireplace in this house is in our bedroom. Not sure the reason for that. It's also the warmest room in the house & we prefer it to be cold, so this summer is going to be miserable.

We also learned during that first cold snap that our pipes aren't well insulated & the hot water pipes froze up. No damage, but we also got the heater in the garage running. We're on that average plan but it's based off our house in OKC. I'm afraid of what they'll raise it to once the year is out.

I'll probably start sometomatoes on Sunday, but I still need to figure out where to put the light shelf. That grow box thingy HJ gave me will be handy next year but the shed isn't ready to use yet. I got my wood to start building some beds, and I have parts to an old trampoline so I think I'm going to attempt a coldframe & see how that works.
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
Jen I have a 3 bedroom house. All three bedrooms are warmer than the living room, even when the vents are shot. Of course all that reverses for summer AC time...

However, I choose my bedroom solely on the fact it has only 1 outdoor wall, and is the one nearest to the bathroom (after all, I am not getting younger, LOL)

That sucks, that your hot water line froze... but now you know, and now you can figure out a solution. Ain't mother nature nice to give you this test so early?

Moni
AmyinOwasso/zone 6b
2 years ago
Ron's been out shoveling snow. I made him come in and rest.

That was yesterday afternoon, I don't know how much more we got, not a lot. The collards aren't going to survive. Hope the asparagus is ok. Nothing new to report, not even retail therapy on line. I need to pull my seeds out and see what I'm out of. I just hate to make a mess and get Ron's ocd going.

Stay warm, stay off slippery stuff.
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
Amy, I hope you are nicer than I am. I have seeds all over the dining room table. I pulled out the seeds I wanted to start under the lights, very nice list, but if I am going to plant all those plants I will need to buy more land and another tractor. I am sure Madge is going to change my mind. I might be able to start that many plants, but no way am I man enough to care for that many plants, so I have big time trimming to do on my list.

It is starting to warm a little here, it is 27 degrees, the highest it has been since the cold started. We only have about 2 inches of snow, with a layer of ice under it. The roads have not been cared for out here and are still covered with ice, if the sun would come out for a while it would really help.
jlhart76
2 years ago
The view from my office this morning. All that pristine snow, makes me want to let the dogs loose lol
dbarron
2 years ago
Well it's 8 F, and that's our predicted low. We should see like 42 today (maybe will start a little melting) from our complete snow cover (reflective).
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
My min/max shows 22 at 9:10 am, with a low of 12. but the sun is shinning, so I am hoping for some of this ice to melt.
Kim Reiss
2 years ago
My future garden buddy
OklaMoni
Original Author
2 years ago
Oh, how exciting!
slowpoke_gardener
2 years ago
Really handsome young man. I think he will have a good gardening teacher also.
Kim Reiss
2 years ago
Thank y’all

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