The best food I had was on Canadian Pacific (they served great filet Mignon), and the second best was Air France, where I had Crab Louis. My best friend in Mexico City said that SwissAir had the best food (and sterling silver flatware), but I also had real silverware on CP, and for that matter on the Santa Fe train, when I used to take it between Houston and Temple when I was at Rice. My favorite meals were on trains. In the 1990s I used to ask for Kosher meals when I would fly so that I could get lactose free food. I also used to ask the airlines what color scheme was used in the decoration of the airplane interiors, so that I would not wear something that would clash. Unfortunately, they were unable to furnish me with this information and I sometimes had to be embarrassed - mostly notably when I flew Alaskan Airlines, which had horrible brown interiors with hideous brown upholstery. I happened to be wearing turquoise linen pants, a magenta shirt, and purple shoes on that flight between Seattle and San Francisco. After that, I stopped flying into or out of Seattle and only flew to Vancouver when visiting the northwest. That was in the 1980s, however. Lars

A banner, meaning it was a graphic designed awareness (poster?) for awareness month/week/day. Maybe best for that poster to just say "I raise hand and do not find that funny". Or even better, move on and not say anything. It was not offensive but sensitive to some. Not a name I think we would recognize here. (The op of that post). I realize some just lurk, probably more than we think. An exasperated vegan may run around the web and forums posting pics of slaughterhouses. With all caps and exclamations. We do have a random poster that keeps changing her name that I find odd. I just know that because the second name was one of my dogs names. When I came back here this morning the posts were gone. It is a sensitive time now. I will delete this most likely since it is not at all funny😂😂😜 50% of NewYorker cartoons I do a 'meh' not funny. Then others I belly laugh when others say 'meh'. Sexist and racist strikes a cord with me but some I am fence-sitting involving a associated word not really related.

Hi Everyone. Will this SF be another 2017?! So....Tom and I will purchase the meat this week, get it thawed and smoked for Saturday. All of that should be great. About the tomatoes.... The Jet Setters and Heidis are not the best. I suspect I got a bag of "bad" potting mix. However, they are growing. I will bring them...and if anyone wants to give them a chance, please do. I am going to plant some of them still. Rick bought Jet Stars to replace my Jet Setters for the SG. BUT, I'm still going to plant them somewhere else. I have a couple of places in mind. I have high hopes for them. I think once they get planted, they'll be fine. I have 2 roselle plants for Lisa that are still doing great. The Dawn pepper didn't germinate....so nothing there. I'll repeat this at the other place.

I have some ideas which are in disagreement with yours. Here goes... NOW - MID APRIL: spot spray weeds with something like Weed-b-Gon. WBG works on clovers, dandelions, and other broadleaf weeds. It looks like you have a grassy mix where the different textures of grass make it look a bit on the weedy side. I'm going to suggest you live with that for now. Late May: fertilize with a real fertilizer only. By real I'm saying dry, not a spray liquid. Grass uses up fertilizer by the pound not by fractions of an ounce. The reason for waiting until May is that the roots have been busy in the soil over the winter. The grass awakens with enough nutrients to take it through May. If you fertilize now that forces the grass to use up the nutrients early, and it will still need fertilizer (again) in May. Save the money. Early September: fertilize again at the end of summer after the temps cool off a little. Mid September: If you feel the need to spot spray weeds again, now is the time. Late November: Fertilize again with a fast release, high N (zero P and K) fertilizer but you have to wait until the grass has completely stopped growing. The idea is to put nitrogen into the soil, and for the roots to process it, but without causing new growth before the frost hits. That is the details for fertilizing and weed control. In about 60 years of lawn care, I've never had insect damage that required treatment. To use a Scott's product which automatically applies insect control without a diagnosis of active damaging insects is very unsound. I realize they sell the product, but insects are an important class of life to have in your soil. By far most of the insects are microscopic and live in the soil. They help develop soil structure as they crawl through looking for food. A blanket application of insecticide disrupts all the insect life, and especially those friendlies living in the soil. When you see unhealthy soil, it is often due to mis application of insecticide and fungicide. Basics of lawn care Water deeply and infrequently. Deeply means 1 inch all at one time. You can measure 1 inch by placing cat food or tuna cans around the yard and turning on your sprinklers. Time how long it takes to fill all the cans. That will be your new watering time from now on. Mine is 8 hours with my hoses, water pressure, and oscillator sprinklers. Yours will be different. The frequency of watering depends on a lot of factors but they are all overshadowed by the daily high temperature. With temps below 70 degrees F, water deeply once a month (including rainfall). With temps in the 70s water once every 3 weeks. With temps in the 80s water once every 2 weeks. With temps in the 90s water once every week. With temps from 100 to 105 water once every 5 days. With temps above that water once every 3-4 days. NEVER water every day. If you have unusually dense cloud cover for many days, you might stretch those times out. If you have unusually dry, arid, winds, then you will need to water a little more often, but never daily. Mow at your mower's highest setting all the time unless you have bermuda, centipede, or creeping bentgrass. Those should be mowed at the lowest setting for the most dense growth. Fertilize as I mentioned above. If you have bermuda then you can start fertilizing after the second mowing in the spring and repeat every 4 to 6 weeks for the rest of the season. I have been using only organic fertilizer since 2002. I was all chemical until I gave the organics a chance. I was having trouble getting the grass to grow at all no matter how much chemical fertilizer I used. One application of organics seemed to unleash the grass. Here is a picture posted here 11 years ago by mrmumbles. The picture shows a spot where he dropped a handful of alfalfa pellets (rabbit chow) onto his zoysia lawn. It was applied in mid May and the picture taken in mid June. You can easily see the improved density, color, and growth. And people say that organic fertilizer isn't real fertilizer. That image is about the same difference I saw in my St Augustine lawn back in 2002. You can get rabbit chow at your local feed store for under $20 for 50 pounds. The application rate is 15 pounds per 1,000 square feet. They might have rabbit food and alfalfa pellets at slightly different prices. One thing I like about organics is you cannot overdo them. People have tried. One former member here applied soybean meal and Milorganite at about 50 pounds per 1,000 square feet every week for an entire season. One season I applied corn gluten meal at 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet every month for the season. All I can report is the most dense growth of grass ever. It was like mowing through cabbage. If you want to use Scott's fertilizers, fine. That's up to you. However, I would not use any mix like fertilizer with herbicide or insecticide. Only use the herbicide and insecticide if you need them and only where you need them. Don't use them everywhere and just because you think you might need them.