Weekend Music (FNM): Wind, Blow, Blew, Storm, Part II
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Comments (50)I have been experimenting with Wind Harps. I have stretched out a 8 foot long steel wire on top of my shed. The slightest wind will vibrate the string and produce wonderful tonal sounds and harmonics. I use a home built dual humbucking magnetic pickup to pull these vibrations off the wire. A preamp is then used to amplify the signal enough to be brought into a sound card on my PC. I use Windows Media Encoder to allow broadcasting over the internet so everyone can hear. It makes nice background "music" that always changes. I have details at my blog: botsmaker.blogspot.com/ I invite you to take a look and tell me what you think. Here is a link that might be useful: My home page of robots...See MoreFebruary 2018, Week 3, Planting and....Rain, Sleet, Snow
Comments (135)Kim, Sophie has my sympathy. Our dogs hate it too when the neighbors are shooting. I usually let them stay in, but sometimes they just have to go out at least for a couple of minutes, and then they are at the back door barking and carrying on and wanting back in within 60 seconds. I'm glad Sophie did so well getting her pins out. Nice score on all the seeds! You CAN teach a class. Just pretend you are talking to Ryder or to any of us instead of a larger crowd. You can do this! Sorry about the wind. I wish it would blow hard here---it would help dry up some of this excess moisture, but I know you don't need it there. March is coming and you live in a very windy part of Texas, so I'm guessing the wind is going to be an issue for quite a while yet. Is there any sort of windbreak anywhere near your new garden plot? Nancy, That sounds like a wedding miracle to me! Of course you cried---seeing one of your kids so happy on their special day is going to lead to tears, and rightfully so. Kim, Most of the seeds you got should do just fine with direct sowing. I am a little worried about the wind, but we have wind here too (usually not quite on the scale you have it there) and it doesn't seem to blow away my seeds. Everything you listed except ice plant and delphinium should be fine from seed sown directly in the ground. Ice plant---it might do okay. Do you have clay there? It needs well-drained sand or sandy loam and it does not tolerate staying overly wet for long periods of time. Delphinium is very iffy. They are beautiful flowers but they like prolonged, cool weather so your luck with them in any given year will depend more on the weather than anything else. Think of them as something that would like the weather in the cool, wet parts of the Pacific Northwest more than the west Texas plains, and don't get your hopes up too high. I simply grow the closely-related larkspur instead, and even the larkspur sometimes rots off at the ground when we are too wet for too long, but it tolerates the heat a lot better than delphiniums do. I have had the best luck with delphiniums when sowing them in the fall. They will germinate and remain as small plants down close to the ground all winter, but then when it warms up they'll grow pretty quickly. Sometimes I have managed to get blooms before the heat kills them, and sometimes not. Our Spring weather is so variable that the results were all over the place when I tried to grow them here. Whenever I see them in bloom in gallon pots in the stores in the Spring, I want to buy them and bring them home and plant them....but I don't.....because they'd basically be expensive annuals here in our hot climate. Jennifer, Three sounds like a nice number. Another 100 might be a bit much, you know, and that's doubly true of the straight runs, which tend to lean very heavily towards being roosters and not pullets. It sounds like yesterday was fun, and I hope you're outdoors enjoying your free afternoon now. Nancy, Well, 10 minutes of plant shopping squeezed in at the end of a day with the girls was enough to hold me another week. We saw ladybugs all over the garden center flying around, and then saw some outside Wal-mart so they certainly are swarming and enjoying this lovely day too. Rudbeckia is a large family with many members and some do great here for me, and others do not. I think some are more finicky about drainage (and powdery mildew) than others, but they're not the hardest things to grow if you choose the right ones. In my garden, most rudbeckias are happier with morning sun/afternoon shade than with full sun all day long. Kim, That's crazy about your friend's Dodge pickup. Try explaining that one to your insurance agent! We do try to be careful which way we park on really windy days, but it is more to keep the wind from slamming the car or truck door shut on someone who's attempting to get in or out in strong wind. I never once thought about the wind being able to break a door off a vehicle. It still is sunny and warm outside, so Tim's got ribeye steaks (our standard Sunday dinner) cooking on the grill and I have everything else cooking indoors. I suspect he'd have been out there grilling even if rain was pouring down, but I'm grateful he didn't have to do that. It only took one week of nonstop rain and cloudy skies to make us tired of the rain. I'm not wishing for another month or two with no rain, but I'm hoping whatever rain we get over the next couple of weeks at least will come in smaller, more manageable amounts. Dawn...See MoreGarlic harvest 2018
Comments (28)Lone Jack. Our season in northern MN opened Nov. 3. We were there for it with our adult children for family deer camp. The main event of a week straight of hunting starts Nov. 10th. I remember that particular deer season...actually I remember 2 particularly cold openers with below zero temps since 1989, one with only a few inches of snow, the other, like you mentioned with at least a foot of snow. I have detailed journals going back over 30 years of all my hunts, including weather conditions. Luckily the one year with a little snow and -4, I had a nice 8 point buck come in at about 7:20 AM which I dropped in his scrape. For some reason I didn't even have my pocket knife with me, so had to walk 2 miles one way back to the cabin, gut the deer and drag him. I was pretty warm after all that. The next day it was was melting and the temp got to 40f. Not all years have been very cold, however, if we have tagged out by the last weekend of the firearms deer season (3rd weekend of Nov), we are often able to go ice fishing or spearing on small lakes by then. I planted about 30 garlic at our cabin in the Grand Portage State Forest, and 230 at home here in the Mpls area. I ended up with 160 from this past summers harvest, and had enough nice sized cloves to up my game. We love our garlic!...See MoreWeekend Music (FNM): Peace and War
Comments (33)... I see a car winding up the driveway Up to your parents' place The old man looks up from his raking As the color drains from your mama's face Cryin' softly by the window now While your daddy shakes the soldiers hands Their taillights disappear into the woods below He's frozen in the doorway where he stands In the twilight, in the silent snow ......See MoreRelated Professionals
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