jdmidwest

My hot boxes are 1x12 boards on edge about 2-3 foot wide. Filled half full of top soil and covered with some old screen door glass and some shower doors I bought at an auction.

I have not seen any luck with the Topsy Turvy stuff around here or the hanging buckets of tomatoes or strawberry. It may be the heat. Last year, my strawberry failed due to the heat and dry weather at ground level. That may be a Hydroponic system, but the weight would be pretty great. I wish he had a better pic or some more info. Located in Poplar Bluff MO., he has to deal with the heat too. But that shot may be from somewhere else. I do best with raised beds about 6 foot round. I can pick to the center kneeling on the sides. Planted 2 more today, one with Jewells, and the other Everglow.

They seem to work better out in an open area. They need to be cleaned out every year.

Whew, that was a burst of energy. 8 and running...... At least we don't have to worry about drones hovering overhead now with a hellfire missle aimed at us for starting a thread that belittled our worthless leaders.

I thought Venus was a voluptous Greek Goddess. We need to geoengineer more of them.

30 mile wind gusts on Sat. Thunderstorms on Sunday. There goes the float trip. Whites are not running yet anyway.

Me too, but that was all he posted in the ad. He was selling plants, not equipment. http://semo.craigslist.org/grd/3616640601.html

I was shuffling thru Craigslist last night and came across an ad for strawberry plants for sale. The ad was unimpressive, but the method of raising caught my eye. Rows and rows of raised planter boxes that you walk under and pick the berries. Looked pretty cool.

Lettuce, radishes, and spinach in the ground under glass in the raised beds today. Cleaned the leaves out of the strawberry beds and worked on them some. I am going to replant 2 of the beds that did not produce last spring. Remember last spring? We were watering strawberries by the time they were producing. I hope we don't have that problem this year. Put the feeder on the bee hive today and watched them fly for a while. Some pollen coming in, probably from maples that are budding out. Several feral bees were coming into the feeder from the outside of the hive. I must have an active wild bee tree close by. I am going to put out some swarm traps in a few weeks and hopefully trap some of the wild swarms.

What happened to cow farts? I thought that was the culprit.

Another good point came up today on a talk show with Cain, the "end of the year money dump" by government agencies. A military contractor pointed out that most agencies of the government get in a rush to spend any surplus money laying around in their accounts at the end of a fiscal year so they can qualify for more in the next years budget. They can't just bank the surplus, if any, and carry it over. If they did, the pencil pushers would not allot them any extra the next year. I have seen it locally, a certain city has a new windfall from the Casino. They have been spending money like crazy on frivilous crap like flower gardens, park improvements, fancy street lights, and other stuff that was not really necessary in my mind. Why can't they just bank it for a rainy day? Or why don't they lower their absurb city sales tax rate and generate more growth for business? The sales tax in that town is approaching 10 percent.

Either that or it is dark on the dock now....

75 lanes? Dang, I don't even think there are 75 major roads in the state of MO. Kansas must really be something. I had to drive to Fort Scott back in Nov from Eldorado Springs just to say I have been in Kansas.

Made it 5 pages so far and still civil.....

Yep. Most of mine is rural, lots of deer, turkey, ducks, and farm animals.

Is a 27 mile one way commute a long way? I do 30, hop in a company and do another 100 on a normal day, come back and drive home.

Go gettum Ness. I sure am glad the indians are being quiet on this one or it would have been canned by now. The Government should be compared to a business. Going into each year, they have an expectation of what kind of income they should expect based on tax history. A business would call that a business plan. They should then create a budget to deal with that amount and expect to have some surplus at the end of the year. They should monitor and adjust throughout the year to achieve that goal, ie, the budget. They should not give to charity, ie foreign countries, if they are not on budget. They should not spend excessively on things that are not essential, luxury vacations, grand balls, un-essential travel, etc if they are not on budget. If they did not make the last budget, they should cut back and get back in the black the next year. Or they should figure out how to grow the economy and the country, ie their business, to the point that it can generate more income. If a business went to a bank and asked for more money without any regards to the above, they would be denied. But the Federal Government keeps borrowing without any recourse. The Congress and the President of the USA have failed at creating budgets the past few years. The lack of leadership is what is driving the country into what we have today. Someone needs to take charge.

I still make the last day of the season if it is on a weekday. More peaceful then.

I have a friend that raises elk, maybe I can borrow one to tie out for bait.

I just buy plants at the local produce shop. I don't have a good spot to start plants from seed. Normally by this time I have lettuce and radishes out in the raised beds, but I have not gotten that far this year. It snowed all day yesterday. Next weekend looks nice, might have to take a float.

It does not look crowded at all. Lets go next year. Looks like you have the river to yourself.

When I see an article like this, I just have to scratch my head. What they cut is what will affect the general population the most and help them to increase their funding so we can get it back. They hold our services hostage until we give up some more. Meanwhile, millions leak out of our coffers into foreign countries in the form of "aid" without any control. They never attempt to cut back on any of that. Its my hard earned tax dollar, I want to see it spent wisely at home first. If there is any left over, we can donate it to charities abroad. Obviously, with 16 trillion dollars in debt, we run out of surplus a long time ago.

Since all trout in MO are non-native fish, ie, introduced species for the enjoyment of game fishers, what does the term "wild" really mean? When I think of wild, I think of something that has originated in the habitat and is maintained by natural means. What we have is introduced species that have spawned and reproduced in several streams and are considered naturally reproducing. But they are not really native wild species.

The Sequester. Government spending having to return to 2011 budgets. Let me see, I think that was the year before last, if I recall. Who would have thought there should have been much difference, but they seem to make a big deal of it. I am currently making what I did in 1996 and my budget is based on that income. Many costs have increased, gas, utilities, housing, food, clothing, transportation. But I still adjust my budget to my income and manage to show a small profit above my costs. This poor economy has forced me to adapt. But now we should be upset that the Ozark Scenic Riverways will cut out Heritage Day, Alley Spring Independence Day Celebration, Ozark Dinner Theater, and Haunting in the Hills just to make ends meet. Boo HOO. Some people seem to have a different set of values when they are spending someone else's monies. I say, where can we start trimming some more and get it back to a 2000 budget figure. http://rhtrav.com/wordpress/shutdowns-planned-on-riverways-due-to-federal-budget-austerity/#more-12306

They toss baby browns in the Current, North Fork, and Meramec. MDC states they do not breed in the wild, but I have seen them on the redds. There are reasons to believe that some may succeed. No Browns in the 11pt. NFS restricts stocking to rainbows only.