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Nature in the Ozarks: Daffodils with too much anticipation for spring. http://elmostreport.blogspot.com/2012...
chaz2b and John (bird whisperer) liked this
The same thing is happening here.
- John (bird whisperer)
Hard to believe weather patterns won't shift and deliver some REAL winter one of these days.
- Marvin Smith
Hummingbird feeders down; sunflower seed feeders up (thanks to Jo). (Sunny and 60°F/15°C @ Noon)
adf, John (bird whisperer) and SAM liked this
Engage Suet Mode.
- SAM
We need colder weather for the cornmeal/peanut butter/lard psuedo-suet we usually feed. Otherwise, the jays abscond with large globs of it.
- Marvin Smith
Jays are the thugs of the song-bird hood.
- SAM
And noisy about their transgressions too.
- Marvin Smith
We have very few Jays here... but I think I saw the first Nut hatch we've seen in a while today.
- SAM
First fire of the season in our wood stove. Now the house smells like burned dust bunnies and cobwebs.
Bruce Lewis, SAM, <3Heather<3 and John (bird whisperer) liked this
We cook with propane, but the wood stove is our only source of heat for the house.
- Marvin Smith
We started up our fires last week. Extra cinnamon in the steamer to overpower the dusty cobweb stench. :)
- SAM
More clouds ... more wind ... miniscule chance of rain ... 83°F/28°C @ noon.
It is too hot here in East Texas,; would rather be in the Ozarks
- Dennis Waters
We're cooler, but still hot enough to be miserable.
- Marvin Smith
Best Friends Forever? Produce Growers and Pesticide Makers Deepen Their Bond - http://www.commondreams.org/view...
Marvin Smith and Sepi ~ سپی liked this
ugly trend :[
- esther
Better living through technology -- not.
- Marvin Smith
Solar clothes dryer is repaired and working fine. Now we won't have to stop and buy clean socks and underwear on our way to the art fair this weekend. (Sunny and 68°F/20°C @ Noon)
Jenny R, adf, LB so u no it's real and 2 other people liked this
Solar clothes dryer? Clothesline?
- SAM
Yep, clothesline -- and it hasn't worked worth beans in about a week.
- Marvin Smith
Rain?
- Alex Scrivener
About eight inches of rain over the past week.
- Marvin Smith
Wondering what evil act I committed against Mother Nature that prompted her to retaliate with a tick bite in the navel? (Sunny, windy and 67°F/19°C @ Noon)
John (bird whisperer) liked this
I hope you got it out!
- John (bird whisperer)
With tweezers and the wife's assistance the tick was removed intact, but the itch remains, and remains and remains.....
- Marvin Smith
:(
- LB so u no it's real
Winter seems determined to give us another taste of cold temperatures -- nothing like my friends to the north are enduring, but chilly for us Southerners nonetheless. (54°F/12°C @ Midnight)
Midnight in St Paul: Fair 19 °F (-7 °C) and heading lower....
- WarLord
Oh, my! Winter has definitely made a return engagement in the north country.
- Marvin Smith
Walked to the gate and back under gray skies. (45°F/7°C @ 5:00 PM)
SAM liked this
How far of a trek is that for you Marvin? How many acres are you on?
- SAM
We have 40 acres, but our house is on an outside edge. The walk we take up the road is a little over a mile and a half round trip, mostly uphill on the way to the gate and downhill all the way home.
- Marvin Smith
Nature in the Ozarks: Daffodil Blooms - http://elmostreport.blogspot.com/2011...
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mine are poking up
- just ZONED
Our crocuses are still deciding whether to pop up or not. Still 0℃ here.
- gwendolen
Our yo-yo temperatures are forecast to be slightly below 0°C by Saturday night. No problem for the daffodils, though.
- Marvin Smith
sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!, Cristal Blue Persuasion, John (bird whisperer) and 2 other people liked this
Awesome sunset!
- Marvin Smith
Think I'll stay home today. Enjoyed finally getting into town yesterday, but that dose of civilization should hold be for a couple more weeks. (Partly cloudy, windy and 62°F/17°C @ noon)
John (bird whisperer), gwendolen and SAM liked this
heheh... I get that.
- SAM
Besides, civilization is full of germs. One of the best ways to avoid colds is to avoid people. :-)
- Marvin Smith
The birds are most unhappy with us. We're out of sunflower seeds and cannot make a trip into town to buy more. Maybe Monday. (Sunny and 53°F/12°C @ noon)
John (bird whisperer) liked this
They sound like Angry Birds.
- Bubba Botts
Angry birds for sure. Let's hope they're not also Alfred Hitchcock fans.
- Marvin Smith
I hope I'm not speaking too soon, but it's looking as if we may have dodged the bullet on this winter storm. We received a moderate coating of freezing rain, a little sleet and a very light dusting of snow. Now we're seeing patches of blue sky. (26°F/-3°C @ 4:30 PM)
John (bird whisperer) and Bruce Lewis liked this
Hope that bullet was dodged, Marvin. So far what we have here in Ky is just high winds.that started about Midnight and temps that fell after the rain stopped.
- Sherry Chandler
Bullet was, indeed, mostly dodged. Extremely cold, but no additional accumulation of ice, sleet or snow.
- Marvin Smith
Nature in the Ozarks: Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) - http://elmostreport.blogspot.com/2011...
SAM and Bruce Lewis liked this
I lived in Missouri until I graduated high school in 1986, and I never saw an armadillo. It surprised me when my parents said they were common now.
- Bruce Lewis
Cold weather and snow cover SHOULD eventually stop their northward expansion, but not yet.
- Marvin Smith
Bruce... agreed. Lived in MO until 2000 and never saw an Armadillo. Went back this year and saw half a dozen.
- SAM
Nature in the Ozarks: Wednesday Afternoon's Sky - http://elmostreport.blogspot.com/2011...
It's hard to believe we have a 90% chance of snow on Thursday.
- Marvin Smith
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Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds): It's that time of year again! Limber up your fingers, dig out the crowbar, charge the batteries in the camera; the famed International Rock Flipping Day is upon us! - http://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2010...
Flip a rock and document what's underneath. Be careful and ALWAYS replace the rock exactly as it was. More details at Wanderin' Weeta.
- Marvin Smith
from Bookmarklet
Sounds like fun!
- Irene Nissen
Wishing this piddling little "cool" spell would followed by an even cooler spell. Rain would be nice too. Neither are forecast. (90°F/32°C @ noon)
gwendolen and John (bird whisperer) liked this
I'd love to send you all of ours. Need to set up the tent tomorrow. (must.be.dry)
- gwendolen
Yup, we sometimes have the same problem with our show canopies. Wish you could send us some of that rain. Our rain is probably holding off until we start our fall art fair schedule.
- Marvin Smith
from email
Nature in the Ozarks: Okra seems to enjoy our hot summer temperatures. - http://elmostreport.blogspot.com/2010...
SAM liked this
I love me some okra.
- SAM
We've been giving okra away to neighbors. Don't think it would be in very good shape after shipping up your direction, though.
- Marvin Smith
Yeah, a week in a UPS box is not ideal for produce. I'm glad it's thriving for you though. I figure you go to craft fairs and the like with the spoons and things. Do you ever sell at farmer's markets?
- SAM
We've never tried a farmer's market -- mainly because getting to a fair-sized city market would require a couple hundred miles round trip.
- Marvin Smith
Gonna be another day only okra could enjoy. (95°F/35°C @ noon)
I'm gonna have to steal that saying I'm afraid.
- SteVe C
It's a pretty good one.
- SAM
Go for it, though I'm not sure folks from northern latitudes would understand.
- Marvin Smith
Yo, FriendFeed Nite Crew! Any of y'all still here?
Just Katie, WoH: Minding her Steves, Andrew David and 8 other people liked this
Nope
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What is "night"?
- Outsanity
It's when the sun goes away.
- Steven Perez
Wonder if I'm classified as night crew or future crew or day crew ...
- Penny
they mostly come out at night. mostly.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
We need to blow up the sun.
- Outsanity
顶起来，Ooooooooo................
- SimonPeter
Australians are time travelers. :)
- Steven Perez
Blowing up the sun will increase the number of sparkly vampires.
- Steven Perez
the sun never sets on friendfeed
- K.D.
We'll just lock them into The Gap store.
- Outsanity
Present.
- DB - Just DB
I'm here. Hi!
- Starmama
Nah
- AJ Batac :)
i live. barely.
- Joe The Sausage
There are not nearly enough Gap Stores in the world, Outsanity. :D
- Steven Perez
Good night, Songbird. :)
- Steven Perez
Still here
- Alex Scrivener
from iPhone
It's just now starting to get cool outside. :)
- Grant Bierman
Holding the fort until the day shift arrives.
- Marvin Smith
O Hai, Bunneh. :)
- Jenny R
O Hai, Jenny! What ya doing up so late? :)
- Steven Perez
I'm packing for my trip tomorrow. :)
- Jenny R
Oy, late night packing.
- Steven Perez
Yep.
- joey
Hi Steven. :)
- felicious
Hi, Felicia. :)
- Steven Perez
it's morning here I'm afraid - am i still allowed on night crew?
- Iphigenie
Yes but don't tell anyone. The morning crew might get mad.
- DB - Just DB
Good morning to the morning crew, then!
- Brome
It's the next night now. Good evening, everybody...
- Dennis Jernberg
Scientists cast doubt on claims BP spill's no threat to Gulf | McClatchy - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010...
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"The scientists and other experts who challenged the government's conclusions warned that painting too rosy a picture could hamper the environmental monitoring and cleanup work that remains to be done in the Gulf. Marine conservationist Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska scientist, said: "Let's look at this another way: that there's some 50 percent of the oil left. It's still there in the environment." The government report also fails to account for the effect of vast, underwater plumes of microscopic droplets of oil that remain unmeasured, scientists said, and it downplays the potential long-term effects of the release of as much as 4.1 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Some 800,000 barrels were captured at the wellhead. The remaining 50 percent in the water is the equivalent of almost eight Exxon Valdez oil spills, until now the country's benchmark environmental disaster."
- John (bird whisperer)
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"Scientists also questioned the report's methodology. "There is a lot of uncertainty in these figures," said James H. Cowan, Jr., a professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University, For example, the report doesn't explain how its authors decided what was naturally dispersed oil and what was chemically dispersed oil. They gave no details of...
more...
- John (bird whisperer)
This is shocking. /sarcasm
- Jenny R
Not.
- John (bird whisperer)
Seems like BP and our government are trying to outdo each other in promoting an out-of-sight-is-the-same-as-gone fantasy.
- Marvin Smith
Yes, the government has been too willing to do what's best for BP rather than the public and the environment.
- John (bird whisperer)
with cover from the right wing calling the (probably too-small) set-aside a "shakedown"...
- Andrew C (✓)
My first two 8 ball zucchini harvested!!
Private Sanjeev, dailyphoto, just ZONED and 10 other people liked this
I've never seen orb-shaped zucchini.
- Marvin Smith
Wow, these just came in? I sent those on Saturday I think!! Marvin, they are a specific breed called 8-Ball Zucchini. We ate one on Sunday and it and a really rich but light flavor. Very yummy!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
oohhh... my plant has another one coming along quite nicely!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
There are so many inappropriate things to say about this pic....:) But I'll content myself with a congrats on your harvest! I've also never seen these before!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Thanks Higlet! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
What was your first paying job? - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
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Doing scut office work for a major oil company.
- Steven Perez
answering phones in a funeral home at 12.
- Derek Coward
Mowing lawns.
- Brent
Fetching books for patrons in a library
- John (bird whisperer)
paper route
- Bren
Bagger at the commissary in Germany. I was 12, too young to work, but I lied and said I was 13.
- Eric
Running beers, when I was like 10. Then mowing lawns at 14. First taxed job, Rental Agent at 18, mom refused to let me have a job while I was in school.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Besides babysitting? Doing janitorial work for a liquor store.
- Spidra Webster
I worked at a camera store for the summer when I was about 13. I remember I got paid minimum wage which at the time was $2.15/hr.
- Jeff P. Henderson
On, I forgot about an earlier one: going door-to-door for a local dog census.
- John (bird whisperer)
Baby sitting.
- Jenny R
Part time = mowing lawns. Full time = Pumping gasoline at a service station. (.29/gallon gasoline that included a windshield wash and oil check.)
- Marvin Smith
baby sitting.
- Starmama
mowing lawns
- Harold
Girl Scout camp counselor between high school and college.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
apple picking
- aden {Chickadee}
At the video store in the mall.
- Jandy
Gopher at a Acura Dealership. Wax cars and get gas, etc. A dream for a 16 year old.
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
Games Tester at Warner. Great job. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Delicatessen counter at a large Co-op.
- Mark H
Grounds keeping and maintenance at a vocational high school (summer job at age 14)
- April
Shining my Dad's shoes.
- Ciaoenrico
Tutoring and grading papers at Kumon. I did babysit a bit before that, but Kumon was my first "real" job.
- Shannon Jiménez
Delivering newspapers.
- Sparky, lurking
Retail sales
- I like big Botts
from iPhone
I spent summers at a family guest ranch in Colorado. Great summer job.
- Trish R
chemist.
- imabonehead
O_o Smoking bugs?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Picking raspberries for my aunt when I was 10.
- Rodfather
Paper route, also, around 10 y/o.
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
babysitting
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
first paying job i had to pay taxes with (cos before that it was all yard work for hire)? saw operator at a ceramics fabrication company in 1988. blazing summer heat, no air conditioning, no safety gear at all. i got to see a few of my fellow workers lose fingers (and one hand) before i finally left. my next job was at a record store.
- Joe The Sausage
I worked at an art framing shop
- Fossil Huntress
Babysitting by 11, started parking cars at Dillon Beach at 12.
- amelia arapoff
Highs in the 90s, lows in the 70s. Blech.
Just Katie and Lix liked this
Sounds perfect to me...
- Jandy
gimme! :)
- holly #ravingfangirl
Y'all can have it!
- LB so u no it's real
it's cute for a couple of days. but it's been like this - everyday - for a month or so in Atlanta.
- jbrotherlove
Highs forecast to hit triple digits for at least the next few days. Double blech!
- Marvin Smith
Windy days mess up the trail cameras! 24 hours=720 pics of bushes moving from this camera card!
Marvin Smith liked this
Ooh, don't I know it! :-/
- Jenny R
:(
- Anne Bouey
I always get excited at the number of pics and then...doh! Just trees!
- Moosicorn Ranch
Yep.
- Jenny R
Mother Nature foils technology again.
- Marvin Smith
Thinking. I'm old and graying now, and really looking forward to being older. However, I'd love to go back to 21-25.
I'm really trying to get out of my 20s... mostly. Nostalgic moments happen, though. Then, they pass.
- Julian
You could not pay me to go back to my 20s. I thought at the time I was having a good time. I was wrong.
- laura x
I would love to be 25 again.
- Your Neighbor Steve
O_o Are a person's 20's that horrific?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
As long as I could keep the lessons I've learned with experience, I'd love to go back to my 20s.
- Spidra Webster
maybe 25 knowing what I know now so my mistakes would all be diffferent ones....
- WarLord
My 20s were the best years of my life. The 40s are the second best, The 30s . . . marriage from hell. Enough said.
- Friar Will (:^)
Jimminy, I think it varies from person to person, as you see here. There were good times then, to be sure, but I've generally been happier and more content the older I've gotten.
- laura x
21 to 25 I was damned stupid. I had fun though. Still feel pretty stupid now, so I would pass.
- The Amber
Old and gray is where I'd prefer to stay.
- Marvin Smith
I think I'd have to go with Dorothea's comment as well. My 30s were better than my 20s (hey, I met my wife/got married when I was 32, so...), my 40s were definitely better than my 30s overall, my 50s were pretty good...and, employment issues aside, the 60s are working out pretty well also.
- Walt Crawford
sudden downpours tonight (which we MUCH needed!!!) knocked over all my tomatoe plants (even though they were in cages) :(
if you facebook, one of the local news stations put up a slideshow of pics @ http://www.facebook.com/album...
- chaz2b
When we have very little winds for a long time my dad will knock the plants around a little every day (sometimes twice a day) to help toughen the stems. He looks like a crazy person but it helps.
- <3Heather<3
thanks for the tip, :)
- chaz2b
awwe :(
- Lit
looks like we wernt only ones had bad weather, http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1563...
- chaz2b
Hampton Roads hit by flooding, lightning in severe storm http://hamptonroads.com/2010...
- chaz2b
Lightning may have caused two fires in Hampton; 2,100 people without power on Peninsula http://www.dailypress.com/news...
- chaz2b
Oh wow. That sounds like a big storm.
- Anika
Don't need such a storm, but rain would be nice. Sorry about your tomato plants. :-(
- Marvin Smith
"Rain totals from tonight's storms in Hampton Roads: Hampton/Fox Hill 4.82" ORF 4.62" Ghent 4.46" Virginia Beach/Oceana 3.49" Langley AFB 3.16" - Mike Harvey"
- chaz2b
(it only rained maybe two hours :o)
- chaz2b
Enjoyed a delicious homemade, homegrown tomato pizza for supper this evening, and it was cooked outdoors on the gas grill so we didn't have to turn on the oven and heat up the house.
- Marvin Smith
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Our next-door neighbours
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Back when we lived in Ascot, England.
- I like big Botts
from email
You lived in one of those columns next to the gate?
- imabonehead
how you supposed to knock?
- chaz2b
With a rocket launcher
- Mo Kargas
LOL @Mo
- Penny
Hehe. Grand. :) Nice one Mo. :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
A gated community?
- Marvin Smith
I seeeee you! http://maps.google.com/...
- Kevin Fox
Nice work, Kevin. A little scary, but Nice work.
- Brent - Yes I am
The weird thing is, this gate doesn't lead to a house. It's just a strip of land. #Ineedalife
- Brent - Yes I am
Google maps is a little overly intrusive!
- Halil
It actually leads to "The Long Ride," part of the Royal Ascot Racecourse. Her Majesty would come through here in a golden carriage on her way to the races.
- I like big Botts
from FreshFeed
Well done, Kevin! Here was our house: http://maps.google.com/maps... (we were in #7; they're numbered clockwise from the road in, so ours was the second on the right.)
- I like big Botts
+ Micah I like your style. :)
- Melanie Reed
Glenn, how did you guys ever survive without any trees around you? My God Man!
- Brent - Yes I am
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