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@Dirtmechanic it's definitely a bonus for a garden if your soil is poor, but it also is very hard to build up in a garden if you don't keep your organic materials in the garden. when i look around here, this is all fairly flat, it used to be swampy, built up some great amount of actual topsoil...

i love candied ginger. so much that i can't even buy it in larger quantities as then i eat it all. to make ginger tea here i used to use powdered ginger and brown sugar or honey. now i don't get that out very often.

brrr! this morning wasn't too cold taking out the trash, but windy to make up some of the difference. today is sunny and fairly warm. no flowers out yet.

just a few sticking in his pawz...

humic acid is an incredibly complex molecule... "Humic acid has the average chemical formula C187H186O89N9S1 and is insoluble in strong acid (pH = 1)." i.e. it is not very likely to have a major direct impact upon sweetness other than encouraging other organisms in the soil community in very...

doing ok thanks. keep on keeping on... :)

if you have to go out it may be a challenge to stay upright and also hold on to your hat at the same time! we may see the sunshine tomorrow for the first time in several days.

raining this morning but not very cold out there (now about 61F going up to about 66F) then back down to mid 30F overnight. coming Wed night down below freezing and a chance of some snow again (doesn't sound major but dunno for sure - but currently no plans to break out the shovels).

i've been cutting Mom's hair for several years now - she gets compliments all the time from her friends. i buzz cut my own every 6-8 weeks or so.

storm came through a bit ago and interrupted the internet connection but other than that it was just some rain and a little thunder and lightning. someone mentioned possible tornado in southern MI.

i ran them through the worm buckets partially crushed and then put them in the gardens the next spring. i don't usually find them again in the gardens after that but i'm sure there's a few spots i could probably find them. i wouldn't be surprised if the birds eat whatever bits they can find.

no i saw that right away before even reading the caption/question...

we had a station wagon, and Mom had some smaller car before that and then after that it was a Skylark, a Chevette and a Capri which i was given when i got my license and i had that car until my first summer after my first year at college and my brother broke the timing chain while i was out west...

had the full moon to the direct west of me this morning when the sun was coming up. clear sky and sunny and the cardinal is out there singing up a storm (ok, not a storm but definitely making a lot of sound :) )...

:) I hope you will have a nice day there! :)