Coffee

[Country Homesteader]

Good Morning @baymule and everyone else! Coffee is made and it's hot so come and get it!!!!!

 

[digitS']

airport in Orlando. Boarding

If air travel is the most advanced form of modern transportation then I guess I will need for Scotty to Beam Me Up to enjoy traveling any distance.

Most of the time that I was in Texas, it was an enjoyable time. There were some interesting a pleasant places to be. The endless highway miles of sameness across central Texas was almost beyond exhausting. It could have destroyed my pleasure in road travel.

I've enjoyed passenger train travel with that opportunity to wander into the different cars. I'm a little too bipedally unstable to take full advantage of it these days.

I've finished my oolong, granola, banana, and pear. Beam Me Up, Mr Scott.

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

i brushed my toof. i am only a ghost of my future self this early in the morning, but i've gotten another item scratched off my list already so that's good and i made a few people laugh already.

in my many travels across the country going from MI to NM where my sister is at i've driven the southern route more than the northern one a lot of times because i had some friends in MO that i could stop and visit and it was about half way so a nice break in the journey.

in OK and west TX it was always easy for me to just keep on going and sometimes i'd see this lump in the far distance that was a single tree and some road signs or an overpass or something that would break it up. the oddest thing i saw was a truck burning along the edge of the highway. nobody there, nobody stopped, just a truck burning. this was before cell phone days. the next stop was 30 miles away. never saw an armadillo...

 

[ducks4you]

Coffee with raisin bran this morning. DH insists on skim milk, BUT, also puts straight cream in his coffee, so I Steal some of it and make my own 1/2 and 1/2. Cannot abide milk water!
Took a look at WM for their coffee prices. I noticed that they don't even carry 8 o'clock Dark Italian Roast beans anymore, or ANY whole beans.
Glad that we order straight from the source. It comes packaged in a box of 4 with a divider, and I sometimes store full canning jars in it.

 

[GottaGo]

I've been MIA for a bit, but I thought I'd say hi and enjoy a cup myself. Someone raided my Vanilla Caramel creamer at the office (again) so I in turn raided someone's half n half. Talk about chain reactions, lol.

I hope everyone has been doing well. Been an interesting few months that has kept me busy. Starting to plan the coming season and trying some new varieties this year, in hopes to break the 'bad crop year' cycle.

 

[ducks4you]

That's what is nice about TEG. We all drop in and out and live our lives in between growing/admiring the growth of plants.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I had my cup of coffee while talking on the phone to my best friend's daughter while she drives to Wichita. Her mother is being transferred from the smaller town hospital to Wichita. I have been friends with her mother for 50 years. Her health has been getting worse and worse and I told her for 2 months she needed to go to the ER, but she just insisted that it was not that bad, but she finally called an ambulance. She is in heart failure, has atrial fib, which she was supposed to be on medication for but insisted she did not have it and she has fluid in her legs and may be going into kidney failure. I am not sure what the plan is yet, but the smaller hospital was not able to take care of her. I tried to rake leaves but they are just plastered to the ground. I am not sure what the plan will be for all these leaves. Maybe when things dry up just mow them with the grass catcher or I am going to rake and make a bin for them and let them just rot down. It would take so many sacks to fill to take to the dump. The neighbor usually gets his leaves raked up but this fall it snowed before all the leaves even fell and then fell into the snow and we still have some snow and ice on the ground. The apple trees still have leaves. I noticed my neighbor's apple tree still has leaves too. Strangest thing and the mountain ash tree has some left and when we get a breeze I see leaves falling like it is fall.

 

[GottaGo]

@Gardening with Rabbits We have had the same thing, not all leaves down (that happens usually end of December) and we seem to have every other day of rain, then we got some snow (that's normally a late January thing) and though I know it's 'healthy' to leave the leaves down for bugs and assorted ground critters, the wet weight is going to smoother my daffys and likely some of my perennials if I don't lighten the leaf load soon. Does anyone have a 700MPH leaf blower to borrow?

 

[ducks4you]

You know I own a Harbor Freight special leaf blower and it really does a good job. It lives in my barn bc I periodically use it to knock down the cobwebs.
Sometimes DD's borrow it for Their corner lot leaves from the old 40 ft tall city trees--we live on 5 acres, few deciduous trees--but last Fall it was so windy that their leaves mostly blew east, like mine do, so little Fall cleanup.
Now that I have a brand new, in the box, bag push mower, I will be at their place in November to mulch/bag up/fill up lawn/leaf bags for My gardens.

 

[GottaGo]

You know I own a Harbor Freight special leaf blower and it really does a good job. It lives in my barn bc I periodically use it to knock down the cobwebs.
Sometimes DD's borrow it for Their corner lot leaves from the old 40 ft tall city trees--we live on 5 acres, few deciduous trees--but last Fall it was so windy that their leaves mostly blew east, like mine do, so little Fall cleanup.
Now that I have a brand new, in the box, bag push mower, I will be at their place in November to mulch/bag up/fill up lawn/leaf bags for My gardens.

Special? What's the MPH on it?