Homegrowngoodnes
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Wow! Authentic Virginia penguins in their native habitat!
Deluxestogie Grow Log 2022
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Well January is nearly over and February is short. Around here March always gives you a week or so of decent teaser weather, then you're into April and just a hop skip and a jump into May. So really it's only like a couple of weeks. That's how I trick myself. (It doesn't work).
Looking out my back porch window, I can hear these birds chirping. Spring is just around the corner.
Bob
C-3PO explains directions for getting back to Alberta.
Bob
I came out of my hole this morning, and saw my shadow. That means: 1) Earth has not significantly altered its elliptical orbit around the Sun; 2) that Earth's rotation period is still fairly stable; and 3) Earth's axial tilt has not resulted in a meaningful precession during my lifetime. But then, you probably recall hearing the same thing every year.
Bob
Bob
I'm Not Alone in the Universe!
Martian Codger.
This proof was captured by the Perseverance rover yesterday, on Mars.
Bob
Martian Codger.
This proof was captured by the Perseverance rover yesterday, on Mars.
Bob
While traveling in a different Martian landscape in 2019, I found this bearded codger:
Arizona Codger.
Bob
Arizona Codger.
Bob
Homegrowngoodnes
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Yep, 3 codgers now. Martian codger, arizona codger, and old codger! 
How to Kill Honeybees
I always begin my day with a huge mug of coffee. If I want coffee later in the day, then it has to be decaffeinated. This afternoon, I made a mug of the decaf coffee, and sat out on my porch in the 60°F temp. After about a half-hour, a honeybee landed on the rim of the mug. I swished my hand toward it, to shoo it away. Instead it plopped itself into my coffee. It swam around a bit, until I could gently pour it out onto the porch floor. The bee walked about 12", then stopped, never to budge again. Totally dead!
The coffee had no cream and no sugar. No flavoring. The coffee had already reached ambient temperature, when the honeybee went for a dip. Just ordinary, decaffeinated drip coffee.
Bob
I always begin my day with a huge mug of coffee. If I want coffee later in the day, then it has to be decaffeinated. This afternoon, I made a mug of the decaf coffee, and sat out on my porch in the 60°F temp. After about a half-hour, a honeybee landed on the rim of the mug. I swished my hand toward it, to shoo it away. Instead it plopped itself into my coffee. It swam around a bit, until I could gently pour it out onto the porch floor. The bee walked about 12", then stopped, never to budge again. Totally dead!
The coffee had no cream and no sugar. No flavoring. The coffee had already reached ambient temperature, when the honeybee went for a dip. Just ordinary, decaffeinated drip coffee.
Bob
It's a Miracle!
I just went out to my porch, more than 3 hours after the unfortunate demise of the honeybee, to photograph it. I picked its lifeless body up from the porch, and placed it into my hand. That is the photo above. Rather than toss it back onto the floor, I tipped it onto my chair-side table.
It moved! It moved its legs. I'm guessing that it was chilled from getting wet, and will have to await the warmth of tomorrow to fly back to the hive, and tell all the other bees that I tried killed it.
Bob
I just went out to my porch, more than 3 hours after the unfortunate demise of the honeybee, to photograph it. I picked its lifeless body up from the porch, and placed it into my hand. That is the photo above. Rather than toss it back onto the floor, I tipped it onto my chair-side table.
It moved! It moved its legs. I'm guessing that it was chilled from getting wet, and will have to await the warmth of tomorrow to fly back to the hive, and tell all the other bees that I tried killed it.
Bob
Homegrowngoodnes
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Never heard of Bee.p.r. lol
Honeybee communication has been known for over a half-century. Here is a brief article from a 1998 PBS broadcast.
Bob
This morning.
After lunch.
Bob
This is leaf from my stalk-harvested, air-cured MD609 orphan plants, grown in 2021. They were smaller than the main MD609 planting, slightly later to mature, but ultimately nearer the door (i.e. could be reached) in my curing shed. The leaf was subsequently kilned for 2 months, then rested for only 1 week.
Smoked straight, it is smooth, bite-free, and offers a medium nicotine level. The aroma is subtle and enjoyable. There are no highlights or lowlights in its aroma profile. I have smoked about a half-dozen bowls of this, with no complaint. Its pouch aroma is rather bland.
For some reason, my first attempts at blending with the MD609 seemed to bring out undesirable traits in the other ingredients. I'll look back through my earlier pipe blends that used @BigBonner's MD609 successfully, and find a better starting point. I suspect that my main crop 2021 MD609 will be darker and richer than this batch.
Bob
Satellite photo of the cargo space of a Japanese vehicle positioned in an American driveway.
Our observers have determined that seed starting and garden bed preparations are imminent, though the final decision as to a specific date is uncertain.
Bob
Who Needs Peloton?
With a bright yellow plastic bag in one hand, and a trekking pole in the other, I exercised for 20 minutes for free. No shipping fees. No subscription fees. No need for a "gym" either.
The only road that runs along my yard consists of about 150 feet of frontage. Moving slowly down the near side of the road, then crossing and returning along the far side of the road (always facing any oncoming traffic), I engaged in knee bends, back bends, lifting and occasional vehicle dodging, to pick up the roadside trash that friends and neighbors (near and far) were considerate enough to place there for me.
These abandoned artifacts were mostly indicative of guilty pleasures: assorted ethanol containers (probably teens), snack wrappers (probably adults on a spouse's insufferable diet of arugula and quinoa), and plastic smokeless containers (clearly grown men not physically capable of lugging the thin bit of plastic from their giant, high-clearance, 3-ton, dually-wheeled, spotlessly waxed and polished pickup trucks into their homes).
I'm not sure if I can keep this up three days a week. TIP: the bright yellow bag is a lifesaver when engaged in this activity along a blind curve on a two-lane highway.
Bob
EDIT: I may or may not have uttered some harsh words along the way.
With a bright yellow plastic bag in one hand, and a trekking pole in the other, I exercised for 20 minutes for free. No shipping fees. No subscription fees. No need for a "gym" either.
The only road that runs along my yard consists of about 150 feet of frontage. Moving slowly down the near side of the road, then crossing and returning along the far side of the road (always facing any oncoming traffic), I engaged in knee bends, back bends, lifting and occasional vehicle dodging, to pick up the roadside trash that friends and neighbors (near and far) were considerate enough to place there for me.
These abandoned artifacts were mostly indicative of guilty pleasures: assorted ethanol containers (probably teens), snack wrappers (probably adults on a spouse's insufferable diet of arugula and quinoa), and plastic smokeless containers (clearly grown men not physically capable of lugging the thin bit of plastic from their giant, high-clearance, 3-ton, dually-wheeled, spotlessly waxed and polished pickup trucks into their homes).
I'm not sure if I can keep this up three days a week. TIP: the bright yellow bag is a lifesaver when engaged in this activity along a blind curve on a two-lane highway.
Bob
EDIT: I may or may not have uttered some harsh words along the way.
Homegrowngoodnes
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Imagine towing a vehicle from there...
I haven't the slightest idea how that subject arose.
Bob
Edit: I understand now: a Rorschach association.
Bob
Edit: I understand now: a Rorschach association.
Homegrowngoodnes
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U were talking how the yellow bag keeps you safe around a blind corner...similar to ppe that tow drivers wear.
I can't complain about my weather. We needed rain here. We didn't need an ice storm or snow storm.
Engraved above the entry to the post office, it says clearly, "Whenever it rains or sleets or hails, we will deliver only junk mail to your mailbox."
I was tempted to ignor the mail, when it arrived in the mailbox. But I was expecting a UPS parcel delivery at exactly mystery o'clock today. UPS might flag my parcel as undeliverable, or some other blighted state. I always wear 7" high backpacking boots that are waterproof, which could safely stomp out there and back, through the swampy grass. But I really don't like cleaning mud off the uppers.
As a trial run, I walked out to get the junk mail with heavy-duty, plastic, grocery bags over my boots, and held them on with large rubber bands. A single trekking pole added stability to my squishy footing.
This worked beautifully. I threw the mail into the trash. When I heard the UPS truck pull up along the road, I signaled to the driver to just leave the parcel beside the mailbox, and that I would go out to pick it up. He seemed to be happy with that option.
All this flooding should be mostly gone by tomorrow morning.
Bob
Engraved above the entry to the post office, it says clearly, "Whenever it rains or sleets or hails, we will deliver only junk mail to your mailbox."
I was tempted to ignor the mail, when it arrived in the mailbox. But I was expecting a UPS parcel delivery at exactly mystery o'clock today. UPS might flag my parcel as undeliverable, or some other blighted state. I always wear 7" high backpacking boots that are waterproof, which could safely stomp out there and back, through the swampy grass. But I really don't like cleaning mud off the uppers.
As a trial run, I walked out to get the junk mail with heavy-duty, plastic, grocery bags over my boots, and held them on with large rubber bands. A single trekking pole added stability to my squishy footing.
This worked beautifully. I threw the mail into the trash. When I heard the UPS truck pull up along the road, I signaled to the driver to just leave the parcel beside the mailbox, and that I would go out to pick it up. He seemed to be happy with that option.
All this flooding should be mostly gone by tomorrow morning.
Bob
