Saturday Cup of Joe 5/12/18

raineray

Pour yourself a mug of your favorite morning brew. Pull up a chair and join us for our morning roll call here on the BBB.

"Nothing will work unless you do." Maya Angelou

raineray

Good Morning BBB.
Rain off and on all day here. Heading downtown for meetings.
Hold down the fort.

DocSkippy

Bored before play. State inspection then meeting electrician for ceiling fan installs. I did a walk through yesterday and think we have a plan for landscaping. Found a irrigation company to do sprinkler system.

Afternoon spent at favorite brewery for the brew and blue festival with some friends.

Go caps !!!!

Cheers

mcee1

Good Morning

Watering deep and consistent with new shrubs, trees is important Skip

Raine, some swear burying a statue of St Joseph upside down facing the house in the front yard will bring a quick sale.

Gloomy cold morning here. Glad I put all my plants in the garage last night.

Enjoy the day!

manladdvm

Mornin' BBB.

The fact the landscaper did the plantings and sod without some kind of plan to keep them watered is maddening and just plain incompetence. Good job on getting a sprinkler system, it will be worth it.

Raining here too, Raine. Going to work.

Steph, sounds like a smart move not spending the night in a tent with a dog tired DH.

Lou, great take on RPS.

Looking to maybe buy some 'mater plants today or tomorrow. Bales will be ready by next weekend. Technically not supposed to plant until Memorial Day in this neck of the woods. But elevated beds and bales are warm enough for the tomatoes root systems now. At least I've been told that ground temperature is of importance when planting tomatoes, not just chance of frost (can always cover plant with milk jug).

BBB OP ;-)

DavidKuhnsSr

Good morning BBB friends.

Had the grandkids for a few hours and it was so nice, we ate supper outside on the deck, followed by ice cream cones, for dessert. Great fun, eating cones with a 2 1/2 and a 4-year old. DS and DDIL are picking us up this morning, so we can all have a picnic lunch at a state park on the Sound, then head down to Olympia for the Wooden Boat Fest. Good times.

I finally actually got out in the shop and on my lathe, yesterday. I only worked for an hour and my hand started aching, so I knocked off. But, it felt like an important step forward.

DW has all her vegetable/fruit planting done, I think. Rather than one big garden plot, she has things planted all around the perimeter of the backyard, interspersed with flowers and shrubs. Now, if we can keep the deer out.

lowbar31

Good morning BBB Friends.

• I know it felt good to get a little lathe time Dave. Progress.
• Nice evening with the old work team last night. Kind of strange dining with the whales at the aquarium.
• Dry and hot here. Our rain and cooler temperatures are due Tuesday.
• Our winter pansies are really starting to droop. Time for the summer vincas.
• Hopefully Steve is enjoying the Rockies.
• Have a great weekend everyone.

podkey

I feel blessed that I have some tomato fruits on my Stupice and on my Siletz tomatoes. Both are early reliable varieties. Hope Dave has fun at the wooden boat fest in Olympia.
We ate our first picking of snap peas last night fresh from the garden into our salads. OMG YUM.
Lee you can "cheat" on the planting dates for sure as long as there are elements of heat and protection going on. I use wall-o-water around my tomato plants to get ripe ones two weeks early. Supposedly they can protect down to something like 19° or so. You do make a good point about ground temperature but I do know successful tomato raisers in New England that plant successfully in March using wall-o-water. Milk cartons and floating row covers have no thermal mass to really warm the air or the ground. Wall-o-water holds close to 5 gallons of water in their cylinder of vertical tubes around the plant. Hey whatever works is great in my book.