How Do You Feel Today? v4

[Menolly]

Our extended dry summer here on the Eastside of Seattle was predicted to end Thursday night/Friday morning with the prediction of our day long gray skies and all day mist/rain returning. Yay! The air quality here from wildfires, and the fires themselves, have been awful. I have been taking advantage of the dry weather, and left my tomatoes on the vine, as they were planted late and most of them are still green and hard as rocks.

This novice gardener has heard I can still ripen my tomatoes 'on the vine' by clipping them, bundling them together, and hanging them upside down in a protected space. I spent Thursday afternoon doing so, and wound up with three hanging bundles, as well as a window ledge of tomatoes which fell off the vine wrapped in newspaper.






I'm glad I got this done, as yesterday morning we had a pretty intense hail storm for about 5 minutes. If it hailed as hard in the community garden where my box garden is located, I think I would have lost most, if not all, of the tomatoes. I need to drive by and see how my collard greens and chard weathered the hail storm. But, I've been told those vegetables are hardy and can go through the first frost, so I'm hoping if slightly damaged that they'll bounce back.

Has anyone else done this with tomatoes? Does it work?

[Damelon]

Foggy morning. Winter is coming. 36° F/ 2° C. Frost on the cars. I’m hoping for a hard frost though to take care of the boxelder bugs that have been swarming on the back door the last couple of weeks soaking up the autumn sun. The old walnut tree in the front yard has shed 99% of its leaves and the big white oak has left a carpet of them in the back yard. If this carries on we will soon have the first snow of the season.

I’m kind of looking forward to the first snow. We adopted our dog after the last snow, in April. She is a rescue from Texas, and I want to see how she reacts to the white stuff when she sees it for the first time.

[Menolly]

I’m kind of looking forward to the first snow. We adopted our dog after the last snow, in April. She is a rescue from Texas, and I want to see how she reacts to the white stuff when she sees it for the first time.

Aww...

[sgt.null]

Moving today , tomorrow. We'll
The others are. I'm working two
Doubles. Need that 💰 🤑 💸 💲 💶 💵.

[Damelon]

Have a safe move. Say hi to Julie for me!

[Skyweir]

Today it is lashing down with rain as it always seems to these days on the SE coast of Oz .. thanks to the lovely la nina who has absolutely outstayed her welcome.

She was welcome when she first arrived after prolonged drought, bushfires and the like .. and well its the 3rd year and she's a bringer of much misery to a great many but on the flip side also beautiful lush green scapes .. wachagonado

[Cord Hurn]

I'm glad that the rain has been allowing your countryside to heal with greenery, Skyweir, especially after that disastrous fire of three years ago. Here in the Arizona desert, I think we'd LOVE to take that rain off of your hands for a while!

[sgt.null]

Have a safe move. Say hi to Julie for me!

I've done so. Julie says hi as well.

In the middle of the move.
In the new house, 10 minutes
From my job. Need to finish

Emptying our old house today.

[Menolly]

[Menolly]

Rabbit
Rabbit!
Rabbit!!

[Iolanthe]

Bruised! Yesterday I fell down the last four stairs and landed next to the front door. I banged my head and skinned my left elbow. The lump on my head has mainly gone but is still sore when touched. That's the second lump this week. The other day I bent down to pick up one of the dog's toys and banged my head on the piano getting up again. I really must be more careful. I certainly don't want another brain bleed!

Otherwise what can I say? It's raining again.

[peter]

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Io!

[Menolly]

And ouch again!

[Damelon]

I’ve been nibbling on too much candy this evening while watching the World Series.

[Avatar]

Thank gods the week is nearly over. Had some much appreciated rain for a good 6 or 7 hours last night, but it makes the cats difficult which means I sleep poorly.

End is in sight on a big dev project I've been sorta managing, should deploy next Wednesday, after which my life should be significantly easier for the rest of the year.

(Relatively speaking anyway, since our own 2 new data products are in the process of launching as well and I'm more involved there than I want to be, but I feel less obligation when it's internal stuff compared to client stuff. )

Need to book some time off, but realistically probably won't be until mid-December.

--A

[Damelon]

The issue of the day is that I have in my calendar my biannual dentist visit. However, they normally call the day before to confirm but they haven’t done so.

The bigger medical appointment is coming up on Monday morning. The over 50 checkup that requires fasting and purging the day before. That one I know I got right as they called me the other day to go over prep.

[StevieG]

Bruised! Yesterday I fell down the last four stairs and landed next to the front door. I banged my head and skinned my left elbow. The lump on my head has mainly gone but is still sore when touched. That's the second lump this week. The other day I bent down to pick up one of the dog's toys and banged my head on the piano getting up again. I really must be more careful. I certainly don't want another brain bleed!

Otherwise what can I say? It's raining again.

Hope you’re feeling better today Iolanthe.

[sgt.null]

Still moving. Tomorrow ends it

[Fist and Faith]

Feel better, Io!

What ends tomorrow, Sgt?

[Skyweir]

The torture of moving from one place to another is my guess…. the moving is one part ~ the unpacking another.

Good luck with it Null ♥�♥�♥�♥�