AAASTINKIE is HERE!!

NorthernWinos · Jun 11, 2007

Usually our house stays prety nice...I open the windows at night and close it up during the day....but...tonight it will only get into the 70's....So...time to install the 'window-units'...we need central air a few times a year.

Humid with heat index in the 90's today and tomorrow...Us Northerners just can't take this heat....but....everything is growing like crazy.

grapeman · Jun 11, 2007

jobe05 said:
A couple of things Frank................

The "Herbs"....... When I was younger, I experimented with a plant that looks simular to the one growing near the stick in the picture............... Mine however was not an herb..........

Weed(s) really grows up here in the north - and Jobe I was thinking the same thing only I didn't like weeds. I always had to pull them(actually I still do). The State uses helicopters every year to ferret out the little "patches" growing around. You would be surprised how many patches of "weeds" there are growing in corn fields and brushy areas. Usually their are harvests where dump trucks come in and haul the stuff off. If it's too much and in the relative open- they burn it in huge piles. They don't advertise burn days to prevent "sight-seers".

Once when I was hunting, I was going through a really thick area of brush, but it looked more open off to the side, so I made my way there. When I got there, most of the "crop" had been harvested. There were bundles of the stems(low value I guess) left on the ground like firewood. Some of the stumps were six inches across and a few unharvested plants were a good 12 feet high. After a quick look around, I hastily retreated. I had stumbled onto someones garden and I didn't want to get caught trespassing. I didn't tell anyone about it- didn't dare (I live near there). The next year the landowner and a couple others were put away for a few years for "gardening".

I stick to corn and tomatoes and now grapes and apples.

I don't know how you stand that heat Stinkie!

PolishWineP · Jun 11, 2007

I had to break down today and turn on the A/C when I got home. At 9:30pm we're still at 84 w/a dew point of 67. Not what I would call good sleeping weather. And Poor Bert knows what he'll suffer if I don't sleep well.

Poor Bert... He's really a prince of a guy...