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Garden: To have or not to have

After two years of drought Joyce told herself unless we got decent moisture this winter she wasn’t going to bother with a garden this summer. Without some help from Mother Nature it is just too hard to get things to grow you see. Well that’s easy to say in August or September but then comes along a mild winter day to undermine one’s resolve. So, yesterday we fired up the chipper and finished the garden cleanup started some weeks ago. It’s unusual to have that chore done this early. I want to redo the rows by replacing the metal edging with 2X8 treated lumber. Last winter we made the mistake of letting the chickens in the garden. We could have hardly done otherwise since we didn’t have it fenced off. It was a treat for the chickens but they scratched a lot of the dirt out over metal edging which sort of defeated it’s purpose. Also, the edging has a tendency to get pushed out by the dirt and in places it lays so flat it doesn’t keep the dirt in or the grass out. Continue reading “Garden: To have or not to have” →

Java exploit

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There have been a few headlines here and there about a Javascript vulnerability that has surfaced. According to this Avast blog, there is legitimate cause for concern and they give some steps to take to protect your PC. I followed them without incident.

Basketball and more snow

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We got a little more snow Saturday. The leftovers from Christmas only just disappeared Friday and we’re back in the deepfreeze where we’ve been mostly since Christmas with the exception of Thursday and Friday. Saturday was a cold and dreary day but Sunday dawned bright and beautiful. A little more snow fell during the night so that the ground was covered.

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White Christmas on SA

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We were thwarted in our plans to travel to Garland on Christmas by the weather. For the second year in a row, it snowed on Christmas. Unlike last year’s gentle snowfall, this year the snow fell horizontally because of high winds. It started about 5 a.m. and continued most of the day. The flakes were small and it was hard to tell how much snow we got because the wind blew so hard it redistributed the snow unevenly. Maybe 2-4 inches. The wind made the 20 degree temperature hard to take, especially if one tried to walk into the wind. However, once we got to the neighbor’s house, we didn’t have to get out again until time to go home. We had breakfast, exchanged presents and played games in comfort. Pity those poor folks who had to contend with tornadoes on Christmas in some parts of the country. We will make our trip to Garland this weekend. Continue reading “White Christmas on SA” →

Cruising to Christmas

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Joyce and I finished wrapping our Christmas presents Saturday morning after breakfast. Joyce had already done a few but there were some large, odd-shaped items that were better handled by four hands rather than two. Later we took Barbara Howard one of the yummy strawberry bread loaves Joyce had baked and visited with her a while. The day started out chilly but there was little wind and there was some nice sunshine so we took advantage of the nice weather to work on cleaning up the garden. I had tried last weekend to get the shredder started without success but Bryant the Wizard said to take the air filter off and put in a couple of teaspoons of gas right into the carburetor. Sure enough, it started up. I had to do that several times before it would keep running. I guess it had been a couple of years since it was started. Anyway we shredded some of the garden growth, which is quite dead and brittle now. We didn’t finish but we made a pretty good start. Continue reading “Cruising to Christmas” →