General Discussions - 2012 - Chapter 38

LOL, cute.

Hmmm Wonder If they could be used in METHANE production. LOL

Russ, do you have Methane gas? When I lived in Seattle they had Methane coming out of an old landfill. They lit it and it burned there for years. Just one vent. Nothing big, just like maybe a torch. Yup years. Wonder if it is still burning. LOL

Should ask my daughter if it is still burning.

Well It would depend on how much was put in the landfill.
As long as there is organic material there that will digest it will produce methane. We have some swampy areas that produce a little but that just bubbles a little, you would have to lay a very large sheet of rubber roofing over a large area to get enough to burn for a while.
I know out in Peoria IL. the treatment plant gets all their power from the methane, enough to run a big Cat engine and generator, they probably sell some of the power to the electric company too.
Sioux City has a couple methane reclaiming structures at the waist treatment plant. quite often I see fire on the tall pipe that lets off the excess. I don't know if they are utilizing it to the full extent or not.
I did play around with methane a little, I had an old 1 cylinder JD E series water boy engine. I raised rabbits and put a few shovels of their poop in one barrel and topped it off with water, and plumed a couple more barrels to that one. After a while I was able to run that engine off the methane that it produced. I was trying to get hog and cattle farmers to build digesters for their own power. I guess they looked at a very small unit and didn't see the potential what their operation could be. Maybe I should try it again with the chicken poop. after it is done producing all its methane it is a better fertilizer that won't burn any of the garden veggies.
My kids might say Dad that is just something that could blow up and hit you in the head again. darn kids anyway. lol

LOL pill bugs!

@digger

I hope you replanted those nut trees somewhere else. Was this a recent activity? :))

Has anyone seen this? It's about tomato nutrients, or lack of. I found it on Facebook...

http://5e.plantphys.net/article.php?ch=t&id=289

Jinxi , There is a tap root that if cut , will kill the tree . The pecan had a tap root over three foot deep . Had to be cut . Don't know about the walnut , Could only have planted it in the woods . I just gave up on them both ,altho I know what you're saying . .

@digger,

I figured you for a digging kinda person... and I was joking that the recent activity was the result of my posting of the juglone. You probably knew about it.

Oh . no , That happened almost 20 yrs ago when we first cleared this spot in the woods and started planting . I really did want the trees and wish I had put out more pecans . Wouldn't have to buy them now .Nope , you didn't have anything to do with it . Hugs

LOL, Russ, I was just thinking the same thing. Leave it alone. jeanette

Russ, Jnette's right , stop playing around and inventing things that can hurt you . The bicycle was enough .
Just think , this time last year , we was winding up for the trip to Colorado .
We just had a steel roof put on the rent trailer , so not spending much this summer on unneeded stuff . Camp looks a bit messy , but really wasn't . Just trying to keep shade over all us . Hugs to you and Barb

Doesn't look messy at all Digger. Looks very comfortable. Wind chimes too!! LOL, never known anyone to take those with them. Who are the 3 Musketeers?? Jeanette

Hmmm...are they trying to talk their way out of something??? Doesn't look like he is buying it (wink)

How much gold did you bring back Russ?? LOL!!

Connie

That is Russ , the park ranger , and Johnny Crumley . I asked to take a picture of the three of them together .
Russ made the wind chimes and brought them for me as a gift . They have beautiful tone , and I love it when the wind blows enough to make them "sing".
Russ worked hard enough for it , so we sent him home with all the gold that was gotten . Very little , because the water was still so high . Couldn't get our 4" dredge in to recover enough to split . A good time was had for all , but another month , the water would have been down and not so swift .

I knew the one was Russ. The park ranger and John look almost like brothers.

Yes, the rivers don't go down round here until almost August. Doesn't make for very good fishing either.

I had forgotten that Russ makes the wind chimes. Bet they are nice.

Hi Connie. How is your garden this year?

Connie; just enough gold to see it in the vile. The friends and the experience have the most value. Sally & Johnny give me just of the bug, that in between all my catching up and being knocked down with this sinus thing and nasty headaches and surgery and all, that I'm attempting to build a small dredge to use in a couple of rivers a little closer to home. There is an IA gold Prospectors club on the other side of the state, that I would like to find time to get to some of their meetings. With everything that has been going on here It hasn't happened yet but I'm in contact with them. & they have been finding a little. Apparently enough to tickle their fancy.
Digger; in getting material for repairing the water line and having to move the location of some of the lines under the house, I have enough hard copper left over that I'm going to build a chime out of copper. can hardly wait, but I have this big pile of dirt setting on my lawn that needs to go back in the trench first. Then there is the promise that Barb made to me that we would set up camp, with the pop-up camper down along the river and spend about 3 days just fishing. I wanted to stay another week out in Colorado but she wanted to get back home. Think she was concerned about her next eye appointment, that we would be cutting the timing a little close. We need to try preserve as much of her sight as we can.
I don't have much of a garden this year, just enough to keep me busy. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, some white potatoes, some sweet potatoes and a new blue berry bush.
One of my daughters has ripe tomatoes already but I wasn't as quick with getting things in this year. But I guess it's better late than never. lol
Russ

Wow ripe tomatoes already. Mine are just starting to bloom. It is so cold here that I don't think they will ever do much. LOL, now didn't I say that last year? Shoe, where are you? Guess I will have to go on the tomato forum to find him. He did something and got me ripe tomatoes last year. Best ever.

It will probably turn real hot without any in between. No spring. Isn't summer starting this next week? My poor plants are having to make do with hydrogen peroxide right now. Otherwise their roots would rot.

I had to pick on ya just a little there Russ lol!! Too good of a pic not to :)

Jeanette, our garden is doing well. Thanks so much for asking :) We are having to do lots of watering so far this year. Not getting much rain at all in this area. How did you get your tomatoes ripe last year? I am thinking you were having problems with them not blooming or something like that. Are you giving your plants hydrogen peroxide in the bales?? Does that give the roots more oxygen??

Connie

Hey I don't mind being picked on, usually brings a smile to this old wrinkled face. That is when I think of a come back. lol

Good news on todays Dr. visit. He was amazed at how well I was getting along. But had me get more of the irrigating fluid with an antibiotic in it. Which should nip the rest of the infection.
An he said that if I had any problems not to hesitate to call. You can take this bet to the bank; if I start to get headaches like I had; I'll be getting him in off the golf course!
My maters should be growing today. it's hot and humid. The thermometer in the shade is at 91 the one out in the sun says 106 and the humidity is about 96%. should also give the sweet taders
a big push.
Oh also got the first egg from the chickens I started in March. One little omelet coming up. ha ha
Russ

Russ, I think that egg was from my chicken. You never sent me a picture of her.

So glad to hear the good news. You better believe you will find that dr. He might be sorry he said that.

Yes Connie on the peroxide. I give it because I am not sure how much moisture is in the bales. But, I do have them in the hoophouse. If I didn't they would be drowned like everything else by now. I am really giving everything peroxide. It is just mud in these containers. I don't do anything in the ground.

Don't think we are going to get out of the 50s today. Can you believe it? Almost July!! The cucumbers rotted. I forgot peroxide on them. They had just germinated. Guess I will try them again. Good grief.

How are Barb's eyes doing Russ? Sure sorry for her. It sounds like Connie did good after her surgery. Couldn't believe it when you said she showed up to get her car. I didn't know she was even out of the hospital.

Well, cleaning house today. Just stopped by to chat a minute and rest. ttyl,

A one egg omelet , with ham and cheese and of course , diced tomatoand onion . What a feast ! lol
I had Johnny drive me about 20 miles to a peach barn . I always buy the culls and over ripe . The freestone won't be coming in for another week , so got about 1/2 bushel , a big watermelon and a canalope . They are a little higher than a grocery store but can't get peaches that cheap anywhere else. I'll go back next Monday for the sweeter peaches, and tomorrow , I have a coupla patches of blackberries scoped out to start picking . They've been getting ripe for a week now .The peach barn wanted 24 dollars a gallon for them and those were from cultivated thornless plants , not as good . This has been the best year for them in ages . Usually , the late , April freeze gets the bloom . This year we had a light freeze that spared most of them .
Happy dance for you , Russ .Sick is bad but when you have so much you want to do makes it even worse . Love ya and Barb

Nope, this egg is from the Barred rocks. So you can't have it naa naa naa LOL
Was going to send the pic of that one but when DG is up I can't find it But I have decided that it looks more like a Rhode Island Red, than the sex links " Comets" If I can find it again I'll see if I can email it.

Just don't send me a picture of one you are having for Sunday dinner.

Wow! Sally, I love wild blackberries. I agree with you on the cultivated ones. We used to get such good ones in Seattle but they don't grow over here this side of the mountains. So a couple of years ago we went down to one of the farms and picked some. Bob wouldn't even eat them. Said they were not blackberries.

Gosh, none of that stuff will be on here for months yet.

J, I googled your area a year or so ago and think it is beautiful . Too bad you don't have longer summers .

Yes Sally, it is pretty up here. Very lush 'cause we have gotten so much rain so far this "spring"? I don't think I could take the heat you all get. I suppose I, like all of you, would get used to it. But, yes, we don't have very long summers.

I don't know where you googled, 'cause Washington has 3, at least, different types of landscape, for want of a better word. Not a very good word, but it is late. The coast is very temperate with a lot of rain. Then, the Cascade mountain range divides it, about a 3rd of the state, from the middle which is very desert like. Dry and hot. They grow a lot of produce. Then the last part, EAst, which is us, the last 3rd, is quite green. We have 4 very definite seasons. Spring, summer, fall and winter. The dry area has the same only less snow. The Coast is zone 8 and quite damp. That is Washington state. It is about 400 miles across, and probably that much or more from north to south. Everything from skiing to deep sea fishing and in between.

LOL, probably more than you ever wanted to know about us. Do I sound like a Chamber of Commerce? Didn't mean to. 'nite. Jeanette

It is a beautiful state! I used to ride my motorcycle all over it 30 some years ago.

Deception Pass, north side of Whidbey Island.

Beautiful Doug. Where did you live when you were here?

It is too bad that we can't all share our weather so we all have fairly warm, temperate without terrible winters and horrendously hot summers. Wouldn't that be nice? Guess we wouldn't have anything to complain about then tho. :0)

I was stationed on Whidbey Island in 77-78 in the Marines.

Nice place to be stationed. :0)

A master Gardner AND a marine ! I'm in tall cotten . lol & hugs .

And a good cook to boot!!!!

Doug , my dh watches all the cooking shows . I get sick of them and could enjoy if he cooked Anything . Nope ! He'll sit and starve before he fixes a simple sandwich , waits for me to do it . I spoiled him when we first married and he got used to it . Live and learn .
Put up 11 qts of peaches in the freezer yesterday and picked , put up five qts of wild blackberries today . I like to have waited too long for the blackberries , the big ones had dropped off and just small ones left . Found them on a high line cut . I'll be ready next year , hope the crew doesn't cut them back next spring . I'm making another trip to the peach orchard in a few days , the really sweet ones will be ready .

Digger; sure wish we were able to make the trip down there. We won't have any fruit trees bear this year due to a frost when all were in blossom. When peaches are shipped here, they have been picked green, they are hard as rocks, if you try to ripen them they just rot in the center.
I can only dream of biting into a peach and have the juice dribble on your chin. LOL

LOL, guess that is why they are Georgia peaches Russ. Gosh their produce comes on way ahead of ours and yours.

Russ and Jnette , I've gained three pounds this week on peaches and ice cream . . Going to a roundup tomorrow and it will be salads and raw veggies for me next week .

LOL, Sally, it wasn't the peaches. That's ok. Only happens once a year, right? Until the next time anyway.

Yep , it was the ice cream then . Three times a day and a late snack . Got my fill for another month tho , the freezer has enough for twice a month till this time next year . Once a year ? what about Christmas , Thanksgiving ,and all those Chinese buffetts in between ? lol

I'm sure you will figure something out. Sure does sound good.

Pic of my first SB Garden so far!! Just picked my first squash and the tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and peppers are doing great! My green beans may not make it tho.. not sure why.. they were real punny and yellow so added blood meal.. that helped & they greened up some but still slow growing..added miracle grow... we'll see.. but I'm very happy with everything else!! That's my new chicken coop in the background.. lol!

Your veggies look great, JaxGma! Love the coop, did you make it yourself? That design is great, I've got one somewhat similar. Do you have chickens in it yet?