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MajorOz <MajorOz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 4, 10:23 am, Charlie wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 May 2008 09:54:26 -0700, Billy <wildbi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> > >In article
> > ><481c529e$0$14267$5a62a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
be given> wrote:
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> > >> <Charlie> wrote in message
> > >>news:p5gk1419v08guqnum1cnuetigskt0flhvj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> >I just set out the first of the 'mater plants. Siberian and
Subarctic,
> > >> > new heirlooms for me this year. Early, short season breeds. I
tried
> > >> > Stupice last year and wasn't overly impressed. This is the first
> > >> > spring that I haven't used a tiller. I started the lasagna
business
> > >> > last fall.
> >
> > >> > I was amazed at the number of earthworms I saw! There were
easily
> > >> > several dozen in each hole I dug for the transplants, several
adult
> > >> > worms and many small worms. This soil improvement business *is*
what
> > >> > it is cracked up to be.
> >
> > >> Surely you didn't doubt it Charlie?
> >
> > >> > ****, the weather monitor thingie just went off and informed us
we are
> > >> > in a 'nado watch 'til 1am.....nothing new hereabouts, but I still
> > >> > don't
> > >> > like it much. Tornados are hard on gardens!
> >
> > >> Ouch. I'm sure glad we don't get those blasted things here. I saw
on
> > >> the
> > >> news tonight that another one had killed more people in the US
again and
> > >> done a humungeous amount of damage. Hope you and your garden are
safe.
> >
> > >Uh, how's your garden today Charlie? I understand that a twister set
> > >down in KC and made a mess:-(
> >
> > Everthing well here, though it *is* effed up in KC. 40000 were
without
> > power and quite a few homes were destroyed, though only minor injuries
> > were re****ted so far. There was no warning or advance on them.
> >
> > Arkansas had serious damage and eight deaths (last I heard). One was
a
> > teenager asleep in bed and a tree fell thru the roof.
>
>
> Somehow, Ma Nature follows me around and gets pissy now and then.
> When I was a kid in NE, I survived a number of tornado close calls.
> While I was in college in Tempe AZ, the Salt River flowed (from
> diversion dam overflow) for the first time since the 30's, wiping out
> most of downtown Phoenix.
> In 1970 (71?), while stationed in the Mojave, THE BIG ONE hit.
I think that was '72. We lived in LA at the time. I was 10.
I remember the mess it made!
> Somewhere in the low 8's. Collapsed many freeway overp*****,
> destroyed a VA hospital, and almost blew a dam in north LA county --
> 200 thousand valley people evacuated. Lived 30 mi. from St. Helens
> when it blew.....twice.
Ok, sucks to be you. :-(
> Back to school at WSU (only school in PAC 10 where it snows) for the
> coldest winter since record keeping.
> Survived two typhoons and one super typhoon (an official term) while
> in Micronesia with Peace Corps in 94-96
> Ten years here with at least three nights a year in the bomb shelter,
> spillway at Table Rock Dam (Branson) opened for the first time EVER
> after the all-time record rains this winter, an 4.8 earthquake two
> weeks ago and a 4.4 a couple days ago, 38 tornado touchdowns in
> January, and my radishes are late.
> I am expecting frogs, locusts, and flies (already got ticks) any day.
>
> I am really a nice guy, but neighbors tend to move away.
>
> cheers
>
> oz, who doesn't even count backpacking through the USSR when the army
> threw Gorby in house arrest, and me with a USAF(ret) ID in my pocket.
Move to the hill country. The worst we've gotten in the 26 years I've
lived here is one bad hail storm. ;-) 'nadoes touched close a couple of
times but not close enough to cause harm!
Hail is hard on gardens tho'. <sigh>
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Peace! Om
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a *****."
-- Jack Nicholson
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