Chit Chat in VOLTVILLE Thread #2 :)

[Renolizzie]

I'm going to get my seeds started soon. I'll start with tomatoes and peppers and go from there. We can't plant until May 15th or even June 1st anyway so no point in getting started too soon.

It rained and rained today. So nice!!!!!! We might even get a bit of snow tonight. Yay!!!! Hubby doesn't have to work tomorrow so perfect timing.

I went out and did poop patrol in the rain after feeding the critters. Really, just a good excuse to wander around the yard in the rain

I may have some watermelon seeds you can have, Trit. I'll look at what we've got. We always grow Desert King yellow watermelons and New Queen watermelons.

 

[awsum140]

Beefsteaks just aren't the same thing, Sandy. These are a very old seed line with no hybridization at all. Beefsteaks are a hybrid, today, for the most part. We originally bought them in a grocery store as ripe tomatoes, then saved the seeds and grew more ourselves. That was before we had the house and garden by a number of years and we ran out of seeds for them. I have yet to find the same specific tomato.

 

[SandySu]

Good night, though I may check back.

Here's another sign of spring I'm waiting to see: a robin.

 

[SandySu]

Wow! I wish I was close enough to visit the ice caves on Lake Michigan. Look at these photos and the video. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/15/lake-michigan-ice-caves_n_4782719.html

 

[Tritium]

A few of them are:

Classic beefsteak

Pink Accordion

Marmande Superprecode

You can check them out Tomato Varieties: Home, Lawn, & Garden

 

[Tritium]

Oh here is an interesting video about a dying spirit.

 

[awsum140]

moanin' Voltville.

What's interesting to me is that while Sony is trying to reduce noise on a digital audio system the sale of vinyl discs for analog players is on the rise, again. Yeah, they're not really portable, but there is some kind of "magic" about a turntable and record. It's a shame that Sony is running out of breakthrough ideas at the moment, but sometimes the well can run low on water.

 

[Tritium]

Analog audio has the highest quality anyway but the noise is hard to control in analog systems.
Digital is just a representation of the analog signal, suffers huge losses but it's easy to control noise.

 

[awsum140]

That's part of the "magic" of records, those cracks and pops from specks of dust on the vinyl. I really can't hear the difference between a clean vinyl record and a CD so it's actually a moot point to me, but the "magic" of a turntable is hard to replace.

 

[awsum140]

The weather is closing in yet again. It's started snowing, very lightly and we may get from one to three inches before it turns to sleet/freezing rain/rain. There goes the ice-free driveway, again.

 

[tmcase]

We got clobbered last night with 9" of snow. We still had 3-4" before this started. Rave & her BF were here to help me with insulating and patching holes in my crawl space but left before the snow hit. She's on her way home now in this I'm worried but she is only nervous. Is there a difference? Anyway, she said she'd email me when she got home. Gawd I'm sooooo ready for Spring.

 

[SandySu]

Terry, I'm trying my best to get spring going with all the spring photos, but I don't think it's doing much good. Like Awsum, it's snowing lightly, with maybe 3" by tomorrow morning. No sleet predicted here, though. But the temperatures are up in the mid-20s, so it feels warm today, and Wednesday, it may actually go above freezing. We'll have rain then, though, they say, which should make the snow on the ground icy.

 

[awsum140]

We got about a half in of snow then it turned to sneet then to sleet. Now, it appears to be raining and I'm not going out to find out for certain. Our street has a nice coat of slush on it and if it is raining, that will probably turn into a nice coating of ice before they get out to spread salt.

Heck, Terry, 9" isn't all that much. The first year we were in this house we had 24" storms two weeks apart. We have been lucky, so far, this year though and have only gotten a few inches at a time. Actually it would have been better if it all came at once so it just had to be cleaned up once.

 

[tmcase]

We got about a half in of snow then it turned to sneet then to sleet. Now, it appears to be raining and I'm not going out to find out for certain. Our street has a nice coat of slush on it and ifit is raining, that will probably turn into a nice coating of ice before they get out to spread salt.

Heck, Terry, 9" isn't all that much. The first year we were in this house we had 24" storms two weeks apart. We have been lucky, so far, this year though and have only gotten a few inches at a time. Actually it would have been better if it all came at once so it just had to be cleaned up once.

Well this is the most we've gotten all Winter so it's kind of a big deal to me. We don't get 9" in Washington so it's a lot to me.

Rave made it home safely. She said the roads were clear all the way. Whoot!

 

[tmcase]

Terry, I'm trying my best to get spring going with all the spring photos, but I don't think it's doing much good. Like Awsum, it's snowing lightly, with maybe 3" by tomorrow morning. No sleet predicted here, though. But the temperatures are up in the mid-20s, so it feels warm today, and Wednesday, it may actually go above freezing. We'll have rain then, though, they say, which should make the snow on the ground icy.

Thanks for trying but I guess Spring will get here when it feels like it. I sure hope it's soon.

 

[Uncle]

Okay - I'm up North, in NYC this weekend, and know snow was predicted - which THANKFULLY is not a "storm" . . .However, will someone please tell THE PERSON IN CHARGE - It's enough already and to STOP . . . Or - At least bring on the rain to wash it all away . . . I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO SHOVEL OR DIG OUT THE CAR TOMORROW MORNING TO GET BACK ON THE ROAD . . . Just Sayin' ...

 

[Tritium]

Hi Uncle!

I'll mail some fireworks friends they might be able to send you some HUGE "firecrackers" you can blow away the snow in no time.

 

[SandySu]

Good night photo: spring lamb from the place around the corner from my house. This is from last year, and some of you may remember my visit with the lambs and their owner.

 

[Shawn Hoefer]

If Spring Lambs will help you folks in poorer climes than I, then let me offer this:

Our first lambs of the season...

 

[SandySu]

They are very cute, Shawn. What is it about baby animals that makes us see them as very cute?