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We had the longest winter, the coldest (for us). It seemes like its going on forever. We got two weeks in spring where the weather was hot.

Then we had a very wet period, yesterday it was boiling hot, today its cooler. I hate watering plants with no hosepipe.

:drum::03::waving:

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My garden club is meeting tomorrow at my place to view the garden. I'm exhausted from preparing, and now there is a 50% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow! :(

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I have a vent today. Im not pissed off but it just annoys me and thats about being called other peoples names. ive been called 2 other names by 7 people and the worst one was Kale. I dont even like kale, its worse than cauliflower! btw im not a girl and i dont grow roses.

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Don't feel bad; I LOVE cauliflower (except when it's cooked to mush) & I won't even touch kale! ;)

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Cauliflower? Eeeeew! We had a thread about that at another site and Gopi thinks it could be toxic. I wont even eat the cheese sauce.

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Ummm... unless ya make it yourself, there probably isn't any cheese in that stuff. :rolleyes:

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Yeah thats what they try to hide the taste with after they cook it, eeeew.

I cut my hand with the shovel when i was digging a pepper garden today. it has a gause on it now and i hope it doesnt leak!

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I doubt those forcasters can get any weather right,

:ha::ha:

No cheese in Caul unless as said by Bob3you add it.

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It is supposed to be 97 or 100 over the next few days here in Massachusetts. I think everywhere is warmer than CA right now.

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I think England is to get quite warm soon,

Not before time either.

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sometimes people can be really weird! :mad: Im staying in my room all day and just playing video games and i dont want to talk to anybody!

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Don't you think thats weird Kevin?

:woohoonaner::goteam::waving::ha::ha::ha:

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Bananas.org has this chatroom - and nobody wants to chat anymore!!!

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My brugmansia is getting eat up! I think its a cut worm, or some other type of catepillar. I checked everywhere, but no bugs. But every morning there is more and more damage. This is my first year growing Brugmansia and I just want some blooms! That wont happen if this bug keeps eating my plant. It it doing so well too. It makes me so angry :(

Good news is that my bananas got a ton of growth on them today with this heat! I hope I get some full plants soon but I dont have a ton of patience.

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No but it was boring and there should not be any curfews in the summer. Thats just too weird.

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work work work work work! :mad:
its 85 degrees and i had to help clear a whole field and i had to dig a garden yesterday and something always has to be done!

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I wanted to go to camp today and now maybe i have to wait 2 more weeks and everybody at the music forum don't even know what good music is cuz they voted for Wasted Penguinz and Psyko Punkz is epic! They need to wake up!

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We moved and now i dont have my tomatoes and peppers anymore! but i potted up some peppers and now there inside good so i still have those and i potted up a tomato plant to so i still have that. And i have to make new friends here and i dont know anybody and i dont like my new room but i can fix it and make it look really cool and thats a lot of work! i might start a new garden but its really late now but i can plant some peppers and my banana tree.

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i have a bad cold. i have to stop using a forum because of a violent thread on cults too.

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Big time zone difference, sorry.

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Sometimes folks don't have anything serious to complain about so they just complain about trivial things. And here I'm doing it myself.

We've got children and their families in Nicaragua that we sponsor and what has surprised me on our visits is that these kids that are going without food or decent shelter don't complain but are always smiling.

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I just noticed that there isnt a "no thanks" button at this forum.
If peeps didnt complain there wouldnt be any organizations helping those people. Then kids that got beaten by their parents wouldnt get any help and nobody would complain that they get beaten. Complaining changes everything and makes the world better.
Not complaining is not caring.
No way shes happy that shes hungry and peeps are dying. /vent

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Well I don't have anything to piss & moan about.. I say its all good!! :^)

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I stopped using my chain saw when I have to climb a ladder to cut branches
Instead I use my sawzall, if the blade gets stuck I flip the lever, leave the stuck blade in the tree...pop a new blade in & keep cutting
I do have 2 small electric chain saws that I ended up with, so use those sometimes now

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I have a few things to rant about. I agree with Yug that politics and stuff like that should be left out of this. :rolleyes:

The weather lately has been unbearable....hotter than hell! High of 111 degrees today! It's so hot that when I go to get into my car after it's been sitting in the sun, the steering wheel is so hot it's hard to touch! And when I first get in, it feels like I'm in a kiln...:2708:

I'm also sick of crazy drivers. They always tailgate me when I'm going the speed limit, and then zoom around me at like 10 miles an hour faster. I wish there were more cops around to bust these people for speeding.

Although, on a positive note, I've been taking care of my grandpa's garden because he's out of town in New York, and the figs are just starting to come in. Loads of them! And to think this is just beginning of the annual fig madness. :ha:

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The only thing I really have to rant about is I ordered a sofa.. They said it would take 10 weeks to get it; now I find out its 12 weeks time until it leaves the factory.. I know one thing it better be comfortable when it shows up in 6 weeks or so.. lol :^)

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My rant, the way parenting has been abandoned for a career.

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my rant--we've finally started getting some rain here on and off, but it's been so dry. I go to farmers market and people are like, why don't you have bushels of tomatoes to sell like last year, why isn't the corn filled out all the way to the tip-I don't want that, these eggplants are soft (never mind that they were picked 15 minutes before I left the house). My electric bill is up $75 this month from all the watering we've been doing, my eggplants have so many spider mites, even with spraying my soap/oil mix on them, and the tomatoes are just limping along even with drip irrigation. Oh and this week we finally got some rain, we got 1.7" in one day and every tomato on my plants split, even a lot of the green ones. So I only have like 20 lbs to sell off 300 plants. It's so fun being a farmer!

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OK this isn't exactly a vent but just some crap I have to get off my chest. Last month Steve was kind to hook me up w/ some Ice Creams and Caligolds and I was edging the 2nd caligold when I discover this lady in my backyard, red convertible in my driveway, and one huge luggage rack under her shirt.. Some Doctor did some fine work for I (Me being a Higher educated neanderthal) had trouble looking her in the eye. I figured my backyard, I'm sweaty and tired I deserve a good peek, yah know.. So back to the reason she was there.. She goes I see you working on your yard, and I know how it was before and how its looking alot better again I'd like you to do my back yard, since I know you know what your doing. So I asked her about her landscaping, and she told me what it cost her over the past year, and said they just didn't get the look she wanted. I said to bad you can't get your money back, since they cost more than what the good Doctor put in front of her. So in the end I asked a bunch of questions and got the dumbfounded look from a High school principal. So I said I'd take it under consideration in the end, but thought myself if I was student of hers I'd be in so much trouble..lol getting sent to her office.. lmao All those poor boys.. but anyway the nerve of that woman, she must have I want syndrome... enough is never enough.. Kinda like us and banana's :^)

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I hate it how harvesting figs always makes you itch.

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I hate it how the squirrels or birds get to my Brown Turkey figs when they're still too hard and small to pick.

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I hated that most of my figs were so fat after we got rain that they split so not only did they draw birds, but bee's, and wasp's as well.. I hate that the birds won't leave my cantelope alone.. for some reason.. :^)

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I haz sick. nomnom zzzzzzzzzz. I hate soup and i have to stay in bed till Im well.

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Feel better.

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Today is 9/11 and thinking back to when it happened me being up when it happened, and seeing it live on CNN still pisses me off..

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Horrible day. I watched the smoke drifting up the Hudson River from my house's front porch.

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My motorcycle was nearly stuck by a STOP sign running Prius.
When confronted @ the next light the driver replied that I should drive a car if I wanted to be safe.
HA!
I told her the Prius was gonna get smashed by one of those big trucks if she kept running through intersections.
Everyone now threatens to call the POLICE over the slightest variance from their ideal world view.

I suggested she consume a lethal dose of fecal matter, then closed my visor.

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As many of you saw my post,I should have had a HF GH by now. But have to wait till a later date,and hope that they have them on sale then. SOO now I have to use a storage closet connected to the back of the house. Hoping my Siam's and other nanner pups will be okay. A few hanging baskets and others. Plan is to use a small thermo control heater,a strip light with two 20watt or more grow lights. Running for who knows how many hrs?? I just want them to stay alive,not really worried about killer growth. Considering where I live on the coast and if we have a normal winter then the heater wouldn't run much or be needed at all. As long as we have a normal winter. Worried about bringing some inside as my kids ir the cats might mess with them. Makes me wish I could be one of those people that could go out and buy anything and not worry.

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The wind blew over my Ice Cream and it broke the flower stem.. Now that sucks!!

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Saw a lady in a Mercedes almost run a Harley off the road
Guy pulled up next to her & planted his boot into her door, then slammed his fist against her window
I think she got the message..........

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Grab the tape, those things patch pretty dang easy! :nanadrink:

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I can't say I have anything to complain about. I'm a little disappointed that the "Texas Star" I've been growing for a few years finally flowered and turned out to be a basjoo, but it's still a pretty plant and a pretty flower. Haven't decided if I'll get rid of the mat or not. I've got lots to be happy about. Michael, my son, is advancing in Boy Scouts well and will soon make Eagle. He went through his Order of the Arrow ordeal this weekend and I finally dusted off my OA sash from 41-42 years ago and went to the ordeal and advanced to the Brotherhood honors level so it was a fun father/son weekend. Hope you all get through whatever distresses you quickly.

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Ouuups, your Texas star must be from my Manzano mat!
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parked in the lowest spot in the parking lot

of course I didn't know until I came out and after the rain and the bike was in a 4 inch deep puddle

DOH !!!!

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Shift change!!!

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Necroposting.

The only thing worse than necroposters is starting another "real ice cream" thread

But seriously.

My coworker goes into the gas station and buys some Cavendish, then comes to the truck and says. "got some bananas" as he puts one in my bag and then started eating my Michigan Gala apples !
WTF man you bought ME some bananas ?
Have you seen my backyard ?

If we're gonna trade then first you need to have some thing I WANT !

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Oh boy....here we go.....

In light of the recent happenings with the pop music industry's token prick, Justin Bieber, I think now is the right time for me to voice my opinion on the state of music today. For those of you who haven't heard, Bieber caused $20k damage by egging his neighbors' house, an act of vandalism that will (hopefully) land him in jail. Now, let's take a look at what exactly happened with Justin Bieber. The music industry found this kid from Canada who could play a few instruments, sing, and write a few songs. They took him in and made him into a superstar. They cultivated him into a teenage girl's dream boy. They hired writers and producers to “help” him make music, and he became the person who performed music written under his name, and in the process, also a spoiled brat. Now, here's the thing. He's not the only pop music legend that has followed this formula. Take a look at Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Ke$ha, and a majority of other big name music acts. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying all mainstream and pop music is bad, nor are all of these people bad people. Some of them are genuinely talented and genuinely good and wholesome people, but others are essentially just performing artists, and nothing more. Some are even complete and utter jerks, like our friend Bieber. But the bottom line is that they are the ones who deploy mass-produced “music” to the populace that is created by the industry simply to generate profit.

And therein lies the problem. Much of mainstream music today is intended only to satisfy the masses. Songs are designed specifically to be catchy and relatable to the immediate interests of a majority of people in society. And when music is relatable and catchy, people listen to it. Bottom line. The people who produce, perform, and distribute this music resemble a marketing team rather than a group of actual musicians. This is not what music is all about, is it?

So then, what is music all about? Well, let's look at where it came from and what it's supposed to do for us. Music has been around perhaps longer than civilization itself, and has been used to experience emotions not attainable otherwise, to enhance spirituality, to connect with other human beings on a level that is simply not possible by any other means, and most of all, make us happy. Those who create it pour their hearts and souls into as well as their talent and skills. So then, what is “real” music? It's music that fits that definition; music that is created by people who are talented at what they do, and who want to share their emotions and experience with others through organized sound. And I don't care what genre it is. It could be the underground gangster rap that a teenager in Compton listens to that tells a story about hardships and experiences that he can relate to. Or the emotionally charged death metal that your high school's resident metal head pumps into his ears through his iPod in between class periods. Or the loud, dynamic, big room house music that thousands of people listen to and move their bodies to at electronic dance music festivals. And yes, it could be one of those rare pop music hits that was written, recorded, and performed by a truly talented and successful musician. It doesn't really matter in the end. Because all of this real music is created by people who want to share some aspect of their life experience with others. Music is not supposed to be about commercialization and feeding the masses. It's not supposed to be created by a specially commissioned team and mass marketed to generate profits for big name record companies. It's supposed to be about human beings communicating their hopes, dreams, fears, wishes, and emotions through a universal language that we can all understand. And that language is music.

I rest my case. End of rant.