Lori, the wind is buzzing your blossoms. The entire "act" occurs behind closed and locked doors. Tomato blossoms are almost entirely closed. Any movement at all, from anything, and the pollen, well, pollinates that blossom. All in the one blossom. No cross pollinating, no insects, no honeybee gangbangs.
Corn now, that crosses county lines to get it on.
Squash are so promiscuous, that to save seeds, I was the one doing it in the zucchinis! They couldn't be trusted on their own. Tape blossoms shut that are about to open, in the evening. Male and female blossoms. Next morning, collect the male blossoms, strip them naked, untape the females, do the deed, then tape that female blossom shut again to keep randy neighbors out of there.
The old lady actually has books on performing plant sex.
Your tomato plant's entire life is devoted to reproduction. Accomplished for rather a long time without the aid of vibrators.
Well geez, now I'm feeling sorry for my tomatoes.
H.
I can’t be having this conversation with you, Helen! I’m Catholic! To think I may have been aiding and abetting tomato sex —all I can say is I didn’t know!
I got out for a few hours at Cap Rock in the early evening and it was such a beautiful time… warm breezes, sunset, saw an oriole. Attempted a few cracks.
Around here if you dont shoot the rodents you will have no garden. I tried the trap/relocation route for a while and find the ten pump BB gun to be way more effective. Our cats do well around the house but not so well in the garden. I saw one of my neighbors buying a bb gun for the same reason just 3 days ago!
Around here if you dont shoot the rodents you will have no garden. I tried the trap/relocation route for a while and find the ten pump BB gun to be way more effective. Our cats do well around the house but not so well in the garden. I saw one of my neighbors buying a bb gun for the same reason just 3 days ago!
I hear you. One neighbor said she caught 23 squirrels in her squirrel trap last week. I wouldn’t know what to do with 23 squirrels (no Guy… not eating them!) so I don’t see how trapping them would help. I am wondering about some prevention around the perimeter of our yard where they live. Someone said mothballs. We’ve had engine failures on both our cars when some kind of rodents got under the hood and chewed up the wiring. Peppermint oil finally worked for that.
Fortunately no critter seems interested in the tomatoes. They only want my 2 sunflowers and they are almost big enough now to survive a squirrel.
Part of the reason I only grow tomatoes and chilis and herbs. Nobody usually wants to eat them. I do lose a few tomatoes to the critters and surprisingly, the racoons will pick and eat chilies, even habaneros. I completely gave up trying to grow fruit though. The squirrels are quite happy eating it long before it is ripe enough to pick. Last thing I tried was an apricot tree but after 3 harvests I had only had 5 apricots and gave up and chopped it down.
I hear you. One neighbor said she caught 23 squirrels in her squirrel trap last week. I wouldn’t know what to do with 23 squirrels (no Guy… not eating them!) so I don’t see how trapping them would help. I am wondering about some prevention around the perimeter of our yard where they live. Someone said mothballs. We’ve had engine failures on both our cars when some kind of rodents got under the hood and chewed up the wiring. Peppermint oil finally worked for that.
Fortunately no critter seems interested in the tomatoes. They only want my 2 sunflowers and they are almost big enough now to survive a squirrel.
I was out of the country for about a month or so a couple years ago. Came back and was overrun by varmints. In one month I trapped or killed 300 varmints of all varieties. That took a bite out of crime. Over the next couple years there has hardly been a living thing in the compound.
I would lay them all out on a sand berm every night and by morning they were always gone. It was like the dead guys lined up for coffins in that Clint Eastwood movie. My sand berm is the Lourdes of the High Desert.
I’m having a bittersweet gratitude day. I read this quote from Franz Kafka today: “ everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end love will return to you in another way.” Truth.
I’m just taking a minute to be thankful for the way things have turned out here. Not so long ago I was a very disoriented wannabe climber here in Joshua tree with no idea where to begin. It just seems the best gifts have fallen into my lap. This turning 70 is hitting me hard because I don’t know what it means and I am not done playing. But for right now I am just happy to have what I have.
Meanwhile, a climbing friend and a very talented photographer, Greg Petlinski, is in Italy right now and it looks like he’s found food. I would have one of those pizzas and I was so interested to see that he has a spleen and lung sandwich. I will try that too with some good wine.
As we speak, Tony is in the kitchen making steak and porcini mushroom raviolis with pesto. I buy him a living basil plant every now and then, and he turns it into elixir.
Super good weather today, mid 50s and windy. Cleaned and sent this roof with pockets, V4 or 5. Kind of sketchy with only one pad, a hold broke and I fell flat on my back - fortunately right on the pad. As I always tell my wife, good thing I’m young and supple, ha ha.
Ward, glad you sent and was not injured. Looks like a burly problem! The conditions, blackflies notwithstanding, were so good today. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the Five Minute Wall. Might even have done a route or 2 of yours. :)
Skip the breaking holds and rain this weekend by coming indoors. Pull on plastic. There is a chacne I might see you and the fam at our favorite gym.
As Randy wrote, shoulder issues seem to be pretty ubiquitous with our climbing demographic. My R one has been problematic for quite a while now, but have avoided having it ‘looked at’, because I know what the MD will say……and I don’t want to hear it—-I think avoidance is pretty ubiquitous as well.
Been climbing 33 years. The most severe shoulder issue I ever had was in Year 1. Two months of no climbing before it stopped hurting. I guess I have been very lucky. Ever since then I know the types of moves I need to avoid. The worst for me is sideways dynamic (the crap they like to set for "boulder problems" at gyms these days). Even worse than (near) iron-cross.
I’m having a bittersweet gratitude day. I read this quote from Franz Kafka today: “ everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end love will return to you in another way.” Truth.
I’m just taking a minute to be thankful for the way things have turned out here. Not so long ago I was a very disoriented wannabe climber here in Joshua tree with no idea where to begin. It just seems the best gifts have fallen into my lap. This turning 70 is hitting me hard because I don’t know what it means and I am not done playing. But for right now I am just happy to have what I have.
Meanwhile, a climbing friend and a very talented photographer, Greg Petlinski, is in Italy right now and it looks like he’s found food. I would have one of those pizzas and I was so interested to see that he has a spleen and lung sandwich. I will try that too with some good wine.
As we speak, Tony is in the kitchen making steak and porcini mushroom raviolis with pesto. I buy him a living basil plant every now and then, and he turns it into elixir.
Lori, you should come to the Over 50 meet-up at City of Rocks and bring along some of those raviolis that Tony makes!
As we speak, Tony is in the kitchen making steak and porcini mushroom raviolis with pesto. I buy him a living basil plant every now and then, and he turns it into elixir.
You know, you can grow the holy hell out of basil out here. By seasons end mine are like 4 feet tall. Get some seed going now instead of watching Ondra scream or that nine finger guy firing shit on El Cap.
Unfinished project. If I could get there on thighs alone I’d be golden. As soon as spaghetti arms are involved the whole thing goes to hell. But there’s still hope. I’m lugging up a few less pounds. (Dog Day Afternoon 10b)
Tony affixed a rodent alarm to my sunflower cage (it’s meant for under the car hood)… it goes off with any movement. So far no squirrels have been willing to approach.
Russ… I’d love to plant basil but I’m too busy growing TOMATO LEAVES AND FLOWERS. That low-nitrogen food may be arriving too late.
Speaking of Ondra… I watched this video of him down climbing a project. Incredible. He worked in a kneebar bat hang which is my ultimate calling, of course.
Tony is trying out the new buffet in town. He’s leaving me home to my organic eggs and sausage while he goes and “samples” the biscuits and gravy. He doesn’t want any shit from me while he dines. Good grief.
Here's my basil from last year. The pot is 25" across. 2 parts italian basil, 1 part thai basil.
Randy
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May 19, 2023
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Lassitude 33
· Joined Jan 2002
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Got a good session in at the climbing gym yesterday morning with Sarah. In the afternoon, I went out for a training ride on the local trails. Apparently, I must have looked pretty pathetic. When I stopped and looked up, a large group of vultures were circling my position. Maybe it's best to stick with one activity a day.
S. Neohwrote: lSkip the breaking holds and rain this weekend by coming indoors. Pull on plastic. There is a chacne I might see you and the fam at our favorite gym.
Sorry, Im already up in New Hampshire. The rain might hold off until the afternoon and I’m going to go flail on a new roof project that is much harder than anything I’ve done in a long time, like since my 30s. I’m old but healthy and the lightest I’ve been since my 30s. So there is some hope, but Im going to have to train specifically for this one.
Have fun at the gym! Do the orange softy “12a” right of the cave and the super softy green ”11b” right of that if you really want to show off.
Sorry, Im already up in New Hampshire. The rain might hold off until the afternoon and I’m going to go flail on a new roof project that is much harder than anything I’ve done in a long time, like since my 30s. I’m old but healthy and the lightest I’ve been since my 30s. So there is some hope, but Im going to have to train specifically for this one.
Man, ol man, you were already quite slim the last time I saw you (2 months ago?). Don't waste away! I admire your dedication. Wish I could come close to that.
My best to the family. And Smitty too if you see him. I will report back on the softies, and my (lack of) progress on them. A little part of me have the feeeling that I am about to get sandbagged. :)
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