Thread CRAPPING Honey Pot

[dtel]

Where on the internet can I find good information about the type of fruit trees that will do good in my area.

 

What we did was to look at what the local extension service or the local department of agriculture suggested, they have (or had) local branches. The would know what types of each fruit tree does best with each area. At one time the local extension would work with local stores to help them order correct trees for the area, I guess it just depends on if local stores work with them ? 

 

One thing I can say from experience here is except for pears and one Apple variety everything else required regular spraying with either insecticide or fungicide or both, I think this is part because of the heat and even more so the humidity. Another problem was ants, for some reason they attack fruit trees quicker than any other plant in the yard and there really hard to stop. Ants either attack underground or build a nest right on the base of the tree (oaks also) they chew away at the outside layer of the bark until they get to the cadmium layer and eat the liquid. The cadmium layer is the slippery layer right under the bark, it what the tree uses to sent all liquid and nutrients to the rest of the tree top,  the whole rest of the center is just filler really.

 

We only have a few pear trees now, all the other fruit trees have died off, one of the last to go was an apple. It did well for probably 10 years and produced a lot of medium size green apples. the variety was suggested for here by the local county agent, it was called Ein Shemer. Apples are a little different that other fruit, they need a certain amount of chill days and down here we don't get enough cold for many Apple types.

 

Citrus does not make it here without being protected, the freeze, if they have a lot in your area it may be because people cover and protect them on the few night it's gets cold enough to hurt them ? Or they just get lucky for a few years.

 

We gave up on fruit trees except for pears, the rest were to much trouble with what has to be done as far as spraying just to keep then in good shape. Citrus I didn't try, seen neighbors try to protect them until they finely lost because they forgot to protect them for just one night.

 

One thing about pears is they usually can't hold the fruit until they get a little older, a few years. the fruit will grow to about half size ad fall off, as the tree gets older they hold the fruit to full size and make more and more as they get bigger.

 

edit   Just thought of something, Blueberries do great here, they may in your area also. If you like them check in to that in your area, one thing I found was they don't seem to like fertilizer and after well rooted don't water either, for some reason they thrive here if neglected, I almost killed them by feeding them once.

Edited May 14, 2015 by dtel

[Gilbert]

Thx

[oldtimer]

I'm trying to grow  a lime and a lemon in containers in Honolulu.  The lemon has flowered so we shall see if there is success.  The problems I'm seeing are bugs (I suspect mites) wind burn (its windy up there) and reflected heat from concrete.  My wife bought them and instead of dwarf varieties went for regular.  I'm not sure if it will make any difference.

[Gilbert]

Thx Brian

[mangofirst]

I think I will just stick to posting in this thread since I'm so easily distracted.

[AuntBea]

Ma

 

I think I will just stick to posting in this thread since I'm so easily distracted.

Me too Brie...

Weren't they posting song lyrics?????

 

You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch people's heads a'roll
A'roll, a' roll

Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionette

 

oh! a squirrel.......

[timdog5000]

Ma

 

I think I will just stick to posting in this thread since I'm so easily distracted.

Me too Brie...

Weren't they posting song lyrics?????

 

You take a mortal man

And put him in control

Watch him become a god

Watch people's heads a'roll

A'roll, a' roll

Just like the Pied Piper

Led rats through the streets

We dance like marionette

 

oh! a squirrel.......

I can hear that guitar riff now, these RF-7ii rock that song!

[mangofirst]

John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy

Just to leave the folk music behind

Zol and Denny workin' for a penny

Tryin' to get a fish on the line

In a coffee house Sebastian sat

And after every number they'd pass the hat

McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher

In L.A., you know where that's at

And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

Zolly said "Denny, you know there aren't many"

"Who can sing a song the way that you do, let's go south"

Denny said "Zolly, golly, don't you think that I wish"

"I could play guitar like you"

Zol, Denny and Sebastian sat (at the Night Owl)

And after every number they'd pass the hat

McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin higher

In L.A., you know where that's at

And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore

But she changed her mind one day

Standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike

"Take me to New York right away"

When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps

Called John and Zol and that was the Mugwumps

McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher

But that's what they were aimin' at

And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

Mugwumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps

Don't you work as hard as you play

Make up, break up, everything is shake up

Guess it had to be that way

Sebastian and Zol formed the Spoonful

Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful

McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire

In L.A., you know where that's at

And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

Di-di-di-dit dit dit di-di-di-dit, who-o-oa

------ flute ------

Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted

And Mitchy wants to go to the sea

Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it

We knew she'd come eventually

Greasin' on American Express cards

It's low rent, but keeping out the heat's hard

Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations

Can't go on indefinitely

And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality

[oldtimer]

Look! A squirrel!

[oldtimer]

Well when I was kid I'd take a trip
Every summer down to Mississippi
To visit my granny in her antebellum world

 

I'd run barefooted all day long
Climbing trees free as a song
One day I happened catch myself a squirrel

 

Well I stuffed him down in an old shoebox
Punched a couple holes in the top
When Sunday came, I snuck him in the church

 

I was sittin' way back in the very last pew
Showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk

 

Well what happened next is hard to tell
Some thought it was Heaven others thought it was Hell
But the fact that something was among us was plain to see

 

As the choir sang, "I surrender all"
The squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
Harv leaped to his feet and said, "Somethin's got a hold on me!"

 

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting, "Hallelujah"

 

Well Harv hit the aisles, dancin' and screamin'
Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a demon
And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit of the looms

 

He fell to his knees to plead and beg
And that squirrel ran out of his britches leg
Unobserved to the other side of the room

 

All the way down to the Amen pew
Where sat Sister Bertha better than you
Who had been watching all the commotion with sadistic glee

 

Shoot, you should've seen the look in her eyes
When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
She jumped to her feet and said, "Lord, have mercy on me"

 

As the squirrel made laps inside her dress
She began to cry and then to confess
To sins that would make a sailor blush with shame

 

She told of gossip and church dissension
But the thing that got the most attention
Was when she talked about her love life
And then she started naming names

 

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting, "Hallelujah"

 

Well 7 deacons and then the pastor got saved
And 25,000 dollars got raised and 50 volunteered
For missions in the Congo on the spot

 

And even without an invitaion
There were at least 500 rededications
And we all got rebaptized whether we needed it or not

 

Now you've heard the Bible story, I guess
How He parted the waters for Moses to pass
All the miracles God has brought to this ol' world

 

But the one I'll remember to my dyin' day
Is how He put that church back on the narrow way
With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel

 

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting, "Hallelujah"

 

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shouting, "Hallelujah"

 

[dtel]

That's funny

[timdog5000]

Well, the church burned down and no one knew

what Pentecost Baptist was gonna do

the Sunday brimstone got so dadgum hot

it burned up a church bus in the parkin' lot

In a panic the reverend Dr. White

called up an ex-member that hadn't lived right

he owned Joe's beer joint right across the fence

it's the same Joe's he'd preached against...

He said, "I don't really want to be a hypocrite,

but I got a Sunday school class about to have fits.

We're all excited about revival week,

and moved by the spirit, so to speak.

With all the souls we saved and money we spent,

we thought God told us to sell that tent...

I got a famous evangelist supposed to come

and done run out of chairs, will you loan us some?"

Joe says, "Well you can just use the whole dang place...

A-9 on the jukebox is "Amazing Grace"

I ain't supposed to open because of them 'blue laws'

but I'll open tonight if it's alright with y'all."

Preacher said, "Well, I reckon it'd be OK,

the good Lord works in mysterious ways.

I was gonna talk about Joshua, Judges and Ruth

and I reckon I could do it from the DJ booth."

At the First Baptist Bar and Grill

it's the only church in the bible belt

that smells like a whiskey still...

when the sinners finish one more round,

we'll have dinner on the ground,

then go inside and pray we don't get killed.

The evangelist came with a well-dressed choir,

they showed up around happy hour,

looked around the joint and didn't take it real well...

said, "The White ministry has gone to hell"

Ms. Mills that taught youth Sunday school

and two deacons in the back room shootin' pool

were sharin' the Lord with a Jim Beam rep

who was teachin' Ms. Mills some line dance steps...

Reverend White was readin' from the book of Luke

to a tall, drunk trucker about to puke

he had John 3:16 memorized

tryin' to dry him out to get him baptized...

The evangelist yelled about the lights and the beer

said, "White, you can't save any souls in here...

this place ain't nothin' but a den of sin...

ain't the kind of place Baptists ought to be in!"

Preacher said, "Well we don't really need y'all here

You didn't do a very good job last year,

you only saved one sinner, that's Todd McGuire,

the little SOB that set my church on fire!"

"Joe's beer joint has done been revived,

only been here an hour, and I done saved five.

Sure, it's got mirrors and a big dance floor,

but I finally found the flock God called me for."

They're at the First Baptist Bar and Grill

it's the only church in the bible belt that smells like a whisky still not a stained glass window anywhere in site,

just a blood-stained floor and neon lights,

and the communion wine in here is always chilled.

We're here every Sunday; we're livin' large;

We're the only church with a cover charge.

And if you don't like our doctrine and think we ain't devout,

we'll have our bouncer throw your butt out ...

of the First Baptist Bar and Grill

(amen sister!)

[timdog5000]

An old Tim Wilson classic from Bob and Tom show. Much funnier when he sings it than reading it

[mangofirst]

Ray Stevens is genius. Never heard that Tim Wilson guy before. Good stuff!

[Thaddeus Smith]

[mangofirst]

Okay, so I watched this video last night and really loved it. Had heard the song but knew nothing about the artist or the dancer.

Then I watched the second in a trilogy and thought it was great as well, but apparently people got all fired up about it. I honestly don't see why. I think both videos are strangely beautiful. Thoughts?

**edit** this post made me a forum veteran

Edited May 19, 2015 by mangofirst

[USNRET]

Like ALL  (or at least almost all) music videos I see no relationship between the song and video. That is why I was never an MTV fan even back when they actually played music.

[mangofirst]

Really? I felt like the music was going through her. She was feelin' it.

[CECAA850]

I like Chandelier as well.

[Travis In Austin]

Really? I felt like the music was going through her. She was feelin' it.

Music 8 out if 10.

Singing: Not so much, too much auto tune for me, automatic 3.0 deduction so that is a 5.

The 11-year-old dancer, Zeigler IIRC, that is a soild 9.5.

What controversy? Double platinum in US, multi-video award winner. Whonwas complaining? Let me guess?