Monday, February 18, 2013

Telling tall tales

I like sodahead and so much so that todays question of do you have a favorite president (of the United States) I answered yes and explained in a quick short answer as to who it would be but didn't get specific.. I said any president before Nixon.. When Nixon got himself impeached it was lights out for the office.. While it still is a high office and looked up by most Americans, it lost a certain amount of luster back when that happened.. My least favorite president would be Reagan.. I know people think fondly of him but my memory is that the economy wasn't that good, and would improve after he left office.. He also signed to start the deregulation of the financial institution which would start us on a long trip to where we are today... Enough of this shit..

So the last few entries were video involved with some favorite shows clipped and one show that made it unclipped.. Seed first episode was fun and funny to watch.. Then last night I watched the second episode and again clipped it in three segs  for upload here and or YouTube since the show isn't available here in the USA but rather still only in Canada..  Hey I'm watching Last Resort even though it is cancelled, I wasn't going to watch it but then I thought why not watch it..  It sure is a soap opera..

What a rude awakening the other day for anyone in that Russian town that had a meteorite explode nearby.. An air burst of that rock, reminded me of the re-entry of the space shuttle ten years ago (?) people saying there was a loud thunderous sound from that..  Then that big asteroid that flew by later on made you wonder if they were right when the first bit wasn't predicted to happen (the meteor in Russia), you had to hope they were right that the asteroid would in fact miss us..  But would they have been upfront about it hitting the Earth..  Some have said they wouldn't.. I thought they should have tried to blast this rock about the time it got just beyond us.. Test to see if we could prevent a rock of this size from hitting the Earth, but with the knowledge that if we messed with it that it might change it enough that the next time around it might hit us..  Leave it well enough alone I guess.. In the coming months we are supposed to have two comets fly by Earth.. Should be fun to watch..

I was asked if I was ready for planting and what I was going to plant this year.. I do have an idea and I was in walmart the other day and saw some ideas of what I'd like to plant but caught myself nearly slapping my hand to keep from buying another failed attempt to grow something from seed.. I wrote my uncle last year at about this time asking him if he ever tried to grow anything from seed and he said he tried once or twice and that they never grew very big or were very disappointing at harvest time.. I decided to grow from seed and a few of the plants looked very good with the roma looking like it was going to grow into the clouds.. This plant stopped growing as the heat was unbearable last summer.. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, the plant grew so great only to sputter out when it got so hot and dry even though it was in the self watering Earth box planter.. I will admit last year was an experiment and hopefully be the last time I try something like that.. First time I strayed away from the tried and true was the year I tried to grow corn, I planted too many seeds and didn't thin as they say when the plants came up.. I have troubles doing that, thinning to fewer plants.. Same as with pruning the tomato plants.. So this year should still be the five maximum tomato plants  or four tomato and one pepper.. And the pumpkin patch will make a return this year, it was supposed to last year but ended up being sunflowers and weeds.. This year I plan  to plant three pumpkins (maybe four) and maybe a few sunflowers.. all will be the big plants on everything.. I want big.. HUGE pumpkins and maybe the same with sunflowers.. 

Badge Henry

No comments:

Post a Comment