Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Sep 10 2019 00:40:10 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 04-Sep-2019 09:12 <=- Still posting from the Pond, 9 Sept, at about 8:40pm... NB>>> My first car (and maybe my second) didn't have a/c, but after NB>>> renting a car that did have it, and finding that my allergies were NB>>> triggered less, we made sure to have it in our cars, too... :) It's NB>>> become pretty standard nowadays, anyway... ;) BM>> Yes, along with power steering, power brakes, electric windows.... I BM>> do have a checklist of sorts to remind of the personal requirements. BM>> Rear window defogger/defroster is another. NB>> In NYS, that last has been required for decades... It may be still NB>> classified as an option, but the vehicle can't be sold here without NB>> it... considered a safety item... BM> Easier to see that car behind and one lane over so can change lanes! Certainly helps a lot.... :) BM>>> I've learned (sort of!) if I'm weeding in an area where it could be a BM>>> flower or desired plant to leave it and ask. And then sometimes I'll BM>>> leave a weed on purpose because it looks nice and is in a position BM>>> where doesn't look out of place. NB>>> If it has a nice flower, and/or is a nice looking plant, I don't NB>>> consider it a weed anymore... BM>> Me too, though that doesn't mean someone else around here won't BM>> deposit it in the yard bag! ...Then we have a plant we're not sure if BM>> it is a rebirth of a purchased plant which was dinner for a critter or BM>> a halfway nice looking weed growing where the plant was. Hasn't BM>> attempted to flower, but of the other for-sure plants it's supposed be BM>> one flowers constantly and the other has a flower once in a while. BM>> Leaves are similar but different on all three. NB>> As long as it has promise, might as well keep it... are the other two NB>> annuals or perennials...? If the latter, a new season might answer NB>> the question.... especially if it ends up flowering like the other NB>> two... or doesn't return at all... ;) BM> I think perennials: this year whatever was planted in the ground was BM> supposed to be a permanent flower; annuals go in the flower pots BM> (where'd perennials would have their roots frozen). So you might well find out next year whether this unknown plant was another version of the other two or not.... :) BM> ...And the weather is doing the Fall/Summer Swing currently: BM> 80-something degrees yesterday, this morning 56ø but humid: offically BM> 93% and I think they reported a five-mile visibility. Today and the BM> rest of the week only supposed to get into the low-to-mid 70's; Sunday BM> ansiweather showing 62ø as the predicted high (!!); don't recall it BM> that low on the TV but they extended a few days further and was in the BM> 80's again. Well, we did have that low high temp on Sunday.... and today was sunny but not much warmer... But I did see that it's supposed to be warming later this week starting into the 70s, both here in the North Country and back home.... :) ttyl neb .... Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .