Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Sep 21 2019 15:58:12 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 12-Sep-2019 15:45 <=- -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 04-Sep-2019 09:12 <=- NB>> Still posting from the Pond, 9 Sept, at about 8:40pm... BM> "By the shores of Lake Whatchamacallit...." Actually, it's called Boyd Pond... but it is indeed a small spring-fed lake, about 1 1/2 miles long and 1/4 mile across, kidney-shaped... there's camps/dwellings along the shore for maybe 2/3 of the shoreline, the rest is woods right to the edge... some of the camps are nestled in trees.... :) 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! NB>> Certainly helps a lot.... :) BM> To keep those insurance rates down! Yup, fewer accidents that way.... :) BM>>> ...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). NB>> So you might well find out next year whether this unknown plant was NB>> another version of the other two or not.... :) BM> Possibly. Hopefully makes through the winter (as hopefully the others BM> do). No indication of wanting to bud, so just be patient. Might be BM> thinking of itself as a brand new plant and some don't bloom the first BM> year. Possible. :) 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. NB>> Well, we did have that low high temp on Sunday.... and today was sunny NB>> but not much warmer... But I did see that it's supposed to be warming NB>> later this week starting into the 70s, both here in the North Country NB>> and back home.... :) BM> 70's is the overnight low lately! The North Country does seem to be cooler than most places... ;) Today and tomorrow are ging to be in the 80s here, then drop later in the week... probably rise again after that... ;) ttyl neb .... I'm busier than a one-eyed cat watching two mice. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .