Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Oct 04 2019 17:13:20 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 22-Sep-2019 09:40 <=- -=> 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...." NB>> Actually, it's called Boyd Pond... but it is indeed a small NB>> spring-fed lake, about 1 1/2 miles long and 1/4 mile across, NB>> kidney-shaped... there's camps/dwellings along the shore for NB>> maybe 2/3 of the shoreline, the rest is woods right to the NB>> edge... some of the camps are nestled in trees.... :) BM> :) It is a peaceful place... :) I'll be back up there next week, for my Fall Board meeting, no doubt with a passel of packets to answer... ;) 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! NB>> Yup, fewer accidents that way.... :) BM> ...Attempting to look up if Iowa requires a rear window defogger / BM> defroster / device. According to one site the rear and side windows BM> can be any shade of tint as long as dual side mirrors. Bet the police BM> love that when they can't see inside! ... A windshield is required but BM> side and rear windows are not. .....Well, interesting little side-trip BM> but I didn't see where a rear window defogger/defroster was required - BM> by State law; required by me for my car! Interesting... ;) New York now requires a much lighter tint than used to be allowed for side and rear windows of passenger vehicles... guess the police weighed in on that here... ;) Commercial vehicles still can be tinted darker, I think, and many don't have windows at all side and/or rear, so would have to have the dual side mirrors... 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. NB>> Possible. :) BM> And Fall starts tomorrow morning a little after 2 a.m. IIRC. Earlier BM> this week we did start to trim down some of the flowers, partially BM> because being overwhelmed with deadheads, partially because eventually BM> will have a frost and kill off the leaves and flowers anyway, leaving BM> a gross-gooey slimey stem behind. Yup, we are thoroughly in fall now... :) And indeed time to start preparing the garden for winter... :) Do you have any fall-bloomers to brighten the garden this time of year...? 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! NB>> The North Country does seem to be cooler than most places... ;) NB>> Today and tomorrow are ging to be in the 80s here, then drop NB>> later in the week... probably rise again after that... ;) BM> LIS it's going to be relatively cool here all day with on-and-off BM> rain. Have more than enough indoor projects! And then I was down in Wake Forest NC, where the highs were in the 90s everyday, and the lows barely into the 70s... apparently they are still having that sort of temps, at least thru today... and we are barely into the 50s for highs today... And when I go north, it will be similar... definitely will need a different set of clothes for the next trip... ttyl neb .... 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