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Well, she is up. Over at foam's blog home the contest theme and rules are up. The theme is as noted, the rules look pretty straightforward. Yes, yes, I've already put in two. But Raf and Karl already beat me to the punch! Nice start, fun topic, go! Oh, right, while I was directing over there last time, it was because Michael had won. Okies, so she hadn't just won. Though she had won recently. I had been confused on that, a bit. And yet, if someone wins twice in a row? Oh well. :p
But It Does Work!
When she yields fully
she owns me flat out, only way-
I hate trickery?
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Wisdom or Pain
I wish to push on.
Something says no. Hushutup?
This or that way, truth.
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This Time
Three baskets only hold
half of half of half? Anyone
want a few peppers?
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Jealousy?
Ten plants, three tomatoes?
My planting math is way off!
I wonder... Neighbors?
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Neener!
She suggests we dare.
Then says, "Oh but yield to me"-
No fun there, might have to anyway?
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She suggests we dare.
Then says, "Oh but yield to me"-
No fun there, might have to anyway?
Your up already. Cool!
ReplyDeleteI commented on your 'ku at the foaming. I'm too tired to repeat the comment. I do like them both a lot though.
:-)
Gotcha. I have responded. Sleep well!
ReplyDeleteOh, you have more! Way to go! If you've put them at my site I haven't noticed. I've not checked closely over there.
ReplyDeleteI do hope you have a bumper crop and enough to give away. If I lived there I'd take some peppers. Maybe something is eating your tomato plants if they are disappearing? I remember one garden attempt where everything disappeared. It turned out we had voles.
But I remain eternally optimistic.. Yesterday I purchased two strawberry plants .. :-)
Oh, as for yield... the peppers are hoped, and only dread about the tomatoes. I won't know about yield for... ??? I've never really planted and kept up on them before. I have no idea how long it takes.
ReplyDeleteI do believe I will probably end up with more tomatoes and peppers than I can possible use. I'll can what I can, and eat what I can, but... We will see. Habanero sauce, and various heat levels of salsa, perhaps marinara sauce (my way, but with no heat, or for most of it). Oh... and I have farmer bacon for blt's! Hmm, definitely going to get the extra plants in the garden if no one wants them.
Oh, right, got a bit excited there. If I could, I'd send peppers. Do you like habanero, Tai, Serrano, or jalapeno best? Oh, right, and I can bundle and dry some of those too. It's just... there is a limit to how much I can use. Hmm, dry and smoke some too. I'll have at least ten of each plant, at the very least.
I just about like all the hot peppers equally.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy hot and spicy foods. I do really like the visuals that you added. They add the extra umph to your haiku.
Although some of my relatives are Catholic, I am not. I'm not familiar with the Douay Rheims Bible at all.
The Douay Rheims is the Catholic version of the King James. Actually, the writers for the KJ heavily relied upon the DR, for the New Testament. While the OT was still in the works, for DR first, it wasn't completed in time to be a resource. Some sort of calamity and a move from where it started being translated to where it was completed. It's the oldest English language bible (depending on if you consider completion of the OT a requirement or not, I myself just give them the cred for having the NT and the uncompiled OT pretty much done first, as if it matters, sort of).
ReplyDeleteI usually go with music. I thought something easier on the ears (for some) and eyes might be a nice change?
Oh, do you know the difference between the two bibles? Actually the (most?) protestant versions of the bible now include the Apocrypha (the books that MLKing denied, since the oldest versions found were found to be in Greek, maybe Hebrew, or Latin). He said, with no better provenance, they were questionable. Odd, with the Dead Sea Scrolls at least partially confirming the existence of the books into correct historical times, I'm not sure how the Apocrypha can still be denied, come to think or it? Never who mind... Just... thinking.
Typical tomatoes are at least 90 days to maturity. Not knowing the variety you planted, my guess is you will have a glut of tomatoes awaiting you when you return from BMan.
ReplyDeleteMy mother cans them as tomato juice/puree a few jars at a time using her solar oven. This is the least effort method and it only requires enough tomatoes ripe for a handful of jars (pint size) at a time.
Erps, no. 60 to 90 days, so you may see a pile of them before BMan.
ReplyDeleteIs that from germination? If so, I think I planted them in April? They were probably up by May 1st at the latest? Yep, tomatoes by May 2nd.
ReplyDeleteOh, right, I forgot about tomato juice. That's good too. I just can't go too plain on that, for myself. A little lemon juice and salt, perhaps celery salt. I'll look some recipes up. Well, and beer to round out the flavor.
That time is typically quoted from the "setting out" date, not the seeding date.
ReplyDeleteGiven the productivity of the variety that Momcat found for the desert (Punta Banda)we'd be drowning in tomatoes if not for tomato juice. No way to eat that much spaghetti, etc. Fresh salsa is nice, but it is hard to grow cilantro here.
Salt and tabasco sauce make it go down the hatch for me.
>>blink blink<< There is another thought I had just this very moment--are you seeing high temperatures regularly over 90 degrees now? If so, and if you have a typical tomato variety, then the heat may be killing the pollen, ergo no tomatoes setting fruit.
It is the perennial plague of tomato growers in AZ. The window of opportunity for getting a crop set on the vines is narrow. Most people here plant determinate varieties that set fruit fast and all at once. April 1 in the ground, even if protection is required. By July the vines are in the compost heap because they are *done*.
Momcat has had some additional success by shading the plants from afternoon sun with shade cloth. But her greatest success to date is the above-mentioned variety that keeps on churning out fruit through the hottest spell.
Doom, I don't really know much about the differences between the bibles. I did google both of them last night. The DR is about 30 years older from what I read. KJ is not a favorite of mine. I do know that my favorite version of the bible now comes with the apocrypha attached. Incidentally, I checked to see if the bible I held in church this morning had the apocrypha attached. But of course it didn't .. :-). Our bibles are decades old.
ReplyDeleteps: although I've read the New Testament and parts of the old I am not qualified whatsoever to hold discussions on the bible.
D.C.,
ReplyDeleteIt hasn't really hit the 90's yet. It's verging, as a maybe, later this week, or next. Oh, well, we have had 90 degree days, but for single day spikes a very few times. Actually, I don't think I have seen a single tomato set on, even so. If anything, we have had many nights into the low 40's, which cause me suspicion.
They went in mid-month, so they have been in around two weeks now. As for seed type, I used the tomatoes out of one of the cans of hybrid seed I bought from Emm. Essentials. The type is Rutgers, though there were some letters after it. It seems made for what you describe, with a robust first crop.
No matter, if I get nothing I learn. I already know to plant much earlier inside. For tomatoes I may need some sort of heat tray, they are delicate. Oh, and they are getting watered at least an hour and a half every other day (actually more since they are in the overlap zone). No worries.
foam,
Technically the only one who truly knows the bible is the Author. While He ain't saying more, He did choose to leave the book. I stay away from modern versions because they have all had their language changed according to political correctness, specifically, minimally, feminism. Though denominations also... tweak. Absolutely no doubt on that. If you think God is good with that, read from it. Just understand, you aren't reading what He had people write. You are reading what Gloria Steinem, Calvin, and some of the others think He should have written... as much as she and he can change it.
Oh, I've read them. I just didn't study them. I stuck with KJ, the Catholic (modern version, which I find unacceptable now) but am reverting to DR. It was based, purely, on the Latin Vulgate, which itself was a literal translation, and the original language texts (when they could be found). There wasn't a political push to be sex inclusive or "nice" to anyone.
I've read the book enough to know that reading it won't... you... don't memorize it. I've been reading it since I was seven or eight. I rip apart those who try to quote something as "proof" of something they are trying to say, even those 'medicine bottle preachers' I've met. *grins*
It's... sort of a long poem. Get the feel. All I can say, for sure, from reading it, as I see things, is that God loves us. If we love Him, we will love each other (not spoil, not cater to, not always in an easy way as with my haiku), and Him. As a child loves. Not in a childish manner unless we are children, but... And not sex or pals or... but real love, like kin, and even more, self-kin. Don't get too hung up on sins. Avoid, confess, deal, but we can't live purity, just aim for it, let God guide us when in doubt. It's messy, but beautiful, like... well... like children are.
But... what do I know.
D.C.,
ReplyDeleteActually, I don't honestly expect any tomatoes. Why? Heirloom. They are poor growers, require huge amounts of special fertilizers, extra extra water, lots of weeding, and will get eaten faster and heavier than other types.
The peppers aren't quit as finicky, but... We will see. Best case, we take a bushel of fresh garden goo to BMan. Gifting for a few days, throwing material for after that. *splat!*
The heirlooms don't require more fussing and fertilizer. Hybridizers mostly go after disease resistance, then the ability to bounce down the interstate through thirty states in the back of a semi truck without bruising. Taste and texture be damned, however. The heirloom advantage to us is that it breeds true.
ReplyDeleteNothing bad to say about Rutgers, although it may be more suited to Iowa than Utah.
Punta Banda is also an heirloom. If Rutgers doesn't work out for you this year, I can send you some Punta Banda seed to try next year.
Two weeks is still early. Are you seeing blossoms yet?
Hmm, haven't seen blossoms but then I wasn't expecting them so haven't looked all that closely. I'll check tomorrow and post. I do note that the turnips and kohlrabi are up. I'm just hoping my mother didn't go that far over with the Preen. Greens but no tubers is possible. Corn isn't up yet though.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yeah! If you have a better yielding tomato, for this area, I'm all in if this doesn't work out. Maybe even if it does? All about learning and expanding. I will know before long.
As for my heirloom cynicism? Well... you know I would be cynical of anything. On most things, at some points, I just am. Hopeful, just not expecting much. Heirlooms do, however, have a nasty reputation for being much more difficult to work with. Finicky... Then again... I do like women, innit? *big grins*
I am in it for the experience this year. Seeds if I can get them. Fruit would just be a huge plus. I suppose it is easier to write it off than hope, at times, to?
Two things of note regarding the link re: Rutgers--"73 days to maturity" and "determinate".
ReplyDeleteWhat determinate varieties do is put on foliage growth for a while, then put out a huge flurry of blossoms within a relatively short time period, resulting in a crop that ripens pretty much all at once. This is helpful if you plan a couple big canning weekends. Indeterminate varieties will put out small amounts of fruit over a longer time period--good if you want salad or slicing tomatoes.
73 days means you may not see much fruit setting for another 2-3 weeks yet.
Unless you plan on serving bloody mary's made from fresh tomato juice, I don't want a bushel of tomatoes coming with us to BMan. One thing we don't need is a source of unnecessary MOOP...no tossing at neighboring camps!
Bah! Your no fun! *splat*
ReplyDeleteHmm, I wonder if there are magnets for tomato schtuff?
Bible and tomato discussions in the same post. Kinda cool. I know little of one and less of the other.
ReplyDeleteSo, now I'm off to gaze fondly at my 4 heirloom tomatoes. They probably need watering.
I see you are trying to get my goat here. lol...
Just remember, the image you picked.. That's how I always look like . ;-) Like your new pyramid poem, btw. And, yes, pyramid poems do exist ..
foam,
ReplyDeleteWhen I try to get your goat, it is with you included, not against. I try to cut the thing so you can see how another might see it, in a real setting, but with you in on it. Mostly. Actually I even try to do that with what have been my women, but they aren't... always in 'teh mood(tm)'. *laughs*
Tomatoes and the bible are a wonderful pairing. It goes good with lots of things. Try it! Seriously, just as an odd thing to do, study the bible based on odd things that you hear... If some one is talking about, or you are thinking of, wine, for example... delve into it. Lots of places to use the internet to find a bible word search (of just about any bible version). Plug in wine and see where it leads you. A few times a week just plug and play. New and Old Testament. Love/charity, hope, faith are the biggies (to my mind), but almost any word or theme will work.
It is interesting, to, to note the differences. Compare, for example, the KJV, the DR, and some other, on the same topic. Uhrm, there are several versions of all bibles even then. I haven't quite nailed when they started negatively altering the DR. I'm working on that now.