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Skriven 2008-08-21 00:53:38 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 12373 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: summer gardens in ny                                     [1]
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Hi Ruth!

>> hahahahaha.. don't tempt me into trying it (laugh).. we have two trees
>> that are LOADED with crabapples every year :) :)

> OK, I won't tmept you--this year. (G)

(grin)  I caught someone saying that crabapple or apple trees only fruit every
two years.. now I'll have to watch ours and see if that is true.. But even if
it is true, I doubt anyone is going to climb up those trees and try to
de-flower them every other year (g).

>> outside the city of Ithaca.. built in about 1810 ... there are apple
>> trees and plum trees in the backyard.. which of course we had to try..
>> boy.. outrageously good plums :)  We'll probably have to help them

> Sounds neat.  Apple butter and plum preserves, apple pie, apple sauce,
> plum sauce, etc.

The plums were so delicious to eat, no doubt they'll be just eaten for a while
:)

>> with this move $$ wise.. But it's that nice of a house.. It had been
>> built for the parson in a small village outside Ithaca in the 1800's..
>> it's absolutely beautiful. If I was rich, I'd buy it (g).  The owners
>> only want to rent it though (g).

> Too bad--any chance they will change their mind?

Doubt it.. in Ithaca, rents are astronomical compared to areas like Binghamton,
but to buy a house it is about the same price for the same features.  So I
doubt the owner will take a loss like that.

>> And today in Ithaca it was back up to the high eighties.. I'd bet it
>> was the same in Windsor all day :).. so maybe there's hope for the
>> tomatoes.

> Don't give up hope until it frosts.

True, I've had red tomatoes in September more than once.


>> See, that's the problem.. remember our spring was about non-existant..

> So you're having spring now with a bit of fall beginning as well. (G)

heh.. true.  I did put in more broccoli and lettuce I had started inside.

>> here is very cold still.. just a guess.  You don't see as many people
>> fishing in the Delaware, that's for sure... Saw a few today.. but I've
>> seen more in other warmer years.

> So  much for the global warming theorists.

I wouldn't go that far.. it's been warmer overall than in past years.. our snow
season is barely a snow season anymore.

>> Oh blush, like "red" :)  Not here, not as of today.. I check every day
>> darnit :) :)

> Probably they will all ripen at once. (G)

Could be :)  Today I dug up about 13 lbs of potatoes..  that was neat.  I also
found a large Bok Choy that was beautiful.. nice to have these since Eoin is
coming to stay with us for  week now.. Alex went home last Sunday, and Eoin
couldn't wait to get his turn at grandma's :)

>> windowsills > and other places in various stages of ripeness.
>> Best way I've found to ripen them off the vine is to put them in brown
>> paper bags (lunch bag size, not big grocery size) and they ripen
>> without rotting _most_ of the time :) :)  Jim Crockett's book
>> ("Crockett's Victory Garden" talks about that.

> He lets them ripen naturally but we've tried that idea with other
> fruits.

Personally, my preference is to grab them as soon as they start to turn red
since the bugs haven't gotten them, and they are ripe.

>>> closed group.  They weren't quite hippies.. more "back to basics" and
>>> "physical-work-to-releive stress", "purify yourself" people. But yes,
>>> it would have been about the time I think.

>> > I don't think that movement ever really took hold seriously in the
>> > Catskills. They got more of the hippies,

>> Umm.. I resemble that remark Lol..

> I would have at the time if I could have.

You were probably just a tad younger too.

>> went to Woodstock on Max Yasgur's farm.. My dad wouldn't let me go -
>> with my oldest sister and my boyfriend.. so they just went without
>> me... I was a little upset, but I was working anyway and wouldn't have

> I was working too--keeping house for my family.  Mom was in summer
> school; that was the year she spent 9 weeks in Geneseo.  I couldn't take
> off as my youngeer siblings couldn't run the house.  Did you ever see
> the movie & recognise anybody?

I've seen the movie several times, but no, never recognized anyone in the
'woodstock population' in the film that I knew :)

>> take blood, run blood tests, etc. Probably because of my Dad and his
>> friends and my interest in it all.

> Vampire in training?

I guess so (grin).  I loved it though.

>> NYHospital before they merged with Columbia Presbeterion, but it was
>> still good to hear.. that Dr. Horwich was that neat a Dr. in other
>> people's eyes.  I knew it (grin).  When I was working in college, on

> Nice to know.  The pulminologist I had in HI was another one of those
> that was really good in his field.  He got me squared away with asthma
> managment and saw me thru some rough times.

Yes, he sure did, from you've mentioned ::)

>> of the jobs I'd had was a Video clerk (I got to see some neat films,
>> like La Strada from Fellini.. that was neat. I was lost in some of
>> those films.. then all of a sudden Dr. Horwich turns up in an
>> educational film for other doctors,

> Nice surprise.

It was :)  One of my instructors pointed it out to me in the catalog we'd
gotten in, since she knew I was seeing him.. It was a very nice surprise.

Take care,
Janis

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