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Skriven 2009-09-26 12:09:43 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 28975 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
Ärende: Passports
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Hi bob,


 RH> OK, but that's just like the passport card.

 BG>  Exactly right, but combined with a drivers license.

Helps to cut down on the amount of paperwork needed for travel, even
to/from those countries.


 RH> And, since NC isn't a border state--except to VA, SC, TN, etc

 BG>  And those in fact are more foreign than any Canadian Province in
 BG> their  way of thinking so maybe you should need a passport... :-)

Yes, none of them know how to do a good pork bbq. Matter of fact,
western NC doesn't either. (G)


 RH> Meanwhile, as we wait, we are begining to get color on a tomato.  I
 RH> counted 11 on the plants today; Steve spotted the first bit of color.
 RH> There are more blossoms so we should be eating fresh tomatoes for a
 RH> few weeks into the fall.

 BG>  That will be great.  I'm getting tomatoes off the one in the ground,
 BG>  the thing hanging in the air gave me two or three. I just threw
 BG>  away four yesterday from it with stem rot.  It will not be used
 BG>  next year.

 BG>  Picked a couple this morning off the "thing."   They are small. All
 BG> of  my tomatoes are small this year.

We put in Romas; the ones we picked are "normal" size, as are some of of
those still on the plant.  Others are in various stages of development
from smaller than a pea, on up.

 RH> We do plan on using ours next year.  We bought 2 but only put one up.
 RH> Next year we will put both up, probably get a couple more as well.  Do
 RH> 3 with tomatoes, one with peppers maybe.

 BG>  Just keep in mind they have to be watered daily, the pot with a hole
 BG>  in the bottom leaks it all out.  Maybe next year I will try with more
 BG>  dirt and less potting soil.  My daughter put the dirt in it. I just

Steve put lots of dirt in and we've had no trouble with it leaking out.
Did yours have a foam "plug" with a cut out for the plants?

 BG>  found a place to hang it.   The neighbor behind me has three of them
 BG>  hanging from his clothes line pole.  All are dead now.  The neighbor
 BG>  next door went on vacation for a week and his dried up and died
 BG> during  that week

We got ours after our vacation.  Part of the plants have died but
there's still enough live area that the tomatoes are producing well.


 BG>  Luckily the Farm Market has nice big ones for 79 cents a pound.  I'm

 RH> Nice; the Farmer's Market we usually go to was pretty much out of them
 RH> on Saturday. I didn't get any but our first will be ready for eating
 RH> soon.  There's another one coming along well behind that and a 3rd
 RH> getting just a blush of color.

 BG>  I don't really go to a farmers market as many stands have come to be
 BG>  called, but go to a vegetable farm where the farmers market stand
 BG> folks  go to buy their things to sell.   Good sweet corn is now $1 a
 BG> dozen.
 BG>  A bushel of tomatoes for canning are $6...   Good place to buy
 BG> veggies.

I'd have to go down into Raleigh to the state Farmer's Market to get
anywhere close to those prices. Don't know of any closer, wish there
were.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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