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Skriven 2008-01-18 18:06:40 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
    Kommentar till text 815 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: Hot and humid!
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> No okra (because it's the only food that I
->  hn> really don't care for)

-> Steve and I have differing opinions of it, me for and him against.  He
-> will try a piece of deep fried from time to time but, as he says, mainly
-> to reinforce his position on it.

 hn> I've discovered I don't mind them if they are pickled!
 hn> and if they are pickled and spicy with chiles even better!

I'll eat it most any way but fried, with salt (yes, I will add salt
there) is probably my favorite. (G)

->  hn> but collards and mustard greens and
->  hn> turnips and such are cold weather liking
->  hn> plants and do very well here. Plants

-> Don't you have to plant them when it's quite warm tho?

 hn> Gosh no! They are very frost tolerant and will be some
 hn> of the first things up in the spring!

OK, I was thinking that the soil had to be warm for planting but could
take cooling down to frost level and below, at least for collards. I
knew some of the others were warm weather plants.

->  hn> that need more heat and longer growing
->  hn> seasons like tomatoes, melons, hot peppers

-> My dad has always grown tomatoes--in a growing season that's from late
-> May to sometimes late August, sometimes mid to late September.  In AZ, I
-> was able to get a habenero crop from the same bushes 2 years in a row,
-> better the 2nd year, despite some snows in the intervening winter.

 hn> Even though you have a shorter growing season, there are
 hn> more "high heat days" (days where the temp never drops
 hn> below 70 F). We have very few days where  the night time
 hn> low is above 70.

We're in a cold spell right now, daytime in the low 50s (except today)
and nights in the upper 20s to mid 30s.  The water makes some areas
warmer. Had rain all day yesterday, clear today but more rain predicted
for all day tomorrow, then cold again.

-> easier this one.  First year we'd had to adjust from HI; this year, so
-> much going on with my body that I'm not dealing well with it.  Same with
-> really hot/humid summers.

 hn> Which is why Annie and I love it
 hn> here more than anywhere else!

And why we liked Sierra Vsita better than Tucson or Phoenix.

->  hn> Wait for hurricane season...you'll have your fill of wind!

-> Surprisingly. Savannah doesn't get hit as hard as a lot of other places
-> on the coast. It has had its share of storms but if you look at the
-> location, most storms start to curve eastward below Savannah and are
-> further out to sea as they are on the same latitiude.  I just hope we
-> don't get hit with a big one this year.

 hn> Amen!

And we will be out of the area before summer of 09.

->  hn> A combination of factors. lack of funds
->  hn> (a week in a Hawaiian hotel isn't cheap),
->  hn> and a lack of desire to spend 6+ hours
->  hn> cramped into a coach seat on an
->  hn> overcrowded aircraft.

-> Oh well, if you really wanted to go back, you'd deal with it all. (G) We
-> have enough places to stay (on Oahu) we wouldn't have to worry about
-> hotels.

 hn> I'd have to go without Anne and that
 hn> takes a lot of the inducement out of
 hn> it for me.

I can see where that would. I'd feel the same way with Steve.

->  hn> a drought going on the air is still so humid you can't dry off
->  hn> after a shower!

-> I know the feeling--too well.

 hn> You'll be able to choose your roost one of
 hn> these days, choose wisely (grin)!

Right now it's still a dream--but a lot closer than it ever has been.


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Ruth
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