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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Update on the cold frame, plugged up the small gaps between the boards and 
weather strips on the windows.  NOW it is staying warm.
 
Sewed 1/2 of the first bunch of seeds for the cold frame today.  Used Bev's 
TP roll tip :-)  
Will finish up the rest tomorrow, as the temps are cooling down now, and I 
don't want to let the warm air escape.
 
It actually snowed for 4 hours here early last week, real snow, big flakes.  
It was fun to watch as it has been many year since I saw it snowing like 
that.  Of course once the snow cloud moved east to slam everyone else, the 
snow melted in about 15 mins.
 
Garlic started last November is coming up well, even with the overnight 
freezes (about 3-4 hours)  Put the some onion sets out also, to see how they 
do this early.  There's about 40 acres of onions down the road, planted last 
Nov, the overnight freezes haven't bothered them at all, which is amazing.  
That onion field is the only thing green around here.  
 
Farmers in the area are busy planting.  Fields have been plowed, and furrows 
made, and I saw a few have started the flooding type irrigation.
 
Keeping my fingers crossed that I actually get something to grow all the way 
to harvest.
 
Hope all are well !
 
 


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People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, 
and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. 
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder 
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ~ George 
Orwell



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Spent Saturday setting posts and part of Sunday stringing fence. Today
I hauled some horse manure and plowed the garden. All to the tune of
"Aquarius"! Saturday was a nice day and I couldn't help but welcome
the dawning of the new age with a tune in my head. Now I can't get it
out.

My mother used to sing that song to me and do a dance while she was
kneading bread in the kitchen. For some reason, that post got it stuck
in my head.

Rob - Va