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  • From: Joe Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Excessive Nitrogen on Grapes....off-topic
  • Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:58:16 -0400


Hi All:

My vinyard is planted southwest of an old barn. Growth is
vigorous and the must (grape juice) has excessive K (Postassium) due to
the decades of poop that dropped on the site. But this story is about
Nitrogen, not Potassium.

#1 Son, an impressionable fellow in his early teens, decided that he was
interested in the manly arts of self defense. Specifically, he sensed
that it was his cosmic destiny to study Tae Kwan Do under the auspices
of Master Fear.

Master Fear's dojo is 55 minutes away from where we live. You have to
drive past approximately 13 other martial arts emporiums to get there.
The reason Master Fear is the best is because # 0ne Son's Best Buddy
says it is. That, and the fact that it is next to where Best Buddy's
dad lives and where Best Buddy spends the summer.


There have been plusses and minusses. One of the plusses is that #1 is
much more stoic. One major minus, besides the excessive amount of road
time, is #1's compulsion to practice his "form" on every vertical
entity. I don't mind him bending up the box elder saplings or cuffing
around the (empty) trash can. Rather, it is the wear-and-tear he has
been putting on the housing fixtures and #2 son and daughter. Talking
at him has had little effect. Someday he will take a swing or a kick at
somebody who will kick his you-know-what. But that fails to register at
an emotional level. After all, who can be BADDER than Master Fear Junior?

It happened today. We were walking out to our campsite to collect the
tent and tidy up around the campfire ring. It has been hot and we were
wearing the usual sneakers, shorts and tee-shirts. We took a short-cut
through the grape vines. He saw my old acquaintance, Nettie and took a
whack at her.

I can testify that Nettie is not the least bit intimidated by #1 Son's
Tae Kwan Do form. Stinging Nettie, that is.

Still smiling
-Joe









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