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[Worth1]

Two things on this well three.
When I was a little kid my father would go to the store what ever it was.
I would sit on the big Wheel Horse tractors they had on display while he did what ever he did and play.
What a fine thing they were too.
I wanted one so bad but we couldn't afford one.
Next the financing 6 months same as cash rip off the big box stores have.
Do it but have the money to buy it out right put this in savings and dont make a payment until right before it expires then pay it all off.
Stick it to the man.
Last but not least.
Yesterday was a record breaker here.
It was 94 in Austin this broke the record of 93 I think back in the 50's.
I stepped outside this morning at 5:30 and it was like an oven.
What on earth am I doing getting up at 5:00 AM on a Saturday.
All I could think about was sleeping in this weekend.
Well I guess I did I normally get up at 4:00 AM.
Worth

[SteveP]

Worth, your sleep habits are similar to mine. I get up at 3:30am 2 days a week for work and on my days off I wake up naturally anywhere from 4:30-6am.

We are on the rain train since about 11 last night and they say this is just the beginning. My wife has to work today so I will be getting out in it shortly. I think I am going to make some tuna salad for lunch and hunker down.

[Worth1]

Someone asked me how on earth do you get up that early.
I told them I go to bed with the chickens.
I dont go to sleep but read myself to sleep.
I have been that way all of my life.
The TV what I call the dullard box does nothing for me.
I dont ridicule anyone for watching it but to me it simply is nothing.
A movie every now and then but that is it.

I remember one time a guy from work came over.
He knocked and I said come in.
I was at the table and had the English Oxford dictionary opened.
What are you looking up?
Nothing I am just reading it was my reply.
He was flabbergasted as to how on earth anyone could just sit and read a dictionary and went back to work telling everyone.
Worth

[clkeiper]

Worth, my husbands nickname was "dictionary" when he was in school. Mine probably should have been because I can't believe the words we have that people don't have any clue what the definition is or what what they just read means. something I will let slide such as legal documents as they are written to confuse the normal vocabulary of any person... but everyday things? oyvey.

[Salsacharley]

My location's average last frost date is April 17. Tonight and tomorrow the forecast is snow and 30 degrees. I guess I was lucky to crack a rib and not be able to plant out yet. I'm wondering if the little peaches and apples forming on my trees will freeze at 30 degrees. I hate having to spend the time and effort to protect them for only 24 hours of freeze danger.

[Worth1]

Put a sprinkler on them.

Worth

[oakley]

Yup, wet them down. That is how entire orchards are saved.

I had zero fruit last year even the really old farm trees. Last frost gets mine 2 out of
every three-four years. Two years ago i had so much fruit i welcomed a year off. Hard
work culling an AsianPear and harvesting. Some of my trees are so big now even with
pruning. If i don't take the time to cull, the fruit gets so heavy it breaks entire limbs.

Hours of work and can barely tend the tomatoes.

But i understand wanting to save your fruit this year....can you call your corporative
extension and ask advice? Or a local fruit farm? I often follow their lead, or i did years
past. Now i just let Ma Nature decide the fate of my trees.

Ribs, wow. I bruised a few two yrs ago and could barely breath for two months. A tiny laugh and i was screaming "ow, ow, ow!!".

[clkeiper]

Sorry to hear of the ribs Charlie.. There is a product called frost gaurd that is supposed to protect to 8f lower than freezing.

[oakley]

Hopped in my car this morning, in the shade, to hit the local nursery....it was 94 and hell hot.
Could not figure out the AC as it has bee so long since needing it....

84 inside home...time to test the AC

[Cole_Robbie]

My area just got 5 inches of rain in two days, four of them came last night. An older gentleman at market this morning told me he had lived here 50 years, and didn't remember flooding this bad.

[clkeiper]

it has been raining here since 4 yesterday. We got finished laying plastic in the garden at 4 and the men got a call to fix a water main for the city. they emptied a water tower while it was pouring down the rain to fix it. water everywhere! they were soaked to the skin til they got home. it has been raining all day here today, too. the garden is soaked. I won't get in it to plant my cold crops anytime soon now. sigh.

[Worth1]

All we have had is a wind out of the south in a day or two it is going to come back out of the north the temps drop as well as the humidity down to around 43 or so.

[AlittleSalt]

It was so humid and still last night that I finally gave in and shut the windows and turned on the AC. They're calling for heavy rain, hail, tornados, etc, but there's nothing on the radar yet.

[Rockporter]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Next the financing 6 months same as cash rip off the big box stores have.
Do it but have the money to buy it out right put this in savings and dont make a payment until right before it expires then pay it all off.
Stick it to the man. Worth

Worth, it doesn't work that way. If you don't make a monthly payment to them you will be responsible for all interest from the start of the contract. You have to make those payments otherwise you are sticking it to yourself, lol. That's how they get people with the high interest rate. One day late and you pay big time.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Rockporter

Worth, it doesn't work that way. If you don't make a monthly payment to them you will be responsible for all interest from the start of the contract. You have to make those payments otherwise you are sticking it to yourself, lol. That's how they get people with the high interest rate. One day late and you pay big time.

There was some sort of scam going on I dont remember where it was.
But it was always out at Christmas time.
Make no payments for so many months or so.

While we are on the subject we had a guy at work a long time ago.
It was after Christmas.
He was bragging how many thousands of dollars he put on his card for Christmas at work.
I am an A hole and I replied so you are bragging your are an idiot.
You dont make 10 dollars and hour and put 7 grand on a card with 12 to 20% interest.
There are literally millions of these people in the US and they are making banks and lenders rich.
Their only hope is to have a comet hit the earth and wipe out everything.
Worth