Archive for June, 2003
Posted: June 30th, 2003 by
Lisa
The garden is definitely in transition, from our June bursts of bloom and the start of the summer colors of yellow and gold. For some reason, I seem to have a lot of white things blooming right now, not that I’m complaining. It just means I need to buy more plants! What a hardship. Madame
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Posted under Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Companula, Delphinium, Foxglove, Golden Globe, Honeysuckle, Madame Hardy, Roses.
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Posted: June 29th, 2003 by
Lisa
We got out in the garden nice and early today, and really got a lot done. Frank ordered some mushroom spawn from Fungi Perfecti. Of the three kinds he ordered, two are back-ordered, but we got the Blewitt, so wanted to get the bed built for it. So first, we hauled the logs that we’d
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Posted under Back Hoe, Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Lasagna Layering, Lawn tractor, Mushrooms, Raised Beds, Tractor, stropharia.
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Posted: June 28th, 2003 by
Lisa
We got a lot done today. Frank’s big to-do item was to turn the compost. The far right bin of the old set (right near the house) is our finished stuff, and has collapsed down to less than half a bin. It’s too late to spread that stuff now, so he was hoping that the
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Posted under Boulders, Building, Compost, Deadheading, Gardening, Horsetail, Lawn, Lupine, Pallets, Potatoes, Turning, Weeding, Window Boxes, tulips.
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Posted: June 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
The heat wave continues here. It got as high as the mid-90s again, which just saps my energy and keeps me from wanting to do much outside at all. The string algae in the pond suddenly appeared today, from all of the hot weather, I guess. Frank fished most of it out with the net.
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Posted under Algae, Centaurea montana Mountain Bluet, Columbine, Fish, Foxglove, Lupine, Madame Hardy, Pond, Sunny, tulips.
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Posted: June 26th, 2003 by
Lisa
Frank and I spent the week in Philadelphia this week, leaving the garden to fend for itself. While we were gone, summer arrived with a heat-wave, hitting the mid-90s, which is pretty rare for New Hampshire. Of course, because that’s the way things work in our world, Frank had been fiddling with the irrigation before
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Posted under Basil, Fish, Iris, Irrigation, Kids, Sedum, Tomatoes, peony.
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Posted: June 21st, 2003 by
Lisa
The weather’s been nice enough in the evenings lately that we are spending time sitting out in the gazebo with a glass of wine. One of the things I noticed last night was that I haven’t touched my forgotten bed, the one directly behind the gazebo. It can stay forgotten for much of the year
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Posted under Burdock, Coffee Grounds, Deadheading, False Indigo, Gardening, Gladiola, Irrigation, Lasagna Layering, Planting, Pruning, Raised Beds, Stinging Nettles, Weeding, dahlia, gazebo.
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Posted: June 20th, 2003 by
Frank
One of the Lamer Landscapers semi-successful projects was installing irrigation for us. They actually got it running in the spring of 2001. As usual, they demonstrated that they are landscapers not gardeners. Also cheap. They finally got the stuff running June of 2001 (only 9 months behind schedule). Two valves failed that summer. In 2002,
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Posted under Fuschia, Harvesting, Iris, Irrigation, Lawn, Window Boxes, Worms.
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Posted: June 19th, 2003 by
Frank
I finally started work on getting the sawmill up and running. The angle iron for the track has been sitting here for a month, the carriage a month longert than that. I just need to drill 20 holes in quarter inch steel, and that’s that. Yup. I got Jeremy to help me move the angle
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Posted under Drill Press, Jeremy, Sawmill.
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Posted: June 17th, 2003 by
Lisa
The garden is slowly transitioning from all blues and purples to the reds and oranges that signal that summer is coming. Most notably, my poppy bloomed, for the first time ever. In my old garden, I had an entire bed of poppies, right near the front, very full and beautiful. In particular, we’d gotten a
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Posted under Compost, Gardening, Poppies, Soil.
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Posted: June 17th, 2003 by
Frank
Yep folks, another artifact of the upgrade from Redhat 8 to Redhat 9. Most of my domains lost incremental processing of usage statistics. Which of course I didn’t find till weeks later because it didn’t actually show up till logrotate did its thing. I’m pretty sure they changed the default from yes to no, because most of my webalizer.conf files had incremental processing commented out, and the inactivated line set to ‘no’. The one that kept working was manually set to ‘yes’. I just read the man page, and I should be able to continue defaulting the location of ‘webalizer.current’ but I’ve got a bad feeling about that too.
Posted under Tech Stuff.
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