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Originally posted by Brenda:
Looks like our stretch of good weather is going to hopefully last until next Tuesday.

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Lucky you. Woke up to 3 inches of snow today and it was still snowing. Going to drop to 25 degrees tonight.:(

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I got 2 phone calls today. One from the head lady of mah jong group to sort of check on me.

The other my boss who stumbled around asking me how I am and spent 5 minutes attempting to have a conversation with me. Outside of work, she doesn't know how to talk to me.

ETA: Oh yes. My boss also mentioned that she has had to do everything around the house herself since this all started. Sorry but I cannot and will not feel sorry for her.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I got 2 phone calls today. One from the head lady of mah jong group to sort of check on me.

The other my boss who stumbled around asking me how I am and spent 5 minutes attempting to have a conversation with me. Outside of work, she doesn't know how to talk to me.

ETA: Oh yes. My boss also mentioned that she has had to do everything around the house herself since this all started. Sorry but I cannot and will not feel sorry for her.

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I think, BRENDA, if your boss had been at all honest, this is what she would have said:

Hi Brenda, this is XXXX. I'm really falling behind in the housework and I could use some help. Are you healthy? Do you feel like you could come in to work on your usual schedule? Do you mind wearing a mask? I'd be more than happy to increase your pay by $2/hr during the crisis to make up for the inconvenience of the mask and the risk of transportation.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Yeah. Too hot. Too smoggy. Too many fires.

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Let us know Brenda. Thanks.

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Hey Brenda - when I check the US drought monitor I always check the North American drought monitor as well. But unfortunately, the North American Drought Monitor is always at least a month behind.

As of about a month ago, you guys in BC were looking good - not even abnormally dry! And no part of Canada was in drought. So I was a little bit unhappy when you posted your fire season was starting up. Hopefully you get just enough rain to damp out the fires - but not so much your spirits get soggy!

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AH! Thanks for looking that up Brenda. Now I know it's not a natural result of the recent weather patterns up there at this point. I truly appreciate you finding the information and passing it along!

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Still heading for rain on Wednesday according to the weather lady on the news. I guess it is good since we are experiencing one of the driest April's on record.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
"Bee's Bliss" groundcover sage
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Still heading for rain on Wednesday according to the weather lady on the news. I guess it is good since we are experiencing one of the driest April's on record.

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I think our weather patterns must have swapped, because while you were sunny and dry, we had one of the wettest March/Aprils on record. But now that rain is heading your way, we're looking at 90+ weather and sunshine. So, you're back to rainy and we're back to sunny.

All is back to normal!

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The Bee's Bliss IS fairly tall..up to my knees. I was looking at pruning it back severely, but I'm ripping it out for a vegetable patch instead.

It doesn't prune well. Not that it probably wouldn't come back after severe pruning, but it's ridiculously resistant even to well-sharpened pruners, loppers, and shears. (I tried all of them) It actually rips apart with your hands much more easily because the "joints" are fairly week, so keeping it in check would probably require tearing it apart by hand.

Also, hubby tried burning it in the fireplace. It wouldn't burn, not even the dried-out stuff.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs...

I know you're burning your weeds, but I was wondering if you've ever gotten any use out of that Round Up sprayer. It's great for bug spray too.


I just sprayed a few gallons of it today around the house and the garage. I had left about 2/3rds of a gallon of it that I had in there from last year (I didn't follow the directions and I shouldn't have done that).

Sure enough, about halfway through using that old stuff the firehose went down to a trickle. When I finally opened it up after realizing I wasn't going to get it going again by shaking or banging anything I saw that there was a lot of crap built up around the hose entry and figured I screwed this one up and it was shot now.

But I was able to pull the hose out and clean it off and it works as good as new. Unlike the cheap models, this one has a little yellow plastic filter at the end of the hose and that seemed to be all it needed to keep the crap from clogging up the hose like a lifetime diet of McDonalds does to your arteries.

I'm throwing out all three of my old ones now, and I'm going to open up the second Round Up I bought last year so I have one for the bugs and one for the weed killer. These things should last me years as long as I follow the directions and clean it out by spraying straight water through them when I'm done.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Brenda, I'm sorry your troubles with leg cramps has stricken you again.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs...

I know you're burning your weeds, but I was wondering if you've ever gotten any use out of that Round Up sprayer. It's great for bug spray too.


I just sprayed a few gallons of it today around the house and the garage. I had left about 2/3rds of a gallon of it that I had in there from last year (I didn't follow the directions and I shouldn't have done that).

Sure enough, about halfway through using that old stuff the firehose went down to a trickle. When I finally opened it up after realizing I wasn't going to get it going again by shaking or banging anything I saw that there was a lot of crap built up around the hose entry and figured I screwed this one up and it was shot now.

But I was able to pull the hose out and clean it off and it works as good as new. Unlike the cheap models, this one has a little yellow plastic filter at the end of the hose and that seemed to be all it needed to keep the crap from clogging up the hose like a lifetime diet of McDonalds does to your arteries.

I'm throwing out all three of my old ones now, and I'm going to open up the second Round Up I bought last year so I have one for the bugs and one for the weed killer. These things should last me years as long as I follow the directions and clean it out by spraying straight water through them when I'm done.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Oh yeah, I posted earlier but with all the Covid-stuff I guess you missed it.

I have been using that concentrated glyphosate that you recommended. And I did have a Roundup sprayer already ... it works sweet!!!... but I didn't want to mix up glyphosate in it and accidently kill plant later when I used it for something else.

Still, the weeds around here being what they are ...

I find that the torch works more immediately but the glyphsate is more permanent, I get a lot more resprouting wth the torch. So I torch twice and spray once. The spray is really good to get close to plants the I want to keep, if I get too close with the torch it singes them. Happy with the way both are working together, it really really reduces the amount of weed-pulling.

But there is ONE weed, I don't know what it is, I mentioned this to KIKI: I torched them brutally, watched the leaves and stems turn to ash all the way to the ground. They resprouted! So I drenched them with glyphosate and it left them totally unfazed.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
The rain is back.

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SIX: Nice. Do you have the model of Round Up sprayer that I sent you a while back or one of the ones that you get with a pre-mixed solution? I had one of those and I'm going to pitch it after using this one for two seasons. Its the best sprayer I've ever used.
I'm going to be using that glyphosate myself, probably tomorrow.
How much was that torch?

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