This year I’m nearly two weeks late with my spring tomato seeds, having stuck them in the ground only on Saturday, along with some jalapeños, sweet peppers and Puerto Rican eggplants. We took a quick trip to St. Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, which disrupted my usual spring seed plans. But it was [...]
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That which we have been praying for is here! After at least two months without seeing anything like this, you forget what a real downpour looks and feels like. We got one! and more headed our way from out west of Austin, moving right over some of the counties hardest hit by wildfires. My rain [...]
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Me and the boy played a round of Armadillo Baseball this morning before sunup. Boy heard Bosco the Wonder Dog growling, and animal bodies slamming into foundation beams and fences and such in that way that indicates the game is about to begin. I grabbed the flashlight and we ran out to the side yard [...]
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Homesteading in 21st Century America, as I’ve postulated before, mostly involves learning and practicing skills that lead to self-reliance. While I am perverse enough to believe that learning to be self-reliant is actually fun, recent events also suggest that for most of us it may be essential for our survival. In the midst of a [...]
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This one is a seedling from a mother plant called Gee Petch, a Thai variety. The genetically distinct plant below, which I’ve named TB’s Lavadrop, has been holding up well even in this year’s incredible heat – a trait not shared by that many Thai types, which can be a little heat sensitive. The flowers [...]
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We have not had anything constituting a real rain since early March, about 60 days ago, and right now what passes for grass in the front yard is so dry that when you walk across it, it crunches. If I bent down and put a lit match on it, I expect that it would flare [...]
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It was a bust. Yes, I’d rather have the Weather Dudes err on the side of caution, but after three days of predicting up to 3 inches of snow here in the snowless Texas Outback, all I got was these teeny icicles. The promise of some catastrophic Winter Event was more than enough to prompt [...]
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| Today | Thursday |
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 Mostly Cloudy 79°/63° |  Chance of a Thunderstorm 82°/57° |
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