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[cannabineer]

Yes it is cold. 21° this morning with a surprise 6" of snow overnight. I turned this dishwasher into a snow thrower by grabbing a shovel.

The way you worded that made me think repurposed appliance

 

[Ozumoz66]

The way you worded that made me think repurposed appliance

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Traditionally, the question is "How do you turn a dishwasher into a snowblower?" A : "Buy her a shovel."
Nowadays I'm the dishwasher, so I interjected myself into equation. Truthfully, the John Deere did most of the work.

 

[injinji]

The frost made the sandhill look like a sandhill this morning.

 

[injinji]

View from the laundry room door.



Waiting on the windshield ice to melt, looking upstream.

 

[Ozumoz66]

Took our niece to the local adventure park last summer. Had to laugh when I saw the ear tag on this ewe.

 

[Ozumoz66]

Spending time with Gkids last winter, we lured in a male cardinal using the 250 North American Birds in Song book. It flew from tree to tree wondering where the song was coming from - astonishing the kids. It landed long enough to get a photo sitting on the corkscrew hazelnut. Cool heart shaped bit snow to the right of it.

Not sure if it was the same male or not but a male cardinal pecked on my truck mirror and back window all summer. Payback perhaps for luring it in during the winter.

 

[raratt]

Two things I miss from the Midwest, Cardinals and fireflys.

 

[cannabineer]

Tehachapis this am as a winter storm breaks up

 

[raratt]

Tehachapis this am as a winter storm breaks up

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They lock the town down up there when it snows, it's stupid. They close the gates to all the access/egress routes. I guess they figure So Cal people can't drive in snow. Up here they just turn the chains required signs to make them visible.

 

[cannabineer]

They lock the town down up there when it snows, it's stupid. They close the gates to all the access/egress routes. I guess they figure So Cal people can't drive in snow. Up here they just turn the chains required signs to make them visible.

The gate onto 58 west still sometimes gives me a start. I’m prone to see it as shut when it’s open.

 

[raratt]

 

[Milovan1]

 

[Milovan1]

 

[cannabineer]

Two sun dogs: parhelion and Paulie

Paulie looks like he’s in the beam

 

[Milovan1]

Lace up heels - dark fashion

 

[Milovan1]

 

[Milovan1]

 

[Ozumoz66]

Nothing to see here. Just letting a mustard plant go to seed. Lots of heat to those purple leaves when used in a salad.

 

[cannabineer]

Nothing to see here. Just letting a mustard plant go to seed. Lots of heat to those purple leaves when used in a salad.

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Do you harvest and keep the seed?

 

[Ozumoz66]

Do you harvest and keep the seed?

Sort of. I use a section of the garden to broadcast a variety of mixed greens. Then let several different plants go to seed, collect the seeds and broadcast plant again, till under and wait for the next crop. The next year I use a different section of the garden for rotation. The more mature leaves that we don't consume go to chickens - they fight over Russian kale - odd how they know nutrition better that some other two legged creatures. I haven't collected/saved seeds from the mixed greens from one year to the next though.

I've started saving seeds for Mexican marigolds, peanuts, cucumbers, dill and sunflowers. It's rewarding to save a buck or two.