06-09-2025 — More Drizzle and Drivel

Howdy all. Not much great weather lately. Lots of daze of drizzle and smog. However, on 6/6 I received some replacement melon plants that I ordered after the one from relatives got eaten away by critters. I needed to get out and plant them. I did, and also put cages around them to hopefully give them a way to grow “up” and not just run across the ground to be eaten.

The picture below is from one of the cucumber plants that I had planted to replace the original ones transplanted earlier this year. In theory, that is a female blossom and potentially a baby cucumber.   However, this isn’t Theory, it is North Madison.   I have seen so few bees so far this year, that I doubt the blossom will be fertilized and not just dry up and wilt away. I also had to water the vegetable garden beds.  Some were getting very dry. Drizzles just don’t add up to a lot of water. They only annoy me and make it colder in the winds.

Looking at the various garden beds, there are blossoms on some of the tomatoes and buds on peppers.  Carrot greens are thicker than my lawn.   I can’t seem to figure out how to thin them properly. Every time I try to pull a couple out, the whole area gets disturbed, and dies.

The potatoes in the garden bed near the garage, which were planted earliest, are now quite tall and have blossoms every where.  The back garden bed of potatoes, by the fence, are a couple weeks behind, but are looking healthy.  

I was able to pick about 10 strawberries.  Sorry, no way to get a photo of them now.  They were tasty.

As for the pollution, the air is as thick as wet concrete and almost as easy to breathe. Not nice at all.

Cucumber blossom (female) and potential fruit.

I have been watching a lot of tube again. YouTube and Television. Boring most of the time. Yesterday, I knocked over a can of soda, here at my desk. Fortunately I had a “fake” cap on it. I use these tops from some ice cream cones I used to buy, to feed Kitty small treats when she is on the desk. And I found they fit the top of a can perfectly.

Anyway, I was looking for something to do, so I found these lids on Maker World (3D printing place online), and printed off a few.

They are even less leak proof than the fake lids. But, slow down the flow enough that I can recover the can quickly and continue to Enjoy Life.