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  1. Looks delicious Mother!

     

    Anne and MT3B, I had real issues with bag of soil as well this year. I’ve had at least two full grown perennial plants that died after I re-potted them with purchased soil. They were a couple of years old and they were doing extremely well and within a week of being replanted they just started dying. This was not miracle Gro but a brand purchased from Ace Hardware. And other people in my area have said similar things that they’ve had really poor yields with soil in bags that they purchased this year. 
     

    I’ve been trying to come up with ways to create my own soil in a small space…the problem with that it’s difficult to do that in a small space.

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  2. Hey folks! Sorry I’ve been MIA. The garden was a bit of a bust this summer. Our weather was very different this year...several times where we had a week of over 100 degree days (102 right now and supposed to be 106)...then it would drop down into the 60’s overnight some nights. I didn’t get one single squash....never had a season without zucchini before.... I have planto that are just sitting there…they flower… I tried to hand pollinate and still nothing. My watermelon plants are struggling… I get these very tiny watermelon and then the whole plant is dying. I’ve been dealing with spider mites in my beans. I did get a lot of cherry tomatoes and some Roma tomatoes… But just enough to eat fresh.  And I do have to admit that my grapevine did well. So I will have enough to make grape jelly.  We haven’t had a drop of rain since the end of May so I am watering my containers either every day or every other day but it still doesn’t seem to make a difference sometimes. One of my biggest concerns is the lack of pollinators. I put water out to attract them and I have flowers but it is just not what it used to be. Sorry to be a Debbie downer but it has been really disappointing. I’m starting to just tear everything out and figure out what I want to put out for my fall garden.

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  3. Thank you! I am having a very exciting day today. I told my family that I don’t need any things...because I really don’t. But, that I would love to have help in my garden and with inventorying my pantry. So my kids and hubby are emptying out the pantry and inventorying it and we are having a garden work party. We are going to have cheesecake and Chinese food after as well... Woohoo! Best birthday gift ever!

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  4. I’m heading in early to help walk dogs at my local shelter to help get them out before it gets too hot. It didn’t really cool down last night....it’s 6:30 am and already 75 degrees. Today the high is supposed to be 100. 
    Will be doing the same as yesterday...get outside things done early then have a pile of papers to go through this afternoon.

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  5. I got the banking issue taken care of. There was only one charge that totally went through...so whoever did this didn’t actually get anything from this. The bank manager did say that she had dealt almost a dozen other members who also had attempted hacks on their accounts....and that Walmart.com is a one of the main sites being used. Not just at my bank either...

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  6. There is a possibility it will hit 106° today so I’m getting everything done that requires electricity just in case we have rolling blackouts.... that means laundry all caught up, dinner prepared early and dishwasher run. I also have the house opened up with all fans running to push out the warm air and bring in the cooler outside air. Will probably close it back up around 9am.

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  7. Trying to deal with some frustrating bank issues. Saturday I ordered $5 worth of seeds from an Etsy shop...lots of sales and good reviews. Sunday morning I got a call from my credit unions fraud department saying there had been a bunch of charges to my card. When I checked my account I saw a five dollar charge right now after the Etsy shop charge for some group in New York City. I told the person when I was on the phone that I didn’t make that charge and she said that there were 17 more charges after that for walmart.com and one for some online teaching program. My credit union shut my card down after the fifth walmart.com charge. But almost $500 worth of charges went through. I’m hot! They told me the likelihood is that it happened with this person from this Etsy shop because those charges were in Arkansas… And guess where that Etsy shop is located? The crazy thing is I don’t see any of those charges when I looked in my account online. The fraud department said that some people have ways to block charges so it doesn’t show up on your account and you don’t know it’s happening. I went to my credit union this morning to deal with this because my card is now shut off and they were closed because of the Juneteenth holiday. So now I can’t even get into my ATM if I wanted to… I don’t need to because I have plenty of cash but it’s just annoying to think that I can’t access my money at all. I’m fortunate that my credit union will let me dispute the charges… The likelihood is I won’t have to pay for them. But I’m still so ticked off that this person stole from me...

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