Archive for September, 2008

The pleasure of gardening in these days, when the thermometer is at

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

ninety, is one that I fear I shall not be able to make intelligible
to my readers, many of whom do not appreciate the delight of soaking
in the sunshine
The pleasure of gardening in these days, when the thermometer is at
ninety, is one that I fear I shall not be able to make intelligible
to my readers, many of whom do not appreciate the delight of soaking
in the sunshine. I suppose that the sun, going through a man, as it
will on such a day, takes out of him rheumatism, consumption, and
every other disease, except sudden death–from sun-stroke. But,
aside from this, there is an odor from the evergreens, the hedges,
the various plants and vines, that is only expressed and set afloat
at a high temperature, which is delicious; and, hot as it may be, a
little breeze will come at intervals, which can be heard in the
treetops, and which is an unobtrusive benediction. I hear a quail or
two whistling in the ravine; and there is a good deal of fragmentary
conversation going on among the birds, even on the warmest days. The
companionship of Calvin, also, counts for a good deal. He usually
attends me, unless I work too long in one place; sitting down on the
turf, displaying the ermine of his breast, and watching my movements
with great intelligence. He has a feline and genuine love for the
beauties of Nature, and will establish himself where there is a good
view, and look on it for hours. He always accompanies us when we go
to gather the vegetables, seeming to be desirous to know what we are
to have for dinner. He is a connoisseur in the garden; being fond of
almost all the vegetables, except the cucumber,–a dietetic hint to
man. I believe it is also said that the pig will not eat tobacco.
These are important facts. It is singular, however, that those who
hold up the pigs as models to us never hold us up as models to the
pigs.

Paul Newman in Connecticut (Connecticut Post)

1951: Cleveland, Ohio native Paul Newman attends classes at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven.1959: Newman and his wife, Joanne Woodward, become Westport’s most famous couple.

Brownsville merchants struggle for sales, and some say times have never been tougher (The Brownsville Herald)

The one block stretch of Washington Street in downtown Brownsville is home to a half-dozen used and vintage clothing shops tucked neatly between Mexican restaurants. On a recent rainy weekday, the stores-all coincidentally owned by members of the Licona family-were conspicuously without customers.

Disaster News (WCTV Tallahassee)

With two months left in this hurricane season, FEMA gives out tips to residents on what steps to take in preparation for a storm.

News 88.9 (News 88.9)

SAINT JOHN, NB - The Saint John Emergency Measures Organization is gearing up for tropical storm Kyle. The organization is working with the province and city departments to co-ordinate efforts.

But one evening I overhauled one of the poachers

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

But one evening I overhauled one of the poachers. Hearing his dog in
the thicket, I rushed through the brush, and came in sight of the
hunter as he was retreating down the road. He came to a halt; and we
had some conversation in a high key. Of course I threatened to
prosecute him. I believe that is the thing to do in such cases; but
how I was to do it, when I did not know his name or ancestry, and
couldn”t see his face, never occurred to me. (I remember, now, that
a farmer once proposed to prosecute me when I was fishing in a
trout-brook on his farm, and asked my name for that purpose.) He
said he should smile to see me prosecute him.

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Saturday, September 20th, 2008

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Let us have peas

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Let us have peas. I have been a zealous advocate of the birds. I
have rejoiced in their multiplication. I have endured their concerts
at four o”clock in the morning without a murmur. Let them come, I
said, and eat the worms, in order that we, later, may enjoy the
foliage and the fruits of the earth. We have a cat, a magnificent
animal, of the sex which votes (but not a pole-cat),–so large and
powerful that, if he were in the army, he would be called Long Tom.
He is a cat of fine disposition, the most irreproachable morals I
ever saw thrown away in a cat, and a splendid hunter. He spends his
nights, not in social dissipation, but in gathering in rats, mice,
flying-squirrels, and also birds. When he first brought me a bird, I
told him that it was wrong, and tried to convince him, while he was
eating it, that he was doing wrong; for he is a reasonable cat, and
understands pretty much everything except the binomial theorem and
the time down the cycloidal arc. But with no effect. The killing of
birds went on, to my great regret and shame.

The neighbors” small children are also out of place in your garden,

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

in strawberry and currant time
The neighbors” small children are also out of place in your garden,
in strawberry and currant time. I hope I appreciate the value of
children. We should soon come to nothing without them, though the
Shakers have the best gardens in the world. Without them the common
school would languish. But the problem is, what to do with them in a
garden. For they are not good to eat, and there is a law against
making away with them. The law is not very well enforced, it is
true; for people do thin them out with constant dosing, paregoric,
and soothing-syrups, and scanty clothing. But I, for one, feel that
it would not be right, aside from the law, to take the life, even of
the smallest child, for the sake of a little fruit, more or less, in
the garden. I may be wrong; but these are my sentiments, and I am
not ashamed of them. When we come, as Bryant says in his ‘Iliad,’ to
leave the circus of this life, and join that innumerable caravan
which moves, it will be some satisfaction to us, that we have never,
in the way of gardening, disposed of even the humblest child
unnecessarily. My plan would be to put them into Sunday-schools more
thoroughly, and to give the Sunday-schools an agricultural turn;
teaching the children the sacredness of neighbors” vegetables. I
think that our Sunday-schools do not sufficiently impress upon
children the danger, from snakes and otherwise, of going into the
neighbors” gardens.

We had been talking of all subjects about which rational men are

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

interested,–bears, panthers, trapping, the habits of trout, the
tariff, the internal revenue (to wit the injustice of laying such a
tax on tobacco, and none on dogs:–’There ain”t no dog in the United
States,’ says the guide, at the top of his voice, ‘that earns his
living’), the Adventists, the Gorner Grat, Horace Greeley, religion,
the propagation of seeds in the wilderness (as, for instance, where
were the seeds lying for ages that spring up into certain plants and
flowers as soon as a spot is cleared anywhere in the most remote
forest; and why does a growth of oak-trees always come up after a
growth of pine has been removed?)–in short, we had pretty nearly
reached a solution of many mysteries, when Phelps suddenly exclaimed
with uncommon energy,–

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I have been setting out some new raspberries, two sorts,–a silver

Friday, September 5th, 2008

and a gold color
I have been setting out some new raspberries, two sorts,–a silver
and a gold color. How fine they will look on the table next year in
a cut-glass dish, the cream being in a ditto pitcher! I set them
four and five feet apart. I set my strawberries pretty well apart
also. The reason is, to give room for the cows to run through when
they break into the garden,–as they do sometimes. A cow needs a
broader track than a locomotive; and she generally makes one. I am
sometimes astonished, to see how big a space in, a flower-bed her
foot will cover. The raspberries are called Doolittle and Golden
Cap. I don”t like the name of the first variety, and, if they do
much, shall change it to Silver Top. You never can tell what a thing
named Doolittle will do. The one in the Senate changed color, and
got sour. They ripen badly,–either mildew, or rot on the bush.
They are apt to Johnsonize,–rot on the stem. I shall watch the
Doolittles.

And yet I am not perfectly at rest in my mind

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

And yet I am not perfectly at rest in my mind. I know that this is
only a truce until the parties recover their exhausted energies. All
winter long the forces of chemistry will be mustering under ground,
repairing the losses, calling up the reserves, getting new strength
from my surface-fertilizing bounty, and making ready for the spring
campaign. They will open it before I am ready: while the snow is
scarcely melted, and the ground is not passable, they will begin to
move on my works; and the fight will commence. Yet how deceitfully
it will open to the music of birds and the soft enchantment of the
spring mornings! I shall even be permitted to win a few skirmishes:
the secret forces will even wait for me to plant and sow, and show my
full hand, before they come on in heavy and determined assault.
There are already signs of an internecine fight with the devil-grass,
which has intrenched itself in a considerable portion of my
garden-patch. It contests the ground inch by inch; and digging it
out is very much such labor as eating a piece of choke-cherry pie
with the stones all in. It is work, too, that I know by experience I
shall have to do alone. Every man must eradicate his own
devil-grass. The neighbors who have leisure to help you in
grape-picking time are all busy when devil-grass is most aggressive.
My neighbors” visits are well timed: it is only their hens which have
seasons for their own.

I think I have discovered the way to keep peas from the birds

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I think I have discovered the way to keep peas from the birds. I
tried the scarecrow plan, in a way which I thought would outwit the
shrewdest bird. The brain of the bird is not large; but it is all
concentrated on one object, and that is the attempt to elude the
devices of modern civilization which injure his chances of food. I
knew that, if I put up a complete stuffed man, the bird would detect
the imitation at once: the perfection of the thing would show him
that it was a trick. People always overdo the matter when they
attempt deception. I therefore hung some loose garments, of a bright
color, upon a rake-head, and set them up among the vines. The
supposition was, that the bird would think there was an effort to
trap him, that there was a man behind, holding up these garments, and
would sing, as he kept at a distance, ‘You can”t catch me with any
such double device.’ The bird would know, or think he knew, that I
would not hang up such a scare, in the expectation that it would pass
for a man, and deceive a bird; and he would therefore look for a
deeper plot. I expected to outwit the bird by a duplicity that was
simplicity itself I may have over-calculated the sagacity and
reasoning power of the bird. At any rate, I did over-calculate the
amount of peas I should gather.

Summer Beauty Starts with Protection (Palatka Daily News)

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Primping the patio: Yes, worn outdoor furniture can be restored (Miami Herald)

Here’s the sad truth about patio furniture: Exposure to the sun, body oil, salt air, pool chlorine, suntan lotion and bird poo will kill your casual furniture dead, dead, dead. It doesn’t stand a chance. Nope, never did.

‘Outrageous’ Outdoor Spaces Start with Ceramic Tile (Carteret County News-Times)

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Advantage: Amazon (InternetRetailer.com)

Acing the competition with free shipping, low prices, broad selection and new technology, Amazon is growing faster than e-commerce as a whole. How can other online retailers stay in the game?

Cleaner made at home works on patio set (The Columbus Dispatch)

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Home Fashion Outdoor Patio Furniture Lines Announced at Ewins.com (PRWeb)

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Labor Day part of second-biggest shopping season (Dayton Daily News)

For many retailers, this weekend is a bit like Christmas.

Home Fashion Outdoor Patio Furniture Lines Announced at Ewins.com (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Ewins.com, online home and garden retailer with showrooms in Omaha, Nebraska, announced its new collection of fashion sense outdoor patio furniture.

Tips to remember if Gustav comes our way (The Bay Area Citizen)

As Hurricane Gustav makes its way into the Gulf of Mexico, Bay Area residents are being urged to take precautions by local, state and federal officials,

Gustav to make landfall Tuesday (Klein Sun)

With Hurricane Gustav heading towards the Gulf Coast Harris County emergency officials are urging residents to protect their homes or businesses from the force of hurricane winds, board up doors and windows with plywood or install storm shutters. Keep in mind that winds are stronger at higher elevations, such as high-rise apartments or condos.