Bogieblog

Fall is in the Air

Tomatoes have been ripening at a fast and furious pace. Unfortunately, even with the help of spiders and frogs, insects have caused a lot of damage this year so I haven't gotten as many usable tomatoes as I should have. However, the scene in the kitchen yesterday was something like this:

  Freshly washed canning jars

  Canning and stock pots

I managed to eek out 17 pints of salsa and should get a few more pints next week. So far I have controlled myself and made fairly mild stuff.

Guardians of the Deck and Garden

I got some roses from Heirloom Roses the other day (actually ordered a while ago but slated for late August delivery). They do an excellent job protecting the plants in the shipping container. I was outside unwrapping them from their shipping cradle, when I noticed a cat in the discarded papers:

  Who could that be?

  Looks like fuzzy thinks something is in there.

  Arrggg! You got pictures of me being undignified!

Fuzzy, like probably every cat that I've known (with the exception of Tory), seems to have a penchant for newspaper paper.

Planting of (Pot) Ghettos

So after all my whining about needing rain, it pretty much rained from just before I went to St. Louis until early last week. Great for the garden, bad for getting any planting done. Those days that it didn't rain, I was helping a friend from work figure out her landscaping needs and helping her shop for plants.

Yesterday I finally got a nice day (that I was home) to plant. Since the morning was taken up with normal Saturday chores, I didn't get started until about 1:30. In 2.5 hours, I got 5 shrubs planted (those of you with decent soil are sure to think this is a very slow pace). The shrubs planted were 3 winterberries and 2 bayberries. The sad part is that I had just bought the bayberries (50% off sale - couldn't resist), so I didn't make much of a dent in the pot ghetto. 

Speaking of the pot ghetto, it has grown considerably since the last time I posted (at that time I had about 20 potted plants waiting to be planted - not counting the roses on the deck). I found a really great nursery in Goffstown; Uncanoonuc Mt. Nursery. I found this place while half lost coming back from my friends house and after seeing all the blooms in the field I had to stop for a look. I am really into daylillies, and they had a massive offering of different varieties. I took home 9 pots. Actually I was very proud of myself as I firmly made myself stop looking at plants after perusing only the roses and daylillies. If I had looked at other stuff, I am sure my poor truck would have been stuffed to the seams!

I have also gotten 4 different kinds of hydrangeas in the last couple of weeks. I got them on sale and plan on putting them at the corner of the driveway. Naturally, I am going to have to re-do that section, so I probably won't get to it this year (not at this rate anyway), so really didn't have to buy them yet.

Then there were the 2 bayberries and the male fringetree I bought yesterday. Oh, and the 12 or so roses due to come in in a couple of weeks from mail order.

With no rain due until tonight, I guessing you can tell what I am going to be doing today!

Garden Pics

Even with the Japanese Beetles voraciously eating anything in sight (including the vegetable garden - which they have never bothered before), I did come up with a couple of pictures:

  Hot peppers in the foreground and corn in the back. Oh, and a volunteer winter squash in the lower right-hand corner (only a small portion of it).

Pumpkin (foreground), green beans on the left, and tomatoes on the right.

Since these pictures were taken, the squash and pumpkin plants have tried to take over the world. The pumpkins had WS convinced that they were some big-leaf sort of weed. It took some doing to convince him otherwise. He did have a point, the pumpkin plants are not producing any fruit - just flowers. Actually, I looked yesterday at it seems a few of the flowers might have pollinated.

Light Posting

By the way, with massive pet-sitting until the end of the month, plus other doings, posting on my part will be lighter than usual.

Access Gained

Thru absolutely no actions on my part, this morning IE doesn't have a problem with Typepad (I have a hard time believing it was a Sitemeter thing since I didn't have any problems with non-Typepad blogs that used Sitemeter, but couldn't access Typepad blogs that didn't have Sitemeter).

Anyway, it's all good now.

Access Denied

Suddenly IE won't open Typepad blogs - not even my own. I can get to where I post from (obviously), but what the heck is going on here? .

Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site xxxx.typepad.com.   Operation aborted

Any ideas from y'all?

And just a thought - Norton's updated this morning. Does that have anything to do with it?

UPDATE: Definitely a problem with IE. I don't have any trouble using Mozilla Firefox to vie blogs on Typepad. Must have been one of those automatic update/"fixes".