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17
Reuters reports that a cluster of nine cases of the salmonella outbreak linked to tomato consumption are helping the Centers for Disease Control narrow down the source of the outbreak. Although little information is being released, the FDA has issued a “safe list” of tomato sources which are not implicated in the outbreak. Tomatoes from California, Baja California, Texas, Alabama, northern Florida, and many other areas are now considered safe to eat. Cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, and “tomatoes on the vine” are safe no matter where they were grown.
I still say Plant your own and be sure! Gardens are a lovely thing.
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I have an Oregon Spring in a pot right now that is flowering and just bought two Goliaths to plant if the birds don’t get to them first.
It’s just been too cool here to really get anything going. We had the first really hot sunny day on Saturday and the Oregon Spring looks like it grew 5″ in just one day!
Hmph! We’re in the midst of summer doldrums already — hot, humid, scattered afternoon thundershowers that don’t cool anything down and leave steam and mosquitoes behind. Too cool in mid-June would be wonderful about now.
I know I’m crowing up here, BUT I lived in Texas for most of my 60 years, when it’s hot, you can’t take off your skin, right? No mosquitoes where we are, no vipers on this side of the Cascades, no evil venomous spiders lurking in clothing or the wood pile, just bald eagles acting like pigeons looking for dinner on the beach at Westport, enjoying the lowest tide of the year in the city and seeing crabs, moon snails, kelp of all kinds and ole farts digging geoducks! Had to wear heavy coats and waders cuz it was so cold.
Can you tell I am really, really enjoying this? I need to enjoy it as much as possible, I think I will be moving back to TX in the not to distant future as my grandsons are getting bigger and my daughter is getting married next year and will have babies after that. I love being here with the sea closeby and the fresh fish, oysters and clams. Oh My!
Not sure if you know this, but I am in central Alabama. Much like Texas, only worse.
The humidity is what does me in. I’ve spent summers in New Mexico and one in Arizona, and yes 108° is very, very hot, but at a dewpoint of 15° I can stand it a lot better.
We were talking at one point of moving to New Mexico after DH retires, but it doesn’t look now as though that will happen. Our kids are here, so it’s probably a good thing.
Spent many summers growing up in NE Mississippi. Took a grand tour of MS,TN, GA, AL, NC when I was 16. Beautiful but I never want to go back except for a very short visit.
Met a really nice couple two weeks ago from 30 mi east of Alberqueque. Spent our honeymoon in Taos. We have friends in Las Cruzes and south of Alberquerque. That may be a possibility at some point, I don’t know.
I taught for several years at the Taos Institute of Art (now sadly defunct). There or southeastern Colorado — Pagosa Springs to Durango to Ouray — is where I’d really love to be. Too expensive, though.
I am trying my best with the gardening, and then THIS happened yesterday:
Warmest regards, Doc.
Has Photobucket been hacked? I couldn’t open your link, and when I went to the main page at http://www.photobucket.com , there was a gray screen that said something about Net Devilz with a note about a Turkish Hackers Group.
I just tried and the link worked for me. I do not know what the problem is. Warmest regards, Doc.
Hail!! I would kill for hail. It is about one ten here and I have no ac. The poor dog even has a heat rash on her tummy!
Mango,
Look at the pics on cuteoverload.com and see the Iowa Humane Society rescues. Reminds me of New Orleans.
Wet your good self and your dog down and sit in front of a fan! I always loved the swamp cooler!
Thanks.
Another cold shower coming up. This heat is unusually early this year. Our brutal weather normally starts around July fifteenth.
Hot damm is all I can say.
Oh my, I just looked at your image, Doc. Hail??!!?? Weird. Sorry. Our hail is usually the size of BB’s. We do get it regularly in the winter and spring. Nothing to worry about though. Hail took out my roof twice in Austin in 10 years though. Did you get any damage besides your pride???
Just the garden, but I went and looked and only three plants seem to have been killed. I can replace them. But it is discouraging. Warmest regards, Doc.
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