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LOL, I posted that just to set you up for a retort Stick. Sorry I didn’t catch that sooner. While Chandeliers is funny the guys from Coastal really do detest “Chicken Little”. I have a cousin who’s son was on the football team a few years back and when I relayed my story about the athletes I knew from my days there hating that term his reply was “We still do!” The expression on his face when he said it was priceless.
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For some reason I could not post a reply to MrP. it keeps telling me an error occurred????
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Corn is almost ready to pick, which is great cause I could get a second crop on that this year. Damn rabbits got to my peanuts. Have maters, cukes, zucchini, and squash in overload. Giving them away like crazy. It’s blowing me away, I did raised beds this year and went from a 50 X 75 row garden to 2 raised beds 4 ft wide 40 feet long and 2 16 feet with 4 feet in between each. I’m able to keep water on the corn/squash/peas/melons and the maters/cukes/peppers/okra/onions which I could not do last year due to planting in rows. My cultivation so far is weeks ahead and bumper crops coming in, and keeping the weeds out is sooooo much easier.
All in all if you’ve never tried doing intensive planting (i.e. planting everything in a very small space) you ought to give it a shot. It took a great deal of work to build up the beds before planting but I’ll never go back to the old method. Currently I’m watering by hand with a wand due to my schedule not letting me install the watering system I wanted to do, but 30 minutes of water every couple of days when it’s not been raining is doing me just fine. Last summer no matter how much I watered I could not keep the corn alive. Before the second crop of that I will get the watering system down which will just be 4 3/4 inch PVC lines run down the center of each raised bed with holes drilled in them.
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I took classes there when I was a senior in high school so it’s one of MY schools. Go chicken little! That’s what the USC (carolina version) pukes useta call ’em. This year the Chants can thumb their nose at ’em cause SC is watching from the sofa. GO COASTAL.
BTW, this one is for you CD, that was just when going braless was becoming a “thing’ and one of the best looking gals I’ve ever known came up to my desk, leaned over to ask me a question, knowing that her blouse was hanging down and giving me a thrill. She knew she drove me nuts and that I was still in high school and younger than her. The summer after that I was playing in a band in Myrtle Beach and she would come in the bar quite often and we’d have some ‘fun’ on the old bus we had for driving to our gigs. I’ve thought about that gal often. LOL.
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What? If, if, if…Who wrote this?
Chicken little. Sorry, I just could NOT resist. We have gone from no roster to what could be a decent one for at least this next season and yet the sky is still falling.
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Note too he has 2 (TWO) years of eligibility left. That could be huge if he works out to be a starter (which he was last year until injury). Big time get IMO. We also got a center from south Alabama, gotta love bringing in experience.
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PIR, Bill meant no matter what your GPA was if you didn’t swim the pool you didn’t graduate.
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How about the Kansas City A’s CD? A dreadful team in KC that became a powerhouse in Oakland, even though Finley was a total prick.
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DY can’t do anything right now. What we should be doing (and I just did) is write our state senators and house reps and ping the crap out of them to put pressure on the BOG to take action. And hey while we are at it there is a new HMFIC of the UNC system. PING her! Between her and the BOG maybe the banners won’t come down and wins won’t be vacated but they could impose sanctions that would in effect do the same to UNX that was done to us. If you want to make sure your neighbors clean up their back yard expecting the NCAA to do it looks like it ain’t gonna happen SO, put tons of pressure on them that can make it happen. As far as the BOG is concerned we should start a castrate Larry and ‘ole Roy project, and take away 3 schollys a year from MBB and 5 a year from football for 20 years (a year for each year they cheated). Butch is long gone but put him on the castrate list too.
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There’s a term I haven’t heard in all of this BUT it really fits CD. That would be a nasty thing for all those lawyer types over on the hill to try and untangle. Antitrust could be their undoing. That would be REALLY NASTY.
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I don’t believe UNX will publicate anything on the reception of the new NOA, redacted or otherwise, this time around.
Four words CD, Freedom of Information Act, they are a public university, they have no choice but to publish it. They can redact the heck out of it but they have to publish it.
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CD, I weep for you and with you. In my lifetime I’ve buried 9, everyone of them a different personality and all of my friends put together couldn’t top one of any of them. My prayers to you and your family, I do feel your pain.
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Stick, I ordered seed from ebay. MUCH cheaper than the seeds I bought last year. I also have some Aurora pepper seeds that cross polinated last year with the reaper. I’m interested to see how hot those babies have become. Time will tell. This year I’m saving reaper seeds plus seeds from the Aurora’s and I’m growing some candlelights. A friend of mine who has been growing the reapers for a couple of years that has been cross polinating with other peppers gave me some thai cayenne pepper seeds from last year that had a lot of heat to them. From discussions I’ve heard across the net any pepper that cross polinates with the reaper gets hotter. We shall see.
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Adventureoo, to this day that is what burns my butt the most over all of this. The BOG should have had at least 10 people from the hill hung on crosses if this had been a tit for tat on “rules” violations. Instead I expect them to announce a grand monument to Dean any day now. Personally I’d settle for a firing squad (which I’d gladly volunteer for) and flatten the place with an A bomb, but we both know that ain’t gonna happen.
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The one question in ALL of this scandal is “Where the hell has the BOG been?” That group single handedly took State out in 89 for next to nothing, why the hell aren’t they doing much worse to the holes? THEY should be demanding the banners come down, THEY should be chopping off heads. IT happened on their watch and they have done absolutely NOTHING except fire Ross, which he should have never been hired in the first place. We can’t hold the NCAA accountable but we can for that group.
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And at the center of that ban was Dean Smith. He was crying because Thompson picked State and his whining got us the ban that year because he knew how good that team was and he was jealous. Just tells another story of what a piece of junk that man’s life was.
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Incredible! As the old saying goes “one man’s life touches another”. The question is “what will you do today with those whose life yours touches?”
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Stick, THAT is HYSTERICAL!
Last year I was picking some of the reapers with my gloves on and a mosquito bit me on the cheek. Before my brain kicked into gear my hand was already on it’s way to swat the nasty bug. As Ray Stevens would say “To late, I’d already been incensed”. THAT was nasty.
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Wooo stick! I just touched the cheek on my face to learn my lesson with those bad boys. You bring up a totally different paradigm. I don’t even want to contemplate that!!! GEEEESH! On the other hand if you wanted to get back at the old lady for some reason. Did I really say that? I plead the 5th.
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tractor, check out keyhole gardens. Easy to build, easy to maintain and one garden can feed a family of 3 year round. Great concept developed by the organization called “send a cow”. In Africa they are teaching people to build them. They run off a gallon of water a day and are self feeding from a compost pile in the center of the garden. In areas of Texas they have hundreds of them.
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Bill, the formula for that is nitrogen and carbon (LOL). This process has been borne out by Deb Tolman who is the keyhole garden prophet down in Texas. She does lots of seminars on it and a group of them did one out of plexiglas so they could watch the process. Stuffed almost 2 feet thick of cardboard and fed it the same nitrogen formula and the cardboard became compost in 30 days. The only “salt” with the 34-0-0 is sulfur, and with 17-17-17 it’s minimal. With my particular process I’m adding wheat straw to the top layer when the cardboard has “cooked”. I forgot to mention that the very bottom layer is cut up wood from limbs that I lost in the winter storms this year (plus stuff from my neighbors). Any salts from the cardboard process will trickle down to the long term process with the wood. My next door neighbor also got me a big pile of wood chips from the people who trim limbs for Southriver EMC which he works for. I spread them through the layers too just for extra “organic” nitrogen.
As for antique tractors I have a Ford 1220 compact tractor with some homemade implements, one being a highly modifiable hiller. I used it to dig my “trenches” for my raised beds. Two passes at different widths to get a 1 foot deep trench, put the wood in the bottom and the same hiller covered all of that wood up before I started the cardboard. Same hiller with a 2 X 10 strapped to it made my raised beds.
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First things first, I’m 5 minutes from the corner of I40 and I95. I’ll let ya know when they are ripe. Hint…bring gloves and do not touch any part of your face with the gloves on after handling them. The voice of experience speaking.
Eggplant and lots of other stuff cooking in the seed starter rack.
I bought 500 Serendipity bicolor corn seeds. I’m not doing rows of any kind this year. Changing over to what could be considered square foot gardening in raised beds with some twists. At any rate 2 32 foot by 4 foot beds with corn down the middle with 2 rows 1 foot wide and spacing 1 foot between plants. Pole beans planted around them and one in the middle. They will run up the corn. Peanuts, purple hull peas, zucchini and yellow squash on the perimeters. A few watermelon and cantaloupe here and there in both beds. Drip irrigation run down the middle. Throw in a few marigolds, nasturtium, and 4 o’clocks to keep the bugs at bay. The purpose is all those plants coexist and actually feed each other. Last year I had no weeds at all under my zucchini and squash and they hopefully will do that in this intensely planted bed along with preserving water by shading the ground. Will take lots of food though. The other two beds will be somewhat similar except tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, onions, and shallots. I actually did that last year but some tweaks this year. Fewer maters and closer planting to allow better water control.I already have asparagus and strawberries growing. Alyssum to crowd out the weeds in other areas.
I found a secret to creating compost. Cardboard and 34-0-0 / 17-17-17. Get a big pile of cardboard about 6 inches thick with the fertilizer thrown in, cut it up with the disc, wet it down really good throw a inch or so of dirt over it and let it cook. Water it and cut it up with the disc every 10 days or so. 30 days and it’s compost.
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Kush, hmmmm. I had a few of those last year that turned out superb. Right in the middle of the maters. Companion planting at its finest. Roasted them up in an electric turkey roaster at 150.
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I have some Carolina reapers germinating right now. I had one plant last year. Those things are BEYOND HOT!
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