Well the people of the Island get screwed to the wall again! Instead of $550,000.00 for the Substation, the price magically inflates to $1.8 Million! Somebody, somewhere in this whole affair did not have their eyes on the ball. Hell they were not even in the same stadium where the game was afoot! How could so many people who were supposedly watching all aspects of this whole fiasco apparently be sound asleep?
What about the cost of the friggin' cable? How could ALL the WHEEL'S who negotiated the price for this thing have gotten it so wrong. Or did the manufacturer in "Wherever", put one over on our vaunted intellectual, business people? I believe all the folks involved with the whole project knew just what they were up to from day one. I find it very hard to believe that a multi million dollar endeavor like this, would've had so many incompetent people.
All that bull about how much our electric bills were going to go down and now we find that it will go up 2-3 cents a KWH! And I'll bet it will get nothing but more expensive before it ever gets paid off.
One other thing, what is happening with the large piles of "Non-contaminated" dirt piled up there by the Town Garage? Can we redistribute it to folks who want to put in a garden? M-M-M- diesel flavored tomatoes! Wonder just how much that is going to cost to get it hauled off island and to the Superfund reclamation site? Free I expect.
How about that Broadband Internet thingy? Do most of, or even a bare majority of the folks living here year round really want or NEED that? Doubtful from all the people I talk to about it. If you really need that high speed access to facilitate the running of your business, then by all means get it! How? I hear Hughes Net can can do that for you! But YOU have to pay the exorbitant fees, not use the rest of us to underwrite your money making endeavors of which WE receive no recompense! Pay for it yourself or marry a billionaire!
That $1.5 to 1.8 Million bucks should go toward building a seawall along the Neck road to preserve it for as long as possible. Roll all those rocks the State put there out on the beach, and the drive a lot of 60' steel bulkhead down in the sand about 52 feet, roll back all the rocks and add to them substantially. Pour a concrete cap along it's entirety about 10-12 feet wide and and viola! A Promenade for all those summer visitors to partake of the beauty of the Island.
Of course this should all happen before the ocean all freezes over and we wouldn't need
the bulkhead or the ferries anymore. A scenario just about as liable to happen as the one where we all should stock up on snorkels and fins to get to the floating Grocery store located somewhere around Beacon Hill.
In case you haven't been listening to Rational people instead of all the doomsayers and nuts like the estimable Mr. , There is an event in the making that will put us back in the 1700's as far as electricity usage is concerned. Google 'The Carrington Event, and see what turns up! That is if Ding Dong _Un from North Korea does get too us first!
TIFN
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Things are starting to take shape
Moving right along---
I finally got the upper plot all tilled for the potatoes. Cut them all today and letting a scab form on them before planting so they have some protection for any lurking germs in the soil. I am going to wait till Friday around noon to do the deed, for a very specific reason. That being so that my youngest granddaughter, Dakota, can assist again for her third year in a row in the planting of the 'taters. She finds it amazing to dig into the side of a hill in the middle of the summer and pull out a potato! She also gets a kick out of coming down to the house and going out in the attached room greenhouse and giving the tubs of lettuces a haircut with a pair of scissors in the middle of the winter. I think I have a budding gardener!
Back to the spuds, we put them in rows 36" apart and space them in the row 12-16" depending on the variety. Put them in the 2-3" deep trench till all are in the ground. Then we walk along each row and deposit a small handful of 19-19-19 fertilizer of the organic kind, between each cut spud. Her hand, full of said stuff, is just the right amount.
Then we will pull the dirt back over them and wait for them to start turning into next winters dinners.
When they get to be about 6-8" tall we will keep pulling dirt up and around the bottom leaves until we have plants growing in the middle of a hill of soil about 8-10" across the top and about 8-12 tall. Therein shall the amazing transformation take place!
Planted 24 Mary Washington Asparagus plants about a week ago, and then 75 strawberry plants the next day. Asparagus has yet to make an appearance but every one of the strawberry plants have put out good growth in that time period.
In the HT, the 3 different types of lettuces have all appeared and gotten to be about 2" tall. Peas are up about 4". Got two Kale volunteer plants up about 6" and a few more planted in a different mini-bed.
Brought 4 Homestead tomatoes down and planted along the trellis designed just for them. These are an Heirloom plant and were very prolific for us last year. Also brought down and planted 4 Roma's along another trellis. They were about 8" tall to start then and I buried each one up to the first true leaves. In the bottom of each hole is an equal parts blend of blood meal, Epsom salts, and pulverized dried eggshells. Cover with about an inch of soil before dropping in the plant so it doesn't burn the roots! That takes care of the nitrogen, magnesium, and calcium requirements for getting them off to a good start. They have already regained the 2 " I buried them!
Got four Broccoli and 4 cauliflower in two other mini beds, and they are holding their own. These are for fresh eating. I will start another four beds of cabbage, two of broccoli, and two more of cauliflower for preserving and making Kraut. We put up 54 quarts of tomato sauce last fall and made about 25 pints of kraut. Middle son likes my sauerkraut! I don't tell him that I stomp down the cabbage and salt barefoot in a big washtub before canning it! Toe-jam gives it just that right tang!
Took a chance and planted a bunch of Cilantro in one tire bed stack and fennel in another one. If they come up great, if not I'll just do it again in a couple of weeks or so.
All five of the Elderberries are doing very well! As are the three Red Currants, and the three Goosberries.
Four 20' x 4' raised beds are all hand tilled, fertilized, and covered with. plastic waiting for it to get warm enough to plant two beds of beets, and two full beds of different green beans for shelling and for summertime eating.
Had some folks over a few days ago to take a look at how I do this gardening stuff. Have to say they were most impressed! So much so that they were going right home and get a HT ordered for themselves. Gave them the online addresses for all three of Herrick Kimball blogs so that they will the advantage of his vast knowledge and Whizbang ideas!
Well I guess I am all up to date on the goings on around here so, TIFN.
I finally got the upper plot all tilled for the potatoes. Cut them all today and letting a scab form on them before planting so they have some protection for any lurking germs in the soil. I am going to wait till Friday around noon to do the deed, for a very specific reason. That being so that my youngest granddaughter, Dakota, can assist again for her third year in a row in the planting of the 'taters. She finds it amazing to dig into the side of a hill in the middle of the summer and pull out a potato! She also gets a kick out of coming down to the house and going out in the attached room greenhouse and giving the tubs of lettuces a haircut with a pair of scissors in the middle of the winter. I think I have a budding gardener!
Back to the spuds, we put them in rows 36" apart and space them in the row 12-16" depending on the variety. Put them in the 2-3" deep trench till all are in the ground. Then we walk along each row and deposit a small handful of 19-19-19 fertilizer of the organic kind, between each cut spud. Her hand, full of said stuff, is just the right amount.
Then we will pull the dirt back over them and wait for them to start turning into next winters dinners.
When they get to be about 6-8" tall we will keep pulling dirt up and around the bottom leaves until we have plants growing in the middle of a hill of soil about 8-10" across the top and about 8-12 tall. Therein shall the amazing transformation take place!
Planted 24 Mary Washington Asparagus plants about a week ago, and then 75 strawberry plants the next day. Asparagus has yet to make an appearance but every one of the strawberry plants have put out good growth in that time period.
In the HT, the 3 different types of lettuces have all appeared and gotten to be about 2" tall. Peas are up about 4". Got two Kale volunteer plants up about 6" and a few more planted in a different mini-bed.
Brought 4 Homestead tomatoes down and planted along the trellis designed just for them. These are an Heirloom plant and were very prolific for us last year. Also brought down and planted 4 Roma's along another trellis. They were about 8" tall to start then and I buried each one up to the first true leaves. In the bottom of each hole is an equal parts blend of blood meal, Epsom salts, and pulverized dried eggshells. Cover with about an inch of soil before dropping in the plant so it doesn't burn the roots! That takes care of the nitrogen, magnesium, and calcium requirements for getting them off to a good start. They have already regained the 2 " I buried them!
Got four Broccoli and 4 cauliflower in two other mini beds, and they are holding their own. These are for fresh eating. I will start another four beds of cabbage, two of broccoli, and two more of cauliflower for preserving and making Kraut. We put up 54 quarts of tomato sauce last fall and made about 25 pints of kraut. Middle son likes my sauerkraut! I don't tell him that I stomp down the cabbage and salt barefoot in a big washtub before canning it! Toe-jam gives it just that right tang!
Took a chance and planted a bunch of Cilantro in one tire bed stack and fennel in another one. If they come up great, if not I'll just do it again in a couple of weeks or so.
All five of the Elderberries are doing very well! As are the three Red Currants, and the three Goosberries.
Four 20' x 4' raised beds are all hand tilled, fertilized, and covered with. plastic waiting for it to get warm enough to plant two beds of beets, and two full beds of different green beans for shelling and for summertime eating.
Had some folks over a few days ago to take a look at how I do this gardening stuff. Have to say they were most impressed! So much so that they were going right home and get a HT ordered for themselves. Gave them the online addresses for all three of Herrick Kimball blogs so that they will the advantage of his vast knowledge and Whizbang ideas!
Well I guess I am all up to date on the goings on around here so, TIFN.
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