My daughter was going to help me (read: do most of the actual work while I help her) put up posts for a backyard arbor this week, when she had time off between her regular school year job and the summer school job that starts Monday. They’d emailed her about a training tomorrow, but aside from that…wait! The program director sent out an email today (yes, Memorial Day) giving everyone the great news that she got funding for everyone to work Tuesday through Saturday this week setting up classrooms and doing trainings. She’s not delighted either; she has a dentist’s appointment on Wednesday and she’d volunteered to help a friend with childcare one day this week, besides this project and getting a little time away from work. She’s going to see if she can skip one or two days, since this wasn’t what she originally signed up for.
Almost a month ago, I got locked out of my Amazon seller’s account, and despite sending requested documentation, I still cannot access it OR my Mturk account (where I get paid pocket change for doing surveys) and it looks like there is nothing I can do about it.
I did find out about a law firm that specializes in dealing with Amazon, and did a free 15-minute phone consultation and any further “progress” requires a $2,500 down payment. My sales volume does not justify this, so I’m stuck.
They also said they would completely shut down my account and disable my sales offers, but they haven’t done that. I still get orders that I cannot fill.
nearwildheaven, how have you contacted Amazon? A Russian hacker tried to steal my account, and I got very different results from emailing and calling. My first contacts with them didn’t help, but I finally called and got someone competent. I think it’s just luck—it’s like gambling, but what you win is an employee who will actually do something.
Ryobi drill and impact driver bit sets. Why in heaven’s name isn’t the bit holder for the impact driver magnetic? Lost a bit yesterday because the bit comes out of the bit holder and it flew in the dirt. The bit slips in easy and it slips out easy. Making the holder magnetic would make life so much easier.
The containers had been sitting out in the rain before I bought the plants, so the soil was already wet when I planted them. I didn’t water them for at least two days afterwards because it continued to rain. Maybe they had gotten too much water because of the rain.
I was also thinking that maybe they weren’t getting enough sun because of the trees growing by the deck. However, looking out on the deck now there’s plenty of sunlight where the pots are sitting. Pre-pandemic I had grown a single banana pepper plant with no problem; in fact, it continued producing peppers into November. I’m thinking that next year I may start from scratch, empty the containers and fill them with new soil.
I’d just let the plants dry out before watering again. If these plants don’t work out, you can always try again! As @JaneDoe42 said, just make sure the pots have good drainage before planting - for some reason there’s a lot of attractive pots out there that have no drainage holes, and that’s never a good thing.
A soil tester can be a big help - sometimes if a plant seems dry on the surface, the soil down deep is still wet.
I have tried calling, and I get heavily-accented people with so much background noise, I wouldn’t be able to understand them if they did speak English.
Somehow, a lot of Latin folk think that my phone number is for someone named Luz. It seems to be only spam like car warrantees and the like. But I’m getting so tired of blocking numbers. Sometimes I try to get Luz’s last name from them but then they hang up.
When my gf buys a new pot (which this time of year happens weekly) the first thing I do is carefully drill drainage holes. A good bit for ceramics is important.
I think some of those pots are supposed to be outer pots, designed to conceal, for the purpose of looks, a smaller pot within them that has drainage holes and should be propped up a bit so those holes will work; and which might be hung or placed somewhere that water draining down from the pot is undesirable. But in a wet climate if kept outdoors, or if overwatered, that won’t work either as water may build up inside the outer pot to the point at which the drain holes in the inner pot can’t work.
Any time I learn that my 17 year old son has borrowed my tools I pretty assume they have disappeared, never to be found or returned again.
I dislike it when paying a bill with a tear-off slip to be returned with the payment. The slip usually doesn’t match up with the perforation, making it hard to tear properly so it will fit in the envelope.
And, yes, I pay bills online, but there are many bills (tax bills, hospital bills, et al.) that need to be paid by check.
Seconded. Though I wouldn’t phrase it as “the slip doesn’t match up with the perforation” – the problem I run into is that the perforation is almost but not quite lined up with the crease on the paper created when the company folded the bill to fit it into the envelope they mailed it to me in. The envelope I mail the slip back up in is slightly smaller – it has to be, in order to, again, fit into the envelope they mailed it to me in. The problem isn’t that the perforation doesn’t match the slip – the slip’s supposed to start at the perforation. The problem is that there’s a crease a small fraction of an inch from the perforation, and the paper wants to tear at the crease, not the perforation – and if it does so, it won’t, as you say, fit properly in the return envelope.
I vaguely remember that this used to not be a problem – I think the perforations used to be further from the fold. I sometimes wonder whether it’s done that way on purpose in order to try to push you into paying the bill online (I have reasons not to want to do it that way, having to do with quality of connection and age of computer.)
I’m 43 and I still have some of my dad’s tools. Not ones he gave me; ones I borrowed when I was a teenager and just never returned.
These are the same pots I’ve used in the past with no problems, so I can’t imagine how they could have suddenly developed drainage problems. The main problems I’ve had with tomato plants is squirrels getting at them (I now have netting that I place over the plants). I had the same problem with plants withering last year, which at the time I ascribed to the fact that after buying them I didn’t put them in the pots for a few days due to one of my health issues kicking in after I got home.
Due the fact that I don’t drive I won’t be able to pick up any more plants until the end of June, when a friend will be visiting. I think that may be too late to start a new batch, even assuming that Lowe’s is still selling them.
The herbs I planted in the “window boxes” attached to the deck rails are thriving. I’m beginning to think that the universe just doesn’t want me to grow my own tomatoes and peppers any more. I also bought some radish seeds, which I haven’t tried to plant yet. Let’s see what happens with them.
You may have bought, last year, plants infected with something; and depending on what it is, that something may be able to survive in soil and even on pot surfaces. Clean and sterilize the pots, refill with fresh soil.
Big-box store transplants are risky to buy, IMO; they’re very often dealt with at the store by people who have no idea how to recognize early signs of infection, don’t care if they do recognize it, and jammed in together in a way very likely to spread problems. Try to find an area greenhouse that knows what they’re doing.
Short-season tomatoes would probably produce even if transplanted in late June, though later than usual (could you locate? go to your profile and put your location in so it’ll show up in your avatar; particularly useful in threads of this sort); though starting them from seed at that point would be quite iffy, at least in much of the USA. But you might get away, even now, with mail-ordering quality seed of a short-season variety and also fresh potting soil, then washing pots thoroughly, rinsing with a chlorox solution, and airing them really well afterwards so the chlorox will be gone. Order from a reliable company with short shipping times, something suited to your area.
DesertRoomie does that. When I was about fifty I delivered a heartfelt apology to my father on that very subject.
Just now I attempted to renew my subscription to Analog. The snail-mail reminder is $94.97 for two years while online is $118.97. The slip does fit into the envelope, though.
Our cats have a catio. The catio is on our porch which is 6 ft off the ground.
One of my cats just brought in a dead 14 inch king snake.
I hate it when this happens. We keep our cats “caged” to protect the wildlife. They have a litterbox out there, their scent is all over their toys and beds and tree.
I can’t blame the cats for being cats, but I sure do wish the wildlife would stop breaking into a cage full of excitable predators.
We had constant problems with rabbits making nests in our fenced back yard when we had dogs. Why did they ever think that was a good idea??
I’m sorry. Losing a good King snake is a bad thing, though of course the kittehs are not to blame. Stupid snake!
So… I had to take a 24-hour pee test (don’t ask why). This involves collecting every drop of one’s urine over a 24-hour period, then keeping it in a container, which must be refrigerated, until it is returned to the medical facility.
I followed the instructions for collection and storage to the letter, arising early this morning to make my final contribution. Carefully poured the contents into the container. Carefully put the container back in the fridge for the last time before transport. Went off and got ready for the day.
When I went to retrieve the container, I noticed it had… leaked. For the first time ever during the whole ordeal.
Nothing quite so unsettling as discovering you’ve peed all over your food, however inadvertently.
The fridge has been disinfected and tainted foodstuffs disposed of.
Glad that’s over!