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Whenever you're celebrating, a nice bottle of champagne feels like the best way to treat yourself and enjoy the moment. That's why so many people look for Champagne during the holiday season as they are celebrating with family and loved ones! In today's episode, I'm coving some of my top tips when shopping for champagne, serving champagne, and more! Grab your favorite glass of bubbly and hit play now!  Today's episode is best enjoyed on my youtube channel: https://youtu.be/NG5rEz2kX1s  ------ Sign up for The Wine CEO newsletter and get a free guide to Food & Wine Pairing: thewineceo.com Email: Sarah@thewineceo.com Instagram: @thewineceo ----- Top Tips: Temperature is key! Store your champagne around 42-45F so that you can serve it between 45-50F (6-8C). Glassware is important! If you don't have a tulip glass, use a white wine glass. Coupes and Flutes are not the best glass when enjoying Champagne. Champagne pairs well with almost any food! Don't age your wine - it's already at the perfect age. Be careful when opening your wine that the cork doesn't explode and hurt you or someone else. When shopping, plan to spend at least $60-$70+ and decide what sweetness level you want and if you are looking to try a larger house or a small grower/ producer. For info on these tips and more, watch the entire episode now! For more information on Champagne, check out the episodes below: Champagne 101: https://youtu.be/JmndM5vJnus?si=SsAvcLat6miPH96I The Widow Cliquot Book Review: https://youtu.be/LYAPhPq9zEY?si=8ocxm3q_6LpAGC3_ Champagne Region Travel Tips: https://youtu.be/UbvcG0ngQNU?si=dMCfSAjyFYzb0G8z What Makes Champagne so special: https://youtu.be/fIST_kP1NZg?si=T42cwwbfhU-Ql4X_  

We're kicking this late episode off with a long talk about Magic: the Gathering and parenting! So, buckle up for that! Then we have our first listener question read anonymously! This is what else we tackle:Every time my wife (43f) gets home after a few days away, leaving me (42m) to look after the kids, she has a go at me. Why?My 30M coworker 50F keeps commenting on my eating habits and saying I love food. How should I approach her to tell her to stop?My vegan partner (24m) doesn't want me (24f) cooking pork/beef when he's home. What do i do?Socials: @ourrelationshippod on IG, Ify is @ifynwadiwe on Twitter and IG, Emmy is @ohmyemilylouise on IG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OurRelationshipPodcastwithIfyandEmily Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s been a bunch of poor weather lately. I had to wait until late morning for the day to warm enough and it was still chilly at 50F. I talked the Cat, Christina Garner’s Midlife Magic, pens, and using notebooks … Continue reading →

I got my lunch and realized it was mostly sunny, 50F, and no significant wind. I strapped on the boots and took a spin around the neighborhood. Didn’t talk about much. Which is on brand, I guess.

Many gardeners are starting to think about fall garden cleanup. But there are some new ideas about cleaning the flower and vegetable gardens in the fall. To garden more ecologically friendly, we're learning what not to do come Autumn.  Many pollinators and beneficial insects are getting ready for winter in the flower garden. They will tunnel into hollow stemmed flowers, such as zinnias and echinacea, tuck under fallen leaves, and burrow next to clumping plants. The traditional knowledge was to cut back and clean up these annual and perennial flower gardens to remove weeds and diseased leaves. Now, the thinking is different. It's recommended to leave the plant debris until spring. After a series of 50F days in spring, then clean up after the insects have moved on. If you must do some cleanup, cut back plants no shorter than 15 inches to not disturb the overwintering insects. If you have lots of deciduous leaves on your beds, then yes, remove some, but leave a thin layer for the insects. Leaving plant debris and leaves also helps feed plants in spring and prevent weeds from growing.  If your plants are not diseased or insect-infested in the veggie garden, cut back the foliage into small pieces to the ground with a manual hedge trimmer. This chop-and-drop method leaves organic materials on the soil, protecting the microbes in winter and preventing erosion. In beds with diseased plants, cut those off at the soil line and remove them. Then, add a layer of chopped leaves, hay, or straw to protect the soil.  For more from Connecticut Garden Journal, visit ctpublic.org/ctgardenjournal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jill Homer not only has fifty some odd ultramarathons under her belt, she has completed some of the biggest and baddest bike races, including the Iditarod Invitational 1,000 mile bike race across Alaska.  This race encounters temperatures from -50F to 35F, gale force winds, rain, blizzards, waist-deep snow, mud, glare ice and bright sunny skies - all in the same day.  Jill set the women's record!  She's also been known to write about her adventures, she's published six books. That's what I'm talking about!  You're going to love this conversation.  Find Jill at www.jilloutside.com.  DO BIG THINGS Jill! big-things-crewing.com patreon.com/dobigthings SUPPORT: biggerthanthetrail.com athleticbrewing.com PROMO code is MCROBERTSA20 xoskin.us PROMO code is BTC alteregorunning.com PROMO code is DOBIGTHINGS Life is short, DO BIG THINGS!

Episode 7: Tapping a Tree for Maple SyrupWhat to tap and when?All maples can be tapped for sap. Sugar maples are the sweetest.Can also tap:Birch, walnut, black and english walnut, linden, box elder, butternut, sycamore, palm and gorose. All trees' saps have their own flavor. Maple (Sugar, Silver, Black, Red, Norway, Big Leaf)40 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrupTap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are belowBirch (European White, Paper, Yellow, Black, Gray, River)110 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrupTap when daytime temperatures are 40-50F (4.4-10C)Box Elder60 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrupTap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are belowBlack and English Walnut 60 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrupTap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are belowButternut60 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrupTap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are belowSycamore40 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syrupTap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are belowPalm88 parts of sap yields 11 parts finished syruphttp://www.lrrd.org/lrrd11/1/dali111.htmCan be tapped year roundGorosoe40 parts of sap yields 1 part of finished syruphttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/chugging-maple-sap-30413453/Tap when daytime temperatures are above 32F (0C) and nighttime temperatures are belowhttps://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/world/asia/24iht-maple.1.20393336.htmlTree IdentificationRegardless of the variety of tree you are tapping, the process is the same.Be sure to always tap trees that measure 10” (25.4cm) in diameter or more so as not to damage the heartwood. A tree measuring this size can withstand one tap.A tree measuring 20” (50.8cm) can handle two taps.Finally, a tree measuring larger than 25” (63.5cm) in diameter may have three taps.Never install more than three taps per tree. When installing multiple taps, always place them at a minimum of 6 to 8” (15.24 to 20.32cm) apart from one another.Sugar Maple IdentificationBright orange, yellow or reddish leaves in the fallSmoother bark than other maples, dark almost black in colorCan often see these trees dripping with sap from holes or cracks in the winter timeLook for five lobes with deep indentationsEquipment for TappingA power drill5/16” (.8cm) drill bitSpilesHammerBucket hooks (if hanging buckets)Hoses (for ground buckets)Buckets with lidsHarvesting storage bucketsA large potThermometerEquipment for ProcessingEvaporator (optional)Large pot for boilSmall pot for finishingThermometerCheesecloth or fine strainerBottling jars and sealing lidsHow to Tap and BoilTap when temperatures rise above freezing by day, and below freezing by nightLocate the s

Welcome back to the ZorkCast with Michael and Steve. We do some armchair traveling in this episode as Michael takes us along on his recent trip to Las Vegas! He talks us through the entire trip from top to bottom: his airline choice, where he stayed, and what Michael did while he was there. His principal purpose on this particular trip was to check out the new rooms at Wynn Las Vegas, and that's precisely what he did! Michael thoroughly reviews various hotel and hotel suite products, describing everything from how The Wynn Las Vegas Salon Suite differs from their Parlor Suite to which suites get Conrad Duck bath bombs and why. (Oh, and we talk Presidential and Chairman's Suites at Crockfords at Resorts World Las Vegas!) We learn all about Michael's dice crawl with VegasDuffy and the shocking quantity of 500-dollar Baccarat Squeeze Game tables at Wynn Las Vegas! In this riveting chat, you'll hear about the somewhat hilarious history of the Golden Nugget Atlantic City, some important info about ZorkFest 2021 and Podcaster Potluck, and why hotel and casino upkeep is of such great importance. Tune in to get one step closer to living a life of luxury in a Las Vegas Hotel! Want to contact us or share something?Email us at:tips@travelzork.comImportant: BY NOVEMBER 30th -- Book AMAZING ZorkFest 2021 Las Vegas Room RateRooms are refundable until 72 hours prior to arrival (be sure to review terms and conditions). BOOK HEREZorkFestCasino&Travel Loyalty (#Miles & #Points) Event+ Podcaster Potluck

É com pesar que Andreia D'Oliveira e Valdir Fumene Jr. convidam você para dar seu último adeus ao… Nada disso! Quer saber quem morreu? Então vem ouvir o podcast que fecha de maneira muito bonita - mas nem por isso menos triste - a trajetória de mudança de Morpheus dos Pérpetuos e do mundo a sua volta em Sandman: Entes Queridos. Nossa trajetória até aqui: Prelúdios e Noturnos – Leitura das edições #1-8Casa de Bonecas – Leitura das edições #9-16Terra dos Sonhos – Leitura das edições #17-20Estação das Brumas – Leitura das edições #21-28Um Jogo de Você – Leitura das edições #32-37Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #29-31 e #50Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 2) – Leitura das edições #38-40 e EspeciaisVidas Breves – Leitura das edições #41-49Fim dos Mundos – Leitura das edições #51-56Entes Queridos (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #57-63 e Vertigo Jam #1Entes Queridos (Parte 2) – Leitura das edições #64-69 (ESTAMOS AQUI)O Despertar – Leitura das edições #70-75 Créditos do tema Perpétuos: Luís Alfredo Filho.

BIKERADIO is back! In this episode: Wimpy winter riding. 50F is not winter. Motivation, waning? Rest weeks for life things. Frame the races differently at times. Store! https://grindcitydesigns.com/evoqbike/shop/home 65% vs 75% in Florida How to break down 14 hours: should you ride 2 x 7h or 7 x 2h Frequency vs Duration Zwift peeing off the bike. Huh? Chamois Creme doesn't go on your butt --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/evoqbike/support

Welcome back for another jampacked episode of ZorkCast, presented by TravelZork. In this episode, we talk to 77WABC Radio talk show host Frank Morano about everything he loves about Atlantic City! From a little bit about his popular radio show to Frank's experiences in Atlantic city as a young boy, this episode has it all! Hear how Atlantic City has evolved and the promising future that Frank believes lies in store for this beloved coastal New Jersey resort city. We do a deep dive into our shared favorite games, craps, and baccarat, including some great stories of passing the shoe (James Bond style), before experiencing the unique approaches that different casinos have. Tuning in, the listener can also find out about the excellent community aspect of craps, some of Frank's frustrations at particular properties, and some quality questions about what the experts say regarding a specific strategy at the craps table. Press play to join this fantastic conversation now!Want to contact us or share something?Email us at:tips@travelzork.comZorkFestCasino&Travel Loyalty (#Miles & #Points) Event+ Podcaster Potluck

Dr. Steve Wood and Dr. Bill Kanasky, Jr. talk about the problems with juror instructions. So many times, jurors don't understand them, don't pay attention to them, don't read them, are too long, etc. The biggest issues that jurors struggle with understanding are causation, burden of proof, negligence, past economic and non-economic damages, future economic and non-economic damages, and allocation of fault.  To help jurors understand causation they must be educated and indoctrinated about causation beginning in jury selection, then repeating during opening and then again during closing so that by the time they get to deliberations, they have heard it a few times. For many jurors, burden of proof is confused with "beyond a reasonable doubt" due to their lack of understanding and what they have seen in TV shows and movies. Jurors don't understand the legal definition of negligence and is often just assumed to exist simply because there is a bad outcome. Jurors are very confused by past economic and non-economic damages and also by future earnings damages. Jurors do seem to get punitive damages and allocation of fault, for the most part, however, they tend to start their discussion around allocation of fault, which is not where they are instructed to start. The podcast wraps up with Bill and Steve answering viewer mail about witnesses responding with "it depends",  the pros and cons of blaming the plaintiff, and advantages of a mock trial with deliberations with fewer jurors vs. individual surveys of a much larger sample. Watch the video of this podcast: https://www.courtroomsciences.com/r/50F

O fim começou! Andreia D'Oliveira e Valdir Fumene Jr. entram na reta final da leitura compartilhada de Sandman com o início do arco: Entes Queridos. Separado em dois episódios, Entes Queridos possuí 13 capítulos. Este primeiro compreende as sete primeiras edições do arco. Nossa trajetória até aqui: Prelúdios e Noturnos – Leitura das edições #1-8Casa de Bonecas – Leitura das edições #9-16Terra dos Sonhos – Leitura das edições #17-20Estação das Brumas – Leitura das edições #21-28Um Jogo de Você – Leitura das edições #32-37Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #29-31 e #50Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 2) – Leitura das edições #38-40 e EspeciaisVidas Breves – Leitura das edições #41-49Fim dos Mundos – Leitura das edições #51-56Entes Queridos (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #57-63 e Vertigo Jam #1Entes Queridos (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #64-69O Despertar – Leitura das edições #70-75 Créditos do tema Perpétuos: Luís Alfredo Filho.

Welcome to another episode of ZorkCast, presented by TravelZork. Tune in to hear all about Resorts World Las Vegas, the first integrated resort built on the Las Vegas strip in over a decade. You'll hear all about its epic features, designed for you never to leave, with three hotels sitting within the resort and plenty of details built in to make you stay. We touch on dining options, talk about why Resorts World has everything you could need, and touch on the visitor and casino experience compared to other Vegas Resorts. We hope you join us today to hear all this and more.Bonus: Steve talks about how Diamond Queen in the UK differs from Diamond Queen in the USA. Want to contact us or share something?Email us at:tips@travelzork.comZorkFestCasino&Travel Loyalty (#Miles & #Points) Event+ Podcaster Potluck

Andreia D'Oliveira e Valdir Fumene Jr. chegam ao arco Fim dos mundos, publicado em 1994 em oito edições que compreendem os números 51 à 56. Assim como em Terra dos Sonhos e Fábulas e Reflexões, Fim dos Mundos é uma coletânea de contos que expandem ainda mais o mundo criado por Gaiman, porém desta vez o autor utiliza-se da narrativa em moldura, aos moldes d'Os contos da Cantuária (The Canterbury Tales) de Geoffrey Chaucer, mas em vez de buscar abrigo na pousada de Tabard em Southwark, nossos narradores chegam a Estalagem do Fim dos Mundos! Qual seria a sua história? Prelúdios e Noturnos – Leitura das edições #1-8Casa de Bonecas – Leitura das edições #9-16Terra dos Sonhos – Leitura das edições #17-20Estação das Brumas – Leitura das edições #21-28Um Jogo de Você – Leitura das edições #32-37Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #29-31 e #50Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 2) – Leitura das edições #38-40 e Especiais Vidas Breves – Leitura das edições #41-49 Fim dos Mundos – Leitura das edições #51-56 (ESTAMOS AQUI!)Entes Queridos (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #57-69Entes Queridos (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #57-69O Despertar – Leitura das edições #70-75 Créditos do tema Perpétuos: Luís Alfredo Filho.

There has been a shake-up in Vegas recently. For a whopping $5.65 billion, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (or Cosmo, as we affectionately refer to it) has been sold by Blackstone to MGM Resorts. Today, we are using this platform to share our thoughts on the changes that will be taking place over the coming months as a result of the sale. By our assessment, some are positive, and some are negative, and you may already have your own opinion on these matters, but hear us out! After our discussion around loyalty programs, alignments, and drinks offers, we do a recent history recap of Michael's trip to watch the Raiders-Bears game (and sneak in a bit of dice, of course --- or maybe not). Then we delve into the benefits of hotel hopping (Steve's speciality). One of the key takeaways from today's show; enjoy things while they last! Want to contact us or share something?Email us at:tips@travelzork.comZorkFestCasino&Travel Loyalty (#Miles & #Points) Event+ Podcaster Potluck

De volta a ordem geral das edições Andreia D'Oliveira e Valdir Fumene Jr. se deparam com um arco que é a cara de Deuses Americanos e de On the road de Jack Kerouac. Vidas Breves seria um excelente road movie se adaptado (e vai ser!) para o audiovisual. Aqui Sonho e Delírio saem em busca do irmão desaparecido. O que pode acontecer quando se vai atrás de Destruição? Por enquanto, estamos assim: Prelúdios e Noturnos – Leitura das edições #1-8Casa de Bonecas – Leitura das edições #9-16Terra dos Sonhos – Leitura das edições #17-20Estação das Brumas – Leitura das edições #21-28Um Jogo de Você – Leitura das edições #32-37Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 1) – Leitura das edições #29-31 e #50Fábulas e Reflexões (Parte 2) – Leitura das edições #38-40 e Especiais Vidas Breves – Leitura das edições #41-49 (ESTAMOS AQUI!)Fim dos Mundos – Leitura das edições #51-56Entes Queridos – Leitura das edições #57-69O Despertar – Leitura das edições #70-75 Créditos do tema Perpétuos: Luís Alfredo Filho.

If you are in the US and you love fashion, then you probably know that the Nordstrom anniversary sale is happening this week. I love shopping for wine, but my love for shopping doesn't end there. I am very excited to check out all of the hot sale items that Nordstrom has for this summer and fall. But I'm not a fashion blogger, so I'm not going to give you any details about the sale or the top items I'm hoping to purchase. Nope, we are here for the wine folks! So instead, I am going to tell you what you should be drinking as you do hours and hours of shopping!  And as always, if you love this episode, be sure to subscribe to the show and share this episode on your social media! (don't forget to tag me @thewineceo) *****Today's Sponsor: Wash & Wik Soap and Candle Co. Enter THEWINECEO at checkout for 20% off your purchase! So when you're shopping a long sale, it means spending a few hours online, right? You're perusing dozens of pages of items, reading hundreds of reviews, and adding items to your wish list. So it can take some time and you want to stay focused. You don't want a high alcohol wine that is going to make you crash and need a nap. You want something you can sip all afternoon or evening as you fill your virtual shopping cart. You also want something light and refreshing, but still fun and flavorful. My recommendation is 10/10 Lambrusco. Lambrusco is a light red wine from Italy that comes from the region of Emilia Romagna, which is in North Eastern Italy. Lambrusco is known for being fruity and acidic, but even better, most Lambrusco is frizzante. Frizzante is the Italian term for fizzy. It's not enough bubbles to be considered sparkling wine though, so it isn't like Prosecco or champagne. It's just slightly....well, fizzy! Lambrusco can be dry or sweet and in both cases, the fizz keeps the wine nice and refreshing. With flavor notes of strawberries, blackberries, and flowers this wine makes for an easy summertime red wine, especially when you chill it to around 50F degrees. Because of Lambrusco's acidity and fizz, it's also a great food pairing wine. Naturally, this wine is a home run with Italian classics like pizza and pasta, but it really shines with the local Italian products from the Emilia Romagna region like prosciutto and parmigiano reggiano cheese. You've heard me say it before, but an easy way to ensure a great food and wine combo is sticking to regional pairings. This is no exception as Lambrusco is a heavenly pairing with prosciutto and parmigiano. But if cheese and salami isn't your preferred snack as you shop, try a little chocolate! Lambrusco's light and fruity flavors make it an amazing combo with milk chocolate. There are 3 levels of sweetness descriptors for Lambrusco wines and various winemakers across the region will produce theirs differently. You will often find these terms on the wine label so you can know if you're purchasing a dry, semi-dry, or sweet version of Lambrusco. Secco is the term for dry Semi-secco is the term for off-dry (slightly sweet) Dolce is the term for sweet I recommend pairing the Secco and Semi-secco versions with savory foods and pair the dolce with sweets and chocolate. Lastly, I think it's important to note that there are  technically 13 different Italian grape varietals with the name Lambrusco in it. All of these grapes are grown in Emilia Romagna and they all make up the family of wines known by the name Lambrusco. Although they are technically different grapes (some are clones of these grapes), they all have the same main flavor profile and they are grouped under the same term "Lambrusco". If you were to taste a few of these side by side, you might be able to determine slight flavor nuances between these grapes, but for the most part, they taste very similar and are all low in alcohol, light in body, and low in tannins. But if you come across some additional names on a wine label for Lambrusco, now you know why! (Three of the most common names you might find are Lambrusco di Sorbara, Lambrusco di Salamino, and Lambrusco Grasparossa). And it's this unique flavor profile of being a light and fruity red wine with low alcohol and fizz that makes it a perfect wine to drink as you shop! But don't drink it as you try your clothes on......no one wants to fight to get red wine stains out of a brand new dress! Below are a few of my favorite Lambruscos that you can look for in your local wine shop: Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco Ceci Otello Lambrusco Riunite Lambrusco Hope you learned something new about Lambrusco and happy shopping! Instagram: @thewineceo Website: thewineceo.com Email: Sarah@thewineceo.com

In episode #27 my friend Samantha joins me on the show to chat all about poolside sippers. From rosè and refreshing white wines to light reds and bubbles, we cover it all! We even discuss what glassware and cooling options you have to keep tour pool day simple and care free. You also get a sneak peek into how Samantha set me up with my boyfriend Cris, so it's an episode you don't want to miss! Listen now and don't forget to hit subscribe so that you never miss an episode! ———— Episode Show notes: Great poolside sippers for wine this summer: Rosè: look for lighter colored dry rosè (sugar isn't quite as refreshing on a hot day, so i usually stay away from sweeter options!) Try one of these: Bertrand Cotes de Rose, Chateau de La Noblesse Rose from Bandol, and Sonoma Cutrer White: I love white wines that are light, crisp, and acidic in the hot summer. So Sauvignon blanc and Albariño are two top picks! Try one of the below wines: Martin Codax Albariño, Burgans Albariño, or Licia Albariño Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc (A classic New Zealand SB), Domaine Fournier Sancerre (Sancerre is from France and delicious Sauvignon Blanc!), and Duckhorn SB from California Red: lighter red wines can be a good option on a cooler evening or if you chill the bottle more than normal (45-50F degrees). Look for Gamay, Pinot Noir, from the U.S., or even a Lambrusco. Bubbles: you can't beat cava. This inexpensive Spanish sparkling wine is made in the same method as champagne for a fraction of the cost! Try one of my favorites below: Villa Conchi Cava Brut, Campo Viejo, or Borrasca If you want to learn more about canned wines, check out my episode #18 HERE.  Tips for poolside wines: Temperatures: A large corkcicle or thermos is great to keep wines cold by the pool! (Keep in mind that a normal sized bottle of wine is 750mL or 25oz.) Don't add ice or this will water down your wine! Pour wine in small amounts into your glass because the wine will warm up faster in your glass than in the corkcicle. Glassware: If you can't bring glass to your pool, invest in small insulated thermos cups from corkcicle, yeti, or another company. I love my Rifle Paper Co one HERE. You can also try these plastic reusable stemmed wine glasses that look like real glass from Amazon (I love them and they are great quality!!). I hope today's episode was helpful! Please write a review if you learned something new and don't forget to tell your friends about the show!

In dieser Folge gibt es ein Diätupdate nach 28 Wochen. Das aktuelle Tiefstgewicht lag bei 83,7 kg. Schritte sind mittlerweile auf 13.000 , die Kalorien ändern sich während des Entladen und Ladens. An den Entladetagen hatte ich 2065 Kal, 230P, 150C und 60F; an den Ladetagen hatte ich Mittwochs 2900 Kal, 180P, 450C, 50F, am Donnerstag und Freitag gab es ca 3300 Kal, 170P, 550C, 55F. Seit Samstag vor einer Woche gibt es 2420 Kalorien. Die Makros sind bei 210P, 260C und 60F. Bei Fragen kannst Du mir jederzeit schreiben Ich wünsche euch viel Spaß beim Hören. Teile meinen Podcast gerne auf Instagram mit deinen Followern. Ich freue mich über einen Like, Abo oder ein Bewertung je nach Plattform. Abonniere mich unter: https://www.instagram.com/hohmannbodybuilding/ Für Coachinganfragen kannst Du mir entweder eine DM per Instagram schreiben oder mich über das Kontaktformular auf meiner Website erreichen. Meine Website: https://www.hohmannbodybuilding.de/ Ich danke Dir für den Support.

Today we are going to go as high as we can.  Literally.  Dr. Jon Kedrowski and I recorded this episode a few weeks ago when he was in a hotel room in Kathmandu, Nepal, but I've released this episode following his trek to Everest base camp and as he is preparing to climb Mt. Everest.   We also talked about Dr. Jon and fellow adventurer Colin O'Brady's January attempt to achieve the first winter ascent of K2, the second-tallest peak in the world and one where notoriously the ratio is one climber death for every 5.5 successful ascents versus one in 33 on Everest, so it is about six times more deadly!  And most of those attempts in those counts were in the summer.  Brutal winter weather conditions, like -50F and hurricane-force winds, prevented Dr. Jon and Colin to attempt the summit, although 10 Sherpas did reach the K2 summit themselves.  Yet at about the same time five other very experienced climbers lost their lives on what is known as the “Savage Mountain.”  I strongly encourage you to follow his and Colin O'Brady's absolutely riveting social media posts, especially during their current push to the summit of Everest, and what will be Colin's subsequent attempt to summit Lhotse, the world's fourth-highest peak, both without oxygen!  The Sherpas and other mountain guides and porters are truly amazing, among other things hauling a stunning amount of gear to the base camps at very high elevations literally on their backs.  Dr. Jon has created several initiatives to support them and their families, especially since much of their income has evaporated due to the pandemic, so you can also find links on his social media to help them out.  Dr. Jon has written books about his successful quests to sleep on top of all 55 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, and ski and sleep on the volcanoes of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, and has a new book in the works.  Along the way, he speaks, leads clients on treks and on skis, and more.  He definitely has a few irons in the fire!  I think you'll enjoy and be motivated by this chat. Please contact Bill for more info about the We Are Superman Ten Warriors, the Unfuck Your Fridge Challenge, or about editing for your book project at silly_billy@msn.com, on Facebook, or Instagram @stahlorDr. Jon Kedrowski:jonkedrowski.comFacebookInstagram: @drjonkedskiVery worthy support (and raffle) for the Sherpas: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/support-sherpas-porters-and-teahouse-owners-in-need-everest-2021-expeditionColin O'Brady:colinobrady.comInstagram: @colinobrady

Provavelmente você já viu algum método milagroso prometendo sucesso, dinheiro, vendas, clientes. São diversos os gurus que propagam a ideia de que o sucesso tem uma fórmula pronta. Mas será mesmo que elas funcionam para todos? No episódio de hoje, Pedro Waengertner conversa com com Arthur Garutti, Sócio na ACE, e Fernanda Nascimento, fundadora da Stratlab, sobre essas fórmulas de sucesso e a verdadeira eficácia nos negócios. Vale a pena ouvir!LINKS CITADOS NO EPISÓDIOEp. 69 - Você é uma pessoa persuasiva?: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JlLbkuxbxdgKdoP6RddIL?si=kXL79l0JScmpDjjrEO9mmAEp. 27 - Como criar negócios de maneira inovadora?: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SzCotUdKcXjJOCLuGKyCs?si=h3iJ13V-TzCKE-poEh8njgIntrodução - 00:15Apresentação dos convidados - 00:56Fórmulas são guias do sucesso? - 02:00Quais os princípios universais do sucesso? - 14:50Fórmulas x Startups - 20:45Para ler esse conteúdo e muito mais, acesse nosso blog!Instagram: @acestartupsLinkedIn: ACE StartupsE-mail: contato@goace.vc

“Even Cooler Than You Think” and “Where Wine Takes You” sum up not just what the Paso Robles region is about but also the names of marketing campaigns and the Paso Wine Country podcast.  Chris Taranto, Communications Director of the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance, tells us about the diversity, friendliness, and character of the Paso Robles wine region.  As well as how they promote and position the region within the state and across the country.  From Zinfandel to Rhone blends and weekly zoom webinars to consumer events, Chris educates us on all things Paso.  Detailed Show Notes: Paso Robles wine region overviewHalfway between San Francisco and Los AngelesAlong the California Central Coast (Monterey to the North, Santa Barbara to the South), close to the Pacific Ocean41,000 vineyard acres, >600,000 acres total11 different AVA’s60+ different grape varieties~200 wineries, ~170 physical wineries~600-2,200 ft elevation for vineyardsPopulation - ~30,000 people in town, ~100,000 in countyUp to 100+F during the day, but cools off to 50F at night due to the impact of Estoro / Morro Bay creating invection fog through the Templeton GapRhone varietalsSyrah introduced by Gary Eberle in the late 1980s, early 1990’sTablas Creek (the Haas and Perrin families) - imported grapevines from the Rhone (Chateau Beaucastel, owned by Perrin’s) and propagated TCV (Tablas Creek Vineyard clones) - shared these clones, jumpstarting the region to embrace Rhone varietiesPerrins chose Paso due to calcareous soils, similar to limestoneAVA’s - started in 1983 when Paso Robles AVA was createdYork Mountain was excluded because the owner of land in the area believed it was very different from the restSubmitted for all 11 AVA’s at once, took 7 years, approved in 2014Have conjunctive labeling law - wineries must include both sub-AVA and Paso Robles, which must be of equal or greater font sizePaso Robles Wine Country AllianceMission: promotion and preservation of Paso RoblesMarketing organization - preserve the Paso brand and brand integrityWorks with member wineries with educational toolsMarket Paso to different audiences - consumers, sommeliers/retail buyers, journalists (3rd party endorsement)Metrics that are measuredConsumer events - P&L, experience surveysAdvertising - reachArticles / PR - audience numbersMembers are primarily growers/vintners but capture the whole wine community, including hotels, restaurants, and associate memberships (e.g., suppliers like bottle or label manufacturers)Fees are a sliding scale based on case production or vineyard acreage, room count (for hotels)Almost all wineries are members - ~190 of 200 wineries are membersHave sponsorship opportunities for suppliers -> allows them to speak to the membersTrade & consumer eventsIn-market events are mostly budget neutralLocal events - profits help augment the operating budgetVolunteer participation for wineries, most have no fee (except for one annual event in Cambria)The geographic focus of promotionCalifornia (south of Paso is a big feeder market, Bay Area more challenging due to competition with Napa / Sonoma)TX, IL, NY, FL also importantExport - mostly Canada, and most activities through the Wine InstituteMost effective promotions are 3rd party endorsements / PR strategies - journalists, bloggers, etc.…Advertising more to get lots of eyeballs at onceHosts a weekly Zoom webinar - “Paso Wine Hour”Tell members to tell your own true story; Paso is full of mavericks and cowboys, no real rulesPaso Wine tries to layer up personalities of Paso in PR messagesPodcast - “Where Wine Takes You”The audience has mostly been driven organicallyAnecdotal evidence of driving sales, but no hard data yetMember educationHave a monthly education series - for growers, winemakers, tasting room managers, hospitalityBring in expert guests to provide educational tools for their businessesOne of the next ones - building a playbook on how to present your brand on digital platforms bestTourism important for the region2015 - tourism economic impact of $1.5B for Paso Robles ($1.9B for the county, San Luis Obispo) with tourism spending of $194MA lot of messaging is to drive people to visitConsumer tagline - “Where Wine Takes You”Major issues for Paso RoblesWater - there’s a moratorium on new vineyard planting within the water district. It doesn’t get a lot of rainWildfires - no meaningful impact in 2020, but a constant issueSommelier/trade perception that the region is too hot for grape growing - came up with the tagline “Even Cooler Than you Think” - though wines may be high alcohol, they are balancedConsumer messaging Don’t try too hard to understand the AVA map yetGet the personality of the region - there's friendliness to itBe adventurous. There’s lots of diversity

The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from March – Oct weekly Heard on Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 7-8 AM CST http://player.listenlive.co/41841 Heard on WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Heard on KDIZ 1570 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 4-5 PM and replay Sundays 2-3 PM CST http://player.listenlive.co/57071 Heard on KFEQ 680 AM at 107.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/ Heard on WRMN 1410 AM & 96.7 FM Elgin/Chicago, IL Sundays Noon-1 PM CST https://www.wrmn1410.com/ Heard on KYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 1-2 PM MST Reply Sundays 9-10 PM MST https://www.yahradio540.com/listen-live/ Heard on KMET 1490 AM & 98.1 FM Banning, CA Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM PST April – Oct https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Heard on WCRN 830 AM Westborough/Boston, MA Saturdays 10-11 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/ Heard on WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-am Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOW Garden questions answered in segment four by Joey and Holly indeterminate tomatoes Q: Can you plant indeterminate tomatoes in containers with any success? If so, what varieties do you recommend? Tomatoes I’ve grown in the past have been; Brandywine, Old German, & Roma as well as yellow Grape varieties. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. A: All tomatoes can be grown in a container Id suggest not growing them in a grow bag no smaller than 10 gallons or a 5 gallon bucket with drainage holes, and cage or trellis them also. Brandywine, black krim, any cherry tomatoes will do well for you. Leeks bolting Q: I have grown leeks for years, but lately they are almost all bolting. What is going on? A: The most common answer to that questions is that a the leeks are planted when it is cool as we do then it get warm, hot early in the season then cold again then turns to summer. The up and down of temps effects the plant to make it think it is in it second year of growing so then it bolts my suggestion would be to wait a little longer before planting them so the risk of up and down temps are less. Spring Garlic? Q: I didn’t get around to planting garlic last fall – can I still plant garlic in the spring? If so what is the best variety? A: Yes you can, you want to plant it as soon as you can get it in the ground as it need cold hours to grow correctly Any heirloom hard neck variety work well for us German hardy is a good choice here in the north soft neck in the south. It may not be as big as fall garlic as we have found but it is better in the ground growing if you can find some to plant. Leeks and Fennel Q:Can direct sow leeks and Fennel ? A: Leeks do not do well from direct sowing as they take 150 days to grow if you do not start them indoors you can get them at the garden center as we have and they do very well . Fennel can be grown from seed as it take 90 days you can soak the seeds for 24 hours before planting. Plant the seed when the soil is 50F to 70F Celery Problems I have been growing celery for the past 2 years. Part of my quest to grow all of my sauce ingredients. I start my celery from seed indoors. I have 2 locations. My own backyard garden doesn’t get more than 5 of direct sun. The celery does ok, but tends to be skinny and more ‘herbie’ tasting. Is there anything I can do to improve the flavor and size? A: Celery needs calcium for best growth, so mix in bone meal or gypsum. Bone meal is a good all-purpose amendment adding this to the ground it will help all plants to have better growth. It also may be the variety also that cases that taste. Size will also be improved by adding nutrients to the soil you could try if it is allowed in your area a large grow bag from RootMaker Products Company a 60 gallon grow bag or 10,15 30 or a raised bed. Check out the companies that make the show possible Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com Proplugger of www.proplugger.com World's coolest rain gauge www.worldscoolestraingauge.com Rootmaker of www.rootmaker.com Us coupon code TWVG at checkout and save 10% of your order Tomato snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pomona pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Iv organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. JimZ of www.drjimz.com Seed Savers Exchange of www.seedsavers.org Waterhoop of www.waterhoop.com Green Gobbler of www.greengobbler.com Nessalla koombucha of www.nessalla.com MI Green House LLC of www.migreenhouse.com Spartan mosquito of www.spartanmosquito.com Phyllom BioProducts of www.phyllombioproducts.com Happy leaf led of www.happyleafled.com Neptunes harvest of www.neptunesharvest.com Dripworks of www.dripworks.com We Grow Indoors of www.wegrowindoors.com Harvestmore of www.harvest-more.com Deer defeat www.deerdefeat.com Blue ribbon organics www.blueribbonorganics.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center www.bluemels.com Milwaukee,WI official garden center of the show Wisconsin Greenhouse company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/?ref=wisconsinvegetable Tree-Ripe Fruit Co of https://www.tree-ripe.com/

The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from March – Oct weekly Heard on Joy 1340 AM & 98.7 FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 7-8 AM CST http://player.listenlive.co/41841 Heard on WAAM 1600 AM & 92.7 FM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8 AM EST https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Heard on KDIZ 1570 AM Minneapolis, MN Saturdays 4-5 PM and replay Sundays 2-3 PM CST http://player.listenlive.co/57071 Heard on KFEQ 680 AM at 107.9 FM St. Joseph/Kansas City, MO Sundays 10-11 AM CST http://www.680kfeq.com/live-stream/ Heard on WRMN 1410 AM & 96.7 FM Elgin/Chicago, IL Sundays Noon-1 PM CST https://www.wrmn1410.com/ Heard on KYAH 540 AM Delta/Salt Lake City, UT Saturdays 1-2 PM MST Reply Sundays 9-10 PM MST https://www.yahradio540.com/listen-live/ Heard on KMET 1490 AM & 98.1 FM Banning, CA Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM PST April – Oct https://www.kmet1490am.com/ Heard on WCRN 830 AM Westborough/Boston, MA Saturdays 10-11 AM EST https://tunein.com/radio/WCRN-AM-830-Full-Service-Radio-s1112/ Heard on WOGO 680 AM & 103.1 FM Chippewa Falls, WI Sundays 9-10 AM CST https://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=wogo-am Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Email your questions to Gardentalkradio@gmail.com Or call 24/7 leave your question at 1-800 927-SHOW In segment one: Joey and Holly ask the question what was the victory garden and will it come back in 2020? Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. What was the purpose of a victory garden? During World War II, Victory Gardens were planted by families in the United States (the Home Front) to help prevent a food shortage. This meant food for everyone! Planting Victory Gardens helped make sure that there was enough food for our soldiers fighting around the world. How did Victory Gardens work? As part of the war effort, the government rationed foods like sugar, butter, milk, cheese, eggs, coffee, meat and canned goods. ... So, the government turned to its citizens and encouraged them to plant "Victory Gardens." They wanted individuals to provide their own fruits and vegetables. Throughout both world wars, the Victory Garden campaign served as a successful means of boosting morale, expressing patriotism, safeguarding against food shortages on the home front, and easing the burden on the commercial farmers working arduously to feed troops and civilians overseas 20 million Americans answered the call. They planted gardens in backyards, empty lots and even city rooftops. Neighbors pooled their resources, planted different kinds of foods and formed cooperatives, all in the name of patriotism. Magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life printed stories about victory gardens, and women's magazines gave instructions on how to grow and preserve garden produce. Families were encouraged to can their own vegetables to save commercial canned goods for the troops. In 1943, families bought 315,000 pressure cookers (used in the process of canning), compared to 66,000 in 1942. The government and businesses urged people to make gardening a family and community effort. In 1942, roughly 15 million families planted victory gardens; by 1944, an estimated 20 million victory gardens produced roughly 8 million tons of food—which was the equivalent of more than 40 percent of all the fresh fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States Victory Gardens became popular in Canada in 1917. Under the Ministry of Agriculture's campaign, "A Vegetable Garden for Every Home", residents of cities, towns and villages utilized backyard spaces to plant vegetables for personal use and war effort. In the city of Toronto, women's organizations brought expert gardeners into the schools to get school children and their families interested in gardening. In addition to gardening, home owners were encouraged to keep hens in their yards for the purpose of collecting eggs. The result was large production of potatoes, beets, cabbage and other useful vegetables.[5] Eleanor Roosevelt planted a Victory Garden on the White House lawn in 1943. The Roosevelts were not the first presidency to institute a garden in the White House. Woodrow Wilson grazed sheep on the south lawn during World War I to avoid mowing the lawn. Eleanor Roosevelt’s garden instead served as a political message of the patriotic duty to garden, even though Eleanor did not tend to her own garden. [17] While Victory Gardens were portrayed as a patriotic duty, 54% of Americans polled said they grew gardens for economic reasons while only 20% mentioned patriotism.[18] Although at first the Department of Agriculture objected to Eleanor Roosevelt's institution of a victory garden on the White House grounds, fearing that such a movement would hurt the food industry, basic information about gardening appeared in public services booklets distributed by the Department of Agriculture, as well as by agribusiness corporations such as International Harvester and Beech-Nut. Fruit and vegetables harvested in these home and community plots was estimated to be 9,000,000–10,000,000 short tons (8,200,000–9,100,000 t) in 1944, an amount equal to all commercial production of fresh vegetables.[19][20] The Victory Garden movement also attempted to unite the Home-front. Local communities would have festivals and competitions to showcase the produce each person grew in their own gardens. While the garden movement united some local communities, the garden movement separated minorities like African Americans. At harvest shows, separate prizes were awarded to “colored people”, in similar categories, a long-held tradition in Delaware and the deeper South, as well as in Baltimore.[21] In New York City, the lawns around vacant "Riverside" were devoted to victory gardens, as were portions of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The slogan "grow your own, can your own", was a slogan that started at the time of the war and referred to families growing and canning their own food in victory gardens.[22] Supple change shock 2-3 months down the road In the shops and the stores Support local farmers markets if they are available in your areas as this what they do and yes some sale to stores however most cases the farmer who sales to a store is only making about 20 cents per every dollar as to a farmers markets they are making around 90 cents dollar https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_02.html In segment two Joey and Holly talk about how to grow okra anywhere not just in the south Okra can be planted in most parts of the country, not just the south. Yes in the north it can be. Now there are 135 varieties of okra worldwide their are green and burgundy pods we grow the Clemson spineless okra Can you start okra indoors yes 3 to 4 weeks before you last average frost date How do you germinate okra seeds quickly? Soak Okra Seeds to Speed Up Germination Okra is easy to grow but the seeds have a hard coat that can slow germination. To speed up the process, soak the seeds overnight in Milk before planting. Plant okra seeds about ½ to 1 inch deep and 12 to 18 inches apart in a row. You can soak the seeds overnight in tepid water to help speed up germination. Okra plants are tall, so space out the rows 3 to 4 feet apart. Okra plants do best when they receive regular water, although they are able to tolerate mild drought conditions very well. Ideally, your okra plants need about an inch of rain per week to thrive, become large and produce lots of pods. ... Okra can be watered at the same time as other vegetable plants in your garden. Okra reaches maturity in 50 to 65 days. The plants can produce for ten to 12 weeks. It grows and bears seed pods until frost, which quickly turns them black and kills them. Start harvesting a few days after the okra blooms fade. When okra is ready to pick? The first harvest will be ready about 2 months after planting. Harvest the okra when it's about 2 to 3 inches long. Harvest it every other day. Cut the stem just above the cap with a knife; if the stem is too hard to cut, the pod is probably too old and should be tossed. What is the best fertilizer for okra? All balanced fertilizer into the soil with a shovel before planting to a depth of 4 inches, What to do with it Pan fry it Pickel Soups Dyhradration Deep fry Grill In segment three Joey and Holly welcome their guest author Cali Kim she is a backyard organic gardener dedicated to helping you grow your own healthy, delicious vegetables – in a quick, simple and inexpensive way that fits into your hectic lifestyle. She lives in Southern California with my husband, Jerry; and they work as a team to produce garden content that helps people all over the world grow organic vegetables. visit her website https://calikimgardenandhome.com/ 1. You have a huge YouTube following – how did you get into making gardening videos? 2. What is one of the most common questions you get from gardeners of all levels? 3. You have a lot of DIY home cleaning “recipes” – what is one of your favorites and why? 4. We all deal with insects in the garden – what are the way you protect plants from common pests? 5.What is something you have struggled to grow or have struggled with growing that you have given up on and why is that ok? 6. You have a new book – Organic Gardening for Everyone – what is the book about and is there a favorite tip in that book? 7. How can people find out more about you? Garden questions answered in segment four by Joey and Holly indeterminate tomatoes Q: Can you plant indeterminate tomatoes in containers with any success? If so, what varieties do you recommend? Tomatoes I’ve grown in the past have been; Brandywine, Old German, & Roma as well as yellow Grape varieties. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. A: All tomatoes can be grown in a container Id suggest not growing them in a grow bag no smaller than 10 gallons or a 5 gallon bucket with drainage holes, and cage or trellis them also. Brandywine, black krim, any cherry tomatoes will do well for you. Leeks bolting Q: I have grown leeks for years, but lately they are almost all bolting. What is going on? A: The most common answer to that questions is that a the leeks are planted when it is cool as we do then it get warm, hot early in the season then cold again then turns to summer. The up and down of temps effects the plant to make it think it is in it second year of growing so then it bolts my suggestion would be to wait a little longer before planting them so the risk of up and down temps are less. Spring Garlic? Q: I didn’t get around to planting garlic last fall – can I still plant garlic in the spring? If so what is the best variety? A: Yes you can, you want to plant it as soon as you can get it in the ground as it need cold hours to grow correctly Any heirloom hard neck variety work well for us German hardy is a good choice here in the north soft neck in the south. It may not be as big as fall garlic as we have found but it is better in the ground growing if you can find some to plant. Leeks and Fennel Q:Can direct sow leeks and Fennel ? A: Leeks do not do well from direct sowing as they take 150 days to grow if you do not start them indoors you can get them at the garden center as we have and they do very well . Fennel can be grown from seed as it take 90 days you can soak the seeds for 24 hours before planting. Plant the seed when the soil is 50F to 70F Celery Problems I have been growing celery for the past 2 years. Part of my quest to grow all of my sauce ingredients. I start my celery from seed indoors. I have 2 locations. My own backyard garden doesn’t get more than 5 of direct sun. The celery does ok, but tends to be skinny and more ‘herbie’ tasting. Is there anything I can do to improve the flavor and size? A: Celery needs calcium for best growth, so mix in bone meal or gypsum. Bone meal is a good all-purpose amendment adding this to the ground it will help all plants to have better growth. It also may be the variety also that cases that taste. Size will also be improved by adding nutrients to the soil you could try if it is allowed in your area a large grow bag from RootMaker Products Company a 60 gallon grow bag or 10,15 30 or a raised bed. Check out the companies that make the show possible Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com Proplugger of www.proplugger.com World's coolest rain gauge www.worldscoolestraingauge.com Rootmaker of www.rootmaker.com Us coupon code TWVG at checkout and save 10% of your order Tomato snaps of www.tomatosnaps.com Chapin Manufacturing Inc. of www.chapinmfg.com Pomona pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Iv organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. JimZ of www.drjimz.com Seed Savers Exchange of www.seedsavers.org Waterhoop of www.waterhoop.com Green Gobbler of www.greengobbler.com Nessalla koombucha of www.nessalla.com MI Green House LLC of www.migreenhouse.com Spartan mosquito of www.spartanmosquito.com Phyllom BioProducts of www.phyllombioproducts.com Happy leaf led of www.happyleafled.com Neptunes harvest of www.neptunesharvest.com Dripworks of www.dripworks.com We Grow Indoors of www.wegrowindoors.com Harvestmore of www.harvest-more.com Deer defeat www.deerdefeat.com Blue ribbon organics www.blueribbonorganics.com Bluemel's garden & landscape center www.bluemels.com Milwaukee,WI official garden center of the show Wisconsin Greenhouse company of https://wisconsingreenhousecompany.com/ Chip Drop of https://getchipdrop.com/?ref=wisconsinvegetable Tree-Ripe Fruit Co of https://www.tree-ripe.com/

Replay of segment 4 of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from 4-20-19 Heard on 860AM WNOV & W293cx 106.5FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 9-10AM CST Heard on WAAM 1600 AM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on WWDB 860 AM Philadelphia, PA Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on KMET 1490 AM Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM pst Banning, CA listen here during show hours for your station: WNOV https://tinyurl.com/y8lwd922 WWDB: https://wwdbam.com/ WAAM https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Contact Joey and Holly: Email them at TWVGshow@gmail.com Reach the show anytime through the Instant access text hotline 414-368-9311 Thank you for listening and downloading the show. Segment 4 Joey and Holly answer gardeners questions Q:So I just transplanted my starts about 3 days ago. They all now look sad. Will it just take a few days for them to perk back up after roots set? Also after transplanting they take up a lot more room, this in turn has them spread out a bit more then what i think my grow lights cover. im in zone 5a with a last frost of may 11th roughly. Is there a way to test the light at my plants to make sure they get enough? if not when can i start hardening them off and taking them out to my unheated greenhouse? A: Typically yes they will look sad for a few days after transplanting do to rood shock just keep them watered and warm and they should come back if you did not damage the roots. There are light meter they can be bought to test the light strengths. You can also put your tomato plants the farthest away from the lights because if they do get leggy you can just plant deeper. I would not take plants out to the greenhouse until the night temps are 50F steady in the greenhouse they maybe enough warm gathered during the day to keep it that at night but also day time temps may get very hot too. Q: Newbie here! My hubby and I are experimenting (me with soil/him with hydro)We built a raised bed 4'x4'x16" and filled with garden soil from a local nursery and topped with compost from horse/cow barn. I plan to put 4-5 Early Girl tomato seedlings in it soon. Would it be too much to add some summer squash zucchini plants between them? I have a house rabbit and will have plenty of season long pellets to add if needed Just worried about crowding roots. Q:Johnny I'm confused about sometimes hearing that there are things that can be planted as soon as the ground can be worked...I live here in southeastern Wisconsin as well and I have everything prepped for planting and ground is thawed...Can I sow radish and beet seeds right now even though seed package says after danger of frost ? Thanks A:Yes you can radish and beets as Colder temperatures (26-31 degrees F.) may burn foliage but will not kill broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, mustard, onion, radish, and turnip. The real cold weather champs are beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, collards, kale, parsley, and spinach.and beets Q: Kim ask Another indoor seed starting question--plants are coming up and are under grow lights. Do they still need the warming pads or can I use the warming pads to start some more seeds? A: once the seeds have come up you do not need the heating mat anymore check out highlights of past show podcast and video https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/video-series/highlights-podcast/ Tweet us at #twvg or @twvgshow The show runs March - Oct Check out the following sponsors that make the radio show possible: Thank you Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com IV Organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. Earth of www.drearth.com organic Root maker of www.rootmaker.com Flame Engineering Inc. of www.flameengineering.com Use coupon code WVG19 to get free shipping. 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Replay of The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Radio Show from 4-20-19 Heard on 860AM WNOV & W293cx 106.5FM Milwaukee, WI Saturday mornings 9-10AM CST Heard on WAAM 1600 AM Ann Arbor, MI Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on WWDB 860 AM Philadelphia, PA Sundays 7-8AM est Heard on KMET 1490 AM Tuesdays 9 - 10 AM pst Banning, CA listen here during show hours for your station: WNOV https://tinyurl.com/y8lwd922 WWDB: https://wwdbam.com/ WAAM https://tinyurl.com/p68cvft Check out https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/ Contact Joey and Holly: Email them at TWVGshow@gmail.com Reach the show anytime through the Instant access text hotline 414-368-9311 Thank you for listening and downloading the show. Topics: Joey and Holly talks Talk about in segment 1 - vegetable and herbs you can grow in Partial shade. Plants you can grow in partial shade Mint Mint is probably a best choice for shaded position. If you think to plant it in your shady backyard, just grow it in a confined space. Otherwise it will spread like a weed. Malabar Spinach Malabar spinach is a climbing spinach grows in tropics. It grows in part shade and moist soil, you can grow this green leafy vegetable in shade year round if your climate is frost free, otherwise grow it as annual Pak choi/bok choy/ asian greens Pak choi or bak choi is also called Chinese cabbage, a diverse plant you can grow from spring to fall. It likes cool weather, you can grow it in shade easily. Cherry tomatoes Arugul Asparagus Beets Bok Choi Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery Chinese Cabbage Garlic Horseradish Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce Mizuna Mustard Greens Parsnip Peas Potatoes Radish Rhubarb Rutabaga Scallions Spinach Swiss Chard Turnip Tips for Growing Vegetables in Shade: Use Good Soil: If you are going to challenge your shade-tolerant crops to grow in partial shade, provide them with good-quality soil with plenty of nutritious compost. If tree roots are a problem, consider using a raised bed or growing vegetables in containers. Moisture Requirements: The watering needs of your shade garden will be different than a garden in full sun. Moisture doesn’t evaporate as quickly in shade so you may not need to water as often. However, if your shade garden is near trees, you may need to water more frequently since your plants will be competing with trees for moisture. Also the leafy canopy can prevent rain from reaching your plants. Water when the soil feels dry and mulch to conserve moisture. Watch for Pests: Shady and cool areas are very welcoming to slugs and snails. Consider using a border of crushed eggshells to deter slugs or provide a hospitable living area to Attract Frogs and Toads to Your Garden. Maturation Times: Vegetables that prefer more sunlight but can grow in shade will grow slower. Expect to wait for a little longer for the plants to mature than what is indicated on the seed package to make up for the less than ideal growing conditions. Start Seedlings Indoors: Start your own transplants from seed indoors and plant them in your shade garden when space opens up with these 10 Steps to Starting Seedlings Indoors. Direct Sow Seeds in Your Garden: Some crops are easy to grow from seeds planted directly in your garden. Here are 13 Easy Vegetables to Direct Sow Succession Planting: Keep your garden beds producing throughout your growing season with these 3 Succession Planting Tips to Maximize Your Harvest. Experiment with a small shade garden and see which vegetables succeed. Also try growing in containers that can be moved to different locations. Knowing the type of vegetables that grow in shade will help you make the most out of your gardening space. White walls If possible white wash your walls and use other light colors around the plants. As a result, the light will reflect back better and your plants will get more indirect light. Reflective Mulching Do reflective mulching for the plants grown in part shade. It will reflect the light and heat on plants. Moisture In the shade you need to be careful as moisture quickly develops all kinds of diseases. Provide good ventilation and drainage to plants and do not place them too close together. Patience Patience is must when you are growing plants in shade. Generally plants grow weaker in shade except those who love shade naturally. It is normal that they will grow little more slowly. Darker and Bigger Leaves Plants in shady areas tend to have darker and bigger leaves than those that grow in the sun and there is nothing to worry about this. In segment 2 Joey and Holly talk about how bad garden tips on Social media. Mounting little planters, vertical strawberry, rain gutters, etc - little soil Potato box Planting in egg shells/egg cartons Seeds that seem too good to be true Companion plantings Volcano mulching Stop slugs having a ball The tip Copper is reputed to repel slugs, so take an old bowling ball (you’ve got one of those lying around, right?), glue pennies (or 2p pieces) to it, so they cover the surface, and use it as a decorative garden object that doubles as a slug barrier. (And if you want it to shine, soak the coins in cola first.) The catch Not only is it debatable how decorative this actually looks, it’s also hard to be convinced by its efficacy as an anti-slug device. These days, British 1p and 2p “coppers” are made from copper-plated steel, plus there is at best only patchy evidence that copper repels slugs in the first place. Dr Ian Bedford, head of entomology at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, has lab-tested copper slug repellers and found no evidence that they work. And even if copper did dissuade slugs, you’d need a whole bowling alley’s worth of coin-covered balls to have any meaningful effect. As Bedford points out, “You put a bowling ball in the middle of your lawn, but what’s to stop them eating the plants in your border?” Advertisement The alternative Go ahead and make your ball; just don’t expect it to deter slugs. For that, use a biological control such as Nemaslug or a nightly slug patrol. Nail those blue hydrangeas The tip Gather up those rusty nails from the back of the shed and put them in the ground around hydrangeas to correct an iron deficiency, increase acidity in the soil and, in the process, turn their blooms from pink to blue. The catch None of it works. Here’s a mini-science lesson from Guy Barter, the RHS’s chief horticultural adviser: “Almost all soils contain a lot of iron, but it becomes unavailable to plants – especially ericaceous ones such as rhododendrons – in alkaline soils,” he says. “Adding iron nails to alkaline soil merely slowly adds a very small amount of iron to the pool of chemically locked-up iron in the soil. It is soil aluminium that influences hydrangea flower colour, and aluminium is most available to plants in the acid soils associated with blue hydrangeas.” The alternative Add sulphur dust, not nails, to soil to increase acidity. Aluminium sulphate, often sold as hydrangea-blueing compound, is the best product to change flower colour in hydrangeas – try Vitax’s Hydrangea Colourant. Plants with iron deficiency suffer yellowing patches between the veins. Barter recommends treating them with chelated iron, an organic compound that prevents lock-up in the soil, allowing plants to absorb the iron they need. Dish it out to the weeds The tip Kill weeds by spraying them with a homemade brew of vinegar, epsom salts and washing-up liquid mixed with water. This mix of ingredients commonly found in our homes is touted as safer for pets and children than shop-bought weed treatments. The catch Home remedies such as this are often billed as “all-natural”, but have you looked at the ingredients of washing-up liquid recently? Plus, it’s illegal under EU law to concoct homemade weedkillers from household ingredients (what happens after Brexit is a moot point). Linda Chalker-Scott, associate professor at Washington State University’s department of horticulture, spends her life arguing against such poor gardening advice. She points out that household products aren’t formulated for this kind of use: “You have a concoction that will strip away the protective layers of plants and associated organisms, which is not a sustainable way to approach weed control,” she says. The alternative If you choose not to garden organically, buy a proprietary weedkiller and follow the instructions to the letter. Organic gardeners can control weeds with hoeing, mulching and hand-pulling. To remove weeds between paving slabs and other tricky-to-treat areas, Garden Organic recommends a flame weeder that uses propane or paraffin to kill weed plants and seeds. In Segment 3 Joey and Holly welcome their guest Author Ellen Zachos of https://www.backyardforager.com/ Ellen Zachos is passionate about foraging, plants and food. She wants to share that passion with you. Are you curious about foraging? Are you passionate about food? Are you nervous about getting started? Ellen is willing to show you and teach you how to do it right here new book She had wrote a number of great book including Backyard Foraging The Wildcrafted Cocktail,Growing Healthy Houseplants to name a few she also has online courses videos and podcast to learn from. Here website is www.backyardforager.com 1.It sounds like a simple question but what is foraging and how did you get into the are of foraging ? 2.I will loop myself (Joey) into this category when I hear the term foraging I think about walking way back in the woods and looking to wild edibles. But that is not so much the case you can look at the plants you have growing around your home or street. What are some overlooked items we can forage for that are very close to us (hostas and daylilies milkweed) , 3. What is the best way to be 100% sure of identification of the plants you are foraging for? We are talking with Ellen Zachos author podcaster garden speaker foragor 4. Let talk about Orchids for a moment you have wrote a Orchid Growing for Wimps: Techniques for the "Wish I Could Do That" Gardener. We have heard the Orchid are very hard to grow how true or untrue is that statement 5. Where can we find more about you get your books podcast online courses at? Segment 4 Joey and Holly answer gardeners questions Q:So I just transplanted my starts about 3 days ago. They all now look sad. Will it just take a few days for them to perk back up after roots set? Also after transplanting they take up a lot more room, this in turn has them spread out a bit more then what i think my grow lights cover. im in zone 5a with a last frost of may 11th roughly. Is there a way to test the light at my plants to make sure they get enough? if not when can i start hardening them off and taking them out to my unheated greenhouse? A: Typically yes they will look sad for a few days after transplanting do to rood shock just keep them watered and warm and they should come back if you did not damage the roots. There are light meter they can be bought to test the light strengths. You can also put your tomato plants the farthest away from the lights because if they do get leggy you can just plant deeper. I would not take plants out to the greenhouse until the night temps are 50F steady in the greenhouse they maybe enough warm gathered during the day to keep it that at night but also day time temps may get very hot too. Q: Newbie here! My hubby and I are experimenting (me with soil/him with hydro)We built a raised bed 4'x4'x16" and filled with garden soil from a local nursery and topped with compost from horse/cow barn. I plan to put 4-5 Early Girl tomato seedlings in it soon. Would it be too much to add some summer squash zucchini plants between them? I have a house rabbit and will have plenty of season long pellets to add if needed Just worried about crowding roots. Q:Johnny I'm confused about sometimes hearing that there are things that can be planted as soon as the ground can be worked...I live here in southeastern Wisconsin as well and I have everything prepped for planting and ground is thawed...Can I sow radish and beet seeds right now even though seed package says after danger of frost ? Thanks A:Yes you can radish and beets as Colder temperatures (26-31 degrees F.) may burn foliage but will not kill broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, mustard, onion, radish, and turnip. The real cold weather champs are beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, collards, kale, parsley, and spinach.and beets Q: Kim ask Another indoor seed starting question--plants are coming up and are under grow lights. Do they still need the warming pads or can I use the warming pads to start some more seeds? A: once the seeds have come up you do not need the heating mat anymore check out highlights of past show podcast and video https://thewisconsinvegetablegardener.com/video-series/highlights-podcast/ Tweet us at #twvg or @twvgshow The show runs March - Oct Check out the following sponsors that make the radio show possible: Thank you Power Planter of www.powerplanter.com IV Organics of www.ivorganics.com Dr. Earth of www.drearth.com organic Root maker of www.rootmaker.com Flame Engineering Inc. of www.flameengineering.com Use coupon code WVG19 to get free shipping. Pomona Universal Pectin of www.pomonapectin.com Bobbex of www.Bobbex.com: Beans & Barley of www.beansandbarley.com MIgardener of www.MIgardener.com Outpost Natural Foods Co-op of www.outpost.coop Root Assassin of www.rootassassinshovel.com . 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Buckle your seatbelts, because you’re in for a treat today. My guest is Pete Ripmaster - adventurer, speaker, ultra-runner and winner of the 1000 mile Iditarod Trail Invitational - ON FOOT. Yes, there is such a thing. You’ve, no doubt, heard of the Iditarod race across Alaska with dogs and sleds, but did you know they have a race where they run the course on bike and on foot? I didn’t either!! Holy freakin’ cow. Yes, competitors traverse 1000 miles across Alaska on foot with a sled wrapped around their waist. They carry all their own gear and supplies on this sled and, as the website says, “Every year on the Iditarod Trail is different and conditions change in the blink of an eye during the journey. ITI 1000 competitors may face temperatures from -50F to 35F, gale force winds, rain, blizzards, waist-deep snow, mud, glare ice and bright sunny skies - all in the same day.  I’ll let Pete tell you all about his journeys and almost obsession with this event that finally led to his victory earlier this year. We talk about childhood dreams, getting lost along the way, and finally finding redemption and pride. But first, we talk about country music and our shared passion for Western Swing music from Asleep at the Wheel and his good pal, Ray Benson. Enjoy this fascinating talk with Pete Ripmaster.   Special thanks to Tailwind Nutrition -use promo code trytailwind15 for 15% off your first order    Iditarod Trail Invitation Website  http://www.iditarodtrailinvitational.com/iti-1000 Pete Ripmaster Site https://www.peteripmaster.com/ Trail Runner Magazine Article on Pete https://trailrunnermag.com/people/a-race-to-make-even-hardened-ultrarunners-cower.html  Carrie Barrett Site tritobefunny.com    Copyright 2018 All Rights Reserved Theme Music: ”Aitech"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This episode I will tell you about my recent encounters with Our Country Cottage and as promised In The Beginning, month 20 I will tell you about one of the more trying months of the build. I found out that the month wasn’t all bad though, it just seemed like it. Also, I will talk a bit about back up generators, in particular, ours. On with ITB, In The Beginning, month 20, March. This is where I try to figure out what happened using the pictures, emails, texts and invoices I kept from that month. To give you an idea I received 47 emails and sent 35, just in that one month and just relative to OCC. I also paid 12 visits to OCC including every day from the 25th and a couple of days into the next month. If you remember, from ITB month 19, we have just managed to get water into Our Country Cottage. I had left the utility room in a mess, just dumping the hose and whatever down the hatch and leaving. So the next day, and 1st of the month, I went back to clean up. Upon entering I found the control panel with several errors flashing away. They all seemed to clear, OK. Clean up in the utility room had the hose being much easier to handle, now that it had warmed up a bit. There was a fair amount of water on the floor mixed in with plastic that been used to protect stuff from the fire retardant that was sprayed on the utility room ceiling. Shop towels and rags were used to clean up and I noticed some water dripping from a large nut near the bottom of the pressure tank. I figured, how bad could it be, with the pump turned off. I was now in the habit of building a fire or two every visit and I had graduated from taking the pre-packaged bundles of firewood, that I was buying at the gas station, to the “Winter special” from the company that supplies the gas stations. Same bundles, but, at a lower, quantity discount, cost. While I was picking up the “winter special” I noticed large containers of fire wood at a very much lower price. That would have been great if I could have transported it somehow, but I couldn’t, as the “winter special” was all I had room for. After building the fire I noticed that the boiler was on. An indication that there was a call for heat. It wasn’t obvious which thermostat was the culprit, so I turned them all down a degree or two. Keep in mind that the temp I had set them to wasn’t for comfort, 21C or 70F, but about 12C or 54F, just to stop the place from freezing. The boiler decided to turn off. This would turn out to be the beginning of an investigation into the various zones and intricacies of thermostats, that would last for several months. Just when I thought I had it figured out, I would find the boiler heating some zone for no apparent reason. Anyway… I didn’t go up the next day but my contractor called saying that he had just dropped in to pick up a bit of his equipment (it was Sunday) and found the house without power. The batteries were down to 36%. He started the gen but it quit almost immediately. His second attempt was more successful and he left the gen in manual mode. That means it would run 24/7 until it was manually shut off. I went up to OCC a couple of days later to find the generator running, trickle charging the batteries, which were at 100%. Hmmm trickle charging was probably not the best use of a 20 Kilo Watt generator. Propane was at 39% and the hour count on the gen was 1151.7. I took it off manual and put on auto. On the plus side the lower part of the railing, up to the bedroom, was now in place, but still waiting for the hand rail cap and the dishwasher was in place. In the utility room, there were signs of progress for the back hall radiator. A few days go by and the solar guys were at OCC reporting that the batteries were at 100%, oh joy, and that the radiator, in the back hall, was up and running, supplying some decent heat. Two days pass when I go for my next visit. There were several vehicles parked in front. One of those rare times. Batteries were at 90% and the gen had run about 45 hours in the past 7 days. Lots had been done inside. The hand rail cap was on the lower part of the railing. The fridge was now in place. A bit of a tight fit, but it works. The laundry washer/dryer unit was in place, so all of the major appliances that had been in the garage for the past several months are now in the cottage. In the bathrooms, glass shower surrounds had been installed and looking great. The cheapy ceiling fan, I had picked up locally, had been installed in the sun room. I reasoned that if the fan needed to be turned on in the sun room there would be plenty of sun to run it, so the expensive low power units we had in the living room and bedroom were not necessary. The back hall radiator was indeed working and the control box for it in the utility room had been clearly labelled. While in the utility room, I noticed an alarm had been installed for the septic tank. A couple of visits back I was informed that some glowing embers from the masonry heater, which had fallen from the grate to the ash pit, were getting close to bouncing out of the clean out hole in the crawl space. At the time it was just an opening with no door or hatch on it, until now. A friend of the contractor fabricated a decorative frame with a sliding door and that was installed, too. It’s the middle of the month and I am back at Our Country Cottage. Everything seems to be running OK and a quick check behind the new ash pit door shows very little build up, so not to worry for a while. Getting more confident in the system I let three days pass before my next visit. The batteries were well charged, along with more hours on the gen and less propane in the tank. The sun was shining and the inside was looking great. Clean and tidy. There was one of those net bags of wood leaning against the masonry heater with a label that stated “Traditional Firewood”. The new, heavy duty breaker had been installed in the battery room so having cottage power failure due to that breaker tripping should be a thing of the past. The last remnant of our first site supervisor, the one that had died, was gone. The travel trailer he stayed in while working on OCC had been picked up by his wife with help. One of the problems she had moving the trailer was that the trailer was towed by the vehicle that was demolished in the accident that took her husband. So with everything coming together, and working, and bits of the past moving on, along with the sun shining brightly it looked like Our Country Cottage was turning the corner and heading down the stretch. With great optimism I took a bit of a break and waited a full week before my next visit. I had brought with me, a box of window cranks and the last bit of track and connectors for the loft. Small things, to finish stuff up. Little did I realize that this was the beginning of nine consecutive days of trips to OCC. What I found when I arrived was red lights flashing and the control panel telling me that the batteries were at 4% yes 4 and dropping. The sun was shining and trying to charge them at 5K but the boiler was on and taking 5.2K. I don’t know how there was power in the place because the inverter should have shut down long before. The gen had died about four or five days earlier. It was running but not putting out any power. I called the generator people, at the time, and they told me that they could have another one there by the next day. I turned the boiler off and the batteries started to edge up. They managed to reach 22% by the time I left. I informed my contractor of what had happened and asked him to put off the cleaner as there was very little heat in the place. The next day found the batteries still at 22% with snow on the panels and very little charging. Clearing the snow off of the panels got me from .4K to 1.4K charging. Every little bit helps. And true to their word, the new generator showed up and was installed. Only problem was that they couldn’t get it to run. After several hours of diagnostics and long phone conversations it was determined that a factory tech would have to come out and have a look. By the time I left that day the batteries were at 35% and I had built two fires. The generator factory tech came out the very next day. Turned out to be one wire had a loose push pin and signal wasn’t getting through. OK, the generator is now running and putting out power, but the system is not reading it. With the generator factory tech finished and gone I still didn’t have power charging the batteries even though it should have been. Phone calls and texts to my solar guy had me digging deep into the inverter case taking measurements and such. Bottom line was that there was something wrong within the inverter case, some part of it, that someone from the solar company would have to come out and have a look at. That wouldn’t happen for another six days. The day at Our Country Cottage, ended with the batteries having staggered up to 55%. Thanks to solar power. Fires had been built and the temp inside was passable. Hovering around 10C or 50F or so. The next visit ie the next day and subsequent days till the solar expert could make it up I would go up just to build fires in the masonry heater and make sure the place was warm enough. Another “winter special” of “traditional firewood” was taken up. One day I decided to tackle a problem the ceiling fan in the living room had. It was making a tick-tick noise as it turned. The electrician had told me that it was probably just a connecter under the top cap that had flipped up. The fact that it was 18 feet in the air made it a bit of a challenge, but there was a scaffolding set up in the living room for painting purposes. I just had to overcome my fear of heights, and I did, sort of, and the problem was indeed as described and easily corrected. It was during this dark period that I managed to get the electricians to put a switch in the mud room for me, so that I could turn off the well pump. It was lot easier than going down into the utility room and flipping breakers. It took 5 days from when I found the batteries at 4% to get them back to 100% just by sun alone. And when it got there I turned the boiler on temporarily to add more heat to OCC. The last day of the month was on a week end and my eldest daughter and a friend came up with me to keep me company while I built the fire etc. It was a beautiful sunny day and they took turns using the tractor to clear the parking area of snow. And that will wrap up month 20. Stay tuned for ITB, month 21. Will the solar power system get sorted out? How many more winter specials of green bagged traditional firewood must I go through…?   And now an Our Country Cottage update. I have stayed at Our Country Cottage several times since the last episode. Trying to get back into the swing of things. When I arrived on my first visit the batteries were fully charged and when I turned the well pump on it didn’t run. This meant that it had held pressure for over a week. I had supper in a nearby town and picked up some diesel fuel. I have two 20 liter diesel containers (they are yellow) as both the tractor and the skid steer use it. That night I had a drink of water and thought that it tasted a little, um, musty. I made a mental note to change the water filter first thing in the morning. I did so before breakfast and that cleared up the problem. Since I have started Our Country Cottage up after the shut down there has been a fair bit of sediment coming out of the well. I now have a bit of hose connected to the pressure tank inlet, before the water filter, which lets me run water to clear the sediment before I put it into the cottage water system. Probably only have to do it a couple of more times. The rest of the day had me finishing off mowing the tall stuff and touching up the shorter stuff that had been growing. I fired up my skid steer for the first time this year. No problems, once I found my manual with the lock code etc. I needed it to remove a tree that had fallen across the road a month or so back. At the time I managed to just pull it to the side so I could drive by, but now it was in the way of my mowing. You wouldn’t believe the amount of extra branches and limbs that came down with it but was hiding in the tall grass. Took an hour or so just to pick that stuff up. I then took my brush cutter down to the gate and cut back the vegetation that was getting a bit thick. After that I took my box grader out and reconditioned most of the drive. The box grader has two grader blades at an angle between two vertical sides. It goes on the front of the skid steer and if you get the angle right it churns the gravel on the road, clearing vegetation that tends to grow down the centre and sides of a gravel drive. The angle of the blades tends to push the gravel to one side and, again, if done right puts the crown on the centre of the drive. This is important for drainage. Of course if not done right you can screw up your drive badly. It was a good day. I got to play with most of my toys. The next day I updated the solar controller firmware and all went well, I thought. If you remember that last time I tried to do it my laptop threw a fit and wouldn’t let me copy any files. The laptop is OK now. I had a talk with it, in the city. Anyway, I did some other chores, cleaning etc., then went outside to fix up the turning circle. So, that box grader does a really good job on straight parts of the drive and gentle curves. The turning circle is somewhat more challenging to my present level of skill. I managed to leave various sized piles of gravel here and there on the circle drive. No problem, I thought, I’ll just back blade it with the tractor. So I removed the mower deck and attached the blade to the back of the tractor. Well apparently my present level of back-bladeing leaves something to be desired too. I did smooth it down a bit but left a ridge of gravel on the grass in the centre of the circle. So I took the blade off and the mower deck back on and parked it in the garage. That night I had my first BBQ of the season, Bratts, good stuff. In unrelated news, the upstairs toilet was showing tendencies to run on. Hmmm My last day, of this visit, started with me using a device I do have enough skill to use to clean the gravel off of the grass in the circle, a hand rake. Only took an hour or so. I had just returned inside for a break when a couple of fawns, still with their spots, went booting it cross the mowed area south of the cottage. I was just out there less than 15 minutes ago. Before I left for the city I started to look at the generator. I jiggled some wires and hit the run button. The all too familiar clicking of relays and nothing. Ah, the generator. If you remember it became iffy last winter when I found Our Country Cottage frozen up. Frozen/broken toilet tanks etc. At that point the generator did run when I asked it too, but became less and less reliable until it just stopped after only running for about twelve minutes one day while I was up there cleaning up the those icy toilets. Shortly after I firmly declared that I was kicking that gen to the curb and gave some very valid reasons in an earlier episode of this podcast. Well, time has passed and my attitude towards our old generator has softened a bit. Remember that this is the second gen as mentioned in this episodes’ In The Beginning. The first generator had 1212 hours on it when it was deemed un-repairable and replaced. The present generator has 1141 hours on it. I must say these 1141 hours were a lot kinder hours than the 1212 hours on the previous generator. Our present gen, gen #2, has had much more regular service and upkeep than the previous one, gen#1, had a chance to get. If I remember correctly, gen #1 was over 500 hours before the first oil change. It was also run 24/7 many times. It took the abuse given out by winter time construction. Did I ever mention that construction would have gone a lot easier if it was done in any other months other than the winter months. Gen #1 also took the abuse of system set up, getting the right settings so that the sun would charge the batteries when it could. I can’t count the times, OK, I don’t want to count the times, I showed up on days with beautiful, clear, sunny skies and the gen was running. Adjusting components, like that relay that would trip preventing solar charging. And don’t forget that little yellow heater that was the only thing heating the cottage before the photovoltaic’s were ready. That pressed gen #1 into hard service right out of the box. Now, some of you may be thinking that the hours I keep mentioning don’t seem all that high. 500 before first service etc. So to put some relevance to them I noticed that my average speed driving back to the city was about, 80 to 90 Km/h. The manual suggests oil change every 150 hours. If that was your vehicle averaging say 50 Km/h that would be 7,500 Km and if you were, say, on a cross country trip on highways averaging 100 Km/h that would be 15,000 Km. Given that, Gen #1 went somewhere between 25,000 and 50,000 before its first service. Your vehicle would probably be showing some signs of distress if you treated it like that. Yes, my bad, but in my defence all this stuff was new to me. If the generator was the only thing on my plate I might have read the manual and found this stuff out. Back to Gen #2. Like I said, time has passed and I am starting to think a little more rationally towards gen #2. What if it was a small, inexpensive part that had failed? What if it was something easy to fix? I then came up with an amount I would be willing to pay/invest to fix it. Having a service guy come out to have a look, would put cost over the limit right away. With that in mind and the looming, very high cost, of replacement with new upgraded version, I decided to have a closer look myself, to see what I could find. In fact I dedicated the next visit to just that, staying up a couple of nights. The first day had me mowing for three hours straight in order to have a full day to play investigator. I had acquired a service manual online and had been studying it for a while. It became clear to me that the error that was always present on the display could mean many things but primarily it meant that the generator was not turning over when asked to. I verified that the controller was indeed asking it to start and followed the path to the starter. Starter relay OK. A shame, because it was the easiest to change and cheapest as well. Next in line was the starter solenoid and then the starter. This required the generator housing to be removed. Ironically, I was boiling under the direct gaze of the sun in a clear, blue, sky while previously I was freezing in the winter’s wind the last time I peered under the hood. Long story shorter, I identified that the starter solenoid wasn’t functioning. When I bypassed the solenoid with jumpers the starter spun up quickly. The solenoid is mounted to the starter and I came to terms that they both might have to be replaced together. Either way the cost was below my limit. I packed up the starter combo and the gen control unit, just in case, and took them with me. When I got back to the city I spent a lot of time online looking into replacements etc. I had to wait for the first day of business of the week before I could call my gen guy to find out what hell I would have to go through to get a replacement. The week end passed with me formulating plans for various scenarios that might unfold. The day came, and to my surprise, it turned out to be very anti climactic. My generator guy had one and would let me have it, only charging me for it, if I was happy with it. I picked it up within the hour and made plans to go to Our Country Cottage the next day to install it. And the next day I did just that. Leaving out all the cursing and swearing one runs into while performing open generator surgery under the hot windless sun, the unit was installed and…… I pressed the run button and it cranked and started. Not out of the woods yet, but I can see the clearing.. I still have to figure out a way to test the generator under load as the batteries are constantly fully charged these days. I have a couple of ideas. Yet another issue that has to be resolved. Remember I said I updated the solar control panel and I thought all went well. Well it appears that the logging function has stopped working. This is the same logging function that told me the gen only ran 12 minutes the last time etc. It records second by second what is happening to all parts of the system. It is an essential part that I require to figure out what might still be wrong with the gen. I will be looking in to that and more on my next trip to Our Country Cottage.   Next podcast, Episode#20 More Gen#2 stuff and ITB Month 21 For pictures and more info, you can visit our website at www.ourcountrycottageanarrative.com If you have any comments, questions or if you would like to be added to the “Friends of OCCaN” Our Country Cottage A Narrative, mailing list, you can email me at John@ourcountrycottageanarrative.com. Members on the mailing list will get website and podcast updates as soon as I do :). The Our Country Cottage a Narrative podcast is on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play so you can subscribe there and get the podcast downloaded automatically when they get released.   Till next time have a good one.  

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