Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

One of the things the city of Oklahoma City does that is very smart, is "large trash day" and once every other month we can put out old fence panels, or BBQ grills dead appliances, old water heaters and other crap no one wants. Lots of people put out furniture and just everything like lawnmowers and anything useful the scrappers come through early and grab. That is great because the can fix up a lawnmower or grill, and sell them or take them to a metal scrap yard.

The good news is the city spends the money to do that, and it eliminates a lot of the a-holes of the world from just dumping the crap on the side of a road to be cleaned up by a property owner or the city. The city says that since starting the large trash pickup days the budget for cleaning up illegal dumps has been reduced enough to pretty much pay for the large trash days.

Our across the street neighbors had a large pile of crap they put out yesterday. It just got picked up.

[Porsche-poor]

I wish out trash company did that. Instead they fenced in the recycle area near their office and put up a gate. The hours for entry are during my work hours. I suggested a coded entry system and was told that would cost money. Yeah like me having to take time off work to get rid of trash isn't costing me money.

[GH85Carrera]

Our trash is run by the city. The actual landfill is privately owned. It starts out as a large deep hole they dig for the soil for highway projects, and ends up as Mount Trashmore. The city also runs a hazardous waste disposal site. I can drop off paint, brake fluid, pesticides, motor oil, florescent light bulbs, or other items that should not be in the landfill. It is free, well free to people with a City of OKC water bill, and residents only, not businesses. I go every 6 months or so and drop off motor oil and crap.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. cold and rainy so its a good day to stay inside.

[GH85Carrera]

WINDY and warm. The humidity of the gulf coast has come to visit. It had been super low, and now it is up to 82%. The boss sent me outside to help is wife dig in her flower garden. Several plants did not survive the winter, or she decided they did not perform as she expected, so she pointed and grunted and had me dig them up. Then we moved to the compost pile. It is in the perfect place, the neighborhood association brick wall catches a lot of leaves, so we don;t even have to rake them up, just add them to the compost. And we emptied 2/3 of the compost barrel onto the compost pile on the ground, and stirred one of the other piles. With approaching warm weather and moisture, it gets to rotting quickly. It is all hidden from view by some large bushes so no one else can see it unless they pull up into the parking area of our huge driveway. All of that was a grassy area I had to mow when we moved in. Now it is all bushes, flowers and some compost piles that are hidden.

She went with some friends to a local nursery and bought a bunch of new plants, and on Thursday she is going to a premier nursery that requires you have an appointment to buy the unusual and hard to find plants they grow. It looks more like a high end park with all the landscaping, but it all just to show how the plants will look. It is up in Stillwater, OK area. She will bring home a Macan full of plants, and I will be digging more holes. She has told me already on of the first flower beds I put in will be expanding by several feet to join into another area. That will require a lot of new digging for the edging decorative blocks.

[ted]

Glen do you guys fertilize much?
My succulents/plumerias are just starting to leaf so they get 20/20/20 for a month.
Then for the summer they get a 8/54/10.
What are you guys using?

I had a raccoon party in my pool last month.
So installed a cheap temporary Amazon electric fence around the pool and lawn.
It's worked so far, no pests in the pool or digging up the lawn.

[GH85Carrera]

I would have to ask the master gardener. She does all the fertilizer for the plants. I am allowed to fertilize the grass and mow it and water only the grass. And dig holes on command. Lots of holes, and labor.

Our plumeria is just starting to leaf out, but it is still indoors next to the window. Our average last freeze is April 1st, but the last few years we seem to take forever for spring to really arrive. We have had a freeze as late as May, so the plants will be going outside soon. Our guest bathroom bathtub k=looks like a nursery, and is full of plants and she has a grow light for them. Our kitchen has a south window and no overhang of a porch so it get a lot of light. The window area is full of plants, and the kitchen table is covered in plants. She has a lot of planting to do, and I can't imagine where she will put them all, but she always finds a place.

[ted]

Yeah over a wet winter I do put a dry cleaning bag over small new rooting potted succulents.
Just so they don't get too much rain and it acts like a small green house with a little air vent.
An activity for the wife and I, we put up some Amazon supplied poles, lights and flags.
Cool today, waiting for another warm weekend bbq.

[GH85Carrera]

She has several plants that don't like temps much below 60 at night! She takes cuttings from the plants in fall and roots them in water, then plants them is pots and grows them all winter. We have a ways to go before they get to go be outside.

One thing I had to dig out the last of the roots up today is the trumpet flower.





It gets huge in just the one summer of growing outside. She just cuts off a stem, puts it in water, roots it, plants it in small pots, and then transplants it outside. Every year sole different woman stops in the fall and asks if we are just going to let it freeze. It is huge, and too big to move inside. The cuttings make it easy to start over. She tells them she will give them a cutting and they are OK with letting it freeze.

[GH85Carrera]

Argh!

My wireless keyboard is in death throws. It is a Logitech keyboard that uses their own USB dongle. It works fine for a while, and then just stops, or slows down to one letter every 10 or 15 seconds. I have had it for many years, and even on the previous computer.

I had to dig into my closet and get out my backup keyboard. It is a Dell "Quietkey" that I am real glad it ain't the noisy key cause this thing sounds like a ping pong ball in a paint can being shaken by a paint mixer. I sure would not want to be in an office with a few hundred of them being used all at once.

I have a WI-FI keyboard on order. Maybe that will work right.

[Porsche-poor]

oh the joys of tech problems.

[GH85Carrera]

My new keyboard arrives today. Since this is my work computer I will "let" the business pay for it. I hope it is as nice as the reviews.

Today is house cleaning day. The lady that comes over to do it gets here shortly after 8:00 AM. We of course pick up some of the day to day "stuff" and get it ready to be cleaned. The dogs pick up on that and buy 8:00 AM they are both sitting in the living room watching the front door. They know she is coming and ready for her. They love any extra attention.

[flipper35]

My wife got a Logitech gaming keyboard for her work because it has programmable G keys so she can just press a key and it goes through a bunch of keystrokes for her automatically so she can skip all the tedious stuff. Now that she is in a different position she doesn't use it as much, but saved her a ton of time. The IT guys were jealous.

[GH85Carrera]

This is what I ordered.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07796MBJ7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It has the G keys. I will likely play with macros. It has been nice to have a keyboard that put up the keystroke instantly, and does not stop on occasion. The old keyboard had black keys, and the space bar had a very worn spot from my right thumb striking it for every space in a sentence. It was a good keyboard for many years, but it acts like it just lost it transmitting power, and the computer could not read it. And they only sit a few feet apart.

My "backup" I am typing on right now is so old, it has a PS2 port connector! I have a PS2 to USB adapter on it that allows a corded mouse and keyboard to hook into one USB port. When I am repairing or working on other computers, or building them from scratch the old keyboard comes out of the closet.

[GH85Carrera]

The new keyboard arrived. It is huge. The box Amazon sent it in was 40 inches wide! The keyboard is wider and longer than any keyboard I have ever seen. It does have the audio volume keys and mute. No key for the calculator, but I can hit the windows key, and that brings up the common apps and calculator is one. So a two step process to get to the calculator.

It was simple to setup. The manual is super basic, and like most things now days, I have to download the full manual.

I guess I will adapt to the changes. The key spacing is a little wideer than I had before.

[GH85Carrera]

Trying to figure out the keyboard, I looked for the instructions. The only thing that comes with the keyboard is a single piece of paper just under 4x4 inches, printed on both sides. Tiny little text and cryptic drawings.

I figured the full instruction were on the web site. So I surfed over to their site, and download the instructions as a PDF. That is what I posted above. No real instructions at all, except that. I had to download a software (40 MB!) to have access to program the G keys and figure out anything else about it.

Not a real user friendly way to do it.

[GH85Carrera]

The toads started singing three nights ago. Two days later, the eggs showed up. We will have a lot of tadpoles soon. They have lots of alga on the bottom to eat. No doubt there will be more eggs laid. It is a toad orgy in the pond. The fish will gorge until they are full. We usually end up with a dozen of so baby toads that we see in the yard. I am sure lots of them find a territory with the neighbors.

The long strings of eggs are 6 feet long or so. Lots of eggs.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I need to get some more sleep.

[Porsche-poor]

Hello all. Early afternoon visit to the thread.

[GH85Carrera]

Today is the "Motors in the morning" at the local Porsche dealership. Free coffee and donuts. Lots of neat cars to look at. Here recently mostly the other attendees. They are having a really hard time getting inventory. They had 5 customer ordered cars on that ship that caught fire and sank. The good news for the customers, they were new cars, and Porsche can always make another new car. Nothing rare and irreplaceable was lost.