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Monday, July 06, 2009
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duchess
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Southeastkansas
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It's been several days since I've written anything. We've finished the wheat harvest; my husband has been really sick with some sort of virus. He's the superman who never gets sick, and has been down for over a week now. Like not even leaving the house, sleeping most of the day. High fever, chills, sweating, a really bad deal. I think he's better today. I hope so. doctor can't identify the problem.
Well, the pumpkins are doing fine. The problem in the picture with my last entry was apparently heat/low humidity stress. Since it's cooled down into the 80's and 90's and I'm watering more heavily, they are looking a lot better and not going into that wilt thing that scared me half to death. My dear husband tilled out one of the two plants I got from my last seeds, but it's OK. They're only pumpkins, I keep telling myself. I only cried for a couple of minutes when I saw the damage. It's only a pumpkin plant. It's only a pumpkin plant.
I saw the new female buds today, the first since the hailstorm three weeks ago. The male flowers have been blooming for a week or more now. I wonder when I'm supposed to put the chastity belts on the girls??? Probably when they are a bit bigger--like almost ready to bloom. These babies are just starting. I marked them all with bright pink flags. Woohoo! Now I get to start a pumpkin!!!!
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