Corrections

Before I get to my corrections here are a few worthy and/or worthwhile events you may be interested in. North Texas Giving Day begins today, the 17th. You can find a mountain bike related cause here. For the fitness and family minded The Fall Color Festival is just around the corner or you have Adventure Fest for those who feel travel makes it all the more worthwhile. A new race is on the WORS Schedule for September 27th; plan now. The Hixon Forest Epic is the race and that beautiful area of La Crosse is the place. I believe I participated in a WEMS race on those trails way back. I may be mistaken though if I am a correction will not follow. Switchbacks, I remember switchbacks. I enjoy switchbacks. I wish I was in shape.

The Morning Glories…

My first correction; our waffle iron. My wife, an ardent reader of my blog, reminded me that I did not give her our waffle iron, my older brother and his wife did. Which leads to a partial correction. My older brother and his family (I have one) don’t re-gift our Christmas gifts to them back to us, only my younger brothers (I have four) and sometimes my parents do.

And about making the perfect waffle. Watching a Divas Can Cook video via our Roku I discovered the secret. The Diva, though she didn’t explain why, whipped up the egg whites and folded them in. Now when you search “whipping egg whites for your waffles”, then you receive many search results. Waffle enthusiasts may enjoy this article. The gist of making light fluffy waffles; use warm ingredients with your baking powder/soda mix and/or whip up your egg whites and fold them in.

I am not sure if I ever mentioned this on any of my blogs, but I am sure I have told several people that I went to school with Mark Murphy of the Green Bay Packers. This is not correct. My final grade school class (I went to four grade schools) had a reunion recently and the Mark Murphy of our class, four out of five classmates agree, would look exactly like the Packer’s Mark Murphy …if he put on sixty more pounds. That would be sixty pounds of more muscle than the more contemporary form of bulk.

I have to conclude that seeing people you haven’t seen for decades is good for the brain. It really makes the old cells get their exercise as you try to recall people who look just so familiar. I was raised not to stare at others but had to until the old brain kicked in and I said, “Oh Yeah!” It’s like a foreign language you haven’t used in years; you’re completely lost when someone starts speaking it to you, but fifteen minutes in it all comes back.

My third correction or rather recommendation: those finish washers I used on my raspberry trellis don’t create the most stable result. It doesn’t matter since I notched the members into each other but counter sinking will create a more rigid connection. Of course I can just tighten up the screws as needed. Also the finish washers need to be glued where they guide the wire. A sleeve would work much better.

Roll out you’re wire, straighten it, before running it through your trellis. It’s easier if there are two of you. Don’t let kinks form.

I tied up everything up and tight with a light rope before I started the completion of my trellis. Note the solar post cap lights. I bought those at Menards on sale; 6 lumens. I didn’t purchase them on Amazon because I could not find any information on their brightness; lumens. I then found  a slew of yard solar lighting products at Blain’s Farm and Fleet in Waukesha when I went to purchase some canning equipment.

These clamps were useful when stringing the wire through the trellis. I ran some old conduit through first as a general guide through the bramble. I weaved fifty plus feet through the lower bars and repeated the process above.

I tried to pull everything as tight as possible (on a 90 degree day) and put in these thing-a-ma-jigs to deal with the expansion and contraction outdoor temperatures force. I decided after the fact that getting the wire as tight as possible may not be the best strategy. After a year of seasonal movements I will wire the runs together perpendicular, tying them together at fixed distances, creating a net, to keep the wire from sagging out to much. I will only do that on the upper, as I don’t want any exposed sharp wire ends at a level the dog explores at.

I lost another branch on the peach tree, though it was resting on the garage. The peaches were just about there and are ripening in a bag. One peach for every six inches of branch is the general guide line for keeping your peach tree from ripping itself apart. I’ll have to be more serious on that point though I find it hard to remove what should become perfectly good fruit; food. Still plenty of large juicy peaches hanging on our tree. When peaches smell like peaches, they are just about there. A perfect fruit?

You need to keep raspberries away from peach trees. Marigolds are a good companion for your tomatoes.

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