Monthly Archive: July 2011

Jul 28

Tomato plant disease

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What do you do with Tomato plant disease?  Fist you have to determine what kind of disease your tomato plants have.   Fungal Disease Virus borne disease dealing with insects or environmental problems Over the past few weeks the weather in Utah has been nice and warm.  My tomato plants are loving the warmth of …

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Jul 25

Watermelon and Cucumber salad

Watermelon-salad

With most of the country hitting record temperatures I thought it would be nice to cool down with a salad.   I cut the watermelon in half. Then I cut off all the ryne so you can see the red watermelon.   Then I start to cut the watermelon and you can see that the …

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Jul 22

What is the real number for unemployment

According to the ADP report unemployment is at 9%.  The real number is more like 22%, because the ADP does not calculate the people who are no longer on unemployment, but they are still out of work.   The talk is that we will have a 10% unemployment rate, because the financial sectors are planning …

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Jul 20

container gardening vegetables

Container-gardening

Over the past several years I have grown my container gardening vegetables.  My dog Xena has done fairly good at not getting into my garden last year.  This year is a different story.  I have blogged about watching someone dog for a month well that month turned into 6 months.  Then the owner of Teva …

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Jul 19

Keeping our kids safe

Yesterday I was watching an episode of The Talk from last week.  Part of their discussion was on Leiby Kletzky and how his parents let him walk home from day camp. He was 8 years old and he only had to walk 7 blocks to meet his mom.  He went past where he was going …

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Jul 18

Getting my kids their fruit through popsicles

Guest post written by Kristy Bowman I’m sure that most moms have a lot of trouble getting their kids to eat nutritious food. That would just be the plight of moms, or at least it seems that way from every other mother that I know. Well, I try and be sneaky and get my kids …

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Jul 09

Stock Market news for the week ending 07/08/2011

Over the last 9 trading days the Dow Jones was up.  On June 27, 2011 the Dow Jones opened at 11934.66 and closed at 12657.20 on Friday July 08/2011, which is a gain of 722.54 point and we are testing resistance.   Is this a summer rally or is the market really going to start …

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Jul 06

Your reported credit limits

Sure, credit card companies have glossy advertisements showing relaxed, happy vacationers using their Visa cards while dining in the luxurious, romantic restaurants.  The truth is that the credit card companies really don’t care what you do for a living all they care about this making money on you.   In order for the credit card …

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Jul 03

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Last week I posted about pole green beans. As you can see from my garden that my pole green beans are growing.  I can not wait to see them start to grow up the panel. When growing potatoes the soil is a important part of the success of their growing.  Last year my soil was not very …

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