Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group 5 years on enbrel...too long, unfunny

aloha joyce...hugs

i do so hope you're bearing up well...i feel remiss not answering your every posting,
but i send warm sunlight wishes your way regardless.

horrible summer in the garden, a disaster. rained twice- once for 23 days then again for 45 days. corn washed out and stunted, cucumber beetles, colorado red potato beetles,
aphids, mites, mexican bean beetles, early blight, stem rot and then late blight.
lost 29 tomato plants(picked six tomatos); got 28lbs of potatos- should have had 150.
bought all that did well was peans, green beans and cucumbers (for some reason the
cucumber beetles ate the squash and potatos.

but my hawaian plumeria has blossomed and flowered for six months; and the rose
of sharon at the house went to 7ft tall and has had hundreds...hundreds...hundreds
of flowers.

buying tomatos at the iga just...just...just...just about kills me dear.

pu liki mau

aloha cc

another non music thought.
thanks for the thought...i hope my experience is meaningful in some way
in your own quest.
best

aloha ben,

heard about your garden disasters. and i know what you mean about the tomatoes, i grew up in south jersey, had jersey tomatoes right out my back door all summer. one summer up here we had a rainy cloudy summer, the big tomatoes were just awful, didn't know you could actually have a bad tomato out of home garden til then. however, even that summer our "sweet millions" cherry tomatoes were excellent. maybe throw some of that variety in there next summer, can't exactly make tomato sandwiches or tomato sauce with them, but great for everything else.

may next summer be a better gardening season,

Hey man! I think we both did the shots five years ago, you may have started before me...its worked for me big time, when did we see the Airplane at BBKings??

Great to log in (need to do it more often) and read your post, you rock!
Peace
Linc

Cheery??!! You don't get cheery, do you? Goodness gracious, what a state of affairs!!!

I'm glad to hear it, Ben. I think of you with your garden, and your fish, your cooking and all that you love, and to know that you do so now in much better shape on more than one front feels good.

Warm hugs,

Hey Ben .Happy aniversary .Glad you got some relief!

jim aloha

thanks...

so many of the new folks don't share a lot of detail...i still think of this as that
3000 person site wherein everyone knew everyone and dished on everything.

glad it's working for you again

keep shootin'

gg, aloha

thanks...i've followed your travails and wish you better luck and well all of it.

chris aloha

as always your mileage may vary...

soon...not today i'll pm you about ssdi stuff.

keep fighting AS

sue, aloha

yeah...well i did have three sweet cherry 100's...they were the hardiest of them all;
did pick about 50 of 'em...some good some not.

i promised a row of yukon gold to the local food bank...should have been 30/35lbs...
ended up giving 'em 7 lbs (inc some pitifully small russets)

i even tried some canning this year...need to do a better job of rinsing off the salt...
but i have a workable formula for a sweet green tomato relish for next year...and pickled
green onions and some pickled cuc's too.

i invested so much time, effort and treasure in my garden plot this year...such a
disappointment...it kills me to buy things i was growing...it's like buying things three
times to get one...next year's garden will be smaller. btw. i rent a space at our
town's community garden to grow food.