{"id":42878,"date":"2020-01-21T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42878"},"modified":"2020-01-22T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:14:53","slug":"lousy-weather-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42878","title":{"rendered":"Lousy Weather Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It wasn&#8217;t until 1935 that a manufacturer was able to promise Splinter-Free Toilet Paper. Ouch!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42887\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pix-3848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42887\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42887\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pix-3848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pix-3848.jpg 639w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pix-3848-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pix-3848-450x422.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pix-3848-150x141.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Must have my coffee, it helps to get my heart started!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The day was grey, and it stayed grey all day!\u00a0 The temperature topped out at 65, and it was moist with some drizzle on occasion.\u00a0 I got busy trimming the berry garden, and thanks to my welding gloves, I escaped with most of my skin still attached to the bone!\u00a0 Cleaning out last year&#8217;s growth must be done carefully to maximize growth this year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42882\" style=\"width: 1882px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42882\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42882\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1872\" height=\"1404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed.jpg 1872w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-trimmed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1872px) 100vw, 1872px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lots of trimming required to clean out the beds. Most of the plants were up to the top of the poles before I got started!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Blackberries need pruning each year, so they don&#8217;t become unmanageable. Pruning helps maintain tangle-free blackberry bushes and keeps them confined to their space. Keeping blackberry well-pruned also helps the plants send up new shoots, keeps plants healthy, and creates stronger, more productive canes, which increases the fruit yield.\u00a0 By cutting the plants, next year, I will be getting another abundant harvest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42884\" style=\"width: 2059px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42884\" class=\"wp-image-42884 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2049\" height=\"1537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries.jpg 2049w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2020\/01\/berries-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2049px) 100vw, 2049px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year, Summer of 2019, we had berries for three months!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After lunch, I got good news in the mail that I passed the first two classes in my Ph.D. program receiving passing in\u00a0 &#8220;Organizational Theory And Design&#8221;\u00a0 and\u00a0 &#8220;The Dynamics Of Group And Team Leadership.&#8221;\u00a0 Only 44 more credits are now required.\u00a0 The eight weeks of on-line activity paid off! It&#8217;s not as easy as I thought, but I always wanted to be called Doctor!<\/p>\n<p>I spent almost three hours on the phone with Apple attempting to get some login\/coordination issues resolved.\u00a0 It seems my original iMac changed how it operated after Catalina was installed?\u00a0 The other two iMacs, the MacBookPro, the three iPhones, and the iPad, are working fine.\u00a0 We finally got it resolved, but it was not easy!!<\/p>\n<p>We chatted with Colleen for a few minutes on the Bat Phone before heading to the TV room for or evening soiree with &#8220;ER,&#8221; &#8220;Boston Legal&#8221; and the other regulars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t until 1935 that a manufacturer was able to promise Splinter-Free Toilet Paper. Ouch! 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