Waiting for the next round
 

We had around 7pm EST, what they are calling the equivalent of a category one hurricane! 90 mile an hour winds and silly me in the middle of the woods with no basement! :eek: Yes I am inland 80 miles east of Chicago.

I am on generator power and the first time I connected to the internet it was a rip roaring 19BPS!!! I am waiting for round 2 of these storms which they claim will only be 50-60 mile an hour winds! Whew that's a relief! :eyebrow:

you're not that far from us! I enjoyed that storm (hit us around 9:15). Hurricane Schmuricane. although the fireflies stopped glowing in the worst of it.

We have no lawn furniture in our fenced backyard, probably somewhere in the mint field. 60,000 + without power.

ours was nailed down. looks ike about 30, 000ish without power here. we had a few mini-cuts, but our lines are underground

We are the last house at the end of our electric line in the least populated township east of the Mississippi. I may get electric by Sun after I roast tomorrow all day! :rolleyes:

I hear the thunder coming on! My poor generator is on its own! If I disappear its probably a drowned out generator . . . I hope! :thepain:

Was that lawn furniture worth a mint?

South bend area?

You have a field of mint? That's awesome! Do you sell it to someone? I guess I never thought about it, but I suppose it makes sense that some people grow mint commercially. Does it bring in the same prices as other crops?

We've got a few square yards of mint by the side of our house. Spearmint and peppermint.

We had peppermint growing at our last house. It was a constant battle to keep it from taking over everything.

It smells awesome when you mow the stray plants that are trying to escape the bed.

We send our mint to a distillery and the oil is sold for use in candy and toothpaste. It makes more $$$ than corn and soybeans but you can only grow it 4 years in a row.

How do you harvest it? I guess going out there and pinching off a few leaves would be kind of slow. Do you do it by hand or is there some machine that will do it?

bagging lawnmower? :eyebrow:

exactly. I have no idea. Like can you bale it up the way you would hay? Do you cut it and let it dry and then bale? Or do you need it to stay fresh an moist, like lettuce?

You need to soak it in cider.