this has me very pissed OFF

[Raven]

i have big tomatoes growing in pots PM as a back up crop - and put like twenty babies in yesterday to see if they can take it... even the primary leaves of my hardened off broccolli plants turned purple but they survived the last hard frost we had.... i will set up some open top plastic cages soon for some bell peppers and zuchinni this week... a new guy on the JOB dropped my porta cable saw off the roof and broke it...so i was at home depot tonight shelling out 145 clams to replace it....pfff.....yeah like i can wait to have it repaired.
no freakin way.... which killed my after work gardening time....oh well
par for the course...funny thing was....he was complaining about having to use my tools and then clammed up when i approached but i heard his whole
comment.....and karma came up and bit him in the butt real fast ...so i know he jinxed himself bigtime....ahhh ha ha ha....i love karma....

[ProfessorM]

Yeah the open top plastic cages work wonders, wall of water, and a few old blankets at nite over them. Looks like tobacco road but nothing beats real tomatoes. I grow all heirloom tomatoes, 10 different kinds, from seed. Ugly looking but you can't beat the flavor. Man I could go for one now. That is the problem with our society looks matter. People buy the pretty perfectly round looking stuff with no taste when it is the ugly looking stuff that tastes a hundred times better. Porter Cable has an outlet in Franklin. Not sure where you are located. They repair and sell reconditioned stuff for a reasonable price. Paul

[Raven]

are my next two projects in that order Paul...I have deer up the ying yang....
and with several apple trees to attract them i'm sure they'll find my vegetables just as tempting...as they mature. i'll buy 200 hundred feet of green wire fencing...mostly because i want some vertical climbable area for squash and melons....that'll run me around $160 bucks... the hoop house will be half recycled sliding glass doors (4) with a real rigid frame...then i'll pvc pipe off that with 45 degree unions up top to achieve the gothic arch...and i'll have cross ventilation with a door at each end. once thats done i'll have flat city (lol) and plant seeds like a mad man... and start garden number 2.
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the boss was a little bit pissy but re-imbersed me $120 bucks for the saw...retails for 129 dollars at the Dome Heapo
saying i shouldn't have gone an bought another one...but i disagree completely.....especially when his new guy who apparently doesnt own a saw dropped mine when he should have been using the bosses saw...also considering that the cord to it had a temporary spliced section after getting sawn in half....and it he had arced and tripped the breaker... so thats when it should have come down off the roof...just one more cut...then boom ,all because the boss was to cheap to buy a decent blade and he had used it (His saw) previously to cut that super hard tongue and groove flooring....dulling his blade... shoot, you can change those blades out in what two minutes... they are only $10.00.
The Raven without a decent saw is unacceptable....I can't be waiting for him to fix my old one...on his schedual...because his plate is way way to full ! with projects galore up north - 4 kids and a farm...yeah right.
besides its the principle...and in that circumstance i had to firmly stand my ground.