The U.S. is now down to 37 36 34 new cases per 100K population per day, down from 38 at the end of last week 37 when I checked it a couple of days ago 36 four days ago. Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over fallen below 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 375 400 per day. Continue reading Post #1567: COVID-19 trend to 8/8/2022, continued slow decline in new cases
Every so often I recalculate my household’s carbon footprint. Continue reading Post G22-053, Halving my carbon footprint in four not-so-easy steps.
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I have bamboo growing at the edge of my yard. It’s an extension of my neighbor’s stand of bamboo. I like the neighbors, so I tolerate the bamboo. Continue reading Post G22-052: Bamboo seduction.
The U.S. is now down to 37 36 new cases per 100K population per day, down from 38 at the end of last week 37 when I checked it a couple of days ago. Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below risen to just over 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 375 per day.
Data source for this and other graphs of new case counts: Calculated from The New York Times. (2021). Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States. Retrieved 8/3/2022, from https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data.” The NY Times U.S. tracking page may be found at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
As I showed in prior posts, hospitalizations (and presumably deaths) remain concentrated among the oldest old, and hospitalizations remain disproportionately drawn from those who were never fully vaccinated.
The U.S. is now down to 37 new cases per 100K population per day, down from 38 at the end of last week. Daily new hospitalizations have fallen below 6000 per day. Deaths remain around 350 per day. Continue reading Post #1566: COVID-19 trend to 8/1/2022, further decline in new cases.
Above: Ripe (?) Aunt Ruby’s German Green (?) tomato. It’s definitely a tomato. The rest is speculation. Continue reading Post G22-051: Heirloom tomato confusion and first taste test.
The U.S. new case count dipped to 38 / 100K / day, versus 39 for most of the prior week. This appears mostly due to declines in new cases in California and New York. Continue reading Post #1565: COVID-19, finishing out the data week with a little dip in new cases.
Edited 8/6/2022: I may have been somewhat hasty in my original post. I removed the insect barrier. As expected, I am now getting full-sized summer squash. But the largest of these, so far, has only a vestige of seeds. For all intents and purposes, it’s seedless. To me, this suggests that, at some point, these squash plants did indeed begin producing full-sized fruit despite a lack of pollination. Perhaps they have to produce a handful of tiny ones first, before they give up on getting pollinated and begin producing full-sized parthenocarpic fruit.
The original post follows.
One tiny detail. The seed packets for parthenocarpic squash failed to mention one tiny, little detail.
Looking on the bright side, you know how summer squash will go from small to gigantic before you know it? One day they’re barely edible, three days later they’re barely liftable?
Or how you can be inundated with zucchini, to the point where you have to keep dreaming up new ways to cook it? Where you start figuring out ways to hide it in food, so that your family won’t object.
The good news is, parthenocarpic squash have both of those problems licked.
They’re tiny. Unless a miracle happens, my parthenocarpic summer squash are going to weigh in somewhere around one ounce each.
If you’re interested, read on. Or just check the photos below. Continue reading Post G22-050: Parthenocarpic squash, is this a joke?
The COVID-19 new case count is unchanged at 39 new cases per 100K population per day. Deaths are still running 350 per day. And for reasons unknown, hospitalizations are now up to 6500 a day. Continue reading Post #1564: COVID-19 non-trend to 7/27/2022
Every once in a while I check in on the status of the U.S. canning lid market. Continue reading Post G22-049, canning lids revisited. Looks like 50 cents per lid is the going rate for wide-mouth Ball lids.
