Free Lung Cancer Screening for Veterans.

November 1- 11, 2013 Veterans are encouraged to get a lung cancer screening free of charge.

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My favorite actress Lucille Ball!

Lucille Ball, who starred in “I Love Lucy,” was born on August 6, 1911 and died on August 26, 1989 at the age of 77. Her career peaked in the 1950s with the success of “I Love Lucy” and other sitcoms including “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” “The Lucy Show,” “Here’s Lucy” and “Life With Lucy,” and she continued making films through the 1960s and 1970s.

Lucille Ball was also the first woman to run a major television studio with Desilu, which she owned with then-husband Desi Arnaz. Ball took over as sole owner in 1962 when she bought out Arnaz’s share of the studio after their 1960 divorce. She married her second husband, standup comedia Gary Morton, in 1961.

She began her film career in the 1930s and became known as “Queen of the B’s” for starring in a number of B-movies. She also began working in radio.

In 1940, Ball met her future husband, bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the stage hit “Too Many Girls.” The couple eloped in the same year.

In 1948, Ball was cast as a wacky wife in a radio program called “My Favorite Husband” and was asked to develop it for television. Ball agreed but insisted on working with Arnaz. CBS executives were reluctant to hire Arnaz because he was Cuban, so the couple began touring as a vaudeville act to great success. CBS then put “I Love Lucy” on their lineup and the rest was history.

After ending her career in sitcoms, Ball continued to work in film, including starring in the 1968 film “Yours, Mine and Ours” and the 1974 musical film “Mame.” Ball died on April 26, 1989 of an aortic rupture.

Vertical Gardening...

Squeeze more vegetables into small spaces with trellises.

When you grow your vining vegetables upward, you use less ground space. This increases your yield per square foot because you can fit more plants into the garden. But saving space is just one reason to grow your plants on trellises. Here are some other advantages to growing up:

• Monitoring and controlling pests is easier because they're right in front of your face.
• Harvesting is also easier, as there's no stooping or hunching over.
• No more waste due to overripe fruits that are hidden under lush growth.
• Vertical gardens increase accessibility for gardeners with disabilities because they can tend and pick from a chair or garden seat.
   

So the benefits of trellising are clear. Before you set up a trellis, though, keep in mind these two important points:

• Situate trellises along the north side of your garden to prevent shading other plants.
• Anchor your trellises to protect them from the wind and to handle the weight of the plants by sinking trellis posts 24 inches deep.

What can you grow vertically?

Tomatoes.
Trellis nonbush or indeterminate types, which keep growing and producing fruits until frost. (Determinate varieties are often bushy.) Check out this plan for a sturdy tomato tower.

Peas, Cucumbers.

Grow nonbush varieties on trellises. Bush types don't need trellising; their vines reach only 4 to 6 feet long.

Pole beans, Gourds, Melons.
As a general rule, any variety with fruits smaller than a volleyball can be trellised. Vines will grow strong enough to hold the weight of the fruit, so there's no need to support fruits with individual hammocks.

Squash and pumpkins.
Small-fruited and nonbush types, such as miniature pumpkins, and acorn and buttercup squash, are suitable for trellising. Here are plans for a simple squash trellis.

For more vertical gardening ideas, check out Derek Fell's book, Vertical Gardening.

Source:  http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/vertical-gardening

Dave's Words of Wisdom: Life Is Ironic

Dave's Words of Wisdom: Life Is Ironic