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I moved my new baby ever bearing strawberry plants to a different area of my garden last summer and did not allow them to bloom or put out runners.. They developed into beautiful plants by the fall.. My problem is that this year, both with the earlier spring crop and now after a 2 to 3 week rest, they have and are producing lovely green foliage and healthy looking blooms but then they either don't form any fruit or the fruit is mutated (I don't know if there is a proper term for fruit that is malformed). The plants get full sun, are not over crowded and are kept practically weed free and since we've been getting a lot of hot, dry, and windy weather, I've been watering them well every 3 to 4 days. The plants don't seem to be suffering from any disease and I haven't seen any sign of a bug infestation.. I'm getting so tired of weeding and watering and getting nothing in return!! My raspberry plants next to them get about 1/2 the care and are just loaded with ripening fruit!! If anyone out there has the answer to this please, please let me know.. Thanks for your interest.. Lil |
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I have seen strawberries do this before and it usually meant a lack of water. If it is that dry and windy I would be watering every day. I have a straw mulch around mine and this helps to retain the moisture. |
I have everbearing strawberries also and they are doing the same thing...nothing! Mine are heavily mulched and get water nearly everyday. Penny |
Maybe there is too much nitrogen in the soil as that produces top growth. Try fertilizing with larger last numbers or even last and middle but a small first number.Even 20-20-20 would be a good start or try a small berry fertilizer. |
- Posted by Mrs_Tuttlebee 3a (My Page) on Mon, Jul 7, 03 at 10:32
Lilly, In Manitoba berry farmers across the province are having simillar problems. They say it's due to the lack of snow cover and the big range of temperature changes over the winter. I think it was the CBC that did the news piece on this, maybe you could find more info on their website. One farmer said there wasn't much he could do about it and hopes for better luck next year. It's not much of a year for strawberries all around...at least you're not alone in your sorrow. |
Here is a link that might be useful: CBC Manitoba
- Posted by LilyofVallee 3 SK Can. (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 03 at 0:26
Hi: Just wanted to pop in and say thanks to all of you for your helpful hints and ideas.. I've been talking to a few local gardeners, and some of them are having the same problems as me, so maybe it is just one of those years.. Kimmypal, I am going to put some mulch down especially since another heat wave is expected to start on Wednesday (we did get a break the last couple of days with some lovely cool weather!). Coco3, I'll check into the fertilizers for berries. It certainly can't hurt to try.. And Mrs. Tuttlebee, thank you for the link you provided leading me to the CBC site. I checked in their archives and couldn't find anything to do with strawberry problems, but thanks for the idea, cause I'm now going to check out CTV and Global and see if they have anything.. And Penny1947, from what I hear on the news, your state has been getting a lot of cool, wet weather, so hopefully it'll get better. And again,thanks all of you for your help and I'll keep you updated. Lil.. |
Lily, Yes NY has had more than its share of cold wet weather this spring. In fact we never really had a spring transition. We went right from 60's to the 80's overall. A few 70 degree days came and went but not enough to help in the garden. Penny |
- Posted by LilyofVallee 3 SK Can. (My Page) on Sun, Jul 13, 03 at 22:48
A quick update.. The weather cooled off a lot for approx. a week and what a difference it made.. The strawberries are now growing and are achieving a very satisfactory size althought they are still mutated.. forman63- I have increased the watering both in frequency and amount, and I'm still checking out fertilizer because coco3 from Alberta mentioned about berry fertilizer, you've mentioned fish fertilizer and I have since been told by a couple of local authorities on strawberries that they feel it's generally not wise to do much fertilizing at all with strawberries during the fruit growing period.. so I'm going to do a little more investigating about what type of fertilizer would be best.. but I do think I'll have to move them to another spot with a little less sunshine. I've kind of come to the conclusion that too much sun and heat here in southern Saskatchewan is just too harsh on the plants.. The spot they were in before was shaded for about half the day, and I got lovely berries all summer long. And again, I want to say thanks for your help.. Lil |
Every cloud has a silver lining - my parents-in-law produced very little this year in the way of strawberries, but the price they got from wholesalers was much higher than last year, and we didn't have to break our backs in the fields! Can't wait for EU accession next May - the Germans will be very happy with Polish prices, and I'm looking forward to another harsh winter, dry spring, and rapid onset of summer to ease my back strain ... |
I hope someone out there might know the answer to this. Today I put my strawberries out to get their normal full day of sun, it was a little hotter today than usual but not too much more than normal - I think it got to a high of almost 80(f). Now, I have been keeping my plants inside because the nights have been very chilly and I didn't think it was good for them to be outside when the temps dipped into the lower 40s. So I have been watering them and putting them out in the morning. The inside temps are consistently between 65-70 and the humidity is between 43 and 59%. But here is the thing, today when I went to bring them in, after the sun had set - all the leaves were flacid and limp (wilted for the most part), but after 20 mins. inside the house they firmed right up and now they look as good as ever. I am baffled. Please help? |
I am not sure, especially since you keep them watered regularly. I do know certain plants such as impatien plants can droop in the sun even if they are well watered. Apparently what happens in that case is because the plant is in such intense sun and heat, it is losing moisture through the leaves quicker than the roots can replenish it and bring it to the leaves. You mention, however, that it was dark and the plants were still droopy, so not sure what's going on there. Unless they were recovering after sunset. If it hasn't happened on other days, maybe it was due to the heat, or even a combination of heat, sun and wind? |
- Posted by dcwik z4 CO (email@example.com) on Sat, Jul 17, 04 at 13:52
I hope someone can help. I am about 8700 ft. elevation in zone 4-5. I have beautiful strawberry plants covered with strawberries but the berries are soft. Does this mean a lack of something in soil or too much of something or a disease? Thank You for any help. |
Possibly waiting a bit too long to pick? Some types of strawberries ripen a paler color than others. Or do you mean they're soft while still green? |
- Posted by dcwik z4 CO (email@example.com) on Tue, Jul 20, 04 at 11:29
Iam picking when they turn red, I'll try picking them earlier. Thanks for your response. |
- Posted by annaneaves Canada (NS) (My Page) on Tue, Jul 20, 04 at 11:50
How do you guys keep the ants from eating your berries before you get them?? I find I have to pick mine before they are fully ripe otherwise they get holes in them (which I'm pretty sure is from ants because I've seen lots of ants on the holy berries) |
We have ants, but I've never seen them on the strawberries. How about slugs? |
- Posted by annaneaves Canada (NS) (My Page) on Wed, Jul 21, 04 at 9:55
Yeah it could be slugs too I guess... (I have both) It's just that I've seen ants gathered in the holes sometimes, so it seemed to me that ants are probably the cause... I havn't seen slugs *on* the strawberries, But they love to snooze under my creeping phlox which is near the berries, so I wont rule that out as a possibility. |
i am not sure of ever bearing berries but with commercial berries we never fertilize in the spring (maybe 7 pounds N per acre)..but after the season is over (august) we use 100 pounds actual per acre...spring fertilizing produces plant growth that turns eccessive and this leads to heavy foilage and in damp conditions...mildew and fruit rot... i would guess ever bearing would require some fertilizer on an ongoing basis but i would be careful about overdoing it...it will cause soft ..easily crushed fruit...i dont know much about the everbearing varieties as i said..but soft fruit would be an indication of too much fertilizer...and chunks missing from your fruit is more than likely slugs..you may try sevin mixed with cornmeal as a bait for slugs...position it where you know they are in high numbers |
This is my first time doing strawberrys and I'm afraid I didn't keep-up on removing runners,so now I have a 'sea' of strawberry plants..need to know just what to do with them with winter coming up..how do I protect them and how much should I weed them out...any help would be appreicated... |
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For the rubber stampers out there, have you ever used a Castaway stamp pad? The advertising says that when heat is applied to the image stamped on colored paper, a marbled effect is achieved. All I have ever gotten is a bleached effect. Has anyone ever gotten this marbled effect they talk about? Thanks. |
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I have many eucalyptus branches that I want to sell to a crafter. Can they be used immediately after cutting them from the tree? Do they need some type of drying or other process to be ready for use in wreaths, etc.
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Hello Mel, How Ironic, I just did the same, and it is very simple process. To make eucalyptus pliable you'll need to use the glycerine process and this will keep your branches nice and soft . All you have to do is go to the drugstore and buy some glycerine. Take one part glycerine to Two parts water and put your branches upright in a vase ensuring there is atleast 2" of fluid. To ensure the mix will penetrate the branches mash the ends of the branches with a hammer. This process takes about a week or two and you'll know that they are done when the tips feel soft and waxy. I use this for alot of different branches in the fall from oaks to holly or just colorful stems...keeps the leaves soft and they don't fall off. Have fun! By the way, the liquid can be reused over and over again. |
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Hello all. I am building an outdoor kitchen. For electrical service I ran 2 hot, 1 neutral , one ground wire through underground conduit. 12ga wires. I want to have (2) 20a circuits. From all I have read, all I need is a 2pole gfci breaker and I should be ok to run this multiwire circuit. I found one for my panel online but before I purchase, I wanted to confirm. I just want confirmation this was accurate and the breaker should be 20A |
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- Posted by ronnatalie (My Page) on Mon, Nov 11, 13 at 21:46
You don't necessarily need a GFCI breaker. You can use GFCI receptacles. A 2 pole GFCI breaker WITH LOAD NEUTRAL will work as well. |
- Posted by glennsparky (My Page) on Tue, Nov 12, 13 at 2:08
"... I just want confirmation this was accurate and the breaker should be 20A" Yes. All correct. |
Thanks guys. I understand the gfi protection needs to be at the breaker panel when running the circuit outside the house underground. That's why I wanted the gfi at the panel and not the outlets. Thank you for the confirmation. |
- Posted by ronnatalie (My Page) on Tue, Nov 12, 13 at 6:38
There's no requirement to GFCI conductors just because they are underground, though you can place them at a lesser depth if it's a 20A circuit with a GFCI. |
Yes. I forgot to mention I am burning the conduit 12" deep, hence the reason for gfci at the panel. Thank you |
another question. I ran the gray conduit underground. I transitioned it to a rigid pipe riser where it goes above grade then enters the garage. The conduit here will be exposed My question deals with when the other end of the conduit stubs up through the concrete pad for the outdoor kitchen. I am hoping I can run the gray conduit up out of the slab and into a box, then transition to outdoor rated NM cable Do I need to transition the riser into rigid as well, even though it will be inside the island and virtually inaccessible? the cali elec code says schedule 80 pvc can be used in areas for physical damage.. I don't think inside a bbq island would fall under this category but i figured I would ask I would rather transition to sch 80 and be done with it, but Home Depot doesn't have sch 80, only sch 40. Do I need to go to an electrical supply house to get sch 80? 3/4" dia. or can I stub up with sch 40 or just the gray pvc conduit? Or a simpler question: how do you stub up electrical service inside a bbq island |
- Posted by ronnatalie (My Page) on Sat, Nov 16, 13 at 18:10
You can't use ached 40 to protect from physical damage. If you're going to use PVC you have to use sched 80. The HD here has ached 80 CONDUIt. If yours does not, tell them to special order it for you. It's certainly on their website and in their ordering system...either that or go to a real electrical supply. |
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Mike Bobinski, chairman of the Division I men's basketball committee that set the NCAA Tournament field, said Sunday night that Kentucky, the defending NCAA champion, was one of the first teams left out of the tourney field along with Alabama, Iowa, Southern Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia.
"Kentucky was a team, because they had done some things during the course of the year, we analyzed very closely. They were in that last group of teams we evaluated," said Bobinski. "When Nerlens (Noel) was playing, they were a team that showed some signs of making some progress.
"Even at that point they hadn't done a lot of notable things. Since he went down, they really struggled away from home. You've seen the results. They lost four times I think away from home, double-digits to teams that are not in the field. The tournament is played away from home. It just felt like at the end of the day as we evaluated them they just weren't there in terms of being one of those 37 best teams (to get an at-large bid). They have plenty of talent, well-coached, all of that. At the end of the day we didn't get them in that group this year."
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I was asked a couple months ago to post my raspberry so someone could help ID and I've finally got around to it. I am trying to find out what variety I have and if I can expect a fall crop or if I should begin to cut it back? I bought some online (never thought to check the variety I bought at the time) some at Home Depot and one plant I transplanted from my Grandfathers raspberry patch in Vermont before he moved out. I know I only have one leaf on here..but my camera died so once it charges I can post the others. The Japanese beetles tore them up this year pretty bad. Nothing I tried worked except pushing them off into a bucket but I couldn't keep up. Thanks! |
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Looks kind of like a Royalty Purple Raspberry. |
I dont know if ths helps but they bloomed in mid to late june slash early july. We are in southern pa |
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The dawn of electricity and the quest for sexual fulfillment. Who knew the two could be linked so satisfactorily on stage?
But then Thomas Edison gets profusely thanked in Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room or the vibrator play," a perceptive comedy about female liberation of a very specific kind.
This provocative, often quite funny play, which Lincoln Center Theater opened Thursday at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre, is Ruhl's most entertaining work to date. Not only because of its sexual subject matter but because she has created a parade of appealing, fully drawn characters, starting with the husband and wife at the center of her play. And Ruhl is dealing with some serious issues, too, most prominently the often difficult relationships between men and women and their misreadings of each other.
Dr. and Mrs. Givings are the epitome of proper, prosperous late 19th century American society.
Dr. Givings is a specialist in gynecological and hysterical disorders; Catherine, his wife, is a dutiful, devoted helpmate and a caring mother to their newborn daughter, even though she has trouble nursing the infant.
As the good doctor, the excellent Michael Cerveris personifies solicitousness, ever sympathetic to his patients' problems but unaware of his own wife's unhappiness. She's a woman who confesses at one point in the play, "I don't know what kind of person I am," and Laura Benanti perfectly captures her tremulous uncertainty.
Dr. Givings at least has a solution for his patients: "therapeutic electrical massage" to relieve a woman's nervous condition. It's accomplished with an electrically powered contraption located in his "operating theater," found in the room next to his home parlor.
"In the Next Room," which has been directed by Les Waters, also chronicles the change in Sabrina, one of Givings' patients. She's a frigid, fidgety woman who is transformed — the woman even begins playing the piano again — after sessions with the doctor's machine. Maria Dizzia accomplishes this blossoming with considerable emotion.
The doctor's wife is less successful at overcoming her own frustrations, especially after she starts listening through the parlor door to the sounds coming from her husband's operating theater.
In addition, the couple finds a wet nurse, who has recently lost her own child, to do duty for Catherine. She proves so successful that it sends Catherine further into a depression. The role is played by Quincy Tyler Bernstein, an actress of quiet power. She delivers an impassioned, heartbreaking speech about the woman's own dead child, and it's one of the play's highlights.
But matters get worse for Catherine with the arrival of a handsome, hedonistic English painter (Chandler Williams) who awakens even more ardor in the woman. He, too, is a patient of the doctor. But it is this artist who correctly identifies Catherine's problem, saying "Your soul is locked somewhere inside your body — so I cannot see it."
It's a longing her husband — so good at helping other woman — can't see in his own wife. She takes matters into her own hands, finally, in the play's last scene which features a passionate embrace in the falling snow.
The moment is a reminder that many of Ruhl's best known plays, such as "The Clean House," ''Eurydice" and "Dead Man's Cell Phone," have often been more fanciful. But none has been so sensual and dare we say it, surprisingly romantic, particularly in that wintery tableau.
Alert the authorities. Shocking sexual acts are taking place on the stage of the Lyceum Theater, right in the heart of the Broadway theater district, so recently scrubbed free of all smut and seeded with lawn chairs. Acts involving three people at a time, no less. A man and two women, a woman and two men, sometimes three men.
Before the prurient-minded descend on the box office, trench coats flapping in a frenzy of nostalgia, I should clarify that the one man involved in all these encounters is long since dead. Thomas Alva Edison takes part only in spirit, through the presence of the electric current in a peculiar machine being used to stimulate some of the participants in these startling displays.
At the risk of deflating excitement still further, I must add that the animating joke behind "In the Next Room, or the vibrator play," the inspired new comedy by Sarah Ruhl that opened on Thursday at the Lyceum, is that the heady sensations aroused in the characters are considered by all involved to be therapeutic rather than erotic. Application of that electrified wand in the doctor's hand may inspire shuddering moans, guttural cries and exhortations to God, but the instrument is considered by patient and doctor alike to be no more naughty than a stethoscope.
Set in the 1880s, just after the advent of electricity, "In the Next Room" takes place in the adjoining parlor and consulting room of an upstanding physician, Dr. Givings (Michael Cerveris), who specializes in treating "hysteria" in women. A new patient, Mrs. Daldry (Maria Dizzia), exhibits all the disturbing symptoms of the condition. Sensitive to light and sound, and prone to headaches and weeping, she is ushered into Dr. Givings's parlor by a concerned husband (Thomas Jay Ryan) who is relieved to hear a brisk diagnosis and assurances that after a few sessions of therapy his wife will be restored to full health.
"Thank you, Dr. Givings," he says. "You have no idea what a source of anguish my wife's illness has been to me." There follows a little hiccup of a pause. "And to her, of course."
While Mr. Daldry makes formal conversation with Dr. Givings's bubbly, eccentric wife, played with bright-eyed, antic charm by Laura Benanti, Mrs. Daldry submits to the sober ministrations of the good doctor in the room next door. Off come the corset and the form-disfiguring gown. Up go the petticoats. (The costumes, by David Zinn, are both lushly pretty and witty in their elaborate construction.)
With his sturdy female assistant, Annie (Wendy Rich Stetson), offering clinical assistance, Dr. Givings fires up his therapeutic machine — the lights in the newly electrified house flicker as it comes on — and applies himself to the task before him. While Mrs. Daldry squirms in surprise and shock at the sensations being induced by this curious contraption, Dr. Givings remains brisk and businesslike. Staring into the middle distance, he makes soothing small talk, telling a lively little anecdote about Benjamin Franklin.
After just a few minutes Mrs. Daldry emerges from the room excited and oddly refreshed, a bloom already beginning to return to her cheeks. Who does not find a good Benjamin Franklin story stimulating?
Throughout "In the Next Room" Ms. Ruhl, one of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent years, makes lively but never cheap sport of the distance between our perceptions of Dr. Givings's methods and the notions of the characters themselves. (The details of the treatment are all based on documented history.) Female sexual pleasure is so far from the mind of the average 19th-century man that he cannot recognize its display even when it is taking place literally beneath his nose.
But the ideas underpinning the play, about the fundamental lack of sympathy between men and women of the period, and the dubious scientific theories that sometimes reinforced women's subjugation, are serious. "In the Next Room" illuminates with a light touch — a soft, flickering light rather than a moralizing glare — how much control men had over women's lives, bodies and thoughts, even their most intimate sensations.
It takes some time before Mrs. Daldry and Mrs. Givings, whose curiosity about her husband's methods leads to a session of mutual experimentation conducted with embarrassed giggles, can admit that the sensations aroused by the doctor's electrified implement are pleasurable rather than alarming. And when Mrs. Givings's wet nurse, Elizabeth (Quincy Tyler Bernstine), gently suggests that the feelings they describe are the same ones some women experience in bed with their husbands, they responded with stupefied silence, followed by dismissive laughter. They were raised to believe sex was something to be endured, not enjoyed.
"In the Next Room," a Lincoln Center Theater production, is directed by Les Waters with a fine sensitivity to its varied textures. Insightful, fresh and funny, the play is as rich in thought as it is in feeling. It is also Ms. Ruhl's most traditional work, taking place as it does in a single setting (realized with warmth by the set designer Annie Smart) and hewing closely to naturalism. Nonetheless, admirers of Ms. Ruhl's fanciful imagination and flair for surreal imagery, given free rein in plays like "The Clean House" and "Eurydice," will be gratified to know that she imbues her heroine, Mrs. Givings, with a penchant for flights of lyric fantasy and a tendency to speak her thoughts almost before she has formulated them.
Although Freud has barely begun charting the psyche, Mrs. Givings is more in touch with her physical, psychological and emotional needs than anyone else in the play. Ms. Benanti, a Tony winner for "Gypsy," delivers Mrs. Givings's madcap digressions with spiky, decidedly contemporary inflections, accentuating the proto-modernity trapped under those constricting corsets.
Despondent at what she perceives as her failure as a mother — her breasts cannot give the milk her new baby needs — Mrs. Givings conducts the traffic coming in and out of the doctor's office, waylaying patients for conversation to keep her company. But she is always being left alone; it does not occur to her kind but distracted husband that a woman might need more stimulating company than a baby.
The play's other female characters are insightfully inhabited by the lovely Ms. Dizzia, whose wild fluctuations between starchy propriety and unbridled emotionalism signify her character's psychic dislocation; Ms. Bernstine, who brings a quiet dignity to her performance as the wet nurse; and Ms. Stetson as the crisply efficient but also sympathetic doctor's assistant. Mr. Cerveris strikes the right note of kindly befuddlement as the doctor struggles to come to terms with his wife's turbulent personality, while Chandler Williams brings a captivating histrionic swagger to his performance as a painter who also requires Dr. Givings's therapeutic help after a romantic disappointment.
In pointing up female potential that goes untapped, Ms. Ruhl is occasionally guilty of overstatement. (Did Annie really also need to be a Greek scholar?) And perhaps because linear dramaturgy is not her specialty, "In the Next Room" is a little overplotted as it attempts to explore so many different aspects of women's lives in the Victorian era.
But the play's slight excesses can easily be forgiven, especially since women's experience seems to have evaporated almost entirely from movie screens as a subject worthy of illumination through entertainment. (How apt that Meg Ryan, famed for simulating an orgasm on screen in a more fruitful era for Hollywood actresses, was spotted at a preview.) "In the Next Room" is a true novelty: a sex comedy designed not for sniggering teenage boys — or grown men who wish they were still sniggering teenage boys — but for adults with open hearts and minds.
More than a decade after Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues premiered downtown, an equally provocative and not unrelated v-word is making its Broadway debut.
Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Roomor the vibrator play (***½ out of four), which opened Thursday at the Lyceum Theatre, is set in the 1880s outside New York City, in the home of an impeccably gracious physician who has grown fond of the aforementioned gadget – as a therapeutic device. He uses it on hysterics, as emotionally disturbed women were known in that era, to produce healing, um, "paroxysms."
"The congestion is your womb is causing your hysterical symptoms," explains Dr. Givings, played with gentle humor and great sweetness by Michael Cerveris, to one patient. "If we can release some of that congestion ..." Well, you get the idea. Sounds like some geeky medical student's pitch to a porn producer, right?
But here's the thing: Some doctors actually did use vibrators in this fashion, even after the advent of modern psychology. It seems the dawn of the electrical age predated the realization of female desire and its complexity, at least in our puritanical culture.
This is one premise of Ruhl's ambitious and surprisingly moving play, which has little in common with Ensler's feel-good feminist tripe. By turns deftly farcical and deeply poignant, In the Next Room raises questions that transcend gender and, for that matter, time.
The last Ruhl play staged in New York, Dead Man's Cell Phone, addressed the potential for alienation in our digital era. Here, too, she explores the limits of technology and scientific progress. Dr. Givings bubbles with excitement over Thomas Edison's ingenuity, but he can't understand why his wife, fetchingly played by Laura Benanti, is so intrigued by the gadget that elicits strange noises from his patients.
Thanks to Annie Smart's split set, we can watch the doctor tend to those women – and a man, in one case – while Mrs. Givings chats with guests in the living room or, lacking company, leans in toward the door.
The laughs that result (and there are many) are offset by the difficulties endured by Ruhl's female characters. In addition to Mrs. Givings' anguish over her inability to breast-feed her infant daughter – a source of despair that her husband, for all his sensitivity, can't understand – there is the more quiet suffering of her wet nurse, a black housekeeper who lost her own son, and the doctor's assistant, Annie, whose graceful stoicism belies a lonely soul.
The actresses all do justice to this vivid, bittersweet humanity that Ruhl affords them, as do their male castmates. By showing how women and men struggle with both pleasure and pain, In the Next Room offers something a lot more satisfying than cheap thrills or cheesy self-empowerment.
Victorian repression gets a rude poke in Sarah Ruhl's typically idiosyncratic rumination on women's struggle to understand and explore their sexual selves, "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play." While the signature 19th century ailment being treated is "hysteria," the chief weakness is the bipolar disorder of the inconsistent second act, which shifts uncertainly between serious developments and the more farcical business of romantic cross-currents. But there are so many lingering moments of emotional truth, and even more of daring comedy, that the play amuses and charms even if it doesn't quite satisfy.
While this is a less fanciful work than Ruhl's other New York outings to date, "The Clean House," "Eurydice" and "Dead Man's Cell Phone," the playwright's starting point is anything but conventional.
She returns to a time soon after the advent of electricity, before the handy titular appliance acquired sexual associations. Vibrators were marketed alongside vacuum cleaners; used by physicians to induce "paroxysms" in female -- and some male -- patients, suffering from neurosis or depression, at that time lumped under the catchall of "hysteria."
The medic wielding the wand here is Dr. Givings (Michael Cerveris), a solicitous man of science who is kind but somewhat formal with his wife (Laura Benanti), a giddy beauty with an un-Victorian habit of saying whatever pops into her head.
"How extraordinary," says Mrs. Givings when she sneaks a peek at the boxy contraption. "It looks like a farming tool. Where do you put it?"
Her curiosity is further stoked by her deepening acquaintance with Mrs. Daldry (Maria Dizzia), a patient whose debilitating condition -- she's hypersensitive to light, cold and color, but unresponsive to the touch of her impatient husband (Thomas Jay Ryan) -- shows marked improvement after a few jolts of electricity. Mrs. Daldry also responds to the gentle care of Dr. Givings' assistant Annie (Wendy Rich Stetson), suggesting her marital malaise is rooted elsewhere.
Les Waters, who first directed the play at Berkeley Rep, has an agreeably light touch that allows the comedy to milk every ounce of naughtiness without tipping over into puerility.
The treatment scenes in particular benefit from staging that underlines the clinical nature of the approach while slyly tickling the audience's more contemporary attitudes toward sexuality and manual stimulation. And the scene in which Mrs. Givings and Mrs. Daldry turn into complicitous, giggling schoolgirls when they get their illicit hands on the doc's equipment is a riot.
Annie Smart's chintzy two-room set cleverly divides the action between drawing room and surgery, with the untapped well of feeling being unleashed in the doctor's office soon spilling out to erode the propriety of the home beyond that terribly serious inner sanctum. David Zinn's detailed period costumes add to the sense of a period-appropriate comedy of manners about an inappropriate subject.
It's when the play inches into more sober territory that it becomes lumpy. Benanti is a lovely comic actress and the guileless directness she brings to Mrs. Givings makes the character immensely likable, her too-contemporary delivery somewhat justified by her lack of a filter. But Ruhl has failed to foreshadow her deep dissatisfaction with her husband's remoteness, so when those feelings surface, they seem inorganic to the prevailing tone.
Mrs. Givings' nagging sense of inadequacy over not being able to feed her newborn baby contributes more successfully to the play's exploration of women's identity issues. But the Givings' employment of a black wet nurse (Quincy Tyler Bernstine) introduces a character who seems to belong in another play. This is especially bothersome in a speech about loss and resentment that's plangent and beautiful but ill-fitting. And it seems patronizing to have the black domestic be the one to enlighten the ladies that the frisson they're feeling in the doctor's office should be part of marital relations.
But Ruhl has a gift for unexpected moments of stirring poetry, and there are a number of them here, such as a bold but delicate demonstration of affection between Annie and Mrs. Daldry. Even the cloying conclusion, in which Mrs. Givings gently coaxes her husband toward the passionate spontaneity she requires in their marriage, has a beguiling lyrical quality.
Original as it is, all this doesn't gel into a cohesive tone. The play's more soulful reflections about love, marriage and men's difficulty in understanding women's needs clash against the comedy, which in the second act shifts to romantic entanglements (unlikely infatuations spring up to increasingly tiresome effect) and a strained succession of inopportune entrances and exits.
The fine cast keeps it engrossing, however, with all but Bernstine acting in a heightened theatrical style that underlines the distinctiveness of Ruhl's voice.
Benanti's daffy vulnerability is nicely paired with Cerveris' sweet-natured impassivity. His bafflement, which turns to mild anger, when Mrs. Givings suggests he kiss her during treatment is both funny and touching.
Chandler Williams injects a buoyant, bohemian spirit in act two as an artist seeking a cure for his romantic ache. And he's nothing if not game -- submitting to a prostate massage is not generally part of the classical repertoire.
But the most delectable turn comes from Dizzia, in a series of preposterous hats that make mockery of Mrs. Daldry's self-dramatizing melancholia. Her journey from stifled unhappiness to something approaching self-awareness is one of the chief rewards of this intriguing but imperfect play.


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Getting ready to put in a small orchard on our Eastern WA place. The catch is the 90 day growing season, and that is not consecutive! In a nasty winter, we can be zone 2- generally zone 3. Found a website for Edible Landscaping and St Lawrence Nursery that look good- can anyone suggest apple varieties that have done well in this type of climate? Have gardened here for 10 years, also have an old apple tree in our present yard- but do not know the name. How about apricots and plums? Not many have them around- have been looking at Canadian nurseries to get names of trees- anyone successful in raising stone fruits in a climate like this? |
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I think there might be something in this other forum; Far_North forum Konrad lives around Edmonton and as far as apples are concerned has listed ripening dates on some. Look at the early ones, maybe Lawrence sells those. The future might hold some promise for better tasting stone fruits, check here for example; I am excited to eat some test cherries from Saskatchewan some day. The newer ones are bred back to tasty Hungarian pie cherries. |
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The loud, raucous voices from the left and the right seem determined to talk about gun control or the lack of it rather than reflect on all those lives snuffed out so early. The political opportunists have decided which path offers the most gain and they set off on it regardless of the facts.
Social media is ablaze with vicious comments that bemoan a lack of humanity while displaying that same lack in their own words. Media itself is under attack, as the inevitable mistakes were made and "facts" turned out not to be facts at all, despite being reported as such.
Political opponents are all over President Barack Obama's response, labeling his emotional statement as fakery of the highest order instead of the heartfelt response of a man with two daughters who happens to be the president of our country.
Let's all stop for a moment, and do nothing but reflect on those 20 children. We don't know those children, and yet we will mourn their deaths for a long time to come.
We believe it is because they could be our children. They could be our neighbors. They could be any of us and while we breathe a guilty sigh of relief that they are not our children, we know that it is possible, and that frightens us.
If you don't believe it could be any of us at any time, consider this:
According to Reuter's news service, in 2012 alone, in our country, there have been seven mass murders, with 51 deaths as a result. More than 60 were wounded.
As this is being written, television plays in the background, and voices debating gun control get shrill and loud, get frustrated and angry and in the end solve nothing. Based on the tone of voice, they probably leave mad at each other. We hope they were not armed.
Early on Friday, NPR reported that a spokesperson for the White House was asked if this tragedy would restart a national conversation on gun control.
There will be a time for that conversation, the spokesperson said, but today is not that day. That might have been the most sensible comment of the day, but those shrill voices drowned out the sensibility and will continue to do so.
Let's remember the children, and their parents and brothers and sisters. Let's remember their grandparents and aunts and uncles. Let's not forget the friends who will no longer play hide and seek or push each other on swings.
The oldest of the children who died on Friday was born in 2002, the youngest in 2007.
As we remember the children, let's also remember the six adults, who likewise left families who loved them and shared their dreams and lives. And let's remember the shooter's family, thrust into a national spotlight that is too often more intense than illuminating.
As we struggle to put these words on paper, we hear a report that the bodies of those who died today remain in the schoolhouse. It is a crime scene, and must be preserved intact until all the evidence is gathered. We understand, but waves of revulsion course through our very souls as we listen to those chilling words.
This story is not yet complete, and might never be. We are taught in journalism to ask "Who, What, When, Where and WHY?"
We cannot imagine a "WHY" that makes any sense at all.
"Evil visited this community today," said Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy on Friday.
And evil did settle in Newtown on Friday.
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"…the Spirit joins in to help us in our weakness, for we do not know what and how we ought to pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes on our behalf with sighs too deep for words."
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i have been growing this passion vine for years . I grow it for the butterflys and because it is one of the smaller passies. For the first time it has 4 good sized fruit on it. I didn't have much luck googling it, does anyone know if its edible? I don't think it is but I am hoping someone has experience with the fruit of this lovely passie. |
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I haven't ever got an edible fruit from my Lav. Lady. They are usually kind of hollow inside, I have read that they are pollen sterile as well. It is a hybrid of a caerulea cross (caerulea is edible) but I don't believe the Lav Lady will produce a viable fruit with enough pulp to eat but who knows lol. Let us know how yours turn out. It is worth growing because it is pretty and a good bloomer and the only passiflora that the hummingbirds adore. I don't know what it is about that variety but the little hummers will fly around all my other various passiflora and ignore them and go straight to Lav. Lady for drinks. |
SJN I find the butterflys love this passie but I have yet to see a hummer on it. I wil be watching this fall now that you have brought it to my attention. I have more fruit on it but they all are light and feel hollow like you experienced, It would be great if they turn out edible, who knows maybe I will get lucky. |
Hi Keiki- I can't find your address so will contact you this way- you asked abt. the Surinam Cherry hedge I have and where to obtain the plants, well, I googled and found several here in Fla.....ELDON Tropicals, Ocala.....Manatee Rare Fruit sale in May at the Convention center in Mulberry.... Richard Lyon's Nursery in Miami...and of course, E-Bay..... I'm not sure where you live but there are others not too far away for you, let me know how this works out....the black ones are by far the sweetest and I love them....LOL, sally |
Thanks Sally I will look for those nurseries online. My passion are getting heavier with all this rain. I have hope! |
Sally neither Eldons or Richards has the black suriname on their website, am I missing something? |
Hi Keiki- I looked some more and you are right, the black is hard to find....however, (can't show name) lists it but it's pricey, and 'back-order... also (can't show name) ( show a 'Lolita' as being good), also a ( can't show name) fruit, in Calif., lists seeds, which are cheaper....I googled several times and found few with a reasonable price, unless you get the seeds, or go to Calif. nurseries.... I sure didn't realize they were that scarce.... when mine fruit I'll save some seeds and am glad to mail them out, they are worth trying to grow, I don't know how long they take to fruit from seed but seems to be worth a try!!....Keiki I tried showing the names but GW says not to so maybe you can E-mail me directly, sorry abt. that...... sally |
Sally the company top with a last name tropicals is the only one I know of. Pricey is right at 80 bucks. I would love to trade for your seeds. I have lots of stuff, what are you interested in ? Also will trade big if ypu have seedings |
Keiki, the bushes haven't fruited yet this year, but I will save seeds when they do, most of the hedge is the red, different reds, some dark, some orangey...there are abt. 8 black, so I'll watch them especially... there were 2 nurseries in Calif. had plants, not a bad price, when I showed the names GW blocked it.... Calif. is a long way to ship plants from....but E-Bay did have listings have you tried there? sally |
- Posted by rosaholicme 9 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 25, 13 at 16:32
Keiki: I now have a lavender passion vine growing on my fence. It has produced dozens of fruits which I have used to make a drink. The secret is: the fruits have to be very ripe - they fall to the ground when they ripen and they are then very sort to the touch. The inside is a brownish color and very sweet. Before they reach this stage they are tart and not ready to be eaten. The problem is the seeds. First, I cut the fruit across the middle and then scoop out the contents into a container with a little water. By swishing them around and putting them through a strainer the seeds separate from the flesh you get a milky liquid which you can then sweeten to taste. It might look like hard work for little pleasure, but the flavor is wonderful. I just harvested about a dozen ripe ones which I will process tomorrow. I have had this passi before but it never fruited as well as this one has. I actually googled it and found out that you can also put it in a blender, but I think the seeds would be a problem, so I find my method works better. Good luck! Let us knowhow it turns out - remember they have to be very soft to the touch and brown inside for sweet results. I loved the butterflies too!! |
Roseaholicme I love regular passion fruit. lavendar lady is not supposed to produce edible fruit. I did let one fall to the ground and sadly it too was almost empty. I have read that many passies are incorrectly labeled. Are you sure you have lavendar lady? Sounds to me like you have a nice edible variety. |
- Posted by rosaholicme 9 (My Page) on Sun, Sep 29, 13 at 20:01
Keiki, All I know is that it sends out lavender flowers which then become fruit. The fruits maintain their green skin when ripe. The contents of that oval fruit can be scooped out easily when it is ripe and the inside is a yellowish-brown. Delicious flavor!! BTW this one grows wild. I have to pull them up all over the lawn |
- Posted by rosaholicme 9 (My Page) on Sun, Sep 29, 13 at 20:05
Keiki I forgot to mention that I saw a Martha Stewart recipe yesterday on tv in which she made a meringue desert and then spooned the passion fruit all over it, seeds and all. Try letting the fruit fall to the ground which it does when it is ready to be eaten. Good luck! |
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If we center a mirror over each sink it will not be the same distance from each sconce. My husband thinks that will look funny and feels we should have a lage mirror that would go from side to side of the vanity and have holes cut in the mirror for sconces. I like the look of 2 mirrors better. Suggestions? |
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Is there any chance that your sconces come in a double? You could have a double sconce in the center, then center the mirrors over the sinks. I can't post this pic, but look at the pic in the link below: edited to add another couple pics I found: |
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Good thought Olychick. I'll check but I think they were only single lights. |
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My question is whether one can take an established, large plant out of soil into hydroton semi-hydro condition? :) |
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I usually start my Hoyas in S/H, but the answer is maybe? I would think if you do try, at least keep the existing roots above the water line. Renee |
Hi I have changed all my hoyas to S/H over the the last few years and now only grow S/H. This what I do,I wash all the dirt off the roots and then you can transfer to what ever container you plan on using. I must say the only hoyas that seem to not do well after the transfer are the EA hoyas. They almost always die. If the hoya is newly brought then I would let it get used to your home for awhile and then do the change. |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 19:30
Thanks! I made some self-watering containers from 2-liter pop bottles. We'll see how they work! :) |
Diana what do you mean self-watering? I use small and med size plastic cups from the dollar store and then drill holes about an inch up from the bottom. |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 20:29
I cut off the top half of the bottle and turned it upside down inside the bottom half of the bottle. There is already a hole (the mouth of the bottle), which down into the water, so it's self-rising/limiting - high enough to keep the Hydroton wet and wicking. This should work with large piece chips or hydroton, not smaller rocks or chips. I also learned just now that I need to make the bottom half taller so the opening doesn't sit on the bottom and unbalance the top half. |
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This sounds very interesting and I would think it would work. I think I may even give it a try. I have previously only used the drilled pots like cpawl uses. But I like the coke bottle idea because you could possibly use pots with no drilled holes for the bottom and simply put the coke bottle down in the pot. Thanks for the idea! |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 21:27
yep... I like recycling and not paying for things if I don't have to! I got the idea from a Youtube pop-bottle garden videos. |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Tue, Jul 16, 13 at 20:37
I got my Hydroton in the mail and potted up the KQ Hoya that had a small root ball. Right away the Hydroton dried out and continues to dry out every few hours. I thought it would constantly 'wick' the water that covers the bottom 1/4 of the container, but it doesn't seem to be happening. Am I doing something wrong? |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Tue, Jul 16, 13 at 23:20
These pages explain the issues pretty clearly! (I got a pop up that the page could not be mentioned here, so I won't) "....during the first weeks following potting up the plant, either "the medium doesn't wick well", or "the reservoir empties really quickly". They are actually both symptoms of the same thing - the medium trying to become fully saturated because it was not presoaked sufficiently before use." I soaked the rocks for about 4.5 hours. Probably not long enough. So I have filled the entire thing with water and will leave it for a while. I doubt it will hurt the Hoya. I will also poke a few more holes at the bottom. :) |
- Posted by Diana_Gale (My Page) on Tue, Jul 16, 13 at 23:49
I did repot that KQ in the same config, but used half the hydroton. The plant is now sitting well down inside the plastic surround, which I believe will protect and keep it humid! We'll see... |
I grow a few in hydroton, but I find it a real pain to check the water level without the water gauges that come with the pots specifically made for this. I like the premade culture pots and they're not terribly expensive - it's the decorative outer pots and the gauges that get pricey. I like the idea of using a clear "pot" (like the 2 liter bottles) with a culture pot so you can see the water level. Then I wouldn't have to buy the water guages... I start a lot of little ones in semi-hydro using a net pot sitting inside of a coffee mug. It works really slick. Denise in Omaha |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 16:49
I improved the KQ semi-hydro setup by using few balls... and now the hydroton is staying wet all the way to the top. The plant sits further down into the container, which I think will help it act somewhat as a mini greenhouse environment. |
It may help the humidity. I grow Episcia in Glass jars that are very large and they Love the extra humidity! Let us know how this is working for you. -teisa |
- Posted by Diana_Gale 6a-7b (My Page) on Tue, Jul 23, 13 at 14:56
Some people don't like growing in clear containers because of green growth in the water. I always thought this would give nutrients to the plant! I'm thinking of putting the clear containers into plastic or clay pots. |
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Last year my tomatos had quite a lot of blossem end rot. This year I plan to add some lime to the soil to help prevent this.
Is there any difference between Hydrated Lime and Agricultural Lime ?? Thanks for your help |
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Ground limestone is almost almost pure calcium carbonate and comprises the largest % of all lime used in the United States - it is abundant and the cheapest form of lime. Also, it is not caustic or disagreeable to handle like burnt or hydrated lime. It may also contain varying amounts of magnesium carbonate. Limestones containing significant amounts of magnesium carbonate are called dolomitic limestones. Dolomitic limestone contains about equal parts of magnesium and calcium carbonate. Hydrated/slaked lime — pound for pound is about 1-1/2 times more effective (at raising pH) and quicker to react than ground limestone (calcium carbonate). There are other forms of lime, but they're not generally something you'd want to use in a container. Al |
I was just coming here to ask a similar question! I was als o wondering which limestone I should use in my containers if I was more interested in increasing the calcium level than raising pH. (My soil mix already has a good pH for what I want.) |
If interested in only Ca, use ground limestone. If you want Mg too, use dolomitic lime. I use dolomitic lime in containers. In container soils, pH is far less important than in mineral soils. You could drive yourself crazy chasing a "perfect pH", and it's not necessary. In container soils, when ions attach to organic particulates they are loosely held and available over a wide pH range, in contrast to mineral (garden) soils. Your (our) job is to make sure they are there in usable amounts. Al |
- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Mon, Jan 30, 06 at 23:00
A1, for a less abrupt change in calcium levels, bone meal is about 15% usable calcium. The drawback of bone meal is that it attracts animals that are looking for the bone. In any case, I spread it on top of the snow just before the last frost date as an early spring tonic. BTW, bone meal that is used to mix with chicken feed is just fine to use in place of the expensive bone meal sold for spring bulbs. The only difference is the stuff used with chicken feed is much finer than the horticultural bone meal so it breaks down faster and costs about 1/10 the money. Sandy |
Thanks for the info, Al! It's good to know I don't need to obsess over pH, as I'm not great at measuring exact amounts of ingredients when mixing stuff! |
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Thanks to all of you for your great comments !!! By the way AL, what is your container soil mix ?? |
I have had many people thank me (several recently) for sharing this recipe for container soils for both pretty & yummy container plants: 5 parts pine bark (partially composted works best, but fresh will work fine) This soil will easily go an entire, long grow season with almost no structural failure (soil collapse or soil that breaks down and begins to hold too much water) and would likely be structurally sound for a second year, but I do not reuse container soils. Al |
Came across your comments while searching for anything about lime. A neighbor of mine told me that he puts lime in his yard to combat fleas. Ever hear such a thing? Thanks, BC |
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Blossom end rot in container grown tomatoes is a common problem, and more likely linked to water fluctuation than an absence of calcium. Calcium deficiency is possible, though unlikely since most commercial potting soils have lime added and most water contains at least some calcium. I would recommend using dolomite lime if you are mixing your own soil, since it contains magnesium as well. (I've stopped using lime in my own soil since my water is loaded with calcium, magnesium and other minerals.) Al's soil recipe would be a great choice for container tomatoes, since it would definitely help you avoid over-watering and water-logged plants. I'll be mixing up a cu. yd. this weekend, and I'm very much looking forward to it--nothing like the smell of pine bark and peat and the anticipation of spring. Jason |
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bcra5006 I lived down south one year and rented a home with a large yard. You could not walk through the yard without the fleas and mosquitos destroying your feet and legs. When the high humidity of summer kicked in they infested the house and moved in underneath the house so my foggers that i had using for WEEKS did not work. At the end of my wits I went to a bug removal expert who casually pointed out lime repels insects. I bought a 40 lb bag of Agricultural lime and crawled under the house and laced it completely with lime then moved on to the yard. Having hardwood floors I lightly dusted the inside of the house, then vacated it for a coulple days. When I came back there were no more fleas, mosquitos, or red ants in the yard, not a flea to be found in the home and to my surprise dozens of cockroaches lying dead everywhere on the hardwood floors. The Lime attacks their bodies orifices drying and burning them to death. It's a hard clean-up inside but it was worth it, and cutting the grass spreading it around and removed the white powder on the grass. I hope this helps someone! |
I want to try Steve Soloman's COP fertilizer mix..I found the pulverized dolomitic lime but can't find agricultural lime..Is this commonly available anywhere? |
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see also Flatulence
Bloating of the abdomen is the result of excess gas in the stomach and intestines. Normal levels of gas are taken care of through the natural processes of belching and flatulence. If they are not expelled naturally a tightness and fullness results that can range from mild discomfort to serious pain. The reasons for bloating are in two general categories. Swallowing an unusual amount of air is one category of problems and the other being digestive problems or disease that creates gas in the digestive system.
The latter could include a digestive system infection, IBS, GERD, Crohn's, peptic ulcers, celiac disease or an intolerance to certain foods. Also during normal digestion some foods will cause an unusual amount of gas for some individuals, for more information see Flatulence. Swallowing too much air is the other general category and can be the result of:
• A nervous habit of swallowing air
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I'll explain: As is often the case with 9 mile courses such as this where you have to mark nearly every foot to keep people on the trail, somehow, someway, somebody went through a section of the course, moved the markers out of their way, and failed to put them back. The error was caught too late to get everyone back on track, and the top 7 runners ended out skipping part of the course. For the first time in OCR history as far as I know, BattleFrog owned up to this completely and ended out paying full prize money to the top 3 finishers of the shortened course, and to the top 3 competitors who made it through the entire course.
Once again, BattleFrog had a great course. Big obstacles, fun obstacles, challenging obstacles, they brought us up the largest hills, and through a beautiful river section. Even though it was 9 miles, the constant variety kept it exciting throughout.
It was a challenging course, and we were flirting with 100 degree weather. It was a recipe for disaster, but water stations were plentiful and they utilized nearly every water pit there was on the property, enabling everyone to survive the day.
Have I mentioned the Navy SEAL demonstration? It's a show you don't want to miss. Along with what you typically get at an OCR event, there were also plenty of tables and chairs set up under large tents so you could relax out of the sun, and two bounce houses to keep the kids entertained.
Like I said though, BattleFrog is not going to settle for second best. There were a lot of little issues that they are determined to solve. They don't take them lightly, and want to make BattleFrog the greatest OCR experience you have ever had. I am confident that we will find a way to make the next event in West Virginia the best one yet. I hope to see you all there.
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