# Getting cabin fever **URL:** \ **Category:** personal-stories\ **Created:** [January 28, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071 "2025-01-28T20:22:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/1 "2025-01-28T20:22:41Z")
šŸ˜ƒ2025-01-28T05:00:00Z ---
**Author:** ![DickD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@DickD](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/DickD)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/2 "2025-01-28T22:32:22Z")
How you doing Ron? The title is a bit worrisome. ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/3 "2025-01-29T00:26:54Z")
ok ty, why do you think that? Here in Pa. it means tired of winter, of being held captive indoors by snow and you cant wait till spring, tc ---
**Author:** ![Moltroub](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/moltroub/32/8285_2.png) [@Moltroub](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/Moltroub)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/4 "2025-01-29T11:29:06Z")
Iā€™m going to make you jealous - weā€™ve been having a long cold snap getting down into the low, very low double digits. No fun to come outside when itā€™s 12 dF with the dogs. But this am is nice, itā€™s a balmy 35 as I type and today itā€™s supposed to get in the low 60ā€™s! Jealous arenā€™t you?šŸ¤£ Are you planning your garden? ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/5 "2025-01-30T17:43:06Z")
??? i dont understand ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/6 "2025-01-30T17:44:37Z")
idk, its Nieces raised beds mostly ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/7 "2025-01-30T17:50:35Z")
I dont know, its Nieces raised beds, had Blossum rot, going to add ashes i think. My lil garden wasnt very good either. I tried responding on site and it was difficult. Dick D has an issue re my posts title ā€œcabin feverā€ I dont understand why he is offended? tc ---
**Author:** ![DickD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@DickD](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/DickD)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/8 "2025-01-30T18:11:52Z")
Sorry, no, I wasnā€™t offended. In the UK ā€œcabin feverā€ is akin to stir crazy, needing to get out, as you say after perhaps a month or two hunkering down for winter. I just wanted to make sure youā€™re ok! Richard ---
**Author:** ![Moltroub](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/moltroub/32/8285_2.png) [@Moltroub](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/Moltroub)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/9 "2025-01-31T11:46:06Z")
Have her check the soil pH might need some garden lime for the blossom rot. Canā€™t recall if itā€™s a pH of 6 or 6.5 they need. But too high they canā€™t grow I added too many ashes one year and messed up my pH, felt like going back to square one. We always have to add lime, our clay soil isnā€™t that great. We grow rocks really well at the new place though. šŸ¤£. And just an inch of water a week so deep watering once a week maybe some mulch on top in Summer. We have to mulch, but need to be careful with it when itā€™s really humid. Iā€™m trying to get a couple hugelkulture gardens going but I think Josh dug the holes too deep. Iā€™ve got the trees for them but wasnā€™t home when he and Lily stacked the limbs and old trunks in so Iā€™m afraid with my luck, Iā€™ll fall in and have to report another fall. šŸ¤£. Also lost my source for fresh manure. Maybe itā€™ll be straw bale gardening this year. Trying to find a way I donā€™t have to bend so much. Got the tractor back from the shop yesterday, hopefully my shoulder has healed enough to operate it. Iā€™ll get on that horse next week if the weather holds. Mr Richard as I like to call him responded to you Ron. Heā€™s not offended and itā€™s nice to know that cabin fever means the same no matter which side of the pond weā€™re on! He was just concerned, heā€™s a good man like that. ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/10 "2025-01-31T16:01:27Z")
yes, ty phewww that was a close one! ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/11 "2025-01-31T16:03:23Z")
i learned ā€œhappy camperā€ meant something very differemt in Aus.! It means Gay! ---
**Author:** ![ronk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/ronk/32/5239_2.png) [@ronk](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/ronk)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/12 "2025-01-31T16:07:21Z")
thanks, all clear, glad we didnt run amuk! tc ---
**Author:** ![DickD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@DickD](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/DickD)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/13 "2025-01-31T16:09:03Z")
We are a bunch of cousins, divided by our different histories with the same words! January is a tough month and I still canā€™t believe it is still going on! However, tomorrow gets to be February, which is fantastic because it is the shortest month and I noticed that Iā€™ve got spring bulbs already sending tall shoots above the ground and indeed went looking for the snowdrops and they are already up and showing white flowers! The seasons _are_ still turning! While there is still a week or two of deepening winter still to have, the season is starting to turn: signs of spring are there. Stay well! Richard ---
**Author:** ![Moltroub](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/moltroub/32/8285_2.png) [@Moltroub](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/Moltroub)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/14 "2025-02-02T11:11:09Z")
My pansies are growing a wee bit with this warmer temps these last few days, I better check on the crocuses, seems the squirrels like them more here than at the other homes. I love Spring, Iā€™ll miss Winter (less allergies). ---
**Author:** ![Moltroub](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/www.bafsupport.org/moltroub/32/8285_2.png) [@Moltroub](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/Moltroub)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/getting-cabin-fever/19071/15 "2025-02-02T11:12:46Z")
Mr. Richard is always helping me out with the Kingā€™s EnglishšŸ¤£