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Thanks! Good to see you too! I've been busy with family issues in November,then Christmas, then hibernating...but I did manage to dig up and preserve the Dahlia bulb beauties you sent me, which have multiplied for even more beauties this year!

Same here! I've barely read and haven't responded to my favorite discussion here, since late October, early November. Winterized most but not all, of my beds, mostly been hibernating.

Been cranking out the applesauce, every time I empty the crockpot I immediately fill it up again. Also pickled the final cukes, 5 pints of sweet and sours. Still have a lot more beds to winterize, but got one planted with garlic and covered with leaves. We had 2 days of hard frost, so my...

Oh wow, I've been debating buying one of these for awhile, but couldn't justify the price - but this is a super deal, and Mr. Dog has a Home Depot card!

Oh no, I'm so many pages behind, and might not catch up but I'll try. Last weekend renting the chicken processing equipment was a big fail - I'm so frustrated! Our plan was to set up the scalder and get the water heating, then get the rest of the equipment arranged while we waited. But the...

Same here! I have a theory about our USA education system, why typically our kids consider math and science to be hard, and our schools and teachers find it hard to teach, it's because we should be using the metric system! It's so much more sensible! One zero before the decimal point means 10...

I lived in Australia (Adelaide) as a child in the early 70's, at 9--13-y-o. I miss it so much, I would move back in a minute if they would take me, at my old age and non-moneyed clas As kids, we caught blue tail lizards, really beautiful and graceful. If we handled them too roughly, they...

I've heard of regular house fans used in horse barns around here, that started barn fires. One resulted in tragedy a couple years ago (some horses died, and the family lost their home.). You should definitely upgrade - house fans collect a lot of dust on the motor and cause it to heat up, while...

I know, I'm sad about his fate too, he was a great rooster in his younger years, nice to us and gentle to his hens, fathered many chicks. But our only choice at this point, is let him be tortured and pecked to death by the flock (so cruel) let him free-range and get airlifted by hawks or...

Your county or state conservation district might offer the same, or at least point you to a local farm that rents out equipment, or allows you to bring birds to their place for a fee? If not, maybe you could ask around at "farm-to-table" restaurants who could locate the equipment and get a co-op...

My garden is still going strong, amazingly! It looks so lovely, so many different varieties of Dahlias in various beds blooming all over the place - every few days I cut a bunch and bring them into vases inside, and the blooms outside keep getting more prolific. I stripped all the rest of my...

Also, treated wood might have been treated with insecticides you don't want leaching into your soil. Pallet wood with the HT stamp is safe, but some other ways of treating it are not. You probably know more than me about the different stamps on pallet wood, but just had to mention it. Really...

LOL that's how they keep customers coming back. Make sure you tip her next time, so she doesn't quit her job.

I don't have walnuts on my property (have hazelnuts, but the squirrels always strip them clean the day before I plan to pick them...) But I know for sure there are walnut tree somewhere nearby, because I see cracked shells in my driveway, on my porch...one time I went to replace the battery in...

It's a thing of beauty!

I guess I should just face that fact.

A type of squash I apparently can't grow.

You got a ton done!

I went to college in Massachusetts in the late 80's, and went to see a game at Fenway with friends who were Red Sox fans. So glad I got to see the "green monster" in person, really cool...but a bird crapped on my head, slopped all through my hair and shoulder, too bad that's my main memory of...

Cut more dahlias, and there are still so many more blooming and getting ready to bloom outside! Big dinner-plates of magenta and purple, medium-size pink, tiny ones that look like daisies but with various colors in the centers and petals, medium-sized ones with perfect, concentrated petal shapes...