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To all my friends across the pond----I just read of your heat-wave, and I wanted to tell you I sympathize!!! Today it is 101f in the shade on the north side of our house, and I know all about trying to keep critters and gardens going in heat. The worst summer since we moved away from civilization wa...

Hi all----haven't been here in a good while---did some remodel on the house, etc...and more recently had some remodel done on me----that is to say Carpal Tunnel Surgery and had my elbow taken apart and put back together...not fun but had to be done. Garden stinks---waaay too much rain---and as usual...

Hello all! I haven't been around much lately---StepDad has a serious illness and life on the planet has me a little crazy lately...but I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a wonderful Christmas. Or a Happy Yule....or whatever you celebrate at your house! Oh, and in case I don't get to it-----HA...

That poem made me smile!!

Meat Loaf, mashed potatoes, green beans out of the freezer, Cinnamon Pickles and for me leftover veggie fried rice instead of the meatloaf.

Scanning through a bit,...all I can say is Wow. He certainly does present a lot of information---in a "no-holds-barred" kind of way.

Hi all---just got back from a trip to the local Amish store for some yummies to put on sandwiches for our little upcoming Thanksgiving trip. Got deli meat for hubby and also some Muenster and Green Onion American (I know--not "true" cheese, but it certainly is good on a veggie hoagie!!) fo...

When I arrange flowers from my beds for indoors I like to fill in with the beautiful feathery stuff from the tops of my Sweeties' asparagus...not too much of course or I'd hear it!

Funny!!!

Edit---about the pram!

whats a bucket trap?? or cictor clothespin trap?? A "bucket trap" is just that---a bucket. For example, if you have mice running your kitchen counters at night, you set a bucket in the sink with some bread or other tasty morsels in the bottom, and lay a wood yardstick like a ramp to the l...

Not having much trouble with mice so far this fall---the drought must've inhibited (re)production this year. Plus we currently have three cats. When we do have one in the house I usually set up a bucket trap and "relocate" them within a couple of days. I keep Victor "clothespin" ...

i hate myself. just one clicked and sent off another birthday present to nephew via the demon amazon and sitting here feeling worthless and ....oh what the heck. it was the easiest and cheapest thing to do to get what he wanted to him in time rather than spending the whole day making something he w...

diggernotdreamer wrote:That's a point, why don't you look up the legend that is Durgan, he lives in Canada and what he can't suck through a straw ain't worth knowing

He doesn't seem to have been around much lately.

boboff wrote:
If you are a family you need to be in it 100% together, expect you all to put in 100% and be happy with poor returns for many years.

If not you end up Juicing Lettuce.

...and potatoes

I love John Seymours book---also I would reccommend The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. I cannot tell you how many times I have referred to these two books.