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congratulations you've won a weather swirly! it's rained four times already today (not counting whatever happened last night) quick but heavy and windy storms and it looks like plenty more on the way.

i think that is pretty normal for mice too. they are always around but you may not notice them in the daytime unless there is food they can get at.

i don't see that one here, but i do get various spots of anthracnose and sometimes white mold. so much depends upon how much it rains and the air flow for fungal and bacterial diseases. because such diseases are well established and endemic here i don't spray the plants and instead only grow...

rat traps. glad to say i'm not seeing that here. we've always had mice and chipmunks and sometimes get overrun with chipmunks to where i have to hunt and trap them, but it hasn't been like that for several years.

sorry, i have limited time and often do not watch YT videos on days other than Wednesday. sometimes i can tell by looking that the video is funny or likeable, but if i can't tell that from a quick glance i pass on by...

as to ancestors, all i know for certain is that i had some and they survived long enough to have children. i'm still not sure if humans in modern form are from only one particular event or multiple events, but the life that we are based upon may also be from either singular or multiple events...

i did go out and pick some beans today even if i was sticking to the top of the garden itself. now they are all spread out and drying in the sun and the breeze as much as they can before i have to bring them in tonight. in a half hour i'll go out and give them a stir to help them along a bit...

@digitS' outfits? :) :) :) i think i got the thread of what you meant but perhaps i didn't cotton on to it after all...

as long as they are fairly well developed inside they should be ok for continued curing. it's when they're green and soft that they usually don't improve off the vine. i think the stem is a good indicator of how far along they are, if the stem is pretty hard and mostly dry they're as done as...

i didn't expect to get out and pick beans but the weather was really nice and i wanted to do something even if it meant walking around in muddy shoes. i have flats of beans out in the sun and breeze drying them off as much as possible before i bring them in later.

@ducks4you any garlic that grew this year if left in the ground should be ok for next season, but it will be a clump of bulbs and most of them are likely to be smaller. after several years what you will have is a larger clump of garlic (as long as it doesn't get overgrown by something else and...

yes, this is right out of middle eastern cuisine. :) very good eats. all of it. as for cleanup. nobody here except us chickens...

i went to put something in the cup to warm it up in the microwave this morning and missed the cup by half. so that was the start of my day... :) coordinated i was not... we are on opposite schedules again. last night about 3am some emergency vehicle came through with sirens blaring. like...

i read the description and noted the point about boiling them simply because they have a delicate flavor. i do that for almost all of my dry beans because i enjoy their unique flavors and don't like to mask them by putting in a lot of other ingredients. most of the time something simple like...

we have the option of displaying it or not. i don't see them (nor do i want to - nothing personal, i just don't like clutter on the screen like that). :) you can also put stuff in your profile...