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Reused Easter leftovers by making Lamb Stew for tonight's dinner. Eldest DD gave me the shank bones with meat attached. I cooked them overnight with 2 quarts of broth, added (not shown) spinach to onion, garlic, potatoes, carrots and celery and fresh thyme and rosemary. I made biscuits. I am...

Yesterday I spent 4 hours burning sticks and burnable trash and burdock in my fire pit in the Inner Sanctum. Maybe One More Day of burdock, then the 2 ponies can mow there for me. It should be easy to contain them, since I now have a padlock on the chain of the outside Gate of the Inner...

I should ADD, I DID put in one package of pectin, dried. Recipe called for liquid pectin. Works anyway... Mint Jelly recipe This mint jelly for lamb is a traditional recipe made with fresh mint. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups packed fresh mint leaves and stems 2 1/4 cups boiling water 2 tablespoons...

Her Sister, Sasha, stole the brats for dinner a few weeks ago, off of middle DD's counter, and shared with their older dog, Tenma.

SO, Easter got in the way of my gardening, but I KNEW it would. Saturday I was tasked with making a lemon meringue pie and mint sauce. DH always made the mint sauce but I never thought the mint sauce stewing in old jars was as good as fresh. I decided to also make mint jelly, since Eldest DD...

Corporal DID make me happy. He was kinda like Tegan, couldn't shake the happy Out of him. Like when he was gonna be sold to the meat market when I outbid them by $5...when he was a 4yo. Corporal was just happy to be there. And you and I Know that 4yo's are at the right stage to break in...

Dunno WHY they bother telling us we have a freeze warning for tonight through mid morning Tuesday. Of Course there will be several freezes until...there are NOT several freezes. We have even had frost first week of May before. Anyway, since I haven't yet planted my 3 blueberries or the 9 new...

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I came upon maybe the best photo of my Arabian, "Corporal,", (1982-2007, RIP) He was always a hard keeper, but in 1992, not so much...

Needed to go into town to pick up my orders of cat food and Nature's Miracle, dog, to make the basement smell better. Tegan went into heat and forGOT that she was house trained, and figured I wouldn't notice in the basement or the 2nd floor. I.Noticed. Before I left there was a Great Victory...

BY 1803, when he published his 3rd Symphony, The Eroica (Heroic), he was pretty much deaf.

Don't plant a monoculture of evergreens. If one gets sick they ALL get sick. I see this all of the time where I, a whole row of same evergreens, now brown and dead.

Hooray...Tegan is going into heat...just like her sister Sasha...who just came Out of heat... joy...

It's not a glazed ceramic pot, but I like it anyway. I KNOW that plastic pots are really the very best for most plants, BUT, I adore pretty ceramic pots, and the price just keeps climbing on them. I picked up 4 blue ceramic pots, 3 different sizes, with texture, at Dollar General last month...

HO.W.MANY gardening tools do we lose, find, lose again, RE find, buy another...find the original one a year later...

Somehow we forgot to get Tegan her rabies and distemper shots last Fall, which my Vet did earlier this month. I even mailed it off promptly and promptly got the tag on her collar.

I bought 2 strawberry plants last week, and I finally potted them. I found this pot at an estate sale last Summer. There are 9 more spots available for more strawberries. Here's hoping that they do well. :thumbsup

Btw, I make fresh pumpkin pie from an old recipe on a can of Libby's pumpkin, which was: one 16 oz canned pumpkin one 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk YOUR choice--pumpkin pie spice (mixed) OR cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg 3 eggs-0R-some people like 2 eggs--try it the way You like You Don't have to...