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GOOD START!! We know (approximately) where you live and garden! :weee NONE of us are professionals and we talk/write about Many topics that are/are not gardening. IF you are into beans, there is a T.H.R.I.V.I.N.G. bean community here that really gets into the vines. Otherwise we just help...

Got our 1/2 cow. Youngest DD helped me unload and quantify all cuts, both from 2025 (Greenland) and 2026 (1/2 Alaska.) I finally dug up the dark pink peony that somebody planted just north of a big maple. It never got full sun, and was easily 1/4 the size of the two some 5-7 feet south of it...

Warm--ISH. Feels cooler bc of the wind. Warm eNOUGH for me to turn off the heat. I have a heated blanket on my bed so I won't freeze. We'll see if I turn the heat back on again this season... Otherwise I am getting fresh air in the house. Taking a break. I moved specialty meat out of the...

My Inner Sanctum, fenced in area in front of my barn, isn't very large AND my horses have spent several weeks nibbling the edges of it AND the north pasture. I let them have it for 4 hrs this afternoon, when the sugars are lower. No sense gambling with grass founder, which is still Founder...

Had to drive into town to sign paperwork so that the shop can fix my car that hit the raccoon. Broke down and bought 1 rosemary and 1 basil to grow on top of the fridge with the Other herbs there. Will transplant tomorrow. DD's threw my old storm door in the back of my truck, along with the...

Mowed and dug up a small clump of garlic sprouts growing together and transplanted them 6-8 inches apart.

No, 2 legs of lamp, $60/each. We in the Midwest eat very little lamb. I am willing to try mutton, since I now know 2 sources of it. @baymule, don't be too quick to invite me. I MIGHT show up with one of my DD's, unexpected! 🤔

@Phaedra , does your wash smell "Green?" :lol:

Froze the lamb stew leftovers. Eldest DD agreed that we can get one more meal, If I add a quart of tomatoes when I heat it up, AND make more biscuits. I finally learned to make biscuits right. I watched a cook mix them, then roll, and fold and roll and fold about 4x or more. It made them...

The Volstead Act has a fascinating history. Beer distilleries never stopped making beer during Prohibition, they just made "near beer", as per law. It takes several months to brew beer, and, when prohibition was repealed, they were staged to make real beer again, quickly. Therefore...

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...