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Sweet potato dollar cakes for a 2nd breakfast :). I'm having 6 instead of my usual 5 (because I've been good). Maybe we can try sweet potatoes again this year. With limited previous success, these pancakes provide inspiration.

Have the film on the hoophouse 😁. It always requires a bit more work than it seems like it should. A lot of the extra tinkering is a result of the casual approach of preceeding years. I suppose that those seasons must be close to 25. I try to keep a door and window frame in space year-round but...

Up a little later this morning with knowing that we will have a rainy day and not suitable for a fair weather gardener :). Thinking about @Marie2020 's question about making vinegar. I am assuming that she means apple cider vinegar. I have made hard apple cider twice — once good, second time...

The diet of a spouse can be an influence. My and my wife's diets are similar. No, they are not exactly the same but difference can be a bother and, because of that, are limited if not eliminated. Over years, I tried quitting tobacco many times. One time was when I first met the lady who...

I just thought it was fun, thinking about who these people are/were :).

Today in 1857, Elisha Otis installed the first safety elevator for passenger service at 488 Broadway in New York City.

Or, isn't it surprising .. . that a rose is in that family? It might have been called the Spirea family, spiraling out over a lot of ground. But, that describes the leaf growth rather than migration pattern. Quite the bed of roses for an apple a day. ;) Steve

Set up the hoops for the 9' by 20' hoophouse. Driving rebar stakes, putting together the pvc pipe, setting them in place — that is about all I accomplished in a couple of hours. Too windy, with 30mph gusts, to be messing with the plastic film. It's a tad late by the calendar for the hoophouse...

Since it is World Poetry Day

My hernia surgery seemed remarkably non-invasive. At the same time, I felt rather stunned following, if that is the right word. I was glad that, partly because of the timing, I had very little to do for several days. The first 2 or 3, most of my physical problem was simply standing up from...

Corn Flakes • Rice Chex • sliced banana • raisins and a small bowl of applesauce, along side. Oolong. I am also confused about the weather, @Gardening with Rabbits. Soil temperature at 35⁰f?! Soil temperature here at home where I could keep track of it didn't work so well as a guide. It varied...

Oh my! The wild roses here have rose hips that are so sour. sshhhivering Steve

My 30 minutes of exercise today was trying to level a step in the garden. After laying out some bricks and making use of them for 3 years, a tree root began pushing up from below. It's from a tree that the neighbor had taken out several years ago. Shoots continued to show up in her yard so I...

Kale from the garden, not in but along side, a bowl of noodles. Nothing in that noodle bowl is from the garden. Shucks. We may have jumped the gun a little because it nearly whittles the kale stems down to having zero leaves and no buds yet. The leaves were incredibly tender and mild! It...