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Fascinating that your hummingbirds don't migrate, but rather sort of hibernate. I had no idea they could do that.

Saw the first flock of Canada geese headed southward high overhead today. Still no frost, but the next 3 nights will probably bring it. Found this little critter on my garden hose this morning. Legend has it that when the orange band on a woolly bear caterpillar is shorter/narrower, the...

Is that view from your home, Shades-of-Oregon? If so you live in a lovely place,

I've never had any luck protecting animal's wounds from themselves. None will wear one of those E-collars, and stitches have no chance of being left alone. Had a collie once who got a deep gash in his front leg from running into a drainpipe. Vet sewed him up, and he promptly tore out all...

That always sounded like a recipe for bacterial growth to me.

I can't even imagine!

Longtime friends of ours live on Anna Maria Island and evacuated yesterday to a home of a friend inland but still in the path of Milton. Haven't heard yet today how they fared, but their plans to retire and leave the area had intensified yesterday. Milton is the 2nd catastrophic hurricane to...

Same here, and the harvesting season is short, so I can only get (organic) corn on the cob a couple times a year. It was long ago when we had our big garden and used to have so much corn that I removed a lot from the ears, froze some and turned some into creamed corn.

If you're using fresh corn right off the cob, it shouldn't need any sugar. Same thing with any other creamed vegetable, freshness is key.

I don't grow vervain, but it grows (wild) on my property. Never used it medicinally though.

I just make a cream sauce of milk, cream, and melted butter with flour added as a thickener (use an egg beater to blend these while it is heating) and add salt and lots of black pepper. Then combine with cooked corn scraped from the cobs with a sharp knife.

I've heard there are farmers markets where vendors sell what they have personally grown, sewn, baked, or otherwise created, and then there are farmers markets where vendors buy wares and then sell them at a mark-up price. The one I frequent is the first variety, and I love it. This market...

I can tell the difference between synthetic vanilla ("vanillin") and real vanilla extract. I don't like vodka either, but in vanilla extract I don't really notice it, if that is what is used. If I were making my own, I'd use brandy.

Nothing I would ever have said in the past, but this year I'm sick of summer and looking forward to frost. In fact I'd welcome a hard freeze at this point. I'd like to get the last of my outdoor work finished so as to turn my attention to indoor projects, but most of what is left to do outside...

I'm down to about a dozen tomatoes that I've been eating in salads and slicing to add to ham and cheese sandwiches. There may yet be a few tomatoes still ripening on the vine. But the bulk of my harvest is in freezer bags, waiting to be made into sauce later.

My property was part of a dairy farm for hundreds of years before we bought it. Hoping to find a couple metal items that we had lost, we bought a metal detector, but the only things it turned up were what one would expect, small rusted bits of farm equipment and bullet casings.

Muskrat's evil twin.

What do you use the goldenrod for?

Evidently most bikers today are old. No youngsters are stepping in to replace the old timers. So said the news reporter covering the annual rally in Laconia NH this past summer, and for sure it was a sea of grey-haired riders behind and around him. How can that even be? So your cartoon is...

It was raining so hard that they cancelled the farmers market in Manchester (city south of me) for this week. This came as a relief since I was vacillating about whether or not to make the trip. I need to go to Rutland (city to my north) for some things that can't be had in Manchester, so...