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Missing from this poll are flowers, both annual and perennial. Time was perennial flowering plants would have headed my list. Now it's a toss-up between my potted outdoor porch plants and vegies in a raised bed behind the house.

I suppose in the "deep dark hollers where the sun don't never shine" I wouldn't like it either. But I live halfway up a mountain, so that's a very different perspective.

But you have the lake, which is very close to being an ocean. I love mountains, but I also love the seashore and could be happy in a coastal area.

A bowl of spaghetti for a modest lunch (with a glass of milk and some carrot and celery sticks, not shown) made me suddenly realize that now, months after dealing with my over-abundant harvest, there is something enjoyable about eating something in winter that came from one's own garden. With...

Happy International Mountain Day from here in the Green Mountain State! The rain today melted our snow, but snow is still on the mountains around me.

Oh I see now. At first glance it looked like the bed of a truck. So Sheba's newly claimed bedroom will last awhile.

That bed looks like the king of comfort. She won't be thrilled when you unload all this hay.

Thankfully it appears that both Aerial and Sugar can count, "One, Two." Are twins the norm with sheep?

Thank you! This is interesting, and I'm definitely going to look into getting azomite and trying it out.

Ha ha! Their official name is "Candyland" currant-sized tomatoes. They are very small!

These bright colored seed catalogs are always so welcome when the world outside has turned to monochromatic shades of white. I have almost all the seeds I need, but I love looking through the pages and dreaming of summer. The arrival of the latest catalog reminded me that my saved seeds...

I'm so sorry to read this. At least this explains his symptoms and you won't have to put him and yourself through more stressful vet visits except for the final one on Tuesday. This is very sad.

Too much rain will dilute flavor? I didn't know that. Here's hoping we have drier conditions next summer.

Actually it's Mabel, from the French Ma Belle meaning my beautiful one. She *is* beautiful, but definitely CRAZY. Maybe cleats would have helped the situation, but I'm not going out into the polar winter with a drill and hardware, so too late now. She's never slipped or fallen on this ramp...

Probably its popularity is because it was developed in your country. I chose it because of how early it bears fruit, and with our short growing season this was a draw. These tomatoes were fine in salads, and made 4 big containers of spaghetti sauce, one eaten and the other three in the...

Yes I can relate. I'm also a long distance from veterinary and other necessities, about a half hour away, but I do have a car and can drive (even if no longer on super highways). Otherwise a taxi here would be equally exorbitant. Your cat looks like a gentle little soul and I hope the best...

She'd like best to live in a pack with 3 or 4 other dogs.

I am thinking of growing an heirloom tomato next summer, rather than the Arctic Plenty variety I grew this year. I think that now with my indoor grow light kit, if I start the plants early they might have a hope of ripening before frost. A short growing time was my main reason for planting...

It sounds like fluids would help him more than anything. That is something that a locum could easily do. I used to give sub-cutaneous fluids to my elderly cats whose kidneys were no longer working very well, and it helped them a great deal. Maybe you could take him for fluid treatment once or...

Government messing around with health care systems - we have the same sort of problems here, made worse by our for-profit health care structure.