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Bob! Where ya been?? Missed you. Must have been lost in that blizzard..... :gig

That's generally how we do it too....Mom and I make a good partnership on such things. Since I do most of the cooking, canning, baking now, she usually does the dishes. Sometimes we don't generate enough dishes to warrant keeping the water in the sink all the time and sometimes we do, but...

Yeah....my boys were raised in a much easier setting also. They had to do the usual mowing, weedeating, carrying in wood and such, but in the way of daily work like clearing brush, slopping hogs, carrying water, etc. they didn't have much at my house but more so at their grandparent's home...

Exactly. Where is the sense in all of that? If you have to wash a dish, just wash it good and be done with it.

Doing dishes seems to be a bone of contention in a lot of homes. When the kids were growing up they had to take turns....after all, they were the ones dirtying all the dishes. When I was growing up~9 kids, mind you~dishes were also a chore that was a big deal and much hated. Mom was the...

I'm just now seeing this!!!! This is beautiful....and genius!!!! Ninny, if you wanted to, you could make a huge killin' with these in season. Folks around here would go crazy for these!!!

A little update on the soil/grass improvement and will try to get pics later to show. The area I spread out the most hay on the lawn has started to sprout grass! We've had unseasonably warm temps and tons of rain this winter, so things are starting to happen even earlier than I expected...

:gig LOVE that song and I feel the same way, here in the middle of all things. Either direction I face, the song applies! :D

Amen, Brotha! Preach! :clap

:D In the south we get a little more creative in our methods and usually everything points to more food. :cool: Sheep eat the weeds, we eat the sheep, it's all good. Now that I have hair sheep I can intentionally copice multiflora rose, autumn olive and honeysuckle so as to encourage more...

I miss him a good deal. He took a lot of the light with him from this garden patch when he left....for awhile I kept coming back to see what he was posting now. Then I'd remember he's gone. Hasn't been as fun here since. ☹

I usually grow vining squash each year and the squash bugs here aren't a bit picky....they like ALL the squash and cukes. A late sowing may be the answer, so I'll try that this coming year, as well as planting in other areas of the property....that seemed to work well last year.

Mine are too but they didn't seem to be able to do anything about the squash bugs....I think they hide a little deeper than the chickens could scratch. Or the mulch was too deep and heavy for the chickens to move...not sure. The ducks, however, were able to move deeper into the mulch...

Basically they are just using that definition as a marketing gimmick, but it's just grass fed and finished lamb of any breed of sheep, but mostly woolly breeds. http://www.cafecassette.com/best-lamb-in-the-world/ Difference between hair and wool taste...

It's likely you were eating a wool breed lamb. I've tried both and the hair sheep taste vastly different, especially when raised on grass only. The wool breed required a lot of garlic to mask the strong flavor whereas the hair sheep didn't have any strong flavor....very tender and sweet...

Since you've been doing mulch for some time now, could be you won't need a tiller but only a cultivator. They disturb the soil less deeply but still work it up enough for planting and exposing bugs. I use a little Mantis cultivator here and it does VERY well in the composted mulch....not so...

Oh, happy day, Ducks!!! :hugs I hope it was a good one and am so glad you were born and we get to know you here! :love

We've planted winter wheat many times, but mostly to cover the garden in the fall or as deer food, but never to actually harvest. Should be interesting. Sure hope I get some rodents playing in it....the cats will LOVE that!