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Oh no! Well you're in good company here! We should have conventions or reunions or something.

Door kickers unite!

Dented or bulging cans are a sure sign, but this news story centered on cans/jars that appeared normal and tasted nearly normal. It was enough to scare off chicken-hearted me. On edit, I wonder if following the money trail from that news story would have led to Del Monte et al. It was right...

The batteries (a single re-chargable AA) in my cheapo lights are easy to change, but I do hate having to clean out the spiders that have set up house-keeping in each light when I bring them in for the winter. The batteries are always still going strong at the end of summer, but to avoid...

I have one color changing light. It's in an area we used to joke was the Los Vegas area of our property.

Um, yes I did! "Soon I will get inspired to turn the many bags of frozen tomatoes, and leftover ground bison, into a vat of spaghetti sauce. I need the freezer space!" ~and~ "Anyways these frozen tomatoes are already earmarked for spaghetti sauce....." The unfrozen ones have all been eaten...

I bet I did one better than your Mom, the other day when I kicked a stuck door, hoping to dislodge it. Unfortunately instead of giving way, it held its ground, and I might as well have kicked a block of granite. So now I'm hobbling around with a badly bruised big toe (at least it's not broken)...

Love your blown glass-looking hummingbirds and bugs! Do they light up? I really like these. Most of my solar lights were just the cheapest white lights available, but I changed their colors to orange and some to green, by filling some with colored beads, and using colored duct tape on others.

Cool that you competed in endurance rides. I suspect your own endurance by far out weighs my own! We used to condition for and ride on competitive trail rides, but those are much tamer. Your horses must have been really wiped out if you had to call for a rescue trailer! Most of our...

I'm too lazy to make mead, but I buy it! I've been busy the past two days. First I moved an orange solar light from up the steep hill behind the house to down below in the more civilized picnic area. The path to reach it is getting overgrown with brambles that I don't feel like doing battle...

Very sorry for your loss. RIP sweet dog.

We're having sunny warm weather with colder nights. Peak foliage season has passed, but I did take a 'before' picture a week ago, as well as an 'after' shot today. From the dog yard: Edges of sugar maples were just starting to color up and all the tiny red crabapples are on my tree. (This is...

Just beautiful!

Not sure if this belongs on a weather thread or not, but the foliage this year has been gorgeous. At first it began as sort of drab shades of orange and yellow, but then last week the cool temperatures caused dramatic bright reds to appear, and those dull oranges to transform into vibrant...

Feast or famine, that seems the way too often.

Yes, no effort is too small.

I'm too scared to try canning for fear of poisoning myself and/or someone else. Just call me chicken! Even back when I made jam and sealed the jars with wax, I didn't trust it enough to store in the cupboard, but kept the jars in the fridge. Anyways these frozen tomatoes are already...

Oh Ick! That must be horrible.

I chopped up the lone last fresh tomato into a salad last night. Ah, it's grocery store tomatoes from now on, until next summer's harvest. A sad thought. I plan to use my little indoor grow kit to provide me with salad greens this winter. Soon I will get inspired to turn the many bags of...

Finally we got the hard frost I've been waiting for, the night before last. I emptied out flowerpots and containers yesterday, brought metal garden structures into the barn for winter. I left a few pots of geraniums on the front porch that survived the frost because I didn't have the heart to...