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We had a surprise snowstorm on Thanksgiving. Heavy wet snow that caused a lot of power outages statewide. Fortunately most of it melted yesterday, and there are just a few inches remaining if that.

Well our old emergency fund was some years ago, and everything was less expensive back then. Still I think a savings account for the purpose is a better bet than insurance. Do you have a different vet you could take your kitty to? This one sounds like a corporate over-priced waste of your...

OK Bay, you have a sheep with SMS (stupid mother syndrome) but I'll go you one better. I have a sheltie with SDS (stupid dog syndrome). To explain: These are 2 photos of the summer configuration of the ramps leading off the back porch. Each of these 4 ramp parts is approximately 12 inches...

That's so funny, and so cool that you found it at long last.

I've never been big on pet health insurance. Even when we were living dollar-to-dollar I simply kept $1,000. on hand. That would've covered most vet emergency surgeries or other expenses, and we could have come up with the rest if treatment exceeded that one grand.

Doesn't "propagation" also describe growing a plant from seed?

Here's wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow gardeners! My house is still torn up from recent home repairs which are thankfully at an end. The door I kicked has been replaced, exterior light fixture also successfully replaced, and best of all the cheapo vinyl window in upstairs...

I don't care; they'll always be flip-flops to me. But I'm old and stubbornly refuse to change. I refuse to call grated lemon rind "lemon zest." "Middle school" will always be junior high to me, and probably a host of other reinvented words have passed me by.

A subset of collies and other herding dogs have a sensitivity to ivermectin and other drugs in that same class when given over a certain dosage. This research was conducted in the 1980s when this sensitivity was discovered - it is a failing in the blood/brain barrier. You can have a collie...

Sounds yummy!

Isn't that the way - that governments import a species expecting it will keep another species in check, the way they do in a different country, and it goes completely haywire. It's never as simple as they think! May I ask what meds you import from the US? We mostly buy de-worming and...

Well yours differs greatly from my woolly bear posted last month (on my purple garden hose): Supposedly the longer the red band in relation to the surrounding black bands indicates a milder winter, but your woolly bear has almost equal red to black ratio. Perhaps we're going to have a mild...

The only recent photos I have of myself are these, taken with a critter cam I think. Cleaning out the garden, end of 2023 season: and a cookout with my dog Mabel 2022:

Roos must be your version of our deer, or do you also have deer "down under?" It must be your springtime now, headed into summer, as we are headed for winter. Time and seasonal differences between the southern and northern hemispheres and opposite sides of the globe never fail to amuse and...

That is so cool! Reminds me of a story once where a man lost his arm to some equipment malfunction out in the field. He ran back to the house to call for help, and when the EMS arrived, they searched for the missing arm and found the gentleman's arm on the ground in a field behind the house...

Ebay could have just been doing software maintenance. That's often the case with any website that inexplicably acts squirrely. I'd try again later.

That's a shame that you're being forced to bottle feed spot. It had sounded hopeful that Granny might accept him.

Oh my word! I cannot imagine trying to cope with this craziness. Are these lambs Granny's first? At any rate I'm glad she seems to finally be accepting the babies as her own. What an ordeal!

I think I saw the same documentary. The part I found most interesting was parental care given by a mother tree to its offspring/seedlings, transferring nutrients to the little trees through their root systems. It explains why seedlings that spring up naturally seem to thrive better than...

These are phenomenal. Were these pieces all made by the same artist or by different artists? The Peabody Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA (part of Harvard University) has (haven't been there in over 40 years but I assume the exhibit still exists) an exhibit of glass flowers. They...