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Taking puppies on a walk on the south yard I checked in my tomato plants. I looks like we might get a small harvest next week. Tomorrow I am 8 weeks out on my surgery, told that the bones on my left leg are set at this point, so I will be talking to my PT tomorrow about What outside work I...

The other news is that we are getting: 1) a new Fridge 2) a new Washer 3) a new Dishwasher 1) Glad it was a Holiday weekend and that we got 30% off!! :th Last Thursday morning I woke up to water underneath the ice dispenser. I checked and the extra ice cube trays were mushy. By Saturday I...

I Know "Tegan" is a popular girl's name now, but it Is a sweet name--other DD and I didn't really care to get into their argument. I had purchased collars and leashes, but those collars are currently too big, so we stopped on the drive home to get 2 smaller collars. I imagine by October they...

DD's spent Saturday and Sunday puppy proofing the house. Our house is old and we can shut doors since we don't have an open concept layout, and that is best way to keep them away from slippers which they are both Very interested in chewing on. Middle DD is wanting to get a puppy before her 14yo...

Puppies, UPDATE. Home and settling in. Eldest DD offered to drive us 2 1/2 hrs NW to outside of a little town I didn't know existed, but it's Bigger than where I live to retrieve puppies. There IS NO "Puppy Door Dash." :lol: "Sasha" is My puppy, "Tegan" is DH's puppy. DH and Eldest DD fought...

Grapes make a really good fence, btw.

Fod in the morning. NO.RAIN.EVER!! It has been weeks since we saw it--I think rainfall is now a myth.

We were camping in Custer State Park, French Creek Horse Camp, early -90's. All 4 horses were on picket pins, which means that they were ground tied. Our current dog, all of 30 pounds, starts barking. We look up the road through camp and there is this huge bison slowly walking down it and...

Did you know that Venus Fly Traps are native? I think that they grow wild in Tennessee.

Thanks! :hugs DD's suggested that I give the 1/2 pint of garlic chips to Middle DD bc we are driving to Her house for lunch today--meat loaf and other good things--so it's packed. I also retrieved some pods of purple columbine and packed them in a labelled paper lunch bag for her wildflower...

Look into a 2nd laptop around Christmastime, when Everything electric is on sale. MY laptop has a 17.3 inch screen, AND, DD knows how to hook up a laptop to a tv or large monitor bc we sometimes download stuff To my laptop that we want to watch on a big screen. I have been a STAPLES customer for...

Weeellllll....Not all dried out where I Like them. The instructions suggestions "rubbery" was acceptable. NOT for Me!!! :rant I separated the "hard as banana chips" garlic pieces from those that needed more time. They and the jalepano pieces, which were still rubbery, went back in for more...

I did quick search for "capsicum flexuosum seeds". I don't shop Amazon or Etsy, but I couldn't seem to find a reputable seller. Where did you find Yours?

I am SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!! :hugs Sorry, my dismal 2025 gardening Beats yours!! :lol: (Go to my thread...) Still, I have learned SO MUCH about container gardening this year, by accident. Our weather has been Garden LOUSY, 2 years in a row--yours probably, too, so it's not a loss.

So...with somewhat limited energy, I chopped up one full tray of garlic slices and that big jalepano in a previous picture on another tray. I MEANT to fill the 6 trays of the dehydrator, but couldn't, so I left the glass doors open. Last night I thought, What the hay? and started it up for 6...

@ninnymary , you will learn to LOVE your laptop!! :love Consider: it sits on your lap or you dining room table, has a nice battery, maybe 4 hrs like mine, so you don't always have to have it plugged in, and many/most have loads of RAM (random access memory) and many more GIGS than My first...

That's what I thought. Thanks! :hugs

Off of the cuff question--do chickens eat ticks?

https://modernfarmer.com/2025/08/prairie-strips-soil-nutrient-loss/

I read a few pages back regarding poison ivy. Here is my go to, and for $2/bar it's a very good deal. The directions say to lather up and LEAVE.ON. Me and DD's each keep a bar of this in a travel soap container and we Swear by it for poison ivy and other weed rashes, when you forget to cover up...