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There was incredible fog in Houston, the time I thought that I would stop and spend some time there, @baymule . We had a ½ inch of rain over the recent week and more like an inch if we go back about 10 days. I brought the binoculars out yesterday to look at the clearings on the nearest hill...

Let me say one thing about chickens and mice. If the chickens can patrol all sides of the bin, .. you should have NO problems with mice in there. Steve

Have you ever been in an elevator like that? There used to be an operator who went up and down with you, handling door and controls. The first "self-service" one I was on, was stuck after I arrived on a floor and we had to push the doors open from the inside. Of course the service elevator at...

Re: that easy chair in the corner of the loft. It's important to have a good place to sit up there. But, wouldn't a hay bale be good enuf for that? How 'bout it you put an empty burlap bag over it to make it more comfortable? Oh forget all that, you had that surgery and extra comfort needs to...

I see on the North American radar map that storm in @baymule 's corner of Texas has now moved east. It looks very severe in Mississippi and Louisiana. The winds are greatly reduced here at 9AM. It's funny to look over at the trees bordering the elementary school's playground that were so...

Parsnips are a worthwhile crop to grow. Their flavor is unique and Winter storage quality is excellent. One other reason is that they are difficult to find at the soopermarkets. A long-term crop, parsnips were relegated to the distant gardens and the better soil here at home was allocated to...

Wow, @Dahlia , that's the conditions here this morning! The wind gusts are above 40 mph. There was a power outage not far away — unusual since we are only a couple of miles from a hydroelectric dam. Temperatures in the mid-30's (4-5 C). We had less than 1/3rd of an inch of rain. The Weather...

Yes but nothing but sprinkles overnight and now & then through the morning. Finally, the sky darkened and it rained enough for puddles. Back to sprinkles at the moment. Maybe we will have more from this Pacific NW storm.

It was bothersome. And, I was gaining little economically. As a child, I always had pets. This included birds that had to live indoors, and this continued even into DW's arrival. She was not very happy about the old parakeet spending daytime out of the cage in her tree – bothersome to DW. At...

I hardly know how it would be otherwise, @heirloomgal . We all must eat. When I moved out of the sticks, I became a vegetarian for a time. Other than purchasing, I was no longer responsible for the animal proteins that I consumed. It didn't work all that well with family. For quite a few years...

More shovel work and double digging the beds. With so few square feet here at home, it isn't the 33%/year that I practiced years ago for the veggie beds. They are all being dug out. There is a fair amount of material to plow into that ground. The beds that were treated this way, all the time...

Baked Honeycrisp apple in the bowl with Crispix and Honey Bunches of Oats. The 30+ year old furnace could have been replaced tomorrow but it won't happen until next Thursday. When these service outfits say that text message communications are okay, it would be nice if they actually check them...

A new word. Be careful not to chip a tooth! That harvesting after snowfall was a real problem during my first adventure growing kale. I had the plants at such a distance from the kitchen of my, then, country home — that I had to shovel all the way to the end of the garden to reach them. Steve