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I don't really keep up a lot with the weather outside of the growing season, but this morning I got shocked by the cold. Yesterday it was -1C/30F in the daytime, this morning it was -33C with windchill factor/-27F. The look on my dogs face when I cracked the door for him to go out was priceless. 🤣

I found an interesting tidbit about one of my network bean returns this year @Blue-Jay; the 'Potomac' bean I grew it turns out is not the one offered at Victory Seed Company. I checked all around, and Chat GPT confirmed that there are 2 separate varieties of it. That one is actually white...

I sent you an email instead. 👍

I guess I didn't phrase that especially well, lol. I meant that it has been very easy for me to incorporate new savory foods into my diet as I got older and started to explore global culinary traditions. I particularly enjoy the spice heavy, vegetable and pulse centered diet of India. But the...

I sent it yesterday, did it not show up at your end?

Yes, great tip, I don't know why I didn't think of that. It's interesting, that bean doesn't look 10 inches either, but it does seem wide like you mentioned. Now I really am bewildered!

Years ago in an Ayurvedic facility I used to make lots of different desserts from powdered milk, which is very common in India. Occasionally I made them right from scratch, boiling and boiling the milk to turn it into fudge that way, through evaporation. But I actually preferred the taste of...

The pods from what I recall seemed quite uniform. I think I need to regrow it again, because I don't think any of them got to 10 inches. Strangely, the seed packet photos of Mombacher Speck don't seem to have 10 inch pods on the front, but rather much smaller pods. Have you grown it or have a...

It's not my bean photo, I took a screen shot from the account of a lady who I follow on instagram. I didn't post the direct link to it, because if people don't have instagram accounts they can't access it. I actually have no idea where she got the bean from, all I know is she had the name...

Minor blizzard last night and so much snow the roads were barely drivable this morning. Tonight -18C/0F. Winter has truly arrived. 🥺

Random dessert experience, which I will probably remake for Christmastime! 🎄 I wanted some kind of bar type dessert that was substantial, and not too bad for human health. Preferably have some health benefit. I don't want to make anything with sugar if I can help it, though I'm not averse...

That's exactly what I thought @Blue-Jay, your Chickasaw is the most similar bean I could think of to this one. She called it 'Salome's Treasure'. It's almost reminds me of a rainbow. Researching it I I wonder if the name is a Biblical reference.

We really only planted the cover crop because the bed wasn't ready for planting in time. The grains grow fast, and it seemed like a wise use of a space that would otherwise just have been a bed of new soil with nothing in it for half a season. But I have a feeling now that this grass will take...

Pretty bean from an instagram account I follow 🥰

@Marie2020 Because my dog's recall at this point is still only about 80% I use a precautionary nylon or polypropylene rope. I cut it to about 15 feet, that woven plastic rope from a dollar store, and I just let it drag on the ground. It allows him to be free and play and roam free with me, but...

Trying to unriddle a Mombecher Speck mystery. My plants gave me 2 pod types which looked like 2 different varieties - 5 inch pods and 8 inch pods. They were both green podded and white seeded, but I could tell that they were each very uniform to those lengths. I typically find the AI search...

I need to be doing work writing up blurbs for the website, but I thought I'd procrastinate and come here and write about kale instead. 😂 It has been interesting to be able to observe the scarlet kale thru winter for basically the first time. It is more wilted than the green in the cold...

I was walking with a senior friend a few years ago on a fairly remote country road, and had an unpleasant Akita encounter. When we drove in I saw a chicken coop in the backyard of a house and that had me in high alert, because I have found country people tend to leave their dogs loose. Sure...

You have to sign a liability waiver to go in. Now that's a good sign right? 😂 I like dogs, but after getting into dog training as a hobby, I don't lose sight of the fact that this is a predator class of animal.

Yes, a lot of people are getting dogs right now based on the look the dog has, or maybe a childhood dream of a dog they liked, not realizing the behavioral disposition that goes with it and how serious that can get. You need skills to deal with that. Heartbreaking because these people sometimes...