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  1. flowerbug

    Short Clips and Discussions

    i think it is pretty easy to identify - there are plenty of pictures of it available for comparison to what you are seeing?
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    Concerned About Growing Old?

    considering the alternative...
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    Short Clips and Discussions

    i've probably harvested a few tons of it by now and put it on the weed pile or buried it (depending upon if it has seeds or not). yes, i do eat some of it.
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    Short Clips and Discussions

    purslane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea you do not want it in your regular gardens, but yes it is edible but not particularly good tasting, a bit slimy and bitter. if only it was chocolate or beef flavored ... it does not like being regularly flooded but otherwise it's a...
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    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    i have package for you @Blue-Jay all ready to go. i'll let you know for sure when it is on the way (probably Tues or Wed). 3 of the 5 have plenty in the return packets (Four Corners Red, Sunrise and SW Gold) and the other 2 (SW Red, Tiger's Eye) have enough to replace what you sent me plus...
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    Show off your holiday trees and decorations. Fun time to celebrate the season.

    thank you, i'll pass along the comments to the people who made them. :) i posted a larger version of the box one to the POW thread...
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    The drive ...

    sad to say a few weeks ago a squirrel did not make it across the road in front of me as i was driving. it made the mistake of running out into the road and then stopping in the middle to change it's mind. if it had kept going i'd have just missed it, but it stopped and then darted back the...
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    Better Beans ?

    i don't have that problem as long as i regularly eat beans my body does well with them. if for some reason i don't eat much of them for a while then i do go back to eating them again i have to build back up to where it gets back to normal but even without soaking the beans and draining off the...
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    Your Weather, 2025

    yes! it's like over the hump day for the entire year. :)
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    The Cat's Outta the Bag!

    hmm, i've never seen a cat chewing random plastic unless it had something on it... then again, i don't really spend much time around cats or dogs these days. i do know dogs may chew on about anything including all sorts of what might be considered inedible. i mean tinsel off the Christmas...
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    Gone to the Dogs

    well at least it wasn't a setter...
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    Garden humor thread..

    And: "Do you have good coffee, vanilla and chocolate?!"
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    Ok one for the holidays:
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    Show off your holiday trees and decorations. Fun time to celebrate the season.

    our minimalist decoration a friend made for us: and Mom wanted to make something with pinecones and pink in a jar.
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    Your Weather, 2025

    a little bit of snow forecast for today and tomorrow and warming up. overnight lows here got down to 0F and windchills were below zero around -17F. glad it will be warming up for a few days this week with rains and then back to cooler weather later on towards next weekend and then more rains...
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    What is the song or poem weighs up how you feel today??

    Mom called this "longhair" music when i was a kid, but i really enjoy this (including the conductor :) ):
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    stubbed toes and mud pies

    Mom's expression from a few moments ago that made us both laugh, "...sew my head off." talking about how glad she was to be done with the lap quilts she was making for the holiday season.
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    What Unexpected Garden Guest Surprised You This Week? 🌿

    it might be quiet enough that they think it is an ok roosting and resting up place. i don't know for sure though. i have no problem at all with crows being around here. i talk to them and they seem to find me ok even if they won't come near me. i also leave them mice or chipmunks if i've had...
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    Your Favorite Christmas Song?

    while this doesn't have much to do with songs or music there could be one that does but in the following article i heartily recommend traditions: 1,2,3,5,7 with 5 being a surprise to me as i'd never heard of such a thing before yet i do like our interesting friends of the smaller realm...
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    Your Weather, 2025

    um, these are cans that has the food in them to begin with and they are heated quite a bit during the manufacturing and canning processes so us warming them up isn't going to kill us, and besides i can tell you that Mom don't give a rip about any possible contaminants coming from cans or...
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