Recent content by flowerbug

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :)

sure has! good to hear from you. :)

purslane is edible but it has some issues with oxalates and people are picky about texture or flavor so it isn't popular. i can eat it myself, Mom won't touch it. another basic problem is that it doesn't get going until the weather is warm enough so you can't use it as an easy early season...

no new mouse tracks in the snow...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea

if you milked her and fed that milk to the baby would it then work?

she was always fun to talk to and visit with, she'd only been able to visit us here at our place once some years ago - even back then she was having trouble getting around. nah. :) i'm getting more a hermit as time goes on and being a care taker is not easy for me. i'm not an in-person...

yes, keeping a garden clear is much easier when it is empty. my own trouble seems to be that i don't like leaving much room between rows so they get kinda grown over and more effort to weed. i use a large knife a lot of the time when i need to get around and in between the plants (mostly...

i can't even remember the last time i bowled but it might have been when i was in college (they had PE classes we had to take 6 credits aka one class per term for two years and one of those PE classes was bowling and another was advanced bowling - simple as you only had to show up and bowl a...

...flying squirrels...

yes, you can certainly do better by using a bit of butter and powdered sugar if you need frosting or if you want a cream puff filling ours is basically water, butter, sugar, flour and vanilla - nothing odd in that at all...

if you put her in a jug with her Momma won't she eventually figure it out?

hence beading, wood-ivory-stone carving and pestering your partner (i think they rubbed noses up der...). glad you did not have to go out ice-skating yesterday or last night. :)

our friend who made the Christmas miniatures box passed away NYE. :( i'm glad we were able to go visit her when we did. RIP dear friend.

no, it's more like a mixture of fat and sugar and as much air as they can get into it plus faint other flavors like vanilla. marshmallow would be an improvement but it wouldn't be shelf stable or firm enough.