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How sad!! I made a b'day cake, gluten free, box mix at WalMart, for my friend who cannot eat gluten. Salsa Party, Oct, 12th, was her b'day and she asked for whipped cream frosting with strawberries. It was Really good! She took 1/2 of it home bc she loved it and needs to gain weight.

Frost "on the pumpkin" this morning, but My 12 pumpkins were inside the carraige house, in a clean muck bucket and in the back of my tow wagon, safe from the frost. They still need to go on the porch this weekend. Pictures of them later. i also asked DH if he wanted some rhubarb. He said, we...

Salsa 13: Bloodbath, was a resounding success Saturday night, with DD's making waffles at their house with bacon for the folks that slept over and gamed at their house. Original Salsa hosts came late after the Illini football game (that they almost lost), and I sent them home with a couple of...

We have been drinking sweetened hot brewed "iced tea" for decades now, and there is always a pitcher of it in the fridge.

@digitS' , I see that your "emoji-foo" is strong! 👋

Me, too!!

COLD!!! 😬 Brisk Fall wind!! 🍂🍂🍂 🫨 Light rain...🌂 Frost advisory tonight and tomorrow night. 🥶🥶🥶

I ended up canning 3 1/4 quarts of tomatoes yesterday. We STILL have a frost warning for early Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. I will harvest today or tomorrow and bring in nice and big green tomatoes to ripen inside, like I do every year. I have canned about 10 quarts of tomatoes this year, I...

No, if your jar is clean you won't grow bacteria in it. The idea was to put this out in the sun on a HOT day, and let it steep the tea bags for several hours. Just like a car gets super hot when in the summer sun, so the water in the sun tea jar gets that hot, too. I just never really used my...

Our average frost is on the 24th, but we have had snow on October 11th before. I suspect that it's all due to the Canadian low that has kept us in a mini drought, with virtually no cloud cover for the past few weeks. Gonna move some plants inside today, and then on Monday, since my yearly Salsa...

Last week I stocked up on all purpose flour. WM had 5 pounds/~$5, so I bought 10 pounds, 25 pounds wasn't an option, as it had been in past years. I repackaged from the paper and labeled with the expiration date. The one container with 2 expiration dates lives upstairs in the cupboard with a...

I powered through and gardened today. We are getting a frost next Tuesday night, so I pruned up my tomatoes so that they will focus only on the fruit. Where there were small tomatoes on a vine that has produced really big ones, I got them off, too--too little, too late. I also watered my...

Have you had cyclical drought? We have and the experts here in Central IL are blaming tree deaths on recurring drought. I lost one of my Mortmorency Cherries last winter and the surviving one dropped almost all of it's leaves this August. I put a soaker hose on it and I have used my cistern...

SO JELLY!!! I will look for them AGAIN when we go to Alaska next May.

Pruned tomato plants. Frost predicted for next Tuesday--:eek:--and I want the plants to focus on developing fruit ONLY.

One more hurdle jumped--physical went well. Dr. suggested all is clear for my knee operation, as long as the lab work looks ok, which I'm pretty sure it will, since the last lab work looked good. That will be next Friday.

Call me. I might be awake at 2AM.

Guess this will be the first place I dump from the stalls this winter.

i am getting sad reading these old threads bc there are members who have dropped out but they posted on these threads. Prairie Rose lives only a couple of hrs from me, and we used to share threads a few years ago. Same with Thistlebloom. :hit

I understand that even the experts cannot tell the difference between pure vanilla, made from the beans and artificial vanilla--BIG difference in price. Go for it. In Fact, many cooks who want the real thing go for vanilla paste and not the vodka based liquid. Just sayin....guess vanilla is on...