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yeah, i'm losing some light due to trees now out back later in the day. cedar trees if they are big enough that wood is nice to smell. if you make anything from them it will probably last a long time.

if you have the right variety of tomatoes (avoid those noted as low-acid types) and don't water them down during prep they will be safe canned in a BWB. food poisoning is often caused by cross-contamination from meats or vegetables that weren't washed or cooked fully before combining with other...

haha! we get some TP. :) the thing about smashing basically continues, like last night Mom is banging the remote control because it isn't working as she expects it to work. i tell her that it doesn't help to smash something and that it won't work any better. once in a while it is batteries...

i meant to include the time-period in this but my brain got distracted... :) this was the early 1970s and the phone was a Motorola. in looking at pictures online now i don't see anything that looks like what we had. it did not have a number pad (leds and screens weren't around then). it was...

since i am a out of sight out of mind type of person whatever written records i have aren't too likely to be very accurate. my boxes of the actual collection are the records and in them are the dates when grown and if there is a named variety the name is in the container. the challenge is...

we need to do that too. it actually could happen today as we're also supposed to be redoing the counter tops which means the doors may be open anyways. was i planning on doing this today? no... oh well... i do have the paint. which i've had for two years.

if you've not ever seen any of James Burkes Connections series on tv it was one of the most interesting shows to me, and i've never seen all of them. i should see if i can get them on DVD from the library to watch sometime this winter. there's a good chance though that now both of us would...

ok, you win, but for the life of me that doesn't really sound like winning... :) i guess, "Hang in there!" is now the modus operandi... and then followed by "Good luck little camper!" which is one of our favorite expressions. :)

the first mobile phone i ever saw was the one Dad had installed in his car, it was not portable but it was mobile and it worked. he paid quite a bit to have it but he was on the road a lot so he really needed it for work. :( we didn't get a cellphone until a few years ago. our landline was...

oh that is a hard spot to be in when the weather is nice and there is so much yet to do outside. i hope you will find ways to still get things done and also not keep injuring it. you really don't want it to be a chronic issue later in life. :) :) :)

always fun to see what everyone is growing! :)

ok, as a followup to the south field plowing and sod grinding with the tiller post in that other thread... that one was getting long and there's more for me to natter on about. :) after he was done plowing and tilling and it was warming up enough for me to get outside i decided to right away...

was fun. :) was good. :) got things done. :) some that three days ago i'd not planned on doing at all. the guy plowed the south field yesterday and today he was out there early with this 8ft tiller hauled behind a tractor and i caught him to tell him that the flags i moved could be...

probably why armor was invented...

i finished up getting the tomato plants cleaned up and buried. it went much more quickly having an inch and a half at least of rain to soften it up. instead of spending four hours to dig a short trench and get things cleaned up and put in the trench and then refilled and raked sort of smooth...

the moon was very full and bright last night and at first there was a bit of clouds right under it which maked it look like it was sitting on a saucer and being served up. i commented to Mom that it reminded me of the main character in Let's Go Luna (a cartoon on PBS that i've seen bits of here...

i used to be a night-owl and still would be if left to my own devices... last night rudely interrupted about 4am by someone doing donuts at the corner. got up, eventually had a bit of breakfast and then was able to go back to sleep for a few more hours.

warming up. helps... :)

it's probably a lot better to just brew it with hot water in reduced volume and then after you have the tea made then you can dillute it with cold water and put it right in the fridge and not wonder about what leaving it in the sun and lukewarm or warm temperatures could do to it... i have...

if they can figure out gluten intolerance as a dieting plan you can stop spending a lot of money on drugs and just fire up the gluten and poo your weight away... thank you, thank you, i'll be here all night...