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Working long/extra hours here too. Have chemical burns on my hands from all the disinfecting at work, despite gloves. We now have to sanitize each cart or shopping basket for customers before and after use, no exceptions. They are using diluted bleach for that, which sets off my asthma and...

I am exempt from shelter-in-place, but I have been trying to spend as much time at home as possible. I have been walking the dog back through the fields, spring cleaning my house, and trying to get a quilt I am working on finished.

It was cold and rainy here this morning, I started a small fire in the fireplace to take the chill off the house. The temp has steadily rose all day, we are supposed to get storms tonight. Mary if you are going to the store just for an item on sale and it will upset you if it isn't there...

After dealing with all of the panicked shoppers, (please please PLEASE be nice to your local supermarket employees right now, they need it) today was my first day off in a week and a half. I could have worked again today and gone a full two weeks between days off, but I desperately needed a day...

It is still too early and too wet here to do anything, but I have been walking through my garden daily, and puttering with my seedlings inside.

Still pulling major hours at work, coming home, sleeping it off, and going back. I did manage to buy a rhubarb crown yesterday on the way home. Will hopefully find a place to plant it this weekend!

bay, I think i have that same variety...I am so excited to try it!

The pies look wonderful! Local store had some rhubarb...there is a strawberry rhubarb pie in my future this week!

I have survived day two of the flupocalypse shopping. We are understaffed and overworked...this morning we had enough extra toilet paper and paper towels that we boxed up several pallets to ship to a bigger town that was completely out. By the time I left, we had moved everything we had and...

All of the local school events have been cancelled here, as is any event with more than a thousand people. The grocery store I work at has been consistently up in sales for two weeks. We are out of hand sanitizer, but we still have enough paper products for half the county. Just this morning...

Lol yes, I know that too :) Luckily my friend's compost heap gets HOT...I have never had a problem with seeds sprouting from her composted manure, as long as I'm careful to take from the oldest part of her pile. It sits on an old concrete slab and gets turned weekly.

I have a friend who raises horses and gets hay from multiple sources...and being horse hay instead of feed for animals meant for food, she doesn't worry much about it being sprayed, but more about the price and how well the horses eat it. I have gotten composted manure from her for my gardens...

I tried it using local materials that I had on hand. I ended up accidentally poisoning my soil with a herbicide that passes through the animal and doesn't degrade when composted when adding a layer of composted horse manure to my garden. It was a horror story of epic proportions... After...

As a kid my favorite board games were candyland and sorry. As an adult we play more monopoly than anything

Ridgerunner that's beautiful! I have never tried to weave, but I can appreciate the work involved. You have every right to show it off, even here :) I don't think I would have the patience to actually make fabric from threads! I quilt because I have always been a crafter, even as a kid. My...

Not garden related, but I did not want to start another thread for it...my off season project, as requested by ducks4you in another thread...I still have to add borders and quilt it, but the top is almost done:

I sat outside in the sun for a few minutes yesterday with my notebook, writing down things I want to do in the next few weeks. Raining today, so staying inside to clean!

Sounds like fun Steve... I don't think I would have ever worked up the nerve to walk up to some guy I didn't know digging a hole as a teenager, at least not by myself!

This is a really awesome old property...was a dairy farm, built somewhere around 1910. At the time, it would have been right between a pair of the biggest coal mines in the area, a few miles from several of the local towns. A doctor bought the place when the family that lived here quit...

You can't tell the difference in the smell of the beans raw, but once they are cooked it's all about the flavor. Green beans are a bit of a thing around here. Only one variety of green beans cooked one way gets served at mom's table. Ever. She's quit buying even canned beans from the grocery...