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I will definitely look into it. My knee takes a lot of support to get me through the day and still be functional. It's only when I forgo some of the support that I have problems, and that's usually my fault. In the summer I get hot easily and try to do without and end up paying for it, or I...

I love seeing all the progress in your gardens, Bay! I'm sorry about your knee...I too have a bad left knee, but I think it is from years of putting my body weight on it climbing in and out of saddles daily as a kid and teenager. I haven't ridden more than ten times in the last fifteen years...

Just wanted to start a garden thread of my own, so I quit hijacking others threads. Also a good way to be accountable in how often I get out there and work! My lawn and garden goals this year: 1) Fence in the side yard for the dog. If money allows, fence in the front side yard for him as...

The marjoram is new to me this year, but it is listed as in ingredient in my italian herb blend...so lots of marinara sauce! After that I will experiment, but usually anything goes wonderful with potatoes and a little butter :)

It's entirely too wet outside to do anything at this stage, the dog and I go wading through puddles daily for our walks (there's even standing water over the sidewalks in the park), but I have a final list for the seed orders made. I also couldn't help myself...bought a new thermostat for my...

It is cold here, but not bad. The wind is still and the sun is shining, and it is a whole 11 degrees out. I am about to go out and run errands for the day, including taking the dog to be groomed. He has absolutely loved this weather the past few days. Gets so excited to go out, the colder...

They are calling for snow here friday and saturday, no word on how much yet. We have wimpy winters here nowadays...just once I want to have a snowstorm like I remembered us having as a child. We are lucky now if we get enough to cover the grass...when I was growing up it rarely got warm enough...

One of my dreams in life is to have my own micro-dairy...I don't want more than five or six girls, to make my own butter and cream and ice cream. I had butter made from real unpasteurized cream exactly once...and have spent a lifetime trying to find that flavor again. I know it is a...

The snowplows close in my driveway all the time, Steve. The yard has a six foot high embankment on the side of a very shallow ditch...when we get lots of snow, there's no room to push it off the road, it just hits the embankment. The high side ends right at my driveway....so all that snow gets...

No not really, but fresh dried turmeric is strong stuff. I'm not sure my stomach could have tolerated a stronger cup. But at a few cups a day, I was getting plenty. You could always add more turmeric to it!

Oh, the pyrenees was bred to bark and guard and be mostly independent from people. Trying to get Boone to stop that is like asking the sun to stop rising in the east, and not what I wanted for him at all. What I was trying to do was find a middle ground between his old (complete lack of) a...

It has been very warm here, usually 40s to 50s during the day, and mid 20s at night. It's not unusual for us to get a little bit of warmer weather in january, but it has been this way for a couple of weeks now. My forsythia has buds on it, and my peach tree is starting to wake up. The buds on...

Took me a while to find it again, but here you go: https://www.101cookbooks.com/turmeric-tea/

I used to have a turmeric, honey, and black pepper tea base that I would drink religiously in the winter to clear my sinuses when I got sniffly. Mixed it all together in a little jar, and would add a spoon of it to a cup of hot water a few times a day with a squeeze of lemon. I'm not sure it...

Before I started working in a kitchen, I didn't mind washing dishes. When I actually cook at home, dishes are no big deal, because I wash as I go. When I get home and have to clean up after everyone else....into the dishwasher they go! I have had good dishwashers and bad ones...little tiny...

There are three of us here, and we always have trouble keeping up with the dishes. We all eat at different times, work vastly different schedules, and most of us are so exhausted when we come home that even eating at all is an accomplishment. If someone manages to empty the dishwasher when it...

Hello! I overwinter houseplants and start my seedlings on a cheap indoor greenhouse I fitted an LED grow light to. I keep the whole unit in an unheated room of my house...the heating vents are closed in there, but it does get some residual heat from the rest of the house. I had spotty results...

An update on my phone recently started flagging calls as spam risks, but I am extremely stubborn about answering numbers I don't know. I also rarely check voicemails, because I get so many robocalls that head straight to voicemail now, my phone never rings with them. It is quite a process to...

For us it ended up being the other way around, as much as we tried to take care of my grandmother in her home, she eventually moved in with us. At her home, before dementia took her ability to live alone safely, she had massive beautiful gardens that people would stop in the middle of the road...

The good ones are always worth their weight in gold...as a teenager I had an older been-there-done-that kind of horse that we saved from starving to death. His owners had good intentions, they just knew nothing about horses until he got to the point where not even the slaughterhouses would buy...