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Different grain flour for a different taste. Your loaf looks like bleached bread flour. Light, fluffy and melt in your mouth good. Spelt is an older wheat. Not as selectively bred. Lower gluten content. Search for it. Ezekiel flour is supposed to supply all the amino acids required for...

Got a few unexpected guests. I cleaned out the corner and uncovered a bluebird house from a decade ago. Guess who found it. Still wish I'd gotten the martin house up.

Just picked up 2 pounds of spelt. On clearance! Really liked what it did the last time we had some. I bought it before knowing that it wasn't gluten free. More for me! Nice nutty flavor. When making French bread, I'll use 1 cup whole wheat (or spelt or Ezekiel mix) and 2 cups bread flour...

Unfortunately, the grass is coming to light between the sunflowers. Might layer cardboard over it. I was trying to figure how to do that, but I'm still waiting for the lettuce to sprout amongst the radishes. Walkways, no worries. The parrots were sorting the compost from around the banana...

And I thought the free Camel on CL was weird. A 2 humper. It was on the Shreveport CL. Real close to you too, @baymule

Y'all look good! Date night? Dancing and a movie? Goodwill had a pair of Uggs. Crazy Lady bought them to try out. Turns out she likes the nasty things! Warm and cushy. It is amazing what some people pass on to goodwill.

Well, the green peas that I planted finally sprouted. Since I planted 2 packages 2 weeks apart, I have no idea if this is the first or second planting. Do green peas take 2 or 4 weeks to sprout? I finally identified the mini bean growing wild over the grass. It appears to be hairy vetch...

I want to see the plaid compost!!! Please! Plaid compost! Is it Irish? If you say this too loud, someone will tell you are doing it wrong and why it won't work. I *love* the internet. And by *love*, I mean loathe. And by internet, I mean the anonymity that lets trolls hide from standing...

I'm using the plastic feed sacks (dog food) to fill and haul wood chip in. Once in a bag, I can move them where ever and when ever I need them. Like parrot cage clean out replacement bedding. Tree planting mulching. Garden edging. A truck load seems like a lot when I am loading, but it sure...

Crazy Lady bought me a bread machine. Didn't taste right and tried many recipes. Not sure what it was. Broke that and got a second. Tore the pan up on that one and got a third. They all taste the same. Bought a kitchenaid mixer with a dough hook and gave the bread machines away. Using the...

@canesisters I think you have that ratio backwards. Green = nitrogen and brown is your carbon.

First try here also. But I was stopping at 10. Glad I did. My tractor turned out 4x8 and looks really small for that many birds. Tomatoes are really growing well. That's one.

Speckled like in the bottom row? Occasionally, but nothing consistent. I think there is one breed that will give speckled. Let me check tonight. The speckled are blotches of pigment. Nothing like quail eggs. Scrubbed vigorously, they come off. Amercauna (sp?) crosses give Easter eggs. Blues &...

I read the stories about the CX, but didn't grok them. I've had these birds for a week now in a tractor at soon to be 3 weeks. A little different than hatchery stock. Will see how this develops. The adults appear to be straight out of the factory farm movies. See if I can do better. How do...

I find the gluten free corn based noodles terrible. They melt into huge globs. Gelatinous masses that aren't fit to eat. The rice based is better for texture and sorghum for flavor. IMHO. I did well this winter until the daughters came home and we started baking bread. Oops. Need to...

@baymule Where did you order your CX from? These came from Campbell, Texas at $1.30/chick delivered. You are close enough to pick them up at $1.10 with no shipping. https://windymeadowshatchery.com/ I want to try Austrolorps too. They are on the short list. Wish I could breed and raise...

Do the 7 barred rock hens count? Raised them to 18 weeks. Scrawny, delicious, chewy, wholesome things. I just decided against Naked Neck Turkens this summer because my tractor is too small for as many birds as I thought I wanted. Do I hear build another tractor?!? What? No experience with...

Good day, Sunflowers have sprouted and some have tertiary leaves. Tallest is 2 inches now. Peas- nary a one came up. Replant in a moment. Zucchini - growing. Did not like the transplant to the garden. Hopeful. Butternut transplants from the flight cage. Killed 2/4 outright. 2 hanging on...

From wiki, As the scimitar oryx is reintroduced in the wild successfully, the Père David's deer will be the only mammal that is now extinct in the wild. The Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), also known as the milu (Chinese: 麋鹿; pinyin: mílù) or elaphure, is a species of deer that are...

Sorry, I'm late. Been spring breaking. The flower is last month's but still pretty. Lot's more now. Wish I'd taken some of the bluebonnets along the highway. Gorgeous! The turkeys are for @flowerbug - love is in the air! Gobble gobble! Bashful wouldn't pose for me. I think this was the...