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Who else here loses tools (and other things) on their own land or in their own houses (or out buildings)? My most recent loss is a pair of pruning shears. I've retraced the last times and places where it was used, but to no avail. Finally I gave up and bought a replacement, but still hoping...

Beware of the thorns (as one who knows from my many past tangles with blackberry brambles). Nice tune!

I'm with you Flowerbug! I even leave the peels on mashed potatoes (unless I'm offering them to company, in which case I bow to convention and peel them). Worse still are those who remove seeds from blackberries, cucumbers, or even tomatoes. Blasphemy! These fruits and vegies are nothing...

Red Hots and Good N Plenties were my favorites and I still buy both. Cinnamon and licorice can't be beat. (Dots on paper makes me laugh recalling how the same model was used for LSD back in the hippie era.) Candies still loved that I no longer dare eat for fear of destroying thousands of...

I've never tried brewing my own mead, wine, or beer, but your post reminded me that I need to stock up on the former from a local meadery.

Welcome to The Easy Garden from Vermont! You are among friends and like-minded gardeners who love natural gardening techniques and the healthy foods we can harvest from them.

Your garden looks so neat and tidy! What does the sign say in the raised bed?

I always make a traditional Thanksgiving feast, these years with just chicken and turkey parts (pasture-raised from Northstar Bison) rather than a whole turkey that we used to get. Still with the side dishes, I make enough to eat for the week of Thanksgiving, and to freeze some for the week of...

I got only a young mom and her two kids for trick-or-treaters the other night. Others in the area have said there is a dearth of kids ringing doorbells, so I'm guessing not so many young children around anymore. Many towns are consolidating their schools and busing kids to schools further from...

That is so cool that you can find petrified wood just out in the landscape. That was one of the things I found most fascinating about the desert southwest. We have nothing like that here. Too funny about the girls' dad asking if you took them to a bar! Since you let them stay up late and eat...

The ways chosen are often not the better ways. ;-)

Yes I do remember you relating how you kicked the doggie ball and it won! I'm glad that your injury also is healing. Someone else (Steve maybe) had kicked a garage door, but I think that was in the past. "All my windows" is just one single window. For all intents and purposes it is installed...

A shoulder wound would be tough to keep clean. No way to bandage it. Poor guy! I bet he was glad when he was finally released from the isolation ward.

Finally got my front porch into Halloween mode for the little ghosties and goblins (providing I get any - it's pretty much hit-or-miss how many trick-or-treaters come here on any given year). I also celebrate Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) beginning tomorrow and continuing all week...

My phlox and roses have quit for the year and I have no flowers whatsoever. But your little dog is so cute that I just had to post to say that!

Glad to know you seem to have won the war with the ground squirrels. Pizza sounds wonderful. That great new wood fired pizza place near me is unfortunately located in the town 30 minutes to my south, and in winter I usually shop at a town 30 min to my north. I may have to make a special trip...

Made a necessary trip to town yesterday for groceries and had to buy grocery store tomatoes and grocery store eggs - blasphemy! Summer is over. :-( I am approaching a point where cooking down all those bags of tomatoes in my freezers into spaghetti sauce doesn't sound so onerous anymore...

I always found gas powered string trimmers to have too much power to easily control, but I love my battery powered string trimmers, and rely on them heavily. Yesterday I brought in all the windchimes and other hanging gee-gaws from the front porch, and hung them in my enclosed back porch for...

Isn't pneumonia just a term for fluid in the lungs, but can be caused by multiple pathogens as you said? I think the vaccine must target a specific and common version, probably viral.

Serious reactions are very rare, but the occasional person or animal has an immune system that can react badly to one or another vaccine. (On the other hand, if a bad reaction to a pneumonia vaccine, how would you react to the disease?)