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Merry Christmas! I'm baking chocolate chip cookies tomorrow. Trying to decide what to cook for the crew. DD#2 won't be here until New Years.

You misunderstand. The bleeding hearts were Crazy Lady and our dearest daughter (who took one puppy & tried so hard to get her friends to adopt). I'm still stuck buying feed and feeding. Although I was assured that I wouldn't have to do a damn thing. For the 6th time. Yep. I'm stupid. And...

Will have to take some fresh ones. My phone was getting heavy, so I emptied it. ;) The puppies are from an unwed mother (stray) that roamed the neighborhood, so we agreed to foster. 6 puppies later, we still have 5 puppies and mother. She appears to be Pit Bull or similar looking, maybe not...

If you take care of them, minimal smell. If you ignore them, horrible. I use composted wood chips from the local dump. Works great and goes straight to the compost pile. I used wood shavings this time, but after 1 week in August, they went outside. Moved the tractor until they got too big...

Hello all! Back from walk about. Garden got demolished by the puppies. So, my plans came to naught. The onions survived in the kitchen garden. The 2 planters in the dog yard that were happily growing tomatoes got dug out. The back garden was converted to chicken pen for the meat birds and...

I left the last egg. Something came and got it today. Strange? Cleaning nest tomorrow to see if anyone comes back. Had our first salad from the garden. Lettuce, collards, radishes, cilantro, nasturtium flowers, mustard flowers and green onions. The weather is warm and I'm afraid the lettuce...

And they have fledged! Pictures from yesterday and today.

Only counted 3 beaks. Hoping #4 was hiding well. Also see blue egg at front. Cherry tomatoes are fruiting. Cabbages are bolting. Sunflowers at 4 feet tall. Peas are still 8". Not growing fast. Cilantro making but basil not appearing. I'm concerned about the basil even though the cilantro is...

Chairs with broken back at now $10 at Goodwill. Ouch. Got 2 from the dump in better shape! It pays to know the dump attendant! Chair shows potential.

Turn out Crazy Lady doesn't like Salukis either. I should get today's picture. 18 days to fledge. About halfway there. Amazing how fast!

As a future curmudgeon, I must agree. Daughters were in High School not 2 short years ago. One of their friends had the horse shoe in the nose. She flipped it up during school. I don't like things on my nose, I couldn't imagine having something installed inside. My eyes water thinking about...

Hmm. Should I ask about the Salukis? The wording implies a negative experience, yet bringing it up implies that @Nyboy wants to share. Hmm. Would it be impolite if I asked or more impolite if I did not ask? @baymule - what is internet etiquette here? Usually everyone overshares. Look...

Welcome Bpollen! Have lots of kin in SW La. MIL from Lacassine. Went to school in Lake Charles and first job. Lots of good people there! I'm sitting too close to Houston now.

Have you been to the coursing trials? I was told in NM that they will walk the fields looking for jack rabbits and the selected dogs are ran. They get points on length of run, agility and ? Been to long since I looked at it. We wanted to go. But NM is a 12 hour drive and that makes for a...

Got cherry tomatoes on the vine. Grape size and growing. The fourth bag of cucumbers has sprouted. Way may get cucumbers this year. Still going through the radishes. Actually almost keeping up this time. Sunflowers 3 feet tall. Peas are thinking about it. Should replant the peppers...

Etymology[edit] From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”). Troika - group of three. Usually used by nobility when wolf hunting. Having 3 that would work together insured the wolf was captured alive to be brought to the mansion for show and without harming the Borzoi. Ideally, you...

@Nyboy Crazy Lady now has a troika. The wild creatures in their natural habitat. Took her 25 years, but she now has a troika.

Boom. Feathers in 2 days. Wow!!

Well, I'm REALLY missing the front bed of basil. I've got one that sprouted under the other stuff in the front. Here is to more basil! Got tomatoes forming on the cherry plants. Radishes are tasty. Peppers stunted, guessing from the cold. Sunflowers at 18" and counting. The peas finally...

Or you could buy a high end mixer. It has a few more uses and takes up the same amount of room as the bread machine. ;)