We drank out of glasses like that too, and jelly jars that had pop off lids, not screw lids. I remember some clear glass cowboy boot glasses too. Butter bowls were for food storage. All the dishware I have in boxes is perfectly useable, but definitely not in style. LOL
But the sentimentality of...
I'm dealing with the same problem. My mom had collections of clear glassware and some kind of Autumn themed stoneware. Plus some Frankoma stoneware. And some Fenton blue opalescent hobnail stuff. Somehow I ended up with boxes of the stuff. And I don't know what to do with it.
I wouldn't have a...
I believe scarlet runner beans are perennial in warmer climates. The root can be dug up, stored correctly and planted the next spring in colder climates. That is, if my memory is correct.
You can tie lengths into bundles and make nesting places for mason and carpenter bees.
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pub/em-9507-leave-behind-some-stems-bee-habitat
Yep. I think I'm genetically predisposed to have a need to grow stuff. Small scale commercial farming and gardening were a part of my life from the beginning. My mom's father let me start working in the fields when I was 4, 5, 6 years old. Hoeing, pulling weeds, picking radishes and tying them...
When the time came and my siblings and I were splitting up our parents' possessions I ended up with this. It's a watermelon plugging knife that I'm pretty sure is hand forged.
My dad's father was a farmer (as was Mom's) and he developed a variety of watermelon that the restaurants in Kansas...
Sounds like you have pampered chickens, having the fans for them. I make mine just tough it out when it's hot. They dig down into the dirt floor and dustbathe in cool dirt if they feel the need.
I like the PUD too. Cheap electricity, just over 7 cents a kilowatt hour now. I get a couple power...
I did some work to one of the bean trellises so the bean vines have more room to travel. If they grow high enough they can start traveling along the ropes at the top of the deer fence.
While I was out messing around I decided to give the chickens another roost bar. It's temporary, and might...
I added some height to the Blue Lake pole bean trellis. I strung nylon cord from the top of the steel fence trellis up to the ropes that run around the top of my raised bed deer fence. The vines will be able to grow along the horizontal ropes if they get that long.
I took my camera out there to...
The chickens are getting along a little better today, but there's still a little fighting. And I watched one of the old barred rock ladies pull some butt feather off one of the little cockerels.
All the mean pullets and hens will get their payback when the cockerels' hormones start raging. LOL
I saw on the LCPUD website a few days ago that there was a scheduled outage for Mossyrock but I don't remember when it was supposed to be. Maybe that's why you blinked.
edit.
I found this...
All ten chickens made it back into the run and they're locked up safe for the night. But one of them is kind of stupid. It watched the others go through the doorway but it wouldn't, and just kept running around like it didn't know what to do. Finally, she jumped through the doorway and made it...
I miss seeing those storms. I watched a few from the La Sal mountains in Arizona as they passed over the Colorado river valley near Quartzsite. Kind of awesome.