➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

We take B complex with vitamin c (has a high dose of thiamine) to help ward off mosquitoes and ticks. Hubby gets huge blistered whelps that weep for weeks from tick bites. This has really helped.

Thanks! Never even thought of this! Will have to try it! I don’t normally react to them really but I’ve just been walking through the woods a lot

 

[Kiki]

All the rain this year has created double bloom times for pollen and has increased mold counts.

Our storm situation has made national news. Most schools have cancelled classes and activities for today. In 2013 a smaller but similar storm situation spawned a tornado that hit Moore Okla hitting several schools and killed children. No one is taking chances this time.
The event will run into the midnight hours...I hate night time tornadoes!
Hail up to softball size with 5-7 inches of rain predicted in our area.
We have battened down the hatches, fed and watered every pen, filled all outside water tanks, have drawn up water in the house and I have a stocked larder. All batteries are charged and the go bags are ready.
Changed hubby's dr appt since the worst of the storm will begin in our area when we would have been heading out.

Picked peas and am shelling now...while we wait for the storm.
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What does 'stocked larder' mean?

 

[ShrekDawg]

What does 'stocked larder' mean?

I am assuming like pantry or cabinet or something? Like food?

 

[Kiki]

I am assuming like pantry or cabinet or something? Like food?

 

[Sara L]

I am assuming like pantry or cabinet or something? Like food?

Yes

 

[Molpet]

What does 'stocked larder' mean?

Youngens
Yes it's food stocked up on

 

[Sara L]

Brand new kids

Slightly older kids

 

[RUNuts]

What does 'stocked larder' mean?

Word of the day, boys & girls:

lard·er
/ˈlärdər/
noun

1. a room or large cupboard for storing food.
   synonyms: pantry, storage room, storeroom, store, food store, cupboard;

Next thing you will tell me that you don't know what a midden heap is.
mid·den
/ˈmidn/
noun

1. a dunghill or refuse heap.
   • short for kitchen midden.

(A dunghill or refuse heap. 2. Archaeology A mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement. Also called kitchen midden. [Middle English midding, of Scandinavian origin.])
with thanks to google dictionary.

Did anyone ever figure out why there isn't a synonym for thesaurus?

 

[Kiki]

Brand new kids
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Slightly older kids
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[CrazyCrttr75]

All the rain this year has created double bloom times for pollen and has increased mold counts.

Our storm situation has made national news. Most schools have cancelled classes and activities for today. In 2013 a smaller but similar storm situation spawned a tornado that hit Moore Okla hitting several schools and killed children. No one is taking chances this time.
The event will run into the midnight hours...I hate night time tornadoes!
Hail up to softball size with 5-7 inches of rain predicted in our area.
We have battened down the hatches, fed and watered every pen, filled all outside water tanks, have drawn up water in the house and I have a stocked larder. All batteries are charged and the go bags are ready.
Changed hubby's dr appt since the worst of the storm will begin in our area when we would have been heading out.

Picked peas and am shelling now...while we wait for the storm.
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Oh I hate nighttime tornadoes as well. We live in a bit of a valley. I call it DFB, which stands for Da Friggin Bubble. Oft times weather systems pass over or around us and I would joke that it's like we're in a bubble. So much so that one time in particular, you could literally see it on the radar. A weather system all around us lit up in green and a clear circle where we were located. It totally freaked my husband out and sent me in a fit of giggles and "I told you so's". Anyway, a few yrs back, I woke up in the middle of the night/really early in the morning to use the bathroom. It was storming. And I heard a noise that had been described but so many people over the yrs. It sounded like a freight train. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, getting louder and louder. Everyone was asleep but me. It came down the driveway and turned along the creek going the opposite direction from my home. All I did was pray. Just a couple pics from that storm. We were lucky.

So glad that ya'll are able to prepare ahead of time! We didn't have a clue. Plz be careful and safe!