Any Home Bakers Here?

[N F C]

Jared love the recipe off to look for a Christmas tree

Have fun Penny and let us see a picture when you have it decorated!

 

[Aria]

Just out of oven Plain White Bread 9 x 5 Tin

 

[AllenK RGV]

We were just discussing this as well. That cold front hit us last night dropping the overnight low to 46.5F(yes the halfs matter). It will probably get a few degrees colder tonight so bringing in the Cook's or Norfolk Pine tree to decorate sounds good. The only problem is we have a new 5-6 month old siamese kitten in the house so probably not putting on any good/fragile ornaments. Here is my wonky tree in its 15 gallon planter!

 

[AllenK RGV]

Just out of oven Plain White Bread 9 x 5 TinView attachment 1983236

I do love fresh bread. Made another loaf last night as well didn't take pictures this time. It sure looks hard to not slice into that loaf. You would be fighting off DW were that loaf in my house as she can't wait for it to cool proper.

 

[N F C]

Just out of oven Plain White Bread 9 x 5 TinView attachment 1983236

Nice looking bread Aria!

We were just discussing this as well. That cold front hit us last night dropping the overnight low to 46.5F(yes the halfs matter). It will probably get a few degrees colder tonight so bringing in the Cook's or Norfolk Pine tree to decorate sounds good. The only problem is we have a new 5-6 month old siamese kitten in the house so probably not putting on any good/fragile ornaments. Here is my wonky tree in its 15 gallon planter!

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That's a cute little tree! Cats + Christmas trees can be a real challenge (I have 3 cats). Definitely stick with the non-breakable ornaments

 

[Aria]

We were just discussing this as well. That cold front hit us last night dropping the overnight low to 46.5F(yes the halfs matter). It will probably get a few degrees colder tonight so bringing in the Cook's or Norfolk Pine tree to decorate sounds good. The only problem is we have a new 5-6 month old siamese kitten in the house so probably not putting on any good/fragile ornaments. Here is my wonky tree in its 15 gallon planter!

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I raised Norfolk Pine for many years. Had my son and daughter
hold out their fingers and we would make red bows and they placed them on the tree. It was 8 feet tall. HAD IT FOR lots of
years....it started shedding and we finally gave it a burial. We are in New York State COLD WINTERS...raised in our Living Room.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I raised Norfolk Pine for many years. Had my son and daughter
hold out their fingers and we would make red bows and they placed them on the tree. It was 8 feet tall. HAD IT FOR lots of
years....it started shedding and we finally gave it a burial. We are in New York State COLD WINTERS...raised in our Living Room.

We bought it at the "apostate" nursery that sells non native plants here in spring. 5 saplings germinated, and we have two survivors with us now. My go to nursery that only sells natives keeps selling plants I really don't want, but I do need a few of these from him:
Zizotes Milkweed.
I think the new batch of those I need to move into a non irrigated portion of the yard as I keep forgetting where they are and mowing them down on accident.

Edit-Also I can not source these anywhere on the web.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I need milkweed for monarchs but do not know which ones they need. Monarchs are so amazing, they make me cry. I was so sad when they discovered and revealed the location of their overwintering places. I wish it had remained hidden.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I need milkweed for monarchs but do not know which ones they need. Monarchs are so amazing, they make me cry. I was so sad when they discovered and revealed the location of their overwintering places. I wish it had remained hidden.

Agreed, also it is sad as to the how it was discovered by people clearing land for avacado trees(if my memory is correct). Tropical Milkweed is a good all around milkweed for them if you wanted to plant a stand of milkweed. Additionally FWS may be able to grant you a tax exemption for planting milkweed. I forgot who runs that program if it is my TPWS(Tx Parks and Wildlife) or Fish and Wildlife service. I do not know the specifics as I pay nada already for other reasons. Also the chicken leave it alone as it is toxic.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oh, @N F C and @ValerieJ ~ Thank you both so much for your encouragement and support! I made a batch of SGBR, 1 1/2 c rice to 6 c water, 1/2 tsp salt. In MW cooker at 70% power for 35 minutes. Some of the water had boiled out into the glass pie dish I always put under the cooker, and it was still a little chewy to my taste. So I poured that water back in and put it back in for 10 minutes more at 70%. Then I let it stand, covered, for another 5-10 minutes and am happy with the results. Thank you both!