Stella's Social Club

[The Sheriff]

Mary,  close but no cigar.  I didn't  od on Rocky road.   It was HD Tres Leches Brigideiro- their artisan  blend.  That and  cutting branches off  many Buckthorn shrubs and trees.
I never remember the garden gloves, or the safety glasses.  I got so worn out  I just left piles of branches all over the yard.   Now all I need is to levitate them to the side of the street for the  village shredder - that won't come till middle of May. 

Michael love tres leches "anything" so I may have to check it out. I don't think we have Buckthorn shrubs here. I generally don't like anything with thorns except roses. Actually our locust tree has thorns and I like it too.

I used to feel so good after a hard day of working outside, especially if there was something to show for it. Now just walking out to the yard makes me feel like I've worked out there all day, and there's nothing to show for it. At least you can look out over your piles of thorny branches and feel proud. Now if you can get them to levitate, then you will feel the zen.

 

[drumstick diva]

That's me Mary, I NEED to see results or I lose interest. I love digging holes, I love shoveling snow, I love spreading gravel. I love destroying overgrown shrubs and trees but only have a small Fiskars lopper, so it can't do major stuff. Well at least I love it until it gets hot and humid. To me anything approaching 80 degrees is HOT.

 

[drumstick diva]

Buckhorn has nasty thorns and is highly invasive. It destroyed our roses that used to run the perimeter of the yard. We also have wild raspberry canes that are even more painful. Then too a very vigorous growing vine of some sort, that chokes the life out of any sensible plant it can latch on to.

 

[The Sheriff]

I'm just glad it wasn't a coma.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Now I want ham and beans.

Mmm... I have a ham hock in the fridge. Think I will set some beans to quick soak and do that for dinner tonight!

 

[vehve]

Nice looking rye bread. Doesn't look that dark to me though, but I don't think 100% rye bread is eaten much outside the Nordic countries.

Why not start a compost pile with them, Diva?

 

[1muttsfan]

OR one of these -

http://permaculturenews.org/2010/08...sforming-woody-debris-into-a-garden-resource/

 

[vehve]

Hugelkultur is something I'd like to try too. Actually, if I can convince the other half we need a hugelkultur bed, I might set one up somewhere, the neighbor just took down a couple of huge birches and has about 20 cubic yards of branches he needs to get rid of. I'm sure he wouldn't mind giving some to us, although we need to take down a few pines too so that would be a good source too. And I have a lot of dried leaves in storage that I was going to use as bedding in the run until I discovered it wasn't really suited for that.

 

[The Sheriff]

Nice looking rye bread. Doesn't look that dark to me though, but I don't think 100% rye bread is eaten much outside the Nordic countries.

Why not start a compost pile with them, Diva?

It wasn't a true dark rye. It was the darker component to a marble rye which uses cocoa powder for darker color. I used dark rye flour and unleashed bread flour. I am taking a bread class. I didn't have time to mess with marble rye so I just went with the darker dough because I wanted patty melts.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Oh my goodness viral internet video for the win today:

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/04/surprise_video_reveals_secret.html

Tugs at my heartstrings. My youngest daughter was a twin, I lost the twin at about 16 weeks. Didn't find out until 18 week ultrasound.