Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

Layers, I can deal with clear and cold easier than with snow and cold.  So you can send that weather this way.
By the way, I suggest that you have a serious conversation with Mom and Dad.  Ask them what was the best decision they made in life and what was a decision they would make differently now?
It may be best to talk with them individually?

That'd be fun to ask. My mom usually isn't home or has conference calls all day on my birthday so that she doesn't have to work all thanksgiving weekend, so I couldn't ask her.
I think it'd be more educational to ask my dad anyways

 

[duluthralphie]

Apparently its 12 degree outside.. But it looks like this

Layers that looks lovely!


It is down right ugly out here.

 

[jerryse]

Today is the beginning of firearm deer season here . Three days first segment . I have not heard any shots . I only do archery anymore . I like the archery season weather early on .

 

[Cebarmlds]

We have about an inch of snow now and it's windy, gusty actually.

Thanks for the reminder ralphie, my drivers license expires soon too.

 

[KlopKlop]

Rain here. Not too cold yet. Mid 40s and falling. I was able to get most everything picked up and at least temporarily tucked in last night and today. Still need to put away the camper and car trailer when I get a decent day. I'm baking butternut squash today to purée and freeze for winter baking. Then I will be having a hand at venison summer sausage. A good day to have the oven running.

Pumpkins for the canning factory . They plant Dickinson .A butternut colored type that is in the same group as butternut squash .

Our local canning company used to have their own strain of pumpkins. Festal was the brand and they were a regional favorite. Maybe 8-10 years ago Lakeside foods bought them out and shut down the pumpkin line (just peas and corn now) since the already have a pumpkin line elsewhere. Lots of upset people. Many people horded the remaining stock. Local paper did an article this fall about one such lady how she makes 2 pies each year from her stash and only has a few years worth left. It's the only kind her family likes. As far as I know the company just quit growing the pumpkins so the strain is lost.

 

[MNChickMom]

Happy Birthday Layers!

We have a generous coating (close to an inch) of frozen sleet across the parking lot at work. Wind is howling but school is still in session.

I made my last jacketless sprint to the coop this morning. Yoki (Yokahama rooster) is doing wonderful, a little timid but he is making his voice known. The buff trio are doing well....if only they would give me a few eggs! The SS rooster we just received from Ralphie knows his roll....stay away from humans. Never had a single instance after the first instance so I will say it was testing the waters. We have amped up the lights this week and will keep them up through the holidays. I have people offering to purchase eggs from me for $3 a dozen for holiday baking. Sure I can amp up the lights for few weeks.

Stay Safe Everyone!

 

[lvie]

Good Morning Chickeners . . . . It is still morning . . . . I have not caught up completely, I just did like the past two and a half days of reading.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ILL!!!

I am in Tallahassee in a gorgeous house on two acres of all privacy fenced property. Had to paint a little of the picture of the elegance. Sweet! And behind this property is another with chickens. The roos are rooing and the sun is shining and the natives tell me it is cooling off over the weekend. I asked my friend if she had listened to or seen the weather and it will only be 70 during the day and down to 50 during the night. We went down to the Marina yesterday and although we did not go out to the gulf we did the Marks River up and down in the afternoon. No one was on the river but us. Another Sweet!

DH is feeding, watering and gathering eggs at home. Right now I really, really like him right now.

Now this friend I am visiting is like my very BFF (that sounds so ridiculous to me) and it has been four years since she and her husband moved down here and I have never visited. I am closer to her husband's age who looks just like Liam Neilson (Nielson?) but unfortunate circumstances came there way after moving down here. A LONG story short - he became sick, got Septic, and had a septic stroke. All due to medical mal practice. She completely takes care of him. But they are 22 years difference in age and so she has more strength and stamina than an old woman like me, to take care of him. The two of them are a HOOT! He doesn't really talk understandably however, he is quite capable of getting his thoughts across and then one or two words will come out. Lottsa working with him went into where they are now.

Point being, yes, here I am enjoying both their company however life is not perfect and they just keep their attitudes in check daily.

So I come back on Monday, early, early. Shop my way home from the Airport so I have the foods for Thanksgiving and the rest of my week will center on a very simple brunch, Alice's Restraunt (Arlo Gutherie - annual KQ - usually at 10:30 - hilarious even if you do not know anything about Alice's Resturant - Highly suggest it) and obviously I have a hard time spelling that word - then the Viking's game and then the meal. Very much looking forward to it but will be reading and posting more when I get home.

Take care and stay warm!

 

[duluthralphie]

Rain here. Not too cold yet. Mid 40s and falling. I was able to get most everything picked up and at least temporarily tucked in last night and today. Still need to put away the camper and car trailer when I get a decent day. I'm baking butternut squash today to purée and freeze for winter baking. Then I will be having a hand at venison summer sausage. A good day to have the oven running.
Our local canning company used to have their own strain of pumpkins. Festal was the brand and they were a regional favorite. Maybe 8-10 years ago Lakeside foods bought them out and shut down the pumpkin line (just peas and corn now) since the already have a pumpkin line elsewhere. Lots of upset people. Many people horded the remaining stock. Local paper did an article this fall about one such lady how she makes 2 pies each year from her stash and only has a few years worth left. It's the only kind her family likes.

As far as I know the company just quit growing the pumpkins so the strain is lost.

Do you know the lady?

If you do you could help her do "closed
pollination" and save the strain... Then send me some...

I like keeping the almost extinct lines alive.

 

[I Love Layers]

Maybe we are going to get some weather.

 

[KlopKlop]

Do you know the lady?

If you do you could help her do "closed

 pollination" and save the strain... Then send me some...

I like keeping the almost extinct lines alive.

Kind of hard to do closed pollination on canned pumpkin purée