The Front Porch Swing

[Blooie]

You mean you miss our 8%-12% humidity, Wyo?

 

[wyoDreamer]

Oh, Blooie! I'm melting!
What kind of cruise did you take?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

@oldhenlikesdogs
  Welcome to the front porch.  I am WyoDreamer and I escaped from Wyoming (better make that moved from Wyoming) last year.  I miss things -like the lack of humidity, but overall it is nice to be back in WI.  Even though, in reality, it is too hot and sticky to actually sit on the front porch and eat banana bread...

thanks for the welcome, Wyoming sounds wonderful, I have a, hatred for summer weather in Wisconsin, I am usually alone in this stance. I do love banana bread, warm with melting butter, and nuts, I like nuts, no sitting on my porch right now either, hot and burns your feet. I am dreaming of fall.

 

[bruceha2000]

Bruce is awesome. Now somebody delete this before he reads it! Welcome! From now on I think I'll call you Dawn. Easier to type! Or would you prefer CD? Banana bread is on the top porch step on the big platter. You and oldhenlikesdogs (oh boy, can I shorten that too? My spell checker dude just had apoplexy) just help yourselves. Oh, and don't sit on the bucket with the police tape around it. That's where we hide the turtle.

Think this Porcher is going to hit the hay. Got Kendra super early in the morning. Do NOT talk about me while I'm gone!

Night!

TOO LATE!

You know why I am awesome?
- For the same reason I was my mother's FAVORITE son.
- And I am my father's FAVORITE son.
- And why I am my 2 sisters' and 2 step-sisters' FAVORITE brother.
- For the same reason (apparently, since I have no personal knowledge of same) people at the bar get better looking the closer it is to closing time and the more empty the place is.

....

Because I'm all you've got to choose from!

Which isn't actually true, Felix comes through now and then. Smart guy, has a vey good dry sense of humor. I suspect I would enjoy an afternoon on the porch with him. But it is a far trip for him, he lives in Finland.

I agree on the heartiness of day lilies. I am not sure you CAN kill them. There were some that were dug up when they rebuilt the house that were unceremoniously dumped in two clumps at the north end of the house for us to replant. Well, that was nearly 2 years ago and we have never gotten to it. But being almost bare root hasn't slowed those things down, blooming like crazy amongst the weeds that filled in around them.

 

[Blooie]

<Drat> Caught in the act of being nice. How will my reputation ever survive?

 

[Blooie]

Oops, forgot to do the quote thingy. Hope everyone knows what I was talking about!

We took the same cruise we did last year, Wyo, the one through the Inside Passage in Alaska. That should tell you how much Tam and I enjoyed it last year. We wanted Ken to see Tracy Arm Fjord and love it as much as we did. Alas, it was not to be. The entrance to the fjord was blocked by a big iceberg and there was no way to get past it into the channel. The captain kept circling the entrance while a smaller ship tried to move the berg, and we were really getting behind schedule. Bust! We weren't the only cruise ship diverted - looked like a train behind us!

 

[lazy gardener]

Yep, day lilies can be dug up, unceremoniously dumped on the ground... with honest intention of getting them set in the ground before it freezes up, only to have a cold snap and 18" snow fall... resulting in clump getting plowed to points north by the snow plow... and the ground not thawing until spring. Those day lilies will grow where ever the snow plow deposits them, and flourish. Not to mention that both blossoms and shoots are deemed edible. Have yet to try them, but had some nasturtiums in a potato salad today. Pretty tasty.

On a side note: Today, my dtr got married. Lovely wedding. Her new husband is a delight. We're all pleased to welcome him and his daughter into our family.

Broody hen is finishing day 6 on the nest. Cockrels getting cocky. Time to do some culling, or put them in a bachelor pad. Picking out the pullets that I want to keep. Really pleased with some of them. A lot look much nicer than their moms. Better body conformation, size. Yay, Jack!

 

[CanaDawn]

Yep, day lilies can be dug up, unceremoniously dumped on the ground... with honest intention of getting them set in the ground before it freezes up, only to have a cold snap and 18" snow fall... resulting in clump getting plowed to points north by the snow plow... and the ground not thawing until spring. Those day lilies will grow where ever the snow plow deposits them, and flourish. Not to mention that both blossoms and shoots are deemed edible. Have yet to try them, but had some nasturtiums in a potato salad today. Pretty tasty.

Be careful if you try daylilies. I was surprised to hear you say they were edible as I was always told not to eat them, so I had a look to see if I had been misinformed. Result? Both of us are sort of right.. http://www.eattheweeds.com/daylily-just-cloning-around-2/ Apparently the cultivars/varieties are not always edible...

I'm in that in-between space where all my friends got married years ago, and the kids are yet to start getting married. It sounds like your event was a very happy one!

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
I would say this is excellent advice. about Daylilies.... onions happen to be in the lily family as well.

deb

 

[MistyMountain]

Guess what is happening right now?!? Dh is working on the blueprints for my big coop! It has only been about two years, lol!

We have all the lumber from the family lumber mill. Construction starts this week once we get our tractor back from the shop. Gonna be a nice one! 10' x 10', board and batten siding, 2' roof overhang over the human door and over the outdoor egg access. Pop door for run and another on the other side for free ranging to bypass run. The floorplan is open with roost along opposite walls so that I can easily rake and flip the DL bedding under the roosts each morning. I snagged two nice 24"×50" windows at a yardsale that will be on the wall facing the house.

So excited!