The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[bruceha2000]

Speaking of which, can you grow celery?

Yes but it is somewhat labor intensive, you need to keep hilling up dirt around it as it grows.

Yeah, it does better as a winter crop, though.

Not in New England it isn't!

Huh, maybe I'll try it sometime. I just remembered I want to try growing broccoli too.

Broccoli is pretty easy, I buy the plants at the nursery. Had no luck planting seeds directly in the ground. Problem with it and other things is they are ALL ready at the same time so don't plant many unless you are going to freeze it or the family is willing to eat broccoli every day for a week You can cut the main head and then smaller side shoots will grow so you get a second, much smaller, crop later.

Broccoli is a cold weather crop, also!

See above Yes, best to plant in the spring rather than waiting until after Memorial Day like we need to for things like peppers and tomatoes.

 

[N F C]

Good morning all Finally caught up with everyone (I think)

I'm prone to ganglion cysts, but have learned over the years how to prevent them. The book thing is just a temporary fix as they will grow back. And if removed through surgery, if they don't get all the roots they will grow back. Last one I had removed, I was a pain in the surgeon's backside. I wanted a local and wanted to watch and inspect. Mind you I drank with the guy, so nope not doing general anesthesia... Besides I needed to go to work after he was done. After it was all done, he proudly declared that I was the biggest pain in the butt patient he'd ever treated and argued that I owed him a drink next time we were at the bar. I did pay up. But he removed the stitches in the commissary parking lot with his Swiss army knife. Have I mentioned that I hate doctors?

You get a whole different view of a doctor when you hang out with them There are 2 doctors that like to come out to the golf course...can we say "it's time to restock the liquor cabinet"? Nice guys but wow, they can put it away...and afford it!

One of the most gorgeous Aussies I've ever seen lol

https://wyoming.craigslist.org/pet/d/australian-shepherd-red-merle/6734149531.html

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No price, never a good thing
I'm SURE Fiona would love to have a playmate and @Blooie surely have PLENTY of room for another moose ..... er .... puppy.

Kelsey, you're checking out the WY craigslist now? The Aussie is good looking but I have to agree with @Blooie on the mixed wolfhounds.

Speaking of which, can you grow celery?

We grew celery at our little farm in FL. Very simple to grow, we just cut off the bottom of a bunch we got at the grocery store, and planted that bottom part in our greenhouse (not planted deep, just barely in the soil). It sent out roots and re-grew. Several times over. By the time we moved, we had 2 huge tubs full of celery.

Actually I kinda thought they were both ugly. Don’t 5hink I’d break a sweat trying to arrange for even one of them. Sorry.

Tucked into our hotel room in Torrington while the snow falls around us outside our window. Went through some beautiful stuff today, I took a ton of photos. Ken is making a positive difference in the lodges, changing “that’s the way we’ve always done it” to “oh, yeah..that makes sense”. Me? Well, frankly my back, the right side of my backside, and my upper thigh are trying to get my attention to tell me that 6 to 8 hours in a car sitting is not helping. I do so much better standing or lying down, but that’s not in the cards and won’t be until Friday night.

Looking forward to seeing some pictures B! Come on Friday, Blooie needs to get home!!

But serieously in order to gain the upper hand on control of your food... You have to learn to cook... Start simply then move on to something else.

deb Whos failure to do this has been my down fall. I am 63 years old and about 365. I can no longer stand for more than about thirty seconds... Kneeling is out of the question. I had to give up my horse because I could no longer care for her... Ripping my heart out in the process.... I am Terrified to get in the shower because i am afriad to fall in there. I CANNOT walk up and down steps...

I am looking at Gastric surgery in order to survive the next twenty years...

deb

Deb, I agree with the cooking statement 100%. @KDOGG331 When you eat out or even eat already prepared food from the grocery store, you've turned control of how your food was handled. You don't know for sure what was done to it. If you learn how to cook your own (and growing your own), you take control back and will have a much better idea of what you are actually taking in.

Deb

I was riding my hog one nice memorial weekend with my other riding buddies. We were riding the Devil's Backbone, a very curvey FM road in the hill country. Everything was fine till I took one of the curves a little to fast, drifted a bit to far to edge of the road, got into some gravel and the bike started to get away from me. So I was in the bar ditch and headed for a huge boulder that had a powerline guide wire right behind it and behind that was a barbed wire fence. I thought, ok I'll just stick my leg out when I get to it and push off of it, like you would do in motorcross.
It didn't work out so great. It snapped both my tibia and fibia. Mind you that at the same time I'm down gearing and braking. When it snapped, I gripped the front brake handle a bit too much...sent me flying over the handle bars and 4 somersaults and about 20 feet skidding on my belly later, I came to a sudden stop in the middle of a huge dust cloud.
I tried to stand up but fell immediately...I didn't realize my leg had been broken, there was no pain at all...until I picked up my leg and it slipped about 6" out the bottom of my pants leg. that kinda freaked me out a little.
Took the ambulance 55 minutes to get there, it's a pretty remote area. All my riding buddies were amazed at how I just calmly laid in the ditch, not making a sound. They were like, scream or holler or do something...they couldn't believe I wasn't in pain...and I wasn't. Funny thing is this broken femur hurts 100 times as much as that break did, it never did really hurt bad.

You were lucky not to get hurt worse. Apparently you have a whole squadron of guardian angels trying to keep up with you!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning everyone. Sunshine today!

 

[N F C]

Good morning everyone. Sunshine today!

Morning Cap, enjoy your sunshiny day!

 

[drumstick diva]

I grew celery one year- too much in fact. I even put boards around them like it(?) said to blanch the stalks. Looked real good but ma only took one. Don't remember what happened to the rest. Grew lots of veggies, none of which I wanted to eat. Well come to think of it I did eat all the sweetcorn - family didn't want it - really was good corn.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I grew celery one year- too much in fact. I even put boards around them like it(?) said to blanch the stalks. Looked real good but ma only took one. Don't remember what happened to the rest. Grew lots of veggies, none of which I wanted to eat. Well come to think of it I did eat all the sweetcorn - family didn't want it - really was good corn.

Nothing like home grown sweet corn!

 

[bruceha2000]

Deb, I agree with the cooking statement 100%. @KDOGG331 When you eat out or even eat already prepared food from the grocery store, you've turned control of how your food was handled. You don't know for sure what was done to it. If you learn how to cook your own (and growing your own), you take control back and will have a much better idea of what you are actually taking in.

Along with that most prepared foods have a lot of things added to preserve them or make up for taking out something seen as less healthy. Remove fat? Add salt. etc

You were lucky not to get hurt worse. Apparently you have a whole squadron of guardian angels trying to keep up with you!

I think that is true, they must have to tag team so they don't burn out.

I do so much better standing or lying down

Are you traveling in Shrek? If so, have Ken attach a grab bar across the back of the cab and stand in the bed. Might be hard to breathe at 70 MPH though.

yeah and if you don't use pesticides, kinda turns you off to see worm webs , worms don't bother me but for some strange reason the webs do, cool weather cuts down on the worms and their webs

I don't use any pesticides or herbicides. Used to have bad cabbage moth/worm problems at the old house. Would pick little worms (actually caterpillars) off the broccoli every day after work. For some reason they are not bad here, I think it is because we have a lot of insect eating birds so the white moths with a black spot on their wings are rarely seen. They don't have the opportunity to lay eggs on the broccoli and cabbage.

Princess made me promise, Princess made me promise, Princess made me promise

And you MUST obey the princess!

 

[bruceha2000]

Nothing like home grown sweet corn!

I agree though I've not had much luck growing it.

 

[sharron]

Good morning everyone. Sunshine today!

 

[sharron]

I agree though I've not had much luck growing it.

us either, just as its almost ready we get a bad wind storm and blows the stalks flat, we've tried replanting upright but never worked