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[Beer can]

Thanks Arielle for the excellent information. I have turned to the local extension office for help with our thornless blackberries. We had to wineries interested in our crop. One year we harvested over 50 pounds which was our best harvest. The next year we opened a berry to check it and found a tiny worm in it despite our spraying schedule. Turned out we had a fruit fly problem, a new variety that was just making an appearance in our area. And good luck getting rid of them. We worked and worked and finally gave up. In spite of spraying and picking the fruit just before ripe, we found fruit fly maggots in the berries. I was beat. Blackberries are a lot of work to start with, dealing with dead canes, pruning, weeding. To have to deal with a fruit fly that is almost indestructible is more work than I wanted to put in on the project. The last year that we had a crop, we ate the good berries and tossed the infested to the birds. The chooks loved them. Last winter the freeze took 80% of the the canes. The rest were mowed.

Sometimes ya just got to know when to throw in the towel.

As for Starke's we had one Asian pear tree loaded with fruit break off at the graft. I took pictures of it and emailed Starke's asking them if they could tell me what happened to the tree as it appeared to be a graft failure. After two weeks of no reply, I called them. The person I talked to said yes she had seen the pictures and it appeared that the tree had been damaged by a weed eater. That's when I started laughing and told her nope. Didn't even own a weed eater. She kept telling me it was weed eater damage. I kept telling her I didn't own one at the time of the tree's demise or for the two years since it had been planted. I think we went back and forth like that for a while until she finally offered me 50% off a replacement tree. I told her no thank you and hung up.

A year later I found out about Fire Blight and looking at the pictures we had taken finally decided that the tree's trunk had been damaged by blight leading to it breaking.

I haven't bought anything from them since.

I've bought fruit trees from several sources since we bought our house, few different times, some are still kicking but have lost $100s, I'm not allowed to buy any more.

 

[getaclue]

I had two different dogs get skunked, at different times. When it happened to the first one, I grabbed the tomato juice. It didn't work well at all. The dog, went out, and rolled in the dirt. Those places smelled better. I grabbed the hose, and made a good mud puddle, putting mud all over the dog, waited a little bit, then rinsed. Much better. I did it twice more, and almost all the smell was gone. When it happened to the second dog, I already knew what to do.

 

[Beer can]

TSC lol

 

[CapricornFarm]

Made chocolate pudding real pudding cooked from scratch almond cookies now going to cut things for soup

Almond cookies?

 

[pennyJo1960]

yes but going to remake them as they flattened horribly think I pushed them down to far

 

[microchick]

I can't remember what concoction we used on Dingo. I think it was tomato juice and peroxide.

I agree with Cap. ALMOND COOKIES! On second thought....allergic to almonds....never mind. But I did get two loaves of Amish sweet bread baked tonight. I also made whole wheat in the bread machine but not pleased with it. I think my flour is old. Sure tastes strong but the chooks and pups will love it. The pups love peanut butter. When it's time for them to 'go pee' I make the announcement and have a slice of peanut butter and bread ready for them cut into 5 pieces. By the time they get it unstuck from the roof of their mouths, I'm long gone and they are outside. They look forward to going out because they know they are to get a bite of peanut butter and bread.

Speaking of pups, I cannot believe they are still growing. They are almost 10 months now and Sidney and Ben still have loose skin to grow into. Varn is the smallest, then Diesel and Roxi. Rox is just as solid built as a rock. Very independent. Varn is always getting beat up by Ben or Diesel....deserves it sometimes but thank goodness nobody gets seriously hurt. It's hard to believe that they have been with us since the first of April. I'm working on new pictures but getting them to hold still is a real trick.

BTW...we've finally got some fall colors showing in the trees. Working on that too! Pictures that is!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Ugh, I saw a rat in the barn! I sicked hubby on them.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks, Bruce. Yep, sure does. But no more MTX is good. My hair is growing back in nice and thick. Which is very fantastic!

Hopefully the Prolia injections will do some good and slow the bone loss but the Rheumy warned me that if it was in my neck, this type of arthritis is throughout my body. He said it was one of those situations that it would be good if we could pick our parents because mine had some bad genes goin for them.

Oh well. They will redo the bone density test next year so I know then. In the mean time, oh blah dee oh blah dah...it could always be worse.

I warned him that I was jumping the diet fence and sometime in the future giving up my sticks and grass diet for a nice fat juicy, medium rare steak!

Your case sounds like my Family genetics! Lots of gout and osteoarthritis

I hear that moving helps even if it hurts for arthritis

 

[pennyJo1960]

I got 4 eggs from Silkie there is four of them 0 from my main coop aliens win this round

 

[ronott1]

I can't remember what concoction we used on Dingo. I think it was tomato juice and peroxide.

I agree with Cap. ALMOND COOKIES! On second thought....allergic to almonds....never mind. But I did get two loaves of Amish sweet bread baked tonight. I also made whole wheat in the bread machine but not pleased with it. I think my flour is old. Sure tastes strong but the chooks and pups will love it. The pups love peanut butter. When it's time for them to 'go pee' I make the announcement and have a slice of peanut butter and bread ready for them cut into 5 pieces. By the time they get it unstuck from the roof of their mouths, I'm long gone and they are outside. They look forward to going out because they know they are to get a bite of peanut butter and bread.

Speaking of pups, I cannot believe they are still growing. They are almost 10 months now and Sidney and Ben still have loose skin to grow into. Varn is the smallest, then Diesel and Roxi. Rox is just as solid built as a rock. Very independent. Varn is always getting beat up by Ben or Diesel....deserves it sometimes but thank goodness nobody gets seriously hurt. It's hard to believe that they have been with us since the first of April. I'm working on new pictures but getting them to hold still is a real trick.

BTW...we've finally got some fall colors showing in the trees. Working on that too! Pictures that is!

Maybe use an artificial almond flavor?

I want to make authentic swedish cookies using ammonia...sounds like baking with a poison to make something amazing!