The Old Folks Home

[ShrekDawg]

KDOGG331 -
Lovely! My girls are laying steady, but the demand for eggs waxes and wanes. I'll have 5 dozen stored up (and be screaming that there's no room in the fridge) and then suddenly there's a run on eggs and not enough for everybody to get however many they want.
VERY ENVIOUS of your peppers! Mine all got lumberjacked by a pack rat and are just now regrown and setting flowers. We cook with some, but the majority get smoked, dried and turned into chipotle powder. (I wait until the peppers turn red because the color is so gorgeous. Little shaker bottles of powdered divinity for Christmas presents.)

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Okay. That puppy is seriously adorable. Like a little Steiff toy.

Mine have slowed down lately and I’m not really sure why. A bit disappointing haha but I think it’s because of my broody think they were scared of her and of course she’s not laying now haha plus I also lost 3 older hens a couple months ago. Most of them weren’t laying much but one was a great layer so that is probably part of it too.

And oh no! We have hornworms eating the tomato plants and the chickens eating all the tomatoes suddenly

I had a chipmunk eat my squash and cucumber starts when I put them in so only have one Zucchini. I had special Russian pickling cucumbers.

 

[getaclue]

That’s terrible!!! It almost seems like he should have lost his license and/or been investigated or charged or something! Wasn’t any of that stuff illegal!? Is he still in business? Assuming long since retired or dead by now!?

He's retired now, but his practice flourished for many years after that. The nurse would come get your child, disappear into the back, hours later the nurse would bring back your child. No one had any idea what was going on, except the ones that knew about him, prior to the changes.

 

[chickadoodles]

Penny, I’m with you. No more dentists!
I had dentists make cry while they did their drilling on me. Thank god I never have to go through that again!

adorable puppy.

Cap sorry you got snake bit.

I would love to learn to make chipotl. So I cam make chipote jam!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Penny, I’m with you. No more dentists!
I had dentists make cry while they did their drilling on me. Thank god I never have to go through that again!

adorable puppy.

Cap sorry you got snake bit.

I would love to learn to make chipotl. So I cam make chipote jam!

Ah, that bite was nothing. I have had worse wasp stings! Thanks though.

 

[sourland]

Good morning home of the old folks. I'm one of the lucky ones. I have a GREAT dentist.

 

[microchick]

I am at the point now that I will leave if the dentist starts hurting me. I had one butcher remove a sideways wisdom tooth with a mallet and chisel, I swear! Then a different one did a root canal when I had an infected tooth and anesthetic would not work. No more!

Unbelievable misconduct on the part of the dentist. I had three teeth fused to my jaw that needed extraction. No mallets or chisels. Dentist worked for almost 3 hours carving them out with the drill. I lost a section of the front of my upper and lower jaw but he got them out without me feeling a thing.

I also had the same incident with an infected tooth/abscess. I lost count of the number of injections the dentist put into my jaw trying to lessen the pain as he tried to open the tooth to drain it. Only he kept apologizing and giving me breaks to let the pain die down a bit before he drilled a little more.

I guess that I am lucky now in that since my horrible childhood experiences the dentists that I have gone to since then have made up for it by treating me with kindness and consideration.

Good dentists are out there Cap. You just have to weed out the knuckleheads to find them.

 

[Peep_Show]

KDOGG331 -
What are special Russian pickling cucumbers? (Almost sounds like the prelude to a joke)
I had planted lots of Dragon Egg cukes (like a lemon cucumber in flavor, but smooth white skin and will not trellis), but the majority were eaten by some critter. The 10 seeds I had left went into a late planting and are now hiding out in the chard bed as I couldn't keep anything beyond sprouting in the one bed.

So with my jalapenos as little gnawed twigs, I decided to fill the row they were in with assorted summer squashes. Well, I didn't pull them out and those peppers rallied and now I have competing plants. Oh, and a volunteer tomato or two. Kind of a garden mishmash there, but I'm just happy something is growing and surviving.

Hornworms are the worst (well, the chickens beg to differ.) You notice maybe a lobbed blossom one day and the next day the whole stalk is stripped naked. Usually I can spot them early on, but I have gotten a UV flashlight to aid in detection. Thus far only two and the tomatoes are finally flourishing. The onslaught and crop losses this year have created an unusual love/hate relationship on gardening.

Chickadoodles --
Chipotle is pretty easy... They're just smoke jalapeno peppers. I halve mine, stem and deseed, and put them in the smoker. If they haven't dried totally dried out after the smoker, then afterwards into the dehydrator. Once crispy dried, into the grinder they go. If you like your powder spicier, leave the seeds in.

 

[Peep_Show]

I've been very fortunate in the dental department, both with great dentists and then having pretty good teeth. The only dental misstep was immediately post-divorce I had horrible molar pain. Nothing showed up on x-ray and a while later the molar disintegrated. (Nothing showed up because the crack was at the gum line. Turns out I was grinding and gritting my teeth in the aftermath of the separation.)
Anyway, I had moved and went with a new dentist who was open on weekends. First clue something was hinky was she kind of moonlighted in this office and wasn't a regular dentist there. Second problem was she couldn't get a properly fitting crown and improvised. Instead of porcelain it was some kind of metal which totally skewed the flavor of everything that was in my mouth. Oh, and it wasn't the right height either, so the bite was off. Being newly divorced and bankrupt and without insurance, this was a dentist I could afford and it had to suffice for the time being.
I remarried and relocated and DH had a great dental plan. The new dentist took one look and said she would make the replacement fit the insurance so I wouldn't have to pay a thing. I loved that dentist! Great personality, kind and caring. Was very sad when she retired.

 

[chickadoodles]

KDOGG331 -
What are special Russian pickling cucumbers? (Almost sounds like the prelude to a joke)
I had planted lots of Dragon Egg cukes (like a lemon cucumber in flavor, but smooth white skin and will not trellis), but the majority were eaten by some critter. The 10 seeds I had left went into a late planting and are now hiding out in the chard bed as I couldn't keep anything beyond sprouting in the one bed.

So with my jalapenos as little gnawed twigs, I decided to fill the row they were in with assorted summer squashes. Well, I didn't pull them out and those peppers rallied and now I have competing plants. Oh, and a volunteer tomato or two. Kind of a garden mishmash there, but I'm just happy something is growing and surviving.

Hornworms are the worst (well, the chickens beg to differ.) You notice maybe a lobbed blossom one day and the next day the whole stalk is stripped naked. Usually I can spot them early on, but I have gotten a UV flashlight to aid in detection. Thus far only two and the tomatoes are finally flourishing. The onslaught and crop losses this year have created an unusual love/hate relationship on gardening.

Chickadoodles --
Chipotle is pretty easy... They're just smoke jalapeno peppers. I halve mine, stem and deseed, and put them in the smoker. If they haven't dried totally dried out after the smoker, then afterwards into the dehydrator. Once crispy dried, into the grinder they go. If you like your powder spicier, leave the seeds in.

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Thanks for sharing Peep. I don't have a smoker.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I've been very fortunate in the dental department, both with great dentists and then having pretty good teeth. The only dental misstep was immediately post-divorce I had horrible molar pain. Nothing showed up on x-ray and a while later the molar disintegrated. (Nothing showed up because the crack was at the gum line. Turns out I was grinding and gritting my teeth in the aftermath of the separation.)
Anyway, I had moved and went with a new dentist who was open on weekends. First clue something was hinky was she kind of moonlighted in this office and wasn't a regular dentist there. Second problem was she couldn't get a properly fitting crown and improvised. Instead of porcelain it was some kind of metal which totally skewed the flavor of everything that was in my mouth. Oh, and it wasn't the right height either, so the bite was off. Being newly divorced and bankrupt and without insurance, this was a dentist I could afford and it had to suffice for the time being.
I remarried and relocated and DH had a great dental plan. The new dentist took one look and said she would make the replacement fit the insurance so I wouldn't have to pay a thing. I loved that dentist! Great personality, kind and caring. Was very sad when she retired.

My latest dentist retired.