The Old Folks Home

[Grandmas Coop]

Are you watering them too much? Sometimes that can make plants bleach out their color.

I have a lot of that patience problem too. My green beans didn't want to come up. I tired force germinating some in the house and they were shooting out roots in 48 hours so I knew it wasn't the seed. Went out, dug around, found some of the seeds, just not germinating. Granted some were gone like the birds had been after them so I got my bag of seeds and replanted. A week later...still no sprouts so I started poking more seeds in the ground determined that SOMETHING had to sprout. Well, finally they did and now I have green beans coming out of my ears.

I'll be processing them with my eyes closed again.

Seriously, Bruce, I used to sit and watch tv and string and cut beans. Still have five fingers on each hand and the right amount of joints per finger, LOL.

No, not me, The good Lord has blessed us with rain,,, for like, well it is the PNW hahahaha

 

[lovesfarms]

Because of the density of the tissue it is hard to visualize any lesions or early cancers.

I got the same problem. I had so many false hits on my mammograms that I finally said 'no more' I know what's normal for me and what isn't. I couldn't take the stress and finally went to the Susan B Kolman center in Peoria who did a detailed mammogram on me and said, you're fine. You just have dense breasts and a small calification that has been stable since day one. They didn't know what to look for at our small town hospital.

Thank you!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Because of the density of the tissue it is hard to visualize any lesions or early cancers.

I got the same problem. I had so many false hits on my mammograms that I finally said 'no more' I know what's normal for me and what isn't. I couldn't take the stress and finally went to the Susan B Kolman center in Peoria who did a detailed mammogram on me and said, you're fine. You just have dense breasts and a small calification that has been stable since day one. They didn't know what to look for at our small town hospital.

I had dense breast tissue, and lots of problems with mammograms. After I had breast reduction surgery, it was so much easier and less painful.

 

[lovesfarms]

And @lovesfarms Dense or otherwise difficult to see through breasts = even more important to have regular mammograms.

With fibrous or dense breast tissue it is easier to hold up a new mammogram, and compare it to an old one and say "ah! All the same!" Than to look at all of the dense or fibrous masses and try to figure out what in the world is going on in there.

Comparison is so important and helpful.

Early detection is half the battle, truly.

As to how often it needs to be done.... depends on family history.

Thank you for your response! My younger sister is a breast cancer survivor at 35 years old. None other in my family but the Dr says it's likely a gene mutation because of her age do the rest of us 5 sisters are at higher risk.

 

[lovesfarms]

I had dense breast tissue, and lots of problems with mammograms. After I had breast reduction surgery, it was so much easier and less painful.

Sometimes it seems the more we go to The Dr the more problems we have! On the other hand I've learned there is nothing better then educating yourself, participating in making decisions.. And sometimes standing firm when we disagree! I appreciate your input! Sometimes you don't know what to believe on Google.

 

[Beer can]

OMLord, Cookie would cook turnip and mustard greens to death and I would have to sit and clean my plate,, I gaged on that stuff and got yelled at for it

Not sure why people eat turnip greens. I've tried them, and radish greens. Neither any good. When you have spinach which I have been hit and miss on sometimes just goes right to seed here. Then always do good with kale, swiss chard super yummy, beet greens also, and collards. Not sure why even bother with the others. I grow so many greens no reason to bother with chicken food lol. Been eating collards about daily since spring growing great coming up in the garden from last yr, flowering and going to seed but the greens great. Also thining out what I planted. What I planted getting big now so chickens getting a lot of collards from last yrs plants.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Coffee Break 4pm, I got busy and didnt stop at 3


so the area between the coop and fence line was inching to out of control,




so I got out my EGO weed eater and hedge trimmer and went to town at 9:30 and finished at 11:30, I did the hillside on the east & northside of the coop, the herb garden area on the westside of the coop and the fence line on both sides of the fence ..and grandpa weed eated the other hillside by the garden.




then I fixed lunch and got back at it, see those tall maple suckers, I crawled in there and cut them down hahahahahahaha


OK dinner is almost done, I took some great pasta sauce I made out of the freezer this morning, and I have some zucchini noodles heating up,

So after lunch we went to town on the steep hillside on the other side of the garden fence line
We cut maple saplings the were WAY!!! to tall and some cedar that was growing off a downed tree
the hill is THICK with black berry vines, salal brush,,,, stumps, and deep drops you could miss step in .. We both are tired

looking out the window here Oooooo 6 humming birds on my feeders, new babies,,

 

[microchick]

And @lovesfarms Dense or otherwise difficult to see through breasts = even more important to have regular mammograms.

With fibrous or dense breast tissue it is easier to hold up a new mammogram, and compare it to an old one and say "ah! All the same!" Than to look at all of the dense or fibrous masses and try to figure out what in the world is going on in there.

Comparison is so important and helpful.

Early detection is half the battle, truly.

As to how often it needs to be done.... depends on family history.

The only thing I can add to that Al is to go to a big city hospital and have it done. My birthplace in central IL wasn't all that small of a city but the hospital there put me through a years worth of stress every time I went for my annual exam. I can't begin to tell you what it does to a woman to hear them say something looks suspicious and then they start to mark on your boobs with permanent marking pen with arrows and lines and tell you to come back tomorrow for more images/sonograms/etc.

They did that to me on a Thursday, had me come back on a Friday and the following Monday was a holiday but call your doctor next Wednesday.....I looked at the tech and asked him if he was married. He said yes. I asked him if he had a daughter...he had two. I asked him to put them in my place and would he want them to go that long not knowing whether or not they had breast cancer?

He told me no and then said, "you're fine. It's just a cyst, you didn't hear it from me, now have a nice holiday."

I could have hugged the guy.

 

[Beer can]

their blue lake

Blue lake is our go to bean. Yours are prob just stunted , might still grow good. Too much rain? Potting soil no good? Did you use inoculant bacteria? I always do for the beans and peas, and they do great.

 

[lovesfarms]

Not sure why people eat turnip greens. I've tried them, and radish greens. Neither any good. When you have spinach which I have been hit and miss on sometimes just goes right to seed here. Then always do good with kale, swiss chard super yummy, beet greens also, and collards. Not sure why even bother with the others. I grow so many greens no reason to bother with chicken food lol. Been eating collards about daily since spring growing great coming up in the garden from last yr, flowering and going to seed but the greens great. Also thining out what I planted. What I planted getting big now so chickens getting a lot of collards from last yrs plants.

Then your chickens must be laying lots of good healthy eggs!