The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

@superchemicalgirl your showgirl is pretty lucky. I had the same thing happen last winter with one of my silkie/giant crosses. I just gave her a careful trim job. Was quite the chunk to cut out, and she still had a warm fuzzy bum.

 

[Beer can]

Thanks Bc I will try some like this also.

Red flannel hash. Dice up beets, potatoes, onions and corned beef and fry in butter till done

Pretty funny I never ate a beet until I moved in with DW. Never would have tried them, don't know why just figured I didn't like them.
Remember in elementary school they served beets, pretty sure the 55gal garbage can was full of them after lunch was over. Don't think a single kid ate them.
First time I tried them I was like why didn't I ever eat these before? Lol.

 

[chickadoodles]

Red flannel hash. Dice up beets, potatoes, onions and corned beef and fry in butter till done

Pretty funny I never ate a beet until I moved in with DW. Never would have tried them, don't know why just figured I didn't like them.
Remember in elementary school they served beets, pretty sure the 55gal garbage can was full of them after lunch was over. Don't think a single kid ate them.
First time I tried them I was like why didn't I ever eat these before? Lol.

Thanks Bc I have never ate them. Dh want's to try them since he heard they are very good for you. So I guess we will try some. Thanks. We like fried hash with potatoes and onions. I'll bet this is a good way to eat them also.

 

[Bunnylady]

I've gotten golden beets at a local health food store - not quite as messy as the red ones.

And did you know that beets and chard are the same species? You often see chard used for winter color in landscape plantings around here. I sometimes wonder how many of the folks who use it that way know that the stuff is edible.

It's weird, all of the roads that they brined (in case it's not a universal practice, they make a salt water mix and spray it onto the roads before any winter weather with the idea that it will melt everything off on contact rather than the old practice of waiting for snow and then putting down salt or gravel) turned into ice sheets this time, the ones that they didn't treat have snow, but they have traction because it's NOT ice...

A bit ironic, isn't it? But it makes perfect sense. The salt lowers the melting point of water, but only by a few degrees. So while it works well as long as the temperature is close to freezing, if it goes much lower than that, it just freezes anyway.

The local crews were out spraying down the overpasses and other vulnerable points in anticipation of yesterday's precipitation. When BB2K and I drove home last night, it was 37° and raining, which is plenty nasty, but by the time the freeze line got here, there wasn't much moisture left in the system. There were a few flurries overnight, but after a 55° day, there was enough warmth in the ground that it pretty much all melted. Just to be on the safe side, our schools went with a 2-hour delay, but those to the west that got more snow have cancelled classes today.

 

[Peep_Show]

deb - Wishing you a quick uncomplicated surgery and speedy recovery. It'll be wonderful when it's all in your rearview mirror.

Cap - Lovely birds! Topknots are so fun and the lacing is gorgeous.

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My sympathies to all those having the frozen wasteland tundra experience (never a popular Disney ride.) We're about 20 in the morning and warming up to 50 during the day. Love seeing the ice shadows on the ground where the sunlight hasn't melted the frost. Crunchy lawn. Dogs don't dawdle when sent out to do their business!

 

[drumstick diva]

Peep Show it's 17F here and believe me I don't dawdle when out doing any kind of business either.

 

[chickadoodles]

I've gotten golden beets at a local health food store - not quite as messy as the red ones.

And did you know that beets and chard are the same species? You often see chard used for winter color in landscape plantings around here. I sometimes wonder how many of the folks who use it that way know that the stuff is edible.

I did not know there was a golden beet or that they were the same species as chard.
Thank you.

 

[microchick]

deb - Wishing you a quick uncomplicated surgery and speedy recovery. It'll be wonderful when it's all in your rearview mirror.

Cap - Lovely birds! Topknots are so fun and the lacing is gorgeous.

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My sympathies to all those having the frozen wasteland tundra experience (never a popular Disney ride.) We're about 20 in the morning and warming up to 50 during the day. Love seeing the ice shadows on the ground where the sunlight hasn't melted the frost. Crunchy lawn. Dogs don't dawdle when sent out to do their business!

One of our dogs has a reasonably flat coat. DH suggested last night that maybe we needed to get her a sweater to wear when she went outside and I nixed that idea. I've learned from experience that when they wear sweaters, they want to stay out and play in the snow. When it's in the high 20s, low 30s that isn't such a bad thing. But when it's 15 and the dog is running all over the 30 acres barking at everything that moves while I'm standing on the back deck calling for them to come it (and them ignoring me) it gets to be a bit over the top.

I told him no, I'd rather she go out, do her business, sniff around a bit and be at the back door scratching to come in because it's cold out over the alternative.

 

[pennyJo1960]

good idea we have not put leashes on our here either Snow will play keep away from BF I turn fast movement the other way she follows watcha doin???

 

[chickadoodles]

I got a few orders done for seeds for the garden this morning. I found the golden beets at fedco. I still need a few things I will look around here for those and hopefully I'll find them.
Looking forward to trying beets this year.
Thanks everyone.