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[hallerlake]

Quote: A couple of years ago, a bear was spotted just a few blocks from me.

 

[TerrorBird]

Quote: A couple of years ago, a bear was spotted just a few blocks from me.

That reminds me, we have a bear too.

 

[Hinotori]

I've been trying to get Mom to give me her flour mix recipe so I can make something gluten free to bring. She said she has to make up some biscuits to remember the quantities of each flour, but making biscuits is bad because she will eat them all. She says they are almost like wheat biscuits. She can't tollerate the gums so there aren't any in it. She uses the glutinous rice flour (texture not gluten like wheat), sweet potato starch, tapioca flour, and sweet rice flour. I know she uses egg in the biscuits to help bind it as well.

I'll ask her again. Maybe I can get her to make some this weekend and give me the ratios. She's made some cookies that even Dad liked. I'll mention that I bet she could make some good brownies with that flour mix. She was saying she was craving them the other day.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Hey, so your a poser!! NO problem!!! LOL!!!

just kiddin man!!!! That's cool you know Russian that well! I heard it's not an easy language to learn!

For me it came easy. I have tried to learn Spanish but it makes no sense to me. It helps that Spokane County is close to 1/4 Salvic, lots of people to help me when I pronounce something wrong

 

[itsren]

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Yeah - I think my expenses have finally gone over the initial cost of my husband's pure-bred dog. But, even DH likes the chickens, now, too - especially "his" babies that he hatched.

 

[Hilatious]

I've been trying to get Mom to give me her flour mix recipe so I can make something gluten free to bring. She said she has to make up some biscuits to remember the quantities of each flour, but making biscuits is bad because she will eat them all. She says they are almost like wheat biscuits. She can't tollerate the gums so there aren't any in it. She uses the glutinous rice flour (texture not gluten like wheat), sweet potato starch, tapioca flour, and sweet rice flour. I know she uses egg in the biscuits to help bind it as well.

I'll ask her again. Maybe I can get her to make some this weekend and give me the ratios. She's made some cookies that even Dad liked. I'll mention that I bet she could make some good brownies with that flour mix. She was saying she was craving them the other day.

I use 1C. flour to 1/2C. starch. I don't use gums either.

 

[itsren]

This morning the top flock leader is Cocoa, Blackie, Rocha and Latte! We are no closer to figuring out the pecking order. Everyone is way too stubborn to back down.

And, the chicks 11-day-old chicks can now fly higher than my sweet Drama and Caunnie. What's up with that? I'm thinking CR must've rustled the eggs from a leghorn farm.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Mikey or anyone else in that area...................



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Date: 2012-10-25, 7:04AM PDT
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[Slinglings]

Quote: A couple of years ago, a bear was spotted just a few blocks from me.

That reminds me, we have a bear too.

We have coyotes in our neighborhood--I took some pictures last year and was on the news http://northseattle.komonews.com/news/urban-wildlife/coyote-loose-n-seattle/653821


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[Stumpfarmer]

Wow! that's good to know! but, that is also too bad that they didn't find some one who could help them, put it together!  Darn it!

I know that itsren has a family club, and I want to avoid offense, here, but the thing that was most valuable about 4H for me was being a member of a huge community club, one that ran for four generations and continues to this day; I was a 10 year member and then a project leader into my twenties, and then, coming back fifteen years later was astonished at the rise of small , one project clubs and family clubs and the dearth of the big community clubs which had been the rule before.

The thing about community clubs was the enormous intitutional memory and organizational expertise, the ways in which knowledge, tack, show clothes, and breed lines got handed down through the generations of Junior members, the way in which supervising herdsmanship got shared among parents so that nobody had sole responsibility for the whole day, or worst of all the whole fair. Most important were the skills I picked up at club level, from Robert's Rules of Order to demonstration practice and keeping record books, which have served me over and over in my life- in academic and job environments, especially.

The beef herd we have is in fact an overgrown 4H project; we're largely an Angus/blackX operation because I bought a shorthorn from Bennetts and my sister inherited Cousin Jim's FFA Angus heifer (both of us were first Dairy project members and raised Holstein dairy replacement heifers). My Shorthorn had heifers, her Angus didn't, and so we kept buying Angus for her to show. We're not exceptionable among Wetside cow-calf operations of our generation: most of the people we know in the business we competed against either in 4H or open class over the years.

I've recommended 4H many times to parents, urban and rural, who had young kids who wanted to learn specific skills, but as a resident of a remnant farm in suburbia, what I miss most about 4H is the tradition of knowing and working with my neighbors, the institution of community service and inter-generational contact, and making friendships that lasted for decades.

(And writing this has led me to be behind schedule, must get cracking).