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[Imp]

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Don't worry Imp. I saw yer post just fergot to comment. And for you and everybody else that has been trying to figure out how this could happen !!!! Well maybe it is because as they always said

GRANDDAD WAS OLDER THAN DIRT !!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I totally agree and would add that since you have a life and (it sounds like) they don't they have nothing better to do than try to make you look bad. I have several of those and I just tell them to KMWA.

now there is an idea !

Actually we have made up, and I apologized even though I said nothing nasty to her, just defended myself to her nasty remarks...I just do not want to continue the useless argueing and hate 'mail'
It dimenishes the energy, robs me of sleep and makes me totally consumed in toxic negativity and it is inevitible that some poor well meaning soul comes along and gets dragon fire from me.
A person can only hold so much.
I am not doing it any more, good article in this month's AARP::how to use loose weight without trying -and-how to deal with toxic people.
Toxic people you just need to smile and ignore.
The loosing weight thing consisted of the three rules to adopt for the upcoming year:

Pick three, if one does not work, change to a different one but always keep three:

1) Always include a fruit and a vegetable with your lunch and dinner
2)Do not ever eat white foods at dinner (I love that one !)
3)Use the half plate rule: Always fill your plate with half salad or veggies first.
4)Have a sweet or salty snack in the afternoon ONLY if you FIRST eat a piece of freash fruit.
5)Drink 1 glass of fresh cool water before every meal.
6)Use the restaurant Rule of 2: Limit yourself to only two other items on the menu besides your entree.
7)Never eat in front of the TV.
8)Eat a peice of fruit on the way to work everyday.(NO doughnuts, rolls muffins or other starch !)
9)Save dessert for a weekend treat.
10)Freeze half of what you make to use for another meal, and use the other half.
11) Slow down, sit at a table and eat, not in front of the TV, or in the car or in front of the computer.
12) Pre plate your food in the kitchen and then go sit in the Dining room to eat, do not put the Pots of food on the Dining table as it is too easy to dip seconds.

I think #10 referred to freezing half the food on your plate for another meal, so I will skip that one, and I seldom if ever eat in a restaurant, so I skip #6 also.
But I love the rest, especially the dessert weekends and no white food at dinner (except cauliflower!)
I have another one of my favorites: Do not sauce/butter and dip yourself fat either.
I watched so many people buy and eat Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza and alot of other foods that are nasty fat in the first place, add Ranch dressing to dip in, yes even their chicken and pizza. YUCK!
There is also a group that think having a 40 pound salad for a meal with 16 toppings and a gallon of rich fattening dressing on top is a diet.
No.
So stay firm on no cheese sauce on that cauliflower, no dipping, and no gallons of (*sigh!*) gravy either.
I like O&V spritzed...I used to LOVE Blue Cheese but it has gluten so had to stop that.
So #13 is my personal dressing/topping/dipping rule:
13) Knock off the dipping, limit the salad dressing to a spritz of lemon, or a tablespoon or two of oil and vinegar dressing.(Cream salad dressing are the worst for calories!)

OK, now let's see some more gardens !!
All of the pictures are so beautiful !

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Hope ya all stayed warm over night. It got a little chilly here I had 17* this am. But it is beautiful and sunny now !!!!!

Headin out side for the day. I may try to get a couple pics of our trophy of heavy wood crates that we are going to use for gardening.

 

[cheryl98117]

Anybody else get miniature snow balls last night? The weather man is trying to call it hail, but I have never seen hail so fluffy! lol

G'morning everybody!!! Its a deceivingly beautiful cold day! But its DRY!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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The big crates we got are shown here cut in half. The company in South Bend gives a few away a week, we have to sawzall one in half and carry on the trailer, but they can be used for so many things !
Rabbit hutches, nest boxes, cover with wire and have a tractor. They are heavy, not treated so won't last forever, but I can go get more. In the spring I hang the plastic over 3, one in the center, and have a great green house for tender starts.

 

[Chickielady]

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Mine were rectangular plastic planting boxes with a reservoir of water at the bottom. If I remember right, a plastic grid sits a couple inches up from the bottom, the soil is put on top of that, then whatever seeds you are using and a row of fertilizer on top of that, and then a reversible plastic mulch(black or silver depending on heat). About once a week you fill the water reservoir through a verticle PVC pipe that goes from the reservoir through the dirt and mulch. My plants grew extremely well in these. Prior to getting them, I had given up on a garden when I lived in Woodinville as my ward was nothing but a thick doug fir forest. I set my boxes up in wagons that I would roll around the yard, following the sun. (When I'd go to work, I'd roll them out onto my driveway). Easy! I think they are pricey though. Mine were gifts.

The Earthbox from Earthbox.com are around $70, I made mine for about $7 or $8, that is for tote, dirt, pete moss and plastic.

I get these 20 foot boxes made of hardwood, for free.
But if I didn't have them, and I did not in California, we used wine barrels cut in half and DH drilled holes in the bottoms.
If I didn't have that, I have used big tubs from Walmart, for example big green ones like the big earth boxes are on sale now with red lids for Christmas decoration storage,
I got several and seems they were $6-7. each.
Drill holes with a good sharp drill, do not try to bust a drain hole of the can crack.
Wish you all could get some of these boxes, 1 20 footer and you cut to lengths you want, right there in their parking lot, and add ends when you get home (the box has 2-ten foot sections of lid we cut for ends) drill drain holes and add your compost, within a few hours you have a huge raised bed garden. No bending over or reaching to pick, and no gophers, very few crawlies at all.
Right now, I have cut 2 sections about 3 foot long of leftover 5 foot fence wire, fold slightly and stick long ways in these boxes, like hoops. Cover with the heavy plastic and staple. I like to be able to screw, nail or staple wickets, tomato cages and plastic to them.
I have one 10 footer with 3 rows of garlic, hooped and covered, anmd 1 10 footer hooped and covered with greens.
Right now both look steamy inside, so the compost must be keeping it warm inside.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

Good morning!
I had a not so friendly morning. *grumble* *grumble* *grumble* So excited that I had finished all my thank you cards and was getting ready for work, went outside and my car door was frozen shut with all the frost this AM!

So had to take an extension cord and the hair dryer out- took a long time!!

Next time when I drive home, I am going to remind myself, "Hey, Idiot, park in the garage!"

Ok, so I'm off my high horse now. And at work. Last work day of the year. Woo Hoo

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Safer soap works good for aphids. There are also recipes on line for making your own.

 

[Chickielady]

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Styrofoam bee bees is the predicessor to snow, everytime.
Don't know why.

By Nature: Most of us cannot grow pepper here unless they are fast, (the peppers) and unless we have a green house to lenghten the season.
I love the Anchos stuffed and grilled!

Grace I have to laugh at the Mexican-Apache thing, it is true, some still have half Native and half Mexican names like : Douglas Blue Eagle Hernandez

DH was talking to me the other night in California on his Dad's ranch, and a HUGE owl swooped over and landed on the yard light pole.
DH said he had horns, and at least a 6 foot wing span, a great horned owl!
I said "It is a sign!" So forever now he is to be called Sitting Owl

instead of sweetie pie

 

[Chickielady]

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I told ya

in the early fall::: Get a tub of vaseline and a paper towel, and rub vaseline all around the rubber gasket of the doors, at least the driver's side door.
And another thing:

Remember it is there so you do not rub on it and goo up your good duds.
I got frozen IN my car several times in North Ideeho from freezing rain and even simple condensation on the cold metal...before an old timer saw me trying to climb outta my car window...

and told me bout the vaseline thing. And when it is 20 below, nothing and I mean NOTHING will defrost the doors until spring.