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[hallerlake]

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Some folks just don't know no better.

 

[Totalcolour]

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There is a machine (sous-vide (water bath) that can cook some meats for 76 hours, and they can still be RARE! Hubby bought me one so I could cook some of the tougher cuts of meat and make them tender. It Works. I cooked a flank steak for 22 hours; set the temp for 134 and it was still rare.

I used the juice to make sauce

 

[Kaneke]

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quite a few places around here with lots and lots of camas bulbs -- I had an agreement with a down-the-road neighbor to dig camas in her yard --- two unfortunate things happened

1) her hubby took a better job out of state so they sold out, and I haven't befriended the new owners
2) we were still on Maui when the camas bloomed, so I couldn't have marked where the plants were anyway

still many places with "violet meadow" in their names .... and I suspect I can mark and dig a few at the place where we bought all the PVC pipe this year ... but it's much nicer to have the bulbs all ready for planting, no fear of slicing them with a spade

 

[Kaneke]

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Some folks just don't know no better.

yep, that's how I managed to kill two Daphne odorata bushes ... had no idea they resented being pruned back

 

[hallerlake]

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Some folks just don't know no better.

yep, that's how I managed to kill two Daphne odorata bushes ... had no idea they resented being pruned back

That's good to know.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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quite a few places around here with lots and lots of camas bulbs -- I had an agreement with a down-the-road neighbor to dig camas in her yard --- two unfortunate things happened

1) her hubby took a better job out of state so they sold out, and I haven't befriended the new owners
2) we were still on Maui when the camas bloomed, so I couldn't have marked where the plants were anyway

still many places with "violet meadow" in their names .... and I suspect I can mark and dig a few at the place where we bought all the PVC pipe this year ... but it's much nicer to have the bulbs all ready for planting, no fear of slicing them with a spade

Oh, there's lots and lots of violets on Violet Prairie (and at Mima Mounds and the Littlerock Glacial Prairie Preserve). Camas is Lacamas (and Lacamas School, up on Bald Hill Road, is somewhere that camas has been wiped out). It's just that when I was in grade school most of Yelm Prairie was also still blue, excluding the places where the ditch had brought truck farming: even then, the roadside was full of camas, violets, wild sunflower and Oregon Sunshine, harebells, Fritillaria lanceolata, catchfly, cous (Lomatium sp), and Indian paintbrush. All it takes to eradicate those plants is to mow three years in a row in April and May. Yelm Cemetary was a delight when I was young; our 4H club used to go up and clean out around the graves and the flagpole right before Memorial Day, and certain families (notably some of the Lomgmires) had their graves fenced so they couldn't be mowed at all, so there were patches of prairie all around.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Some folks just don't know no better.

Yeah: I was really lucky that I was in Girl Scouts while Margaret McKinney was still an active volunteer educator. My troop went on a hike with her when I was perhaps nine, and she and I got in a long conversation about various native members of the Lilaceae.

 

[CarolynF]

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Some folks just don't know no better.

Yeah: I was really lucky that I was in Girl Scouts while Margaret McKinney was still an active volunteer educator. My troop went on a hike with her when I was perhaps nine, and she and I got in a long conversation about various native members of the Lilaceae.

Well, once again I can say that I just keep learning the most interesting things on BYC!
I had to look up camas and Lilaceae which led me to look up wild onions, too. I wanted to know the difference because when I was a little kid my brother and I used to dig up and EAT what HE called Indian Onions. I'm surprised we didn't poison ourselves, but little sisters like me always trusted our big brothers!

Although we didn't have fields of camas where I grew up, we did have a lot of shooting stars and yellow bells. They were SO pretty. But like so many other wild flowers they're really hard to find now. I nearly scared my husband to death one day when I shouted "Stop The Car"! I'd spotted a big patch of shooting stars and just had to go look. It was a little slice of heaven even if I only got to enjoy it for a few minutes!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Did you get tickets for the banquet? I am trying to get 2 tickets for the Banquet.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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So are you "planning " to camp(?) at the fair grounds??

Okay... got the resv. made this morning. We'll get there "Friday before dark" is all hubby will commit to.
This will be the first show I've attended so I'm looking forward to it, it sounds like a lot of fun. I'm wondering if it's similar to the Swap that's in Oregon the following weekend. DH saw the brochure and started drooling when he read the part about a brisket cooked for 24 hours!

Nope, nothing like the swap. LOL The swap is like...well, you really have to experience it.

Are you going to make it to that too?? The show will be a good warm up for the swap! We get pretty crazy!