What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

I have bees and the taste of honey depends on what the bees made it from. Clover honey is very good and light in color. The darker honey is often called wildflower honey. It is said basswood makes a very good honey. I do not have basswood trees but they are common in your area. Many beekeepers will not harvest honey made from goldenrod. They leave it for the bees. Some say they can smell goldenrod when they open a hive during the goldenrod bloom.

Nope it's not. I have a honey cabinet in the kitchen.
I won't say I collect honey on my trips and travel, but ya, I do. LOL

 

[akroberts1085]

Sausage and onions from the store. Green bell pepper zucchini and jalapeno from the garden. 3 eggs from the chickens.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Less than 5 minutes with the reciprocating saw and the tub is OUT of the bathroom. (It took me longer to re-clean the bathroom) I sliced it in half, and out the door it went. I tossed it with much glee over the deck railing and to the yard below. I've loathed it since the day we bought the house.
I have just regained a 4x8 foot chunk of the bathroom!!
I went up to the storage attic and photographed the extra bits from the build and shocker, the tile has been discontinued.
I've ordered samples of a couple that will coordinate with the old, I HOPE, but not look like I'm trying to match it, as I never could.
I have JUST enough extra tile to tile the floor under the new cabinet (on legs).
Now I need to find close enough grout, also discontinued.

Wait...
WHAAAAAT?



You destroyed that beautiful soaking tub?!?!?!

 

[WthrLady]

Wait...
WHAAAAAT?

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You destroyed that beautiful soaking tub?!?!?!

YEP. That damnable thing!
120 gallons, no heater, no insulation fiberglass so water got cold really fast.
The jets were nice BUT it was so high up and far into that box that you had to be 6 feet tall just to get in. Getting out was dangerous with wet and tile. I've used it twice in 10 years. DH never used it. We kept the dirty laundry hampers in there. LOL.
TOTAL waste of water and space.

 

[akroberts1085]

YEP. That damnable thing!
120 gallons, no heater, no insulation fiberglass so water got cold really fast.
The jets were nice BUT it was so high up and far into that box that you had to be 6 feet tall just to get in. Getting out was dangerous with wet and tile. I've used it twice in 10 years. DH never used it. We kept the dirty laundry hampers in there. LOL.
TOTAL waste of water and space.

I absolutely agree with you about the bathtub. When my husband said he wanted to remodel our bathroom I told him good then I can finally get rid of that filthy nasty tub. Now we have a shower only and I love it.

 

[chickengr]

I have been watching the updates on Iceland where they are getting thousands of earthquakes and lava may erupt at anytime. One of things I remember them saying is that an earthquake of 2 or less is not felt but it is recorded on their machines. Evidently, people can only feel an earthquake of 3 or more.

Some people claim that household pets can sense an impending earthquake before people, or even our recoding machines. They cite that the incidents of missing pets spikes prior to a large earthquake. One explanation is that our pets are closer to the earth than we are and can feel those subtle stirrings going on in the earth. Maybe they can also hear the pre-earthquake rumblings on a frequency we cannot. Of course, another explanation is that there is no correlation between missing pets and imminent earthquakes. I don't know what is true, but it's a fun story to listen to just the same.

I don't feel an earthquake less than 5. when many years ago I lived in athens we had 1 big (6) and a series of smaller earthquakes for 2-3 days. my animals (a dog and 2 budges) were snoring, only I could feel earthquakes. the vet explained that they felt safe with me so didn't care. I did keep them in my bedroom those days so that in case of need I can grab a cage and my dog would have followed me. other people's pets (according to them) could sense the earthquakes.

 

[chickengr]

All Honey is NOT the same!

I try to grow lots of the food we eat. I'm getting better at it. However, Dear Wife would go into the Amish open market on Saturday morning and pick up some great produce that either we don't grow, or just failed for us this year. Their produce always looks better than what we see at the big box stores. I don't know how the cost of the Amish produce compares to the big box stores, but it is nice paying the farmer directly.

Well, the Amish market had natural honey canned in quart jars for $12.75. That comes out to $0.39 per ounce. Normally, I buy little Honey Bears at the Dollar Tree and pay $1.25 for 1-3/4 ounces, or about $0.71 per ounce. Dear Wife and I decided to buy a quart jar, thinking that natural honey should have more health benefits for us, and it was even less expensive buying it in a big jar.

The honey we got is unprocessed. It's like spreading jam or jelly on your food, and if the food is warm enough, the natural honey will melt. I was OK with that, although the store-bought honey is always liquid, and you just squeeze the Honey Bear and the honey pours out.

Well, turns out that I really don't care for the taste of the natural honey. The store-bought honey is just a lot sweeter to me. Maybe I just prefer the store-bought honey taste because that is what I've always had? I have pretty much decided not to buy another jar of natural honey because of the taste. But maybe there is something I am doing wrong with the natural honey? Do you have to heat it up or something else to make it sweeter?

I prefer to eat most natural foods over processed foods. So, I was thinking the natural honey would be even better. Having said that, if I don't like the taste of any food, then it's just not worth it for me to buy. Case in point, I only buy name brand ketchup because the off-brand ketchups just don't taste as good to me. But most food items we are fine with the less expensive store brand food and save lots of money compared to buying the name brand item.

I can't believe that I would rather pay twice the price for artificial honey in a Honey Bear than buying natural honey with great health benefits as about half the cost! Somebody help me, please!

not all natural honey taste the same. black locust honey is sweet and mild, liquid as well. pine and chestnut honey are much stronger and somewhat bitter. I think all natural honey exept black locust get hard in cold weather.

 

[gtaus]

Did y'all know USDA changed the plant hardiness zones?
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

eta: I went from 6a to 6b.

Not that any of it really makes much of a difference, lol.

I'm still at 3b. Was hoping that Global Climate Change would have warmed me up a bit, but not yet...

 

[gtaus]

pine and chestnut honey are much stronger and somewhat bitter.

We have lots of pine trees here in northern Minnesota. Don't know where the bees feed locally, but the honey I bought was a light-yellow color and is about the consistency of spreadable butter. I don't know if I would say it is bitter, but it certainly is not sweet like the store-bought honey.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

All Honey is NOT the same!

I try to grow lots of the food we eat. I'm getting better at it. However, Dear Wife would go into the Amish open market on Saturday morning and pick up some great produce that either we don't grow, or just failed for us this year. Their produce always looks better than what we see at the big box stores. I don't know how the cost of the Amish produce compares to the big box stores, but it is nice paying the farmer directly.

Well, the Amish market had natural honey canned in quart jars for $12.75. That comes out to $0.39 per ounce. Normally, I buy little Honey Bears at the Dollar Tree and pay $1.25 for 1-3/4 ounces, or about $0.71 per ounce. Dear Wife and I decided to buy a quart jar, thinking that natural honey should have more health benefits for us, and it was even less expensive buying it in a big jar.

The honey we got is unprocessed. It's like spreading jam or jelly on your food, and if the food is warm enough, the natural honey will melt. I was OK with that, although the store-bought honey is always liquid, and you just squeeze the Honey Bear and the honey pours out.

Well, turns out that I really don't care for the taste of the natural honey. The store-bought honey is just a lot sweeter to me. Maybe I just prefer the store-bought honey taste because that is what I've always had? I have pretty much decided not to buy another jar of natural honey because of the taste. But maybe there is something I am doing wrong with the natural honey? Do you have to heat it up or something else to make it sweeter?

I prefer to eat most natural foods over processed foods. So, I was thinking the natural honey would be even better. Having said that, if I don't like the taste of any food, then it's just not worth it for me to buy. Case in point, I only buy name brand ketchup because the off-brand ketchups just don't taste as good to me. But most food items we are fine with the less expensive store brand food and save lots of money compared to buying the name brand item.

I can't believe that I would rather pay twice the price for artificial honey in a Honey Bear than buying natural honey with great health benefits as about half the cost! Somebody help me, please!

My grandfather was a beekeeper, I grew up with natural honey and can’t stand the taste of other honey. I am used to honey being so hard you need a pick to get some cheap honey is produced by feeding bees sugar, and they incorporate it into the honey, also, if honey is heated over a certain temperature to make it runny, most health benefits are lost , I get goosebumps just looking at those „honeybear“ packages theres are also many kinds of different honeys like clover, chestnut, heath, cornflower and so on, and they all taste different and have different colors too