Posted on 11/30/2007 7:48:14 PM PST by Soaring Feather
Well our snow is melting, the plow came through in the night- I was still up pondering about useless things- now it’s looking dirty out side from the street mess.
No doubt, the snow is lovely, all fresh and white. And it is so silent coming down, really I do love that part of it.
The snow white little pellets in it is not so silent though. There are names for snow- I used to snow them all, crossword questions, ;0).
Thanks! I’ll take a look!
You sure it wasn’t the eagles or the herons that ate the koi? LOL...
Oh I don’t know, it is Lady Jag’s koi pond.
If it were eagles I might not mind them eating my fish so much. But I still would buy koi. Ten cent feeder fish what I buy now. Nope, it’s hawks. Mostly redtails.
“would NOT buy koi”
But there sure are different types. We saw a couple yesterday when the storm started with big flakes then later turned to what looked like heavy white rain sorts of flake.
Our road is black and the drifts are white, just like a stripe speeding by. Birdfeeders have jelly bean-shaped white snow hats and skinny deer are wandering through looking for food. They must be desperate because they rarely leave snow tracks around here. It’s awfully early for them to be desperate.
I’ll load up a photo of one of those deer if the pic came out.
Wonder if over population is the problem for the deer?? They should not be thin now- too early as you said.
I just thought maybe a little thin after the rut?? They do a lot of running.
ferns planted around the pond give the fish a place out of sight of the hawks, and a lightweight arbor with ivy on it can cover the whole pond and keeps the hawks away.
Subject: DID YOU KNOW?
This morning’s email good tips!
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little
“stringy things” off of it. That’s how the primates do it.
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave
them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh
much longer and not mold!
Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the
grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of
sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in
double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty
frosting.
Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and
at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simple
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples.
Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the
apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice
cream.
1. Reheat Pizza Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the
stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust
crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it
really works.
2. Easy Deviled Eggs Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash
till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep
mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture
into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
3. Expanding Frosting When you buy a container of cake frosting from the
store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in
size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also
eat less sugar and calories per serving.
4. Reheating refrigerated bread To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins
that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The
increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
5. Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients
in your soil. Wet newspapers put layers around the plants overlapping as
you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through
some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
6. Broken Glass Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards
of glass you can’t see easily.
7. No More Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the
mosquitoes away.
8. Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your
plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn’t hurt the plant and
the squirrels won’t come near it.
9. Flexible vacuum To get something out of a heat register or under the
fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your
vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
10. Reducing Static Cling Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip
and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with
slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and
— ta da! — static is gone.
11. Measuring Cups Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup,
fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add
your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes
right out.
12. Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and
keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the
eraser! Works better than a cloth!
13. Reopening envelope If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot
to include something inside , just place your sealed envelope in the
freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
14. Conditioner Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot
cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a
great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you
tried it in your hair...
15. Goodbye Fruit Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small
glass fill it 1/2” with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing
liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone
forever!
16. Get Rid of Ants Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They
eat it, take it “home,” can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a
week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don’t have the
worry about pets or small children being harmed!
17. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERS The heating unit went out on my dryer! The
gentleman that fixes things around the house for us told us that he wanted
to show us something and he went over to the dryer and pulled out the lint
filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from the filter after every
load clothes.) He took the filter over to the sink, ran hot water over it.
The lint filter is made of a mesh material - I’m sure you know what your
dryer’s lint filter looks like.
Well,...the hot water just sat on top of the mesh! It didn’t go through it
at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that’s
what burns out the heating unit. You can’t SEE the film, but it’s there.
It’s what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft and static free
— that nice fragrance too, you know how they can feel waxy when you take
them out of the box, well t his stuff builds up on your clothes and on
your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to catch fire &
potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep
your dryer working for a very long time (& to keep your electric bill
lower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hot soapy water & an old
toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes
the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that!?! Learn
something new everyday! I certainly didn’t know dryer sheets would do
that. So, I thought I’d share! Note: I went to my dryer & tested my screen
by running water on it. The water ran through a little bit but mostly
collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy
water & a nylon brush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it
the water ran right Thru the screen! There wasn’t any pudding at all! That
repairman knew what he was talking about!
When hawks found the fish pond they began nesting nearby. I have ferns, Iris, all sorts of stuff growing around it and I’ve even put various floaties in it, but you know those hawk eyes.
Oh, yes, English Ivy, Creeping Jenny and evening primrose are all around it also.
Hawk shmawk!
In California ..near the coast ..a net over the pond is the only solution to heron fishing. A friend lost almost all her koi until she covered her pond..I had a juvenile red tailed hawk perch in the dogwood a few times this summer. It is the only hawk I have seen here.
Personally..I’d rather not have a cover on a pond..I’d go the goldfish route!
Hungry is right!
When there is less food the herds really suffer, kinder to have a mercy hunt and pare the herds down to match the food supply so they stay healthy.
Great tips, saved a copy, thanks for posting them!
It’s nature for the hawks to go for them and with all the miles of woods around us we will never have a shortage of predatory birds and animals. Oddly the raccoons have never bothered with the pond.
Now you’ve really done it! You knoow how I love animals..Lovely deer..I assume snow is covering what they like?
This deer does look thin.
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