Posted on 05/01/2025 6:15:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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No worries, but a Kentucky Derby winner deserves to have his name spelled correctly! :-)
About that track ... one of the analysts, Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey, said with a track that sloppy, he would wear six pairs of goggles .... when he couldn’t see, he’d pull the muddy pair down & let it dangle around his neck & hope he didn’t run out of clean goggles before the end of the race!
“...and I just hope the warmth and wetness doesn’t lead to a lot of molds and plant diseases.”
When you get a few dry days in a row, use a copper spray (it’s an organic fungicide - our bodies have copper in them, too) on your tomatoes and peppers, zukes and cukes. Spring-loving veggies like lettuces, peas, broccoli, kale (indestructible in my experience!), spinach should be OK with the wet.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/what-is-copper-fungicide.htm
I love everything about, ‘The Pioneer Woman’s’ life. I really never watched her cooking show - no cable or satellite where I live - so I have been enjoying her on You Tube, as of late.
Her books are hilarious, too. And I’m amazed at what she’s done for her Hometown as far as providing jobs and making it a Tourist Destination. My Mom has been to her place(s) in Oklahoma. I stopped getting her magazine; I can find her recipes just about anywhere, now. It was so popular at the start there was about a 3 month waiting list to even get a single copy! Her ‘decor’ is a little too ‘bright’ for me, but my cats use one of her place mats under their food dish, LOL!
I keep telling Beau we need to ‘buy’ our little Cow Town (pop. 280) where he grew up and do the same thing. He’s not convinced...YET! ;)
That’s EXACTLY what happens - every morning - when they’re young. After they hit their ‘Teen Years’ at about 6 months, they’ve got better things to do, LOL!
It does tug at my heart though, when I see Beau in the exercise yard with all of his ‘pack’ and they treat him as Alpha Male. They really love him up!
Door County is a magical place, for sure! Grandpa LOVED Al Johnson’s for the ‘Old Country’ food they served. And, of course, we girls were CRAZY for those Goats on the ROOF!
They have a ‘Goat Cam’ but it doesn’t look like anyone is up yet, LOL! Look at the color of the water! What a view...for a GOAT!
Tennessee Onions
Must use sweet onions caramelized w/ gooey, melted cheeses. Rich, tasty, comforting Southern side.
Ing 1 tsp ea dried thyme/parsley, garlic powder 1⁄2 tsp dried oregano, 1⁄4 tsp mustard powder 1⁄4 c unsalted butter 3-4 lge sweet onions (Vidalia) 1 cup ea sharp cheddar, mozzarella, shredded 1⁄2 cup Parm
Steps Mix thyme, parsley, gar/powder, oregano, s/p, mustard powder. Set aside. Slice peeled onions into 1/4" thick rounds. Separate into individual rings and add to bowl withspices. Toss to coat, then arrange in Buttered 9×13" b/dish. Cover onions w/ thin slices or small cubes butter; sprinkle w/ cheddar, mozzarella, and Parm. Bake 350 deg for 35-40 min; onions are tender and cheese is melted, bubbly, starting to brown on top. For an extra crispy finish, broil 2-3 min. Remove to counter; cool 5 min.
Notes Okay to overlap onions; distribute ing evenly on top. For best taste, use real butter. Shred cheese from block for best melty finish. Try Gouda or Gruyere. Add red pepper flakes for heat.
Yummy! Will try this. We only like the sweet onions. And cheese!
A very delicious “Southern” dish......the best cooks.
Noted & thanks!
Our luck will probably be to go from wet, wet, wet, to drought...
I am originally from South Chicago, does that count? 😁
I am originally from South Chicago, does that count?
Of course.....
I don't have any roses, but I do use bamboo in my garden. I keep forgetting to put on gloves before I pick up old falling apart bamboo and I get slivers in my hands. They swell up for a while and I get some pointy tweezers and try to dig out the slivers.
Roses...
John Keats in Ode to a Nightingale
"I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_a_Nightingale
I was grubbing overgrown vinca at the foot of he St Francis statue in the sprinkle garden at the church yesterday. I suppose this brought the Keats poem to mind. What he was smelling was probably something like this vigorous musk rose that is known to climb castle walls and overpower trees!
Ballyroberts gardens rosa-pauls-himalayan-musk-ra
The Dutch venue at this link makes some beautiful birthday you can have in this rose filled garden. It also sells this Rose. (Looks like Monet's Garden at Givenchy.)
So, F.F. If you are having your birthday in this rose covered venue and its late afternoon do you still drink Coffee with that cake? Or do you have a glass of Sherry or something?? (Absent a powerball win I do not seem myself doing this!)
Liz! Your TN onions, great looking comfort food! It should be Wisconsin Cheese, Yes??
Those are some beautiful photos! That cake looks so yummy, and who couldn’t picture themselves walking underneath all those roses? Personally, I don’t drink coffee in the late afternoon or evening unless it’s decaf, and I don’t drink Sherry much at all. I do use it in cooking sometimes. ;)
I think I got the thorn out in time. The area looks much better, but I’m still keeping an eye on it.
A Rose Bower with Daisies at my feet? That’s what Heaven looks like to me.
God and I will stroll through that every day, for all of Eternity, while he reveals the Secrets of the Universe to me. :)
Of course, I’ll post about it here, LOL!
You’re either eating Wisconsin Cheese...or you’re WRONG! ;)
Mom; See post 174! Sometimes I have problems with too much fragarence. Can say if yours or that would be a problem.
Alexander Pope wrote about a good death; “To die of rose in aromatic pain!” Think of a gardener’s death at High Summer, fair weather, friends and in a flower garden.
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