Posted on 08/01/2025 6:03:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Bacon-Wrapped Cream-Cheese-Stuffed-Jalapenos.
Bacon AND cream cheese----what could possibly go wrong?
20 jalapenos, halved/seeded 1-2 bars cr/cheese, softened 1-2 pkg best bacon, in halves
Half and seed jalapenos; wear rubber gloves. Stuff each half w/ cr/cheese; wrap w/ half strip
bacon. Cook 350 deg oven til bacon is done. Easily adjusted to make as many as you need.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. But I do have a couple cannas I’d like to give a shot (with overwintering).
I’ll do some research later and see if the impatiens would be practical. They SEEM tailor made...
Yes, I’d noticed the numbers of mice out by the chicken houses at night seemed lower! Now I know why. But, I don’t want this snake deterring the chickens from properly coming in to roost at night and lay in the morning , which seems to be happening with this particular house / little group of chickens. Two of them were out “somewhere” (I couldn’t find them - very unusual) last night. But they did show up this morning. Only one went back in the chicken house (even for food treats!) though.
I noticed yesterday that the dogwoods are starting to ‘bronze’. They are some of the earliest trees to change color in the fall. Public school will be starting the 25th, not that far away.
Regarding the dogs, my niece got her boys a black lab pup - female, 7 weeks old, this past week. The mom had weaned the pups already so she was ready to go to her new home. She is already showing good instincts for retrieving & having an interest in finding things .... dad will be happy since he’s a duck hunter & she can go hunting with him. The youngest boy is ‘in love’ with the dog ... truly puppy love!
At church this morning, I was talking to a guy who has a painting business, asking if he also did drywall. Another lady was breezing by, did an about face and said “drywall? do you need drywall work?” Why yes, yes we do because of our roof leak that ruined our foyer ceiling. Turns out her husband does drywall - he’s retired, but does small projects. Once we get the new roof & things dry out, we’ll let her know & she’ll put him in touch.
Busy week coming up. The three ‘biggies’ are : mowing, since I didn’t do it this weekend. Finish unloading the half trailer of mulch that’s left after I filled in the front landscape edging (and ‘maybe’ get another load of dirt for the raised beds). Cut down 3 more trees we decided should go.
Adding a 4th - go to the orchard for peaches!
Today is warmer, a touch more humidity in the air. It’s pleasant since there’s a breeze & the sun is sinking towards the horizon. High 80’s & a day or two of temps around 90 so our fall preview is over for now.
He’d eat his left FOOT if it were wrapped in crispy bacon! :)
There’s no BACON in that Jalapeno Popper Dip recipe I posted earlier. I think that needs to change...STAT!
Mom and her Girl Gang were out, today. We had a break in the rain for about three hours, so they raided the garden. Kale, Cucumbers, Zucchini and various rag-tag sad-looking tomatoes left the place. MAN, do I have the Green Beans to pick again! Yikes! (Tomorrow!)
The Pears (Clapp's Favorite) are absolutely GORGEOUS and perfection right now, so I've already told Beau that when he's home on Tuesday to get ready to pick!
I love Fall. I love Spring. Summer is nothing but work, work, work!
Still looking at gutters and now looking at Menard’s. They have two thicknesses of aluminum available, 0.019” and 0.027”. Lowes is 0.0185” which is thinner than Menard’s thin stuff and Lowes has no heavy duty version.
The HD at Menard’s is 16’ long while light duty at both places is 10’ long.
40% thicker would require less hangers and just be better in general. I need 72’ plus some to hang off the end of each side to reach the inlet of the tanks.
5 lengths x 16’ is 80’. The price for the 16 footers is $32 or $160 for the five. Less hangers, less splices and those gutter accessories are cheaper than Lowes.
Those leaf guards aren’t stocked at the local Menard’s but they do free ship-to-store and looks like they’ll work with the gutter I’m looking at and, a 25 pack of 3’ is 75’. I can cover the ends that hang off with something solid since there’s no roof to run off into them.
And of course as I’m researching gutter, we had 1.45”or rain here today that probably would have been enough to fill a tank or two.
It appears the answer to “Can impatiens be overwintered?” is “Yes”, with some qualifications, such as the New Guinea type requiring quite cool temperatures. That’s not practical for me!
Beau’d eat his left FOOT if it were wrapped in crispy bacon! :)
LOL———I knew that.
Ok, this is cool. Thank you! The ones I have this year are Sunpatiens, so I think I will take stem cuttings and see how far I get. I will be space limited.
A few years ago, I overwintered everything on our dining room table, which is rarely used, and I had grow lights all over it. I was ambitious that year. I even gave my cat sitter instructions to water ALL of the plants in the dining room when we were gone for Thanksgiving that year. Which she did!!
My next door neighbor, who isn’t USUALLY the snoopy kind, asked once if she could come inside my house that winter. Of course, she was welcome. Then she confessed to me that she only wanted to come inside so she could see if I was growing marijuana plants in my house that year! LOL!!
I appreciated her candor, but no, that’s not my style. We are flexible and easy going, but not like that. I don’t care if anyone else indulges, but it’s not for me. Still, it hit my funny bone. We love these neighbors, but sometimes people leave you scratching your heads. Thankfully, we continue to get along well.
Somehow we got sidetracked into some chores and not others today. Got plants watered, fertilized, and weeded. Pulled out two shrubs in the meditation garden that I’m not fond of. They are languishing over there, and I’ve already given them plenty of time and attention.
Hubby and I are both actively daydreaming (and night dreaming!) about this new way of a meditation garden that needs to be updated, if for no other reason than the sun requirements, and the fact that our lawn getting to it has been obliterated. Might as well figure out something soon so that if heavy equipment needs to roll there again, at least we won’t have to replace things twice.
Anyway, we went to a couple of places today seeing what they had as far as large stones like flagstone, bluestone, fieldstone, and boulders. One place was closed. The other was open, and we were able to talk with a few folks there. We will probably talk with their landscape designer later in the week.
On Tuesday evening, we will have a powwow with another landscaper who has helped us in the past. He is semi-retired, but goes to church with us. He has mentored a young man, who we have hired for some yard cleanup and such for 2 years now, a great young man who just graduated a year ago. Is a big part of our county 4-H program. He has his own burgeoning business, and seriously, this is a kid who knows that hard work pays off. Besides his work vehicles and 6 employees (at age 19), he has a sports car when he’s not driving one of his work trucks. He has ambition. So he will probably help us out on the heavy lifting part if the price is right.
So today we tried mocking up a stacked river rock water feature. If this is feasible, it will be kinda cool. Those rocks came from our best friend’s house in Ohio, from his creek. They aren’t many, but they are really neat, and I hope we can incorporate them into this project.
Needless to say, I didn’t get started on dinner prep until 6:45. So Ina’s braised short ribs will have to wait until tomorrow (again!). Gonna be a heck of a meal when I can get it started in time!
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