Posted on 12/22/2018 1:58:58 PM PST by greeneyes
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Lady Bender has retired for the night but I will post in the next couple of days...
Sort of.
Sorry, That should be SOUR CREAM APPLE Pie...
Outstanding - Jealous I am.
Oh me oh my oh. That makes me crave pumpkin pie.
NICE PIC.
Good for you. Take a little time off for fun and recreation.
I wanted to start building our back porch sun room this Spring. Hubby wants a Storage Shed with a basement under it.
I think I’m gonna have to concede - Maybe we can get both done. Not holding breath.
May go shopping for a fireplace insert tomorrow, since we need to visit the next town over to get some patio blocks from Lowes.
I buy the gifts like a husband is "sposta" buy and she gives them back. One year, don't remember if that was the diamond ear ring or sapphire ring year, she handed it back and ordered a new kitchen sink, goose neck faucet, and a 1/2 hp garbage disposal.
This year, the first in nearly 30 years, I caught the one vague hint I was dropped. Im remodeling the storage room with a new storage system.
At least she knows what she wants and its not wasteful or foolish (like "correct" husband presents), so why not?
It’s WARMER HERE in Boston!
And i was longing for S. FL just this week.
Taste is Nirvana.
These must be hybrids as they are huge, soft when ripe and delicious. You do not want to eat them when they are still firm as the taste will turn them off for the rest of your life...
Same with ours-got to be ripe-talk about a pucker face!!!
IIRC, there are Asian varieties that get big like that. Don’t remember if they are hybrids, but quite possible.
Nice memorial!
Neither did I, after gardening this ground for over 35 years this past summer was the first time I grew Italian parsley.
Beautiful! Thanks I was the one who asked. I remember a lattice crust one that could have come out of a magazine. And I also remember a huge load of crabs at a market. Had never seen so many before.
Have never eaten one! Those do look big.
Everything is better with apples!
Mrs. Augie's annual Christmas baking day is tomorrow. hint hint...
Mrs. Augie has her annual Christmas baking day scheduled for tomorrow. All that flour in the air will upset my sinuses, so I’m working on plans for a fishing trip to Thomas Hill Lake.
That one is a cooling lake for a big coal-fired power plant, which results in one arm of the lake holding warmer than normal water year-round, and very good wintertime fishing for folks who are willing to sit in a boat and freeze their butts off. It will be good to get out and get some fresh air, and will be a good opportunity to exercise the boat motor prior to our trout trip to Taneycomo next week.
Mrs. Augie’s greenhouse comment tripped me up a bit. We’d talked about it some in the past, but she hadn’t ever shown a lot of interest in having one, or maybe she did and I just didn’t pick up on it. Now that I know it’s something that she wants I will rearrange the project list a bit and move that one way up towards the top.
Storage shed with a basement sounds like a good thing to have. Sun room is for sure a good thing to have. We absolutely love the room that we added on to the house a few years back. I vote for doing both. ;-)
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