Posted on 06/13/2020 5:50:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
My Grandma used to make her own broth and it always had chicken feet in it. She never wasted a thing!
‘Instant Joy...’ Gotta have that, too! :)
The older I get, the more I find I am returning to “the old ways” (like chicken feet in broth!).
Also, I find that nature/simple things bring the most joy. About a decade ago, I was medical power of attorney for an elderly lady in a nursing home - she was dying. She had lived a previous adventurous, “rich” life, both in experiences and actual wealth. She showed me pictures of her mansion on a lake in NY & inside views with fabulous furnishings, cabinets full of china, etc. In the nursing home and with no family to care for her (the ultimate ‘poverty’ IMO), all of the material wealth & “stuff” was reduced to two plastic bins that fit under her bed.
I was never into a lot of “stuff”, but after that experience, “stuff” is pretty much meaningless to me now. Faith, family & ‘simple’ are what matter most when you get right down to brass tacks. BTW, about the only ‘wealth’ she did have was her faith & she was truly RICH in that.
An exemption to “stuff” not mattering: my Zero Turn mower! :-)
My Dad passed away on May 31st. I’ve been caring for him for the past 15 years. In that time I’ve moved him from his apartment, to assisted living and then to a nursing facility when it became apparent that his cancer was going to do him in. He was 83.
Sorting through and shedding his worldly possessions over the past few years has been an eye-opener for me.
We really need little in this world, aside from God and one another. :)
So, I guess instead of pulling weeds today, I will clean out closets, LOL!
Actually, I have a HUGE pile-o-stuff that I’ve gathered during quarantine. My little Thrift Shop in town re-opened on June 8th. On June 9th, they posted on Facebook that they were NOT taking any more donations, LOL! ONE DAY! I’m sure every woman in the Tri-County area has a pile as big as mine that needs donating, LOL! I just thought it hilarious that they had more than they could handle in donations in just ONE day!
My sympathies on your dad passing.
My mom was a teacher & she has kept every single thing/gift a student ever gave her. You can just imagine - mostly “junk”, a couple of nice/handmade things. She has every single piece “displayed” in the house which means major CLUTTER. Dusting is a nightmare. My SIL suggested that we put them away, but first take pics so she can look at them & relive the memories attached to those items. Nope, she’s not having it. The reality is that once she’s gone, the memories attached to those items go with her. I suspect that all those items will end up in a couple of yard sale boxes, labeled $1.00 for each box.
My cousin is moving from TX to the east coast. He’s been working on his house since the beginning of the year, getting rid of stuff. The donation centers/pick up have been closed due to COVID of course & it’s been “killing” him - all the donation stuff is stacked in his garage & he’s out of space. Just a week or so ago, pickups started up again - he’s got to move by July 1 so it’s a race to see how much he can truly get unloaded before it’s time to pack up.
More than a week ago, I got things boxed up and organized. Since THEN, I've added two computer shells (found out where I could recycle them; hard drives removed) and two more bags of clothing and two grocery bags of DVDs we've watched and no longer need. There will PROBABLY be a few more boxes before I go into town next week. ;)
The ‘numbers’ are in .... 65 lbs of chicken in the freezer! I’ve got 3 pounds of “pastured paws” coming my way! :-)
WOW! Awesome!
Today I saw a person gather up some seaweed and put it in a plastic bag.
When he walked by me, I asked him if he was going to have a lobster cookout.
He said the seaweed was for his vegetable garden.He found it to be the best fertilizer for his vegetable garden.
To each his own, and I imagine vegetable gardeners on this thread might agree, or have a better fertilizer. -Tom
Kelp is great as a liquid fertilizer. You can buy commercial concentrates (’Neptune’s Harvest’ is a brand I used to sell) so I would assume he’s going to make his plants some Kelp Tea. :)
https://thehorticult.com/fertility-clinic-our-homemade-liquid-kelp-fertilizer-is-ready/
Does anyone have a good remedy for getting rid of stink bugs on tomatoes. They are positively evil.
Thank you! I do love purple, so the jackmanii would be perfect.
“Start by peeling back the outer paper of the onion. Once inside, you’ll see that the onion has already started to section itself off into multiple onion plants.”
Woohoo! Thanks for the link. Reading it now.
re the old ways:.....yep, into that....with all the crap going on in this country, this world, the garden, cooking, baking, ny indoor plants and my outside flowers and of course, my birds....saw some quail today.
A. fill a tray with water, stick a brick in the tray then put the pot on the brick, trapping all of the ants so they either starve or drown. I'm just not sure if and how long they could survive on the plant itself.
B. fill a tray with water, put the pot in the tray then start adding water to the pot until it is totally waterlogged. Wait an hour the take the pot out of the tray and let it drain.
Which method do you think would be more effective?
I do not remember the lake. She had a picture from a huge stone patio that overlooked the water - it was gorgeous. I think the house was stone as well. She did a lot of entertaining & was one of these folks who had to have ‘the best’ of everything during those years. It was quite the ‘mansion’.
Back in the 80’s, we used to have quail on our place. I had a bird feeder at the fence (horse pasture on the other side) and we’d let the grass get pretty long. One day, as I was looking out the kitchen window at the feeder, I saw a Mama quail come out of the tall grass to eat up the millet that the birds dropped from the feeder. She had a bunch of baby quail with her & they were the cutest things! Love hearing that ‘bobwhite’ call, too. Sadly, no more quail around here. A relative’s hubby was involved in a quail study in another part of our state a couple of years ago, trying to get them back in larger numbers. Loss of habitat is the biggest issue for them here.
Central Missouri seems to be settling into a pattern of rain like hell then get hot like hell. It did that again last week. We got almost 3” in one night early in the week, and then into the furnace we went.
Tomato plants are loving it, though. They’re all knee-high and starting to bloom. Been having a devil of time getting cucumber seed to sprout this year. I’ve replanted once, and have maybe 20% that’s come up.
Peppers are looking good, but would appreciate a week without rain.
Green salad is pretty much done. Cabbages look great. Garlic is 2-3 weeks away from harvest.
Still need to plant pole beans.
If I ended up with a big ant hill in the lawn, I would put a hose there and drown them out, so I am all for drowning them out of your pots and be done with it. ;)
Knock Knock!
Who’s there?
Bean
Bean who?
Bean a while since I last saw ya!
I’ve never had to deal with them, but control looks pretty easy:
How can you control stink bugs?
The best control measure is prevention (see below). Take other steps to keep these pests away from your tomatoes.
Control weeds. Excess foliage in the garden and adjacent areas provide perfect breeding habitats for the bugs. Keep your garden plot well-weeded beginning early in the season before the population matures. You’ll to prevent them from taking up residence on your tomatoes. Continue to control weeds until harvest to keep bugs at bay.
Wash plants. When bugs first make an appearance in your tomato patch, spray tomato plants daily with water. The stream will force them off plants. You can also treat tomatoes with a 1-1 solution of water and vegetable oil, olive oil, or lavender oil applied with a garden sprayer to repel the insects. (See a good selection of garden sprayers here.)
Hand pick bugs. Remove them and drop them into a bucket of soapy water. You can place a tray beneath plant and shake it to collect bugs. Or use a hand vacuum to capture them.
Plant “trap crops” in an area around the tomato garden but set apart from the tomato plants. Trap crops are natural deterrents that draw stink bugs away from tomato plants and provide them with a thriving habitat. By planting abundant areas of small-flowered plants, you also encourage parasitic wasps, birds, and other predators that feed on the bugs.
Stink bugs are known to be attracted to the color yellow. Mustard, millet, buckwheat, sorghum, sunflowers, marigolds, garlic, lavender, and chrysanthemums are good trap crops for these pests.
Use green treatment. Kaolin is a soft, white, silicate clay mineral combined with water and applied with a garden sprayer.After application, water evaporates leaving a protective powdery film. The coating acts as a physical barrier to insects, preventing pests from reaching tissue. Kaolin is natural and non-toxic. Treat tomato plants for two weeks before taking more drastic measures to control these insects.
Treat with insecticide.If the bugs continue to attack tomatoes after kaolin treatments, you may need to resort to insecticides like Sevin or Eight (Permethrin). But keep in mind that by doing so, you may kill helpful insects. Follow product instructions.
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