Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and best wishes for a much better year in 2021!
I have not been out in the big garden for a week or two. I really need to clean and fill all the bird feeders. We have been having great weather here on the far north coast of Calif but at 87 I have lost my “Drive”.
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We have a brand-new store here that is amazing—Tractor Supply. It's a welcome contrast to the usual strip mall fare in these rapidly "urbanizing" suburbs, like living near farms and stables and having an old-time general store with all the countryside requirements—farm, garden and animal equipment, hardware, bird and animal food, outdoor clothing, etc. Prices are moderate to low.
Love to go in there even when I don't need a 15-lb bag of kibble. For instance, our nearby Tractor Supply location carries a fabulous and varied array of leather cowboy boots for men and women. Recently hit a sale there and got a new plaid flannel shirt for the day hours of Christmas Eve before getting dressed for church in the evening.
Yes, even here in RINO Gov. Hogan's Maryland, we are having socially distanced church (although he told us not to sing—can you imagine not singing carols on Christmas Eve? expletive, expletive).
Merry Christmas, all you gardeners on FR!
We got 40” of global warming the other night.
I am done with the garden until spring, I guess.
White Chocolate Latté Drizzle
Stir/combine can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, cup unflavoured yogurt,
cup chp white chocolate, melted, tsp instant coffee granules---will have spots from coffee granules.
Cover/chill 2-24 hours. Can refrigerate 5 days.
Drizzled over chocolate cheesecake.
Very pleasant weather here in Central Missouri over the past week. The nights have been cold and frosty, but the days have been sunny and warm.
Yesterday was *almost* t-shirt weather, and I probably should have finished the garden cleanup or gone fishing, but other things got in the way of that.
We’ve been picking at the collards and kale. That stuff always seems to taste better after it’s been frozen a few times.
I’ve had Pops’ little Massey Ferguson 4x4 loader tractor in my shop for the last couple months. Mice got into it and chewed the return line nipples on the plastic fuel tank. It was pumping diesel out and making terrible greasy mess, not to mention a serious fire hazard, so we decided to replace the tank here rather than take it to the MF dealer. Big mistake. After tearing the thing into a thousand pieces it became clear that the only way to remove the tank in one piece was to pull the entire operator platform and firewall off of the tractor. Finally wound up using a sawzall to cut the tank into pieces so it could be removed. I’m going to fabricate a new tank from sheet steel. Already torn to bits seemed like a good time to replace all of the filters and fluids. Finished that and got it reassembled yesterday, so all that’s left is to build and install the new fuel tank.
Been chipping away at installing the rip-rap rock around my pond dam. This load is all going below the water line, so I’m having to hand-toss every bit of it. It’s a lot of work, but if prevents future muskrat tunneling in the dam it will be worth the effort.