Posted on 06/01/2025 5:48:14 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Other than building him a secure and dig-proof, jump-over proof enclosure, he’s gonna want to roam.
Once our puppies are old enough to be sold, they go into a kennel in the Kennel Shed, or have their own doggy condo in the barn yard with a long chain.
Oh, there is WHINING and CRYING and WAILING and HOWLING - but they eventually settle down and get with the program and integrate into the Pack.
Dogs in the Kennel Shed get to go out into the exercise yard daily. If you jump the fence or dig under it, you go into an outside doggy condo. Each dog is different. And usually the ones that are ‘escape artists’ ARE the ones that end up being our best hunters. They’re smarter than the others and can easily figure things out.
You probably want to invest in a tracking/training collar for Howard if you want him to run around freely. Beau always did that with our Beagle, ‘Chief.’
We are miles away from any traffic, but that doesn’t mean our dogs won’t cross a road or two if they make a run for it. Haven’t lost ANY that way so far. Thank goodness!
Mrs. Pete went to make it and was dismayed that it was all in Metric. I did a search and found this on "Delish" with English measurements.
I skipped the pole beans this year. More productive and are around longer, but in consequence are more likely to suffer insect damage. The Support trellis I need to use in my garden is a pain to put up and take down. I have a 12' x 12' patch of 45 Day Contender bush Beans. I used double rows about 6 inches apart, 5 inch spacing within those rows. I offset the seeds between the double row. I put the double rows about 18 inches apart. Here is a picture of patch. I sprayed 1 X with a pyrethrin based spray to control Bean Beetles just before they began to flower. Have had 4 pickings for a total of about 15 pounds of beans, 12 of which have been frozen. I expect 2 or 3 more pickings before they stop producing. I am starting to see the bean beetles again. (They look a lot like lady bugs...)
The tomatoes are growing and I have a lot of small green tomatoes at this point. I will try to post a picture at a later time!
Pete that looks delicious and I think I have everything on hand. Still have a quart bag of my sun dried tomatoes from last year and I just got a half gallon of heavy cream. Thanks for posting.
These pictures were taken in Tomah WI in 1948.
He was sitting in an old Ford Tractor and standing alongside my mother on some rural county road
Yes, we had this for dinner and it was very good! Note that I did not check this recipe against the Ina Garten recipe that Familiar Face posted for differences so it might be a little different. (Thanks F.Face!)
Hi, All!
We got back late yesterday afternoon from a short camping trip to “Dolan Lake” and the “Hamilton County State Fish and Wildlife Area”, in Southern IL. Lots of rain, and even saw a cold air funnel, but thankfully with some breaks in the rain. Nice park, awfully weedy lake, but with decent fishing if one can stay “un-aggravated” with cleaning the weeds off one’s terminal tackle after each cast...
Maybe I’ll add more of a review, later.
It was time to change the water filter in our wellhouse this morning, B4 church. Well, actually B4 getting cleaned up for church, as the shower was quite “slow”. Wifey NOT happy. Got attacked by a group of wood bees that have apparently taken up residence. 3 stings - one a half inch above my left eyebrow, one on my right thumb, and one about 1/4” right of the right corner of my right eye. OUCH!!!
I did, CAREFULLY by my eyes, get “Bactine Max” on the stings once I dug up the Bactine Max. That helped, but, I still got a couple odd looks at church.
After we got home, I gave the wellhouse a heavy dose of general purpose fogging spray (pesticide), retreating when 3 of the bees came at me. I escaped with no further stings.
I checked back 4+ hours later, and more wood bees came out the wellhouse door at me. Repeated the escape maneuver...
I can’t get in there long enough to try to figure out where exactly they’ve bored in (might be behind insulation). And I didn’t expect them to breath the fogging spray and survive...
Now what to do? Pump car exhaust in there? We might get a little odor in the house, but not bad, and certainly not enough to be dangerous to us in the house - the wellhouse connects to but is pretty well sealed off from the house itself.
Ideas, anyone?
Probably a professional exterminator is what I’d do.
I’m sensitive to insect stings and while so far no anaphylaxis, I react badly enough to do what I can to avoid them, and that would include getting them eradicated more professionally than mr. mm could do.
There ya go! I don’t know how I missed the metric measurements. I’ve obviously used her methods but with someone else’s conversions.
Did you love it?
We’ve decided it needs to be in our regular rotation. Once a month is about right for us. Gives me a chance to try out new recipes, but helps us stay on track. When something is easy enough and predictably yummy, it makes it into the meal planning rotation. One thing I love about this is that it’s a delicious and easy meal no matter the season.
What metmom said. Hire a professional for this situation. There are times when a professional is needed, and I don’t think you want to take a chance on anaphylaxis. It can happen before you know it. Nothing to play games with.
I never used to be allergic to bees or wasps, or any insects. Just every kind of pollen and mold.
A couple of years ago, I got stung by a couple of yellow jackets. Sounds like what you went through today. Within a couple of weeks, I got stung just one more time. That time I wasn’t so lucky. My arm swelled up the entire length of it. Red, hot, horribly painful. ER doctor gave me a cortisone shot, and antibiotics. It helped, but I’ve had to have an epipen ever since. I’m VERY CAREFUL around bees, wasps, and yellow jackets now.
That sounds like the kind of reaction I have.
It takes about a week to get over, and days 3-5 are the WORST.
Anaphylaxis can kill in MINUTES. There was an allergist in CNY who lost his life to it when he hit a ground bee nest mowing his lawn. They found him still in the backyard. And of all people, he’d have recognized what was happened in the few minutes he had.
I don’t want to install fear into anyone, but reasonable caution needs to be taken with some things. Some things are not worth tka\\aking the risk over.
tka\\aking = taking
You might be able to use a little less Dried Tomato and cook the chicken a bit longer. I think a bit of Sour cream added just before serving would be good. My wife cooked it this evening. I might have made other additions like a splash of wine.
We had it on noodles which is not terribly Italian, but it did soak up the sauce well. (We had green beans fresh from the garden!)
We used linguine the other night when I made it. Delish!
Yes, I tweak recipes to my eye and taste ALL the time.
My son who is in the service industry told me a few years ago, “you eat with your eyes first”. He has always loved watching cooking shows. I don’t know which chef said that, but it’s very true. I try hard to make things look appetizing as well as taste delicious.
So, I did further research. (Diana will laugh.)
It turns out all sorts of things will drive wood bees off, and maybe the easiest for me is loud bass sounds (vibrations). I'll have to hunt for them, but, somewhere I have a couple of these:
https://www.parts-express.com/Dayton-Audio-BST-1-High-Power-Pro-Tactile-Bass-Shaker-50-Watts-295-244?quantity=1
The beauty here is that I can "apply" one of these to the top of the wellhouse roof and hold it in place with a little rope and a couple bungee cords, also keeping a cheap blue tarp over the shaker to ward off rain.
If that doesn't work, I really CAN pipe in car exhaust from outside, without risking getting stung. And having pondered it a bit more, Dad had some insecticidal smoke bombs "somewhere", too...
I buy it at a store called Mooville. In Michigan. They have a herd of only A2A2 cows. They sell milk, cream, ice cream, butter, cheese, etc. 1/2 gallon used to be 7.00. Now 9.00 but worth it. I get my milk for kefir there too. I use those small OJ hard plastic bottles, the one serving kind, and when I get a half gallon I fill them up and freeze them. Nothing like real cream especially in a homemade sauce.
More traditional solutions (not all apply in my case):
https://www.homedepot.com/c/ab/how-to-get-rid-of-carpenter-bees/9ba683603be9fa5395fab90feb70005
Do it on colder weather or the coolest time of day as well.
Cold stuns stinging insects.
Thanks for sharing! Nice family! I’ve spent lots of off-duty time in Tomah, WI when I was at Fort McCoy for various things.
We loved, ‘Mr. Ed’s Tee Pee Supper Club...brother to WI Governor Tommy Thompson. :)
And there was a great dance club in town, too. Lots of fun times in Tomah, WI.
Somehow I missed seeing your beautiful photo of your garden area. I often long to have that much space to grow vegetables in. If only I could get rid of the HOA, and plant something the size you have. I try not to let that get me down.
Btw, what are the “trees” you have growing in the white buckets along the fence line? I’m not familiar with whatever those are.
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