4) Posted on 11/01/2025 5:46:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
My first year growing sweet potatoes as well. Mine are still in the ground. Did you do anything special to cure them? I’m planning on using a heating pad, a box and a bowl of water for humidity.
Thanks. Been pinged a dozen times, today. :(
Sorry.
I love Julia Childs!
Whenever I find her show on PBS, I always take time to watch it.
November.
Always brings back this song...The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?si=zkHFmDMZg60CVtHS
4) WiAG. Look at Eastonian Garlic. Large, mild, and stores well. Mine lasts 10 or 11 months. (Stored in a braid in my garage overwinter, usually 35F+) I purchased from Baker Creek, but they do not have any at this time. (good luck!)
Q The poetry, thanks, I liked them!
You wouldn’t have known! :)
We watched an episode the other day of a guest chef making a chocolate cake.
So later in the day...I made a chocolate cake, LOL! That show is NOT good for me, but I love her sense of humor and goodwill. :)
Thanks, Pete!
My great niece is a pastry chef at a restaurant. Her restaurant has been this season’s focus, and she was highlighted last week. So proud of her! We love it when she shows up for family reunions. Her espresso toffee cookies ... 😋
Now, THOSE are the kind of relatives to have! :)
The British Baking Show made Sacher Torte recently...I made chocolate cake at the same time. The power of suggestion was strong with that episode.😅
But in my travels I found this; thegarlicbreadclub which begs several questions; any recommendations for garlic bread recipes or pumpernickel or rye garlic bread recipes.
It's mating season again for the stupid damn deers. They destroyed - absolutely shredded - three of my chestnut trees Friday night. There were three bucks and ten-ish does having a deer orgy in my back pasture that evening. I guess they moved to the orchard field to finish up.
Our Arab mare has an untreatable arthritic disease that has gotten progressively worse over the past months so we've decided to end the suffering and put her down before the weather turns cold. The vet is out there now with #1 Marine Daughter doing the deed. I rented a mini excavator on Friday to prepare a burial site for her. Used the machine to dig out a few posts in the arena fence that needed to be replaced, and spent a couple hours digging tree sprouts from a spot on the property that I've been reclaiming from Mother Nature.
I didn't get much of anything done in the kitchen garden over the weekend, but I did get my raspberry patch planted. My buddy Nick gifted me two dozen plants that he thinned out of his patch. We'd been planning this for awhile so I had the planting site well-prepped ahead of time. It didn't take long at all to stick the plants in the ground.
I'm still getting tomatoes and peppers. It probably won't be long before we get a killing frost so we're enjoying them while we can.
Very sad about your Arab mare, but there comes a time when you do what’s best for them ... my sympathies. Over the 40 years I had horses, I had to put down 4 horses & we had an elderly pony who died on her own out in the pasture. That was hard enough, but then I had to find someone to bury them... not an easy task. You’re fortunate to have that mini-excavator.
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