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the dreaded word SN*W has started showing up in our forecasts so even if there are chances of rain for today i should try to get out for at least an hour here or there and see if i can get more gardening in...

yes, we'll replace it as we use them both several times a week and the other pans are not as big (though sometimes we also use all four pans).

yesterday when making split pea soup (with ham, celery, onions, tomato chunks, and carrots) Mom was trying to get the water to heat up as fast as possible with the two 3 gallon stainless steel pans that we use the most. one of them had a funny issue with the bottom where it bubbled/bent down...

very simple here, cheese, crackers, hot sauce. we cooked yesterday some split pea and ham soup and that was good and we'll be having that tomorrow for lunch with cole slaw, biscuits and stuffed potatoes.

yesterday what beans i could find in there that looked interesting and in good enough condition to pick were picked. today a little rain this morning, windy and i wasn't sure what i would do outside. i did have some food scraps to bury and a garden i wanted to scrape because there was some...

wow! quite a challenge you've put for yourself. :) i hope it does help you get some strength back. i'm definitely in the "If you rest you rust." category of people. yes, some days you do need to take a break, but too much of a break will not help. glad to hear from you again. :)

we see very few turtles around here and to me that is ok for the snapping turtles which can get really big and be pretty hard to deal with, but there is a smaller species called painted turtles which are very pretty and ok to have around that i would like to see more of... just that there's no...

are the kitties freaking out with _THEIR ROOM_ being reorganized?

congratulations! (that exclamation mark is the extent of my enthusiasm for today. :) )

i used to do some PT stretches and exercises twice a day for my back but in recent years with regular gardening i've not kept up that habit, and in the winter months i should get back to at least once a day just to get the body moving and the back some exercise since that is how it is primarily...

on to a new garden today to put up, i'm so excited! well, ok, i'm mildly enthused but the happy part will be going through and picking any dry beans that remain for me to harvest that i've missed up to this point or have finished up since the last time i went through picking. since there are...

i needed a nap this morning and woke up a bit ago and it was a good nap indeed because i got some dreaming in and was laughing at it because it was a silly dream about Mom singing some song wrong and me trying to get her to sing the right lyrics and of course she wasn't going to comply with...

what kind of snake is that one? :) when i used to work at the family business we had a long (about 10-12ft) solid steel pronger for moving rolls of carpetting with the forklift. that was fun to do. :) my cousin managed to almost put it through the double walls of the warehouse back in the...

next two days of nice enough weather in the forecast so i will be able to finish up the current garden and start on the next one and then a day or two of rains so i can recover, rest up and shell beans out and then back at it again after. it is fine with me to work around the weather as long as...

it's like a whole new world! :)

yes, those old jars are heavy! as long as they work i'll keep using them. :) as a food storage material i really appreciate glass even if it can break and be dangerous after it breaks, at least it can be recycled and reused - what i most like about it is that the food doesn't pick up odd...

made a little progress today but i really wasn't into it and there were dark enough clouds out there to make me think i might get rained on.

i had to look up Gum Wall... :)

annual dentist checkup today. cleaning, x-rays, checkup all ok. mom wanted to do some shopping so she dropped me off at the dentists and went to do that and right when i was leaving she came in and got me - that worked out perfectly! we went for some burgers and onion rings out as she had a...

yes, it really does, we had a rattling noise coming from the car when we hit bumps and the mechanic never took me seriously when i asked him about getting it resolved. i guess he was too busy and didn't have the time? but he could have just said that? finally, Mom asked him to fix it and he...