Kel, I don't know why I didn't think of this before. (smiley slaps forehead). I paid less for those baskets than for gift bags.keljonma said:You got some great deals, punkin!
I love making up the baskets at Christmas. I've used window box planters when I've found some at a good price that are nice to look at.
Dace, usually this is our dry time, too. I'd normally be watering the garden last of July and through August. Before this rain during the last 2-3 days, our yard was crunchy brown. Now, it will be a bear to mow. But, that's just more clippings for weed control in the garden.Dace said:Send some of that rain my way would ya?
I always envoy all of you who get summer rains...we get nothing. May- Dec we are dry dry dry!
I love the idea of using baskets for your holiday gifts, much better to give soemthing that can be reused somehow
That tactic won't work with mine. He will just step over, around or move it to a new location in my way. Promises to can something when I have room would only prompt him to box the canner up and put it in storage. LOLpunkin said:Wanda, just do what I did - set everything in the floor in his way.2dream said:
It was the corn thawing that he smelled. I had 3 dz. ears of corn, 2 gallon baggies of okra, several containers of tomato juice and sauce, apple pie filling, sweet potatoes and pumpkin in there. I salvaged what I could and gave the chickens the rest (happy birds). I had just put 4 gallons of peeled and cored tomatoes in the other one. I'm making those into sauce this morning. I think DS's best friend may have been flipping breakers, cause a couple of days ago he mentioned the light flickering.
Oh Wanda your DH sounds like mine....gotta plant the seed and then let him take ownership for it sprouting2dream said:That tactic won't work with mine. He will just step over, around or move it to a new location in my way. Promises to can something when I have room would only prompt him to box the canner up and put it in storage. LOLpunkin said:Wanda, just do what I did - set everything in the floor in his way.2dream said:
I have to plant seeds over a few months time and then one day it
miraculously becomes his idea and he will draw an elaborate plan and ask me what I think. My reply will be WOW - what a great idea. Once he gets started there will be no stopping him until its a done deal. Until then I just cultivate and water the idea.
That freezer is about 21 years old. It's an upright. I'm thinking about laying it on its back on a short, raised table of some sort and putting it in the big greenhouse. I think it will make a great place for spinach, lettuce, etc. in the colder months. Of course, I'll have to drill some drainage holes in it, too.Farmfresh said:POOR PUNKIN!
I am so sorry about the food and especially the freezer! ... but so glad that no one was hurt!
Don't get rid of that freezer just yet however - especially if it is a chest freezer! My daughter has an old chest freezer with the compressor etc removed. It makes a GREAT safe grain bin or other storage unit. I have also seen old freezers turned into meat SMOKER cabinets or other useful Self Sufficient items.
It won't make it any less painful to have to buy a new freezer, but perhaps it can still be of use to you.
It may also be possible to fasten that warped lid to a stiffener such as a piece of plywood and straighten it out for a while at least.
One husband at a time . . . hee, hee, heeFarmfresh said:
