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Ah, corn. Good old sweet corn – and bees. Yelp – bees. It is amazing thing, but without bees you can not have a garden – or, actually, you can have a garden, but you wont be harvesting a lot…. Luckly for us we have lots of bees in our garden – meaning [...] I love dill pickles – so when our garden started producing tons of cucumbers, we decided to learn how to pickle pickles. Start by washing and cleaning your cucumbers…
Chop them up – [...] Remember those peas we pick? Well, we decided to postpone the enjoyment of our taste buds for a few months – saving them for the cold winter months instead of gorging ourselves with peas today. This is where blanching comes into play. Speaking of blanching – who ever thought of such a word? Ever [...] This past weekend was a joyful occasion as we were able to harvest the first fruits of our garden. You know, when you think about it, gardens are pretty amazing. You dig up a piece of dirt, throw in some tiny dry seeds – add water and the next thing you know you’re [...] Shingles, wood, tar, sky light. Now put a hole in it and add some rain. That has been my life these last few months. But no more!! The roof is still there – as is the shingles, wood, tar, and sky light – but the hole has been repaired and the rain is [...] Rumor has it that Southwest Idaho has broken the all time record for Spring rainfall. Regardless if this rumor is true or not – I believe it! Why do I believe it? Because my basement staircase is crying!!!You read correctly – my staircase is crying. The ground has soaked up enough water that [...] This has been one of the worse allergy and sinus Springs on record. Well, at least, it is at the top of MY list!! There was a time when I used to mow and bale hay without trouble – minus the first few days when everyone was sneezing. Now days – in my old [...] Weeds and dirt. oh – and a machine with lots of teeth. Yesterday was the start of a love/hate relationship with the soil and weather of Idaho. Yelp – we are planting a garden. Only, it is not on our property as originally planned – it is next door at my neighbors place. [...] Nine hours. Nine cold, snowy, cold, long hours. That's how long it took me to repair a leak in the roof. The sad part was that I was planning on having it done in five hours…. sigh. The good news is that I learned how to repair a roof leak. Kind of. [...] I had a choice Sunday: Watch the biggest football game of the year (with a nail biting end) – OR – Work on building a shop. At the risk of having my “man” card revoked, I choose to work on the shop. Do you know the crazy part? I HAD TONS OF [...] |
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