In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:I have nightmares about things like that ... the hubby and I bought a house and, on inspection, discovered some fatal flaw. Like ... the frame isn't to code and is all too lightweight or termite-eaten or something like that.
Still haven't looked into that cracked sump drain though. Man I'm worried about what I'm going to find when I uncover that.- SIX
Probably what you will find is a busted pipe. Ouch.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I have nightmares about things like that ... the hubby and I bought a house and, on inspection, discovered some fatal flaw. Like ... the frame isn't to code and is all too lightweight or termite-eaten or something like that.
Still haven't looked into that cracked sump drain though. Man I'm worried about what I'm going to find when I uncover that.- SIX
Probably what you will find is a busted pipe. Ouch.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
Yeah... the foundation should be fine. No water is leaking into the house, and everything is built high enough on concrete so termites aren't going to be an issue. If the house was going to sink, it would have happened already after existing almost 60 years on a floodplain.
I get to learn a new skill. How to replace a section of old clay pipe with PVC without breaking it even more or having to hand dig about 300 feet out to the street and replacing the whole thing.
Good times......
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I think your rain is like our sun: There's just too much of it.
I recall after I moved here, I said something like Doesn't it ever RAIN around here??. The answer is ... NOT REALLY! Wouldn't it be nice, BRENDA, if we could just swap weather once in a while?
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one
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Well, the doings around here .. Zippy-dog is still zipping around. She has tremendous ratting instincts ...
We saw something over a couple of evenings that I didn't think lived around here because they don't climb well... a baby skunk. Fortunately I always walk Zippy on a leash, and skunks are very inoffensive unless you really, REALLY bother them.
Other than that ... we're in June gloom: morning clouds (marine layer) burning off by 11 AM- 3 PM. Probably the first normal June we've had in over a decade.
Have not had time to plant a vegetable garden this year, been way too busy with other stuff. But the flowers are still nice. I'm just a sucker for color. Some of the CA poppy seeds that I scattered kind of late were specialty colors. I guess because they went on the ground so late they bloomed late, but a few weeks ago I started seeing poppies that were so gorgeous, I've never seen anything like them before ... old rose/ reddish plum fading to white centers; very pale/ almost cream yellow with golden centers, and fuschia. The mourning doves are still having a field day with the poppy seeds, the goldfinches are still stripping the cosmos seeds, the bees are happy with pretty all of the flowers.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one
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I've been fiddling around with a vegetable lasagna. I tried to reproduce the kind that you can buy frozen, and failed ignominiously- twice! But although this isn't like the commercial frozen lasagna that inspired it, this is even better. So, here it is ...
VEGETABLE LASAGNA (serves four)
1 glass loaf pan
4 lasagna noodles, uncooked (break them if you need to fit them into a glass loaf pan)
1 lb ricotta
2 eggs
8 oz shredded mozzarella, divided in half
1 T sugar or Splenda
2 cups fresh spinach leaves, ribboned
1 1/2 cups fresh basil leaves, ribboned
1 medium red bell pepper, diced fine
1/2 jar Alfredo sauce
Parmesan cheese
Break noodles into pan-sized pieces, place 2 of them (uncooked) into the bottom of the pan.
Mix the ricotta, 2 eggs, 4 oz mozzarella, and sugar. Spread half of the ricotta mix onto the noodles. Sprinkle half of the red pepper on the ricotta mix, then sprinkle half of the spinach and half of the basil, then sprinkle on half of the remaining mozzarella (about 2 oz), a few good shakes of Parmesan, and drizzle about 1/4 of the jar of Alfredo sauce (I used Newman's Own).
Repeat the noodle, ricotta, red bell, spinach, basil, mozzarella, Parmesan and Alfredo sauce layering. Make sure that you have a good covering of cheese on top because it's supposed to "seal" the lasagna so the bell peppers etc cook thoroughly.
Bake at 300 F for 60-70 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and the lasagna is cooked though.
This is THE BEST!!!!
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one
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25 fires? Isn't that kind of a lot??
Every mountain range has a 'wet" side and a "dry" side. Am I right in assuming that you're on the "wet" side - which explains your late dying out; but that the fires are on the "dry" side, which explains their flammability?
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one
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Yes, I saw the other thread. My heart goes out to those affected by the fire, and the thought of all of those trees burning saddens me. Here's hoping that BC is not in a long-standing weather pattern, and that it turns around soon.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one
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Meanwhile here in SoCal ... we went from a somewhat-higher-than-average rainfall winter to a mild spring ... and immediately into furnace conditions.
We had one ten-day heat wave (temps near 100 where I live, and higher inland), a roughly 7-say reprieve, and now ANOTHER ten-day heat-wave.
There are only two pieces of good news, as far as I can tell ...
That parking lot tree. I spoke with one of the business owners where THAT TREE is located, and though it seems that the property owner/ manager has no intention of fixing the sprinkler system, at least one of the business owners knows that I'm doing and seems to be OK with it. Which is good because we've graduated to 14 gallons per week, and between that and the limbing-up that was done the tree looks much MUCH happier, and ...
Hubby finally agreed to put solar panels on the roof. This will be the last summer that we see hellacious electric bills because of our AC, which we really DO try to use sparingly!
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one
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As I mentioned here, and also in the Burn BC Burn thread, we got the solar panels up. They were installed a couple of months ago, and I was anxiously tracking our electric bill, as we had sized the system to meet our average use.
As luck would have it, they were connected in the last week of yet another hellacious heatwave (100+ temps for over a week) and although I really tried to be very sparing of our AC use, the bill was still around $130. Quelle desappointement!
But now that the weather is more normal, our bill is in the negative direction: we're producing slightly more than we're using. Hooray!
Our front yard is still pretty bare. It was gloriously colorful when the rain coaxed the CA poppies and cosmos into full bloom, but after a searing summer, I have to say it looks pretty drab. I still need to buy and plant many more plants. But what was gratifying was the reactions of the various solar installation crews when they saw the backyard: they literally stopped when they turned the corner and goggled a bit, and made some sort of comment about it being like a park. How nice!
I'm still feeding the small critters peanuts and seeds. I've seen three scrub jays at a time- so brightly colored! And of course squirrels, sparrows, phoebes, doves, mockingbirds, crows and ... a young Cooper's hawk. It's shown up twice now, hoping for a nice dinner of unwary bird, lizard, or squirrel. Fortunately, our dog keeps them all on high alert- being a terrier, she's an inveterate hunter. The squirrels and birds are too fast for her; all I can do keep the lizards and skinks safe is provide convenient rocks for them to hide under.
We're sliding into autumn; there is always at least one heatwave or two before November (We've had some pretty toasty Halloweens) but the nights are definitely cooler now, which is great.
For now, that's all the news that's fit to hear from Lake Woebegone.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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