In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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OMG Brenda, does that sound good!
Quote:I went back to the Recipes thread and looked - you did mention it, but no recipe. If you have an interest in sharing it, I'd be happy to find it over there.
Originally posted by Brenda:
It is good Kiki. Forgot to mention that you also add garlic to it as well.
I love it and make it every so often as a relatively quick all in one pot dish.It lasts me about 3 to 4 suppers depending on how much I eat of it. Think I posted the recipe in the Recipe thread.
Thought I left the recipe over there. Huh.
Anyways
Cut up chicken breast or chicken thighs both boneless and skinless in a fry pan with some garlic and salt and pepper. Let that start cooking through, then add the rice. You should let the rice get toasted in the oil and pick up the flavour of the chicken but watch as it will stick and could burn. When that looks like it is where you want it is when I add broccoli flowettes(the top part without the stems) Mix that in well with everything and add a bit more salt and pepper. Let that all cook for a bit then add a can of chicken stock as well as a quarter cup of water to make sure there is enough liquid in the pan. Add bay leaf then let cook until the rice is done then serve.
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Yo Brenda! THANKS!
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have not been following the PC/laptop conversation, but going to jump in. Apologies if
In my husband's experience .... and he has built and repaired hundreds of research desktops ... the three most common problems with them are (1) dust, (2) corroded contacts or (3) poor configuration/bad ventilation.
I mention dust first because it can absolutely kill your hard drive or mainboard because dust blocks ventilation which allows heat buildup, and heat eventually kills electronics. IF (BIG IF) your desktop has been plugged in with the fans running and hard drives spinning continuously, even if it hasn't been used, then you MUST clean your PC of dust, because spinning fans will eventually drag dust into your PC. (It's a good idea to clean it anyway.) The best way is a blast of high-pressure air. If you have a vacuum cleaner that you can hook up to "blow" instead of "suck" and it puts out enuf pressure, you can use that. Otherwise, you will be stuck using a soft painters brush on areas that you can reach, and pre-canned pressurized cleaner for places you cant reach.
Take the (one) removable side off the PC. (The other side usually houses the motherboard. so leave that alone.) Clean off the screens covering the fans.
Locate the heat sinks on the motherboard. Sometimes they're just a finned chunk of metal
Sometimes they have a fan on top
Either way, direct a blast of air thru the fan (if there is one. I usually stick a small stick between the blades of the fan to keep it from spinning like crazy when I'm blasting air thru it) and then as much of the heat sink as you can reach. The find the hard drive area, and just generally blast it with air. Oh and BTW, do this outside, otherwise your room/table will get very dusty! (I hope you have a patio.) Cleaning DONE! Hopefully all electronics will come back to life when properly cooled.
If the PC has been turned off most of the time it is unlikely that anything catastrophic has happened to it, but if your previous place was damp-ih then your most likely problem is contact corrosion. Oncea again, take your PC apart. The literally unplug and replug every contact that you can find. That usually scrapes the corrosion off the contact surfaces.
These two actions alone bring back almost any old PC.
Your monitor OTOH is a different problem. "No signal" means the monitor is on but not communicating with the PC. USUALLY fixing it is as simple as disconnecting and reconnecting the signal line at both the monitor and PC end. Not turning on is another issue altogther. Other than unplugging and plugging it back in a few times (maybe trying a different wall outlet) and pushing the on/off button a few times, it sounds like the monitor is toast.
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Power washer is fixed. Who knew that a European model would be infinitely easier to take apart and clean out than your standard Chinesium POS?
Got all the info for the machine, so I'm going to see if I can still get replacement nozzles for it, and I'm hoping they have a range of many differnt types since I've only got the one. Hopefully I can buy some sort of adjustable one since the one in there is only designed for one spray type and isn't adjustable. I'm pretty sure I could peel off skin with this thing now if I get a way to pinpoint it instead of fanning it out.
Looks to be a fairly standard piece you need to insert, so I shouldn't have any problems finding an aftermarket one.
I think it's naptime.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Wow, you've been on an absolute streak lately.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Power washer is fixed. Who knew that a European model would be infinitely easier to take apart and clean out than your standard Chinesium POS?
Got all the info for the machine, so I'm going to see if I can still get replacement nozzles for it, and I'm hoping they have a range of many differnt types since I've only got the one. Hopefully I can buy some sort of adjustable one since the one in there is only designed for one spray type and isn't adjustable. I'm pretty sure I could peel off skin with this thing now if I get a way to pinpoint it instead of fanning it out.
Looks to be a fairly standard piece you need to insert, so I shouldn't have any problems finding an aftermarket one.
I think it's naptime.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I think in some ways we might be a little alike .... aside from the fact that you're younger, stronger, and have FAR more energy than I do!
But if you're like me, you hate putting in work unless you see progress. Maintenance ... routine maintenance ... is soul-sucking. Like dishes, and sweeping, dusting, cooking, and weeding. I know that if I do it one day, I'll just have to do it again in a day, a week, or a month. I'm OK with stuff that doesn't repeat TOO often, but the rest of the stuff is like Groundhog Day.
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Anyway, we replaced the last two fluorescent tubes in the house with LEDs, and got the brackets up for the workbench. The lumberyard just called up today to let us know that the baltic birch plywood is ready for pickup (They no longer let people in the yard to pick out wood w/o an appointment because of Covid-19.) so that is what we will be doing tomorrow AM.
In the meantime, I got dd out to help with the yardwork today, to convert the old veggie garden into a pollinator garden. We have (these are all seeds) lemon-yellow marigolds, evening primrose (pink), a couple of varieties of mixed-color cosmos (pink, white, light purple), borage (blue), Colorado mix yarrow (white, gold, red, russet, burgundy, pink), silver aster, bee balm (pink) and dusty-rose sunflower with dark centers. I took out a couple of lima bean towers that had really taken over everything, moved a couple of slabs of concrete and we did a preliminary spading. One more spading a raking with soil rake and it will be ready for planting.
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Quote:Which is why - after having a drought-tolerant but high-maintenance wildflower front yard for 3 or 4 years, which WAS very pretty! - I decided to go with large shrubs and trees, mulch, and hardscape for the vast majority of my yard. It's OK to have some very work-intensive areas, if they're easy to access and work on. But a complete yard of that is just too much!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Maintenance ... routine maintenance ... is soul-sucking. Like dishes, and sweeping, dusting, cooking, and weeding.
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But these aren't going to be plain, bland, masses of green, as I intend for them to be drought tolerant, have flowers, be wildlife friendly, and even be edible.
I do think with your sandy, light soil, your tasks are quite a bit easier.
BTW, I asked but you didn't answer - where exactly are those redshanks? When I'm driving I don't have time to be a lookey-loo so ... do I need to look at the sw corner where CalPoly Pomona is, the se corner where the light-industrial/ commercial development is? or w/in the 10/ 57 interchange itself?
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It's hard for me to describe because I'm not very familiar with the area, but as you drive the 57 north from the 60 there is a long slog of a hill upwards. They are near the crest of the hill to your right (eastward). I don't get much of a chance to look too, so I maye have mis-identified them, but they were kind of feathery looking but still robust enough to make a nice little stand
Kind of like this
in bloom
But perhaps they aren't there anymore because it's been a few years since I've driven that route.
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BTW, my zucchini is ready for harvesting, but my peppers and tomato, despite growing and blossoming freely, aren't producing. I believe they're pollinated by bumblebees. Maybe we don't have any in the area anymore.
Perhaps the pollinator garden will bring in the right pollinators.
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THANKS! for the directions. I'll go looking for those redshanks!
In the meantime, even better than Calscape.org is Calflora.org . (You might have directed me to either or both sites at some point in the past.) It has a generic search function that lists out page after page of plants by type, and it's FAR easier to use than Calscape. So I've been going through a combination of trees and shrubs, looking at the pictures, whether or not it's a native, and if so if it's rare (I don't want to mess up anything rare), distribution in the state, the bloom season, and the general habitat (wetland v dryland). Then I copy the scientific name over into Calscape and get lots more pictures, and things like deciduous v evergreen, size range, soil preference, other cultivation information, AND wildlife value. If I'm still not sure I do duckduck images and the USDA plants database. So I'm putting together a short list of plants to consider.
I was kind of wondering about the plants and seeds you bought. Many are pre-treated with some kind of neo-nic, which is really hard on the various types of bees. 
Is there some place you could buy pollinators? Like maybe here? https://www.planetnatural.com/product/bumble-bees-natupol/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, you've been on an absolute streak lately.
Well, I was before too, but just wasn't posting much in this thread is all. I almost let my car issue derail everything, but I wasn't going to let it knock me out of doing any work like the teeth thing did back in February. I lost a lot of time that I could have been working indoors before the weather turned nice. I can't afford to waste time like that right now.
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I think in some ways we might be a little alike .... aside from the fact that you're younger, stronger, and have FAR more energy than I do!
I think maybe in some ways we are.
But slow and steady wins the race. You seem to have that down pat. I think I'm a lot more like my mom who is bi-polar. When I'm manic, look out... But I don't sleep very well when I'm like this either. I'm bound to crash for a while one of these days, but so far I've managed to keep that at bay and do a good job of guilting myself back into doing what needs to be done.
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But if you're like me, you hate putting in work unless you see progress. Maintenance ... routine maintenance ... is soul-sucking. Like dishes, and sweeping, dusting, cooking, and weeding. I know that if I do it one day, I'll just have to do it again in a day, a week, or a month. I'm OK with stuff that doesn't repeat TOO often, but the rest of the stuff is like Groundhog Day.
In that regard, I'm very much like you. I HATE chores. One habit I've been much more successful at these days though is keeping up with them. Until the virus thing, I was actually having some friends stopping by and even my old man came around to watch a movie. I don't want to live like a pig anymore, regardless of how much REAL work I'm getting done in the mean time. I finally have my house back and got rid of the hoard. I think I can do the dishes at least once every 2 or 3 days and clean up after myself everytime I use the bathroom.
Besides, it's nice to be able to just open the door and let my buddy in if he wants to stop by after work instead of requiring people to call ahead of time. He did that once a few months back when I was down after the teeth thing and I was pretty mortified letting him see the mess I was living in. I know we used to both be the first of our group that had our own apartments back in the day and our places always looked like shit back then (and he said as much), but he's got a REALLY nice house now and his wife doesn't have a job and keeps the place looking great all the time.
I think living like that was a means for me to have just another excuse not to socialize.
I've also been spending far more time on lawn maintenance that I ever have in my life. It looks great, and I don't have any ants or weeds around the perimeter of my house, so that keeps me motivated. I let the lawn grow high enough to continually go to seed for a few months there after putting down the fertilizer and I'd say that I probably just restored 80% of the damage I've done to the lawn over the years I've lived here with bad lawn maintenance habits.
Right before posting this, I finally got around to putting the white duct tape over the foam for the A/C unit. I may have gone a bit overboard, covering things that technically didn't even need to be covered, but now the entire surface of everything on the sides and just above and below the unit is a nice shiny white like my windows and trim. I hope that holds up and looks good down the road. Time will tell.
I wanted to get to that since today was the last cool day and if the weather patterns don't change it looks like I finally got my wish and we're going to have drought conditions for the first time in 6 years. Only one day in the next 5 weeks under 80 degrees, and quite a few over 90. Compared to last year where we had 2 days all summer over 90 degrees and only a hand full of 80 degree days
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