In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The other day weatherguessers said it was the coldest temps in 3 years. That Global Warming must be attacking here, thanks to algore inventing it.
The only Nobel Laureate I actually know has his certificate for Global Warming, and he very clearly tells folk that all that Global Warming creation is complete bunk.
Here we have not gotten more than a couple inches of snow at a time, and then mostly melted. Has been too cold for snow a bit lately. Undisturbed depths are a few inches. If not for roadways, can barely call it winter. When it warms in March, Feb, we usually get a bunch. But normally by now we would have a foot or 2.
Yeah. I keep hearing about how bad the global warming is, but this looks like it's going to be two pretty terrible winters around here in a row.
We haven't seen a single minute above freezing for almost two weeks.
And now the 5 or 6 inches we were supposed to get on Wednesday looks more like 10 inches with another 4 or 5 on Thursday.
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Got rain where I am but at least it has cleared out the fog.
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Musical Sunday
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Quote:How nice!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Musical Sunday
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Yesterday I wound up doing a lot of unplanned cooking...
My dog-walking friend brought over a piece of beef heart and beef kidney for the dog's raw food diet, and some chicken feet for broth for us.
Plus, daughter scored a 10.8 lb picnic roast (pork) @ $1.19/lb that was taking up a huge amount of freezer space (on the list)
A ginormous box of prewashed spinach that couldn't even FIT in the frig (something I asked for)
A bit too much chicken breast
So ..
I wilted the spinach, divided, and stuck it in the freezer
Roasted the pork, divided up the cooked pork (4 meals-worth) and broth (2 meals- worth) and tossed the bone and fat. Meat in the freezer, broth in the frig
Divided up the chicken breast for the freezer
Made "raw food" for the dog (gr beef, heart, liver, kidney, egg) for the freezer
Made dinner for the family: roast vegetables (onion, potato, sweet potato, zucchini with olive oil and salt) and "oven fried" chicken (marinade chix pieces in seasoning and salt) coated (egg/thyme/oregano/mustard) and breaded (panko/parmesan/olive oil), and baked
Then I did MOST of the dishes- two whole drain-trays plus a range top of pots, pans, bowls and prep-ware.
Whew!
None of this was in my list of "things to do" but it took up most of the day! OTOH it's something I won't need to do again for a long time.
Plus I helped hubby in the garage for a bit.
Now, on to other things today.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:How nice!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Musical Sunday
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Yeah, I just listened to a couple of tapes that had some different songs on them, like "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna, think there was some Cher too.
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In case you missed this one Sigs since it was on the previous page...
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So I wandered into the backyard to see how things were faring without attention.
The grass is tall in some spots and the weeds are taking over but- dang!- wouldn't you know but I spotted a few red, ripe tomatoes on my one tomato bush, and some green ones as well!
I had two tomato bushes last year, both Early Girl, and they grew spectacularly (taller than hubby) and bore prolifically. One bush does what Early Girl tomatoes do in the winter: it died down to the ground. The other, a mere 4' away, is still green and producing. I have no idea what's with that one plant, I'm very happy to be able to harvest garden tomatoes in the dead of winter, but why it wants to be a perennial is beyond me! Maybe I can save some seeds and see if new plants would come true to the original.
Gotta water, tho. Last significant rainfall was late Dec IIRC, and altho we got a good soaking the ground is probably dried out by now.
As usual I over planned my day, assuming I could accomplish more than I was capable of, but I did manage to walk the dog, roast a pork picnic roast, do a kitchen cleanup (the kind I hate the most, a couple of sinksful of cups, containers, caps, jars, utensils, pots, pans... took me almost 2 hours washing!, tidy up the house and make dinner
Have some bills pending in my email, need to unbox a bunch of stuff, freeze the pork, make dig food, fix a sprinkler head, water the property, sort the mail... make dinner tomorrow and Sunday, and... that'll be the weekend. Doesn't sound like much, but I bet I don't get ALLA if that done, either!
Hubby and daughter are working on finishing the platform bed. He just oiled it today with Tung oil, and it is a thing of beauty!!
Most of it is Euro steamed beech. We spent a HUGE amt of time picking out planks at the lumberyard looking for boards that were straight and with good figure and... OMG it's amazing! I'll try and post pix when I get a chance.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Is this a new bed or the one you were talking about quite a while ago?
I've never actually seen any pictures of this. Looking forward to it.
I'm glad to hear that you're getting so much done recently.
I've just got to turn that guilt of not getting much done on my end in comparison to inspiration to get back into getting things done.
I managed to put about an hour into sanding walls, trim and baseboard in the pantry as well as pulling out the quarter round off the baseboard and removing any nails down there yesterday before losing interest.
My plan now that I have some coffee in me is to finish with the sanding and cleanup and at least getting some mud up there. There was a lot of damage done in that closet to the walls and the trim for the shelving.
I think I'm going to go to the store tomorrow and buy another large tub of plastic wood, now that I know I can get it to keep for over a year before going bad. There are two pieces of the trim that appear to have been broken toward the front on an angle that I'd like to re-shape with some plastic wood to make look like it was whole pieces. At first I thought it was done on purpose since both of them are at almost identical angles, but they didn't do it on the other side or on any of the other pieces of trim on the left side either. I'm guessing they had some old trim from somewhere else and put it up even though a few of the pieces were broken because "who cares? It's just a closet".
I still need more of that wood for other things, like extending the two window sills in the living room before putting up window trim, fixing both the front and back door jambs and one or two other things I know I wanted to use it for that aren't coming to mind right now anyhow, so most of
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Nice dry day for my walk.
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Brenda I'm so envious of your weather this winter.
Not quite freezing today, but the closest we've been to it in about 3 weeks.
It'll be 40 tomorrow. Just enough to start us off with a ton of snow melt and a few hours of rain before we get the 10 to 15" of snow they're predicting in the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday night. The entire area is going to be an ice rink for weeks.
Last night they upped that from 8" to 12", and now I'm seeing possibly 15".
Then it will be at least a week until we get a day warm enough to melt any of it. And that's only if the weather doesn't change for the worse, which it hasn't done once since the beginning of the month.
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Managed to buckle down and actually put a few hours in on the pantry today. Got everything else I needed sanded down and cleaned up before putting a coat of joint compound on any of the various holes in the walls and the trim.
To give you an idea of how bad the pantry was (and the entire house), there was a HUGE patch job done down by the baseboard, and I never even noticed it until this morning. I'm guessing they made a huge hole in there at some ponit when they fed the phone cord up to the hole that no longer exists for it in the kitchen (I tiled over it half a year ago).
They didn't bother finishing it, or even sanding it down or putting a needed 2nd and 3rd coat on it. Just left it in there like that. And the pantry has been so nasty for a decade I didn't even know.
I think I'm going to go out and pick up that wood putty today so I can get it up there. It's going to need some drying time, and I'm feeling the itch to do it, so I might as well put myself together and go run some errands so I can get that up there. I still need to sand everything down and likely hit more spots with additional mud before I can even think about putting any caulk in there, so no sense in wasting another day on the wood putty.
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