bet its an issue with the scheduler, which I must admit I've not mastered.
Finally catching Nick's moisture. Been lightly raining/showers over night and this AM. Rain due the next several days. Cabbage, broccoli, collards, etc. are loving it. Pulled all but two tomato plants. Still have sweet potatoes to dig next month. Meanwhile, have peas and okra to continue picking. I grew a luffa sponge plant on the fence this year and it has been beautiful - full of blooms, bees, and fruit. Will have plenty of "sponges" to give away this winter. https://draxe.com/beauty/loofah-sponge/
Thanks for taking up the OT slack QMS!
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Your gardening skills are amazing! Dawn is OK, she had a mishap with her thumb and is slightly discombobulated. She will be back next week. With luck
bet its an issue with the scheduler, which I must admit I've not mastered.
Finally catching Nick's moisture. Been lightly raining/showers over night and this AM. Rain due the next several days. Cabbage, broccoli, collards, etc. are loving it. Pulled all but two tomato plants. Still have sweet potatoes to dig next month. Meanwhile, have peas and okra to continue picking. I grew a luffa sponge plant on the fence this year and it has been beautiful - full of blooms, bees, and fruit. Will have plenty of "sponges" to give away this winter. https://draxe.com/beauty/loofah-sponge/
A slight scheduling glitch today, so just threw this up. Working on the rototiller carburetor in the shop and planning a slow braised red cabbage dish, German style. Had a powerful lightening storm this AM which has left it cooler. So all is well here.
Field Flowers sown after driveway placement. Sown mid July, now blooming. So much rain, at least 101 Centimeters since May 1st.
Working on Garden beds, a Greenhouse and a septic (Fosse Septique) waste water cleaning pond.
Earlier stage of green house build: placing the sill plate for upper windows.
Butterfly on Buddleia
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and it slipped slicing the meaty part of my left thumb under the knuckle. Too far from the heart to be fatal.
Used field Yarrow (chopped and boiled); local honey; soap and water; fresh curcuma; and if it isn't healing well. It's closed, itching (sign of healing) and pulling together with no infection so far.
I don't like making bone-headed mistakes like that.
We have some of the windows in the Green House as of today. And I have some tender Fall plants to put in our high German Raised beds. T-storms arriving soon, so not planting in yet.
QMS, if you have a good recipe, can you share? Also looking for a good natural sauerkraut recipe if anyone has one. Want the good bugs.
Thanks everyone.
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Sauerkraut is all about lactobacilli. And it turns out that, if you have already have a nice healthy sourdough starter, you have a ready source for your personal favorite lactobacilli already (along with some yeasts, which matter less).
It's actually the lactobacilli that give sourdough bread its tang, not the yeast- a good starter has about 1000x the number of lactobacilli than it does yeasts. And the salt content in the sauerkraut brine suppresses the development of the yeast, and lets the lactobacilli go *nuts* on the sugars. So grab a favorite sauerkraut recipe, and kick it off by dropping in 1/4tsp of your sourdough starter when you start the fermentation. Put in just enough to seed the process, and give your favorite critters the unfair advantage.
No, really- try it and see how it goes. That gives you really good control over exactly which beasties are actually doing the work. And if you hate the result, ignore what I said...
and it slipped slicing the meaty part of my left thumb under the knuckle. Too far from the heart to be fatal.
Used field Yarrow (chopped and boiled); local honey; soap and water; fresh curcuma; and if it isn't healing well. It's closed, itching (sign of healing) and pulling together with no infection so far.
I don't like making bone-headed mistakes like that.
We have some of the windows in the Green House as of today. And I have some tender Fall plants to put in our high German Raised beds. T-storms arriving soon, so not planting in yet.
QMS, if you have a good recipe, can you share? Also looking for a good natural sauerkraut recipe if anyone has one. Want the good bugs.
My recipe doesn't call for thumb parts, so yours is probably better.
Sauteed onion, celery and apple slices (I use butter and olive oil)
in a dutch oven; red wine, apple cider vinegar and chicken broth
with the shredded cabbage. Slow cook in the oven for about an hour.
I make the sauerkraut two different ways. One is in a brine, the other with whey
and honey. Some like it sweet, some like it salty. Takes about a week on the counter
to do its thing. Then it lives in the refrigerator. Pickle many different veggies this way.
Good luck with the glass on the greenhouse. Have a story about that from years past.
and it slipped slicing the meaty part of my left thumb under the knuckle. Too far from the heart to be fatal.
Used field Yarrow (chopped and boiled); local honey; soap and water; fresh curcuma; and if it isn't healing well. It's closed, itching (sign of healing) and pulling together with no infection so far.
I don't like making bone-headed mistakes like that.
We have some of the windows in the Green House as of today. And I have some tender Fall plants to put in our high German Raised beds. T-storms arriving soon, so not planting in yet.
QMS, if you have a good recipe, can you share? Also looking for a good natural sauerkraut recipe if anyone has one. Want the good bugs.
took 2 hours, not one. Added some flour at the end to thicken the sauce.
Made a side of pork loin chops leftover from the barbie last night.
Waiting for the wife to get home before we pig out.
Hope your thumb is figuring out how to get it back together.
My recipe doesn't call for thumb parts, so yours is probably better.
Sauteed onion, celery and apple slices (I use butter and olive oil)
in a dutch oven; red wine, apple cider vinegar and chicken broth
with the shredded cabbage. Slow cook in the oven for about an hour.
I make the sauerkraut two different ways. One is in a brine, the other with whey
and honey. Some like it sweet, some like it salty. Takes about a week on the counter
to do its thing. Then it lives in the refrigerator. Pickle many different veggies this way.
Good luck with the glass on the greenhouse. Have a story about that from years past.
and without looking, assumed it was yesterday's. Accordingly, I threw together a substitute OT and then eventually noted that "yesterday's OT" was dated today, duh.
Sorry everybody.
Especially sorry for DM and her poor thumb.
be well and have a good one
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It looked worse than it turned out to be. I can curl it but having trouble straightening it.
Used several natural healing herbs and remedies to help it heal and prevent infection. It seems to be working.
Thanks el. I'm posting pictures of our hacienda and family life in each thread. It's a good thing I didn't post another Open Thread.
and without looking, assumed it was yesterday's. Accordingly, I threw together a substitute OT and then eventually noted that "yesterday's OT" was dated today, duh.
Sorry everybody.
Especially sorry for DM and her poor thumb.
be well and have a good one
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#6 It looked worse than it turned out to be. I can curl it but having trouble straightening it.
Used several natural healing herbs and remedies to help it heal and prevent infection. It seems to be working.
Thanks el. I'm posting pictures of our hacienda and family life in each thread. It's a good thing I didn't post another Open Thread.
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Hope dawn's okay...
bet its an issue with the scheduler, which I must admit I've not mastered.
Finally catching Nick's moisture. Been lightly raining/showers over night and this AM. Rain due the next several days. Cabbage, broccoli, collards, etc. are loving it. Pulled all but two tomato plants. Still have sweet potatoes to dig next month. Meanwhile, have peas and okra to continue picking. I grew a luffa sponge plant on the fence this year and it has been beautiful - full of blooms, bees, and fruit. Will have plenty of "sponges" to give away this winter. https://draxe.com/beauty/loofah-sponge/
Thanks for taking up the OT slack QMS!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks LO
Your gardening skills are amazing! Dawn is OK, she had a mishap with her thumb and is slightly discombobulated. She will be back next week. With luck
question everything
Happy Thursday all
A slight scheduling glitch today, so just threw this up. Working on the rototiller carburetor in the shop and planning a slow braised red cabbage dish, German style. Had a powerful lightening storm this AM which has left it cooler. So all is well here.
Look forward to your comments.
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question everything
Well Dawn screwed up today, and there's QMS
Geeze, the help these days.
Field Flowers sown after driveway placement. Sown mid July, now blooming. So much rain, at least 101 Centimeters since May 1st.
Working on Garden beds, a Greenhouse and a septic (Fosse Septique) waste water cleaning pond.
Earlier stage of green house build: placing the sill plate for upper windows.
Butterfly on Buddleia
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
Consider helping by donating using the button in the upper left hand corner. Thank you.
Great pictures, DM. Thanks for posting them with the
damaged thumb and all.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Called this one way ahead of time...
Worth a watch: Alex Jones live show, September 12, 2001
9/11 not only bore out predictions he had made, but his predictions about
where it would be used to take us have been (depressingly) prescient...
"This is only the beginning...it will be used to take away our rights."
Posted on Youtube this week it was quickly removed.
Being right just doesn't count if you're off-narrative, it seems.
view on Banned Video
Well I was trying to use a rocker knife to slice a Red Cabbage
and it slipped slicing the meaty part of my left thumb under the knuckle. Too far from the heart to be fatal.
Used field Yarrow (chopped and boiled); local honey; soap and water; fresh curcuma; and if it isn't healing well. It's closed, itching (sign of healing) and pulling together with no infection so far.
I don't like making bone-headed mistakes like that.
We have some of the windows in the Green House as of today. And I have some tender Fall plants to put in our high German Raised beds. T-storms arriving soon, so not planting in yet.
QMS, if you have a good recipe, can you share? Also looking for a good natural sauerkraut recipe if anyone has one. Want the good bugs.
Thanks everyone.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
Consider helping by donating using the button in the upper left hand corner. Thank you.
Yay for lactobacilli!
Sauerkraut is all about lactobacilli. And it turns out that, if you have already have a nice healthy sourdough starter, you have a ready source for your personal favorite lactobacilli already (along with some yeasts, which matter less).
It's actually the lactobacilli that give sourdough bread its tang, not the yeast- a good starter has about 1000x the number of lactobacilli than it does yeasts. And the salt content in the sauerkraut brine suppresses the development of the yeast, and lets the lactobacilli go *nuts* on the sugars. So grab a favorite sauerkraut recipe, and kick it off by dropping in 1/4tsp of your sourdough starter when you start the fermentation. Put in just enough to seed the process, and give your favorite critters the unfair advantage.
No, really- try it and see how it goes. That gives you really good control over exactly which beasties are actually doing the work. And if you hate the result, ignore what I said...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Hmm, red cabbage eh?
My recipe doesn't call for thumb parts, so yours is probably better.
Sauteed onion, celery and apple slices (I use butter and olive oil)
in a dutch oven; red wine, apple cider vinegar and chicken broth
with the shredded cabbage. Slow cook in the oven for about an hour.
I make the sauerkraut two different ways. One is in a brine, the other with whey
and honey. Some like it sweet, some like it salty. Takes about a week on the counter
to do its thing. Then it lives in the refrigerator. Pickle many different veggies this way.
Good luck with the glass on the greenhouse. Have a story about that from years past.
question everything
Further on the braised cabbage
took 2 hours, not one. Added some flour at the end to thicken the sauce.
Made a side of pork loin chops leftover from the barbie last night.
Waiting for the wife to get home before we pig out.
Hope your thumb is figuring out how to get it back together.
[video:https://youtu.be/RTZoJ01FpD8]
question everything
OOPS, and damn, I saw an OT by QMS
and without looking, assumed it was yesterday's. Accordingly, I threw together a substitute OT and then eventually noted that "yesterday's OT" was dated today, duh.
Sorry everybody.
Especially sorry for DM and her poor thumb.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I swear I buzzed for several hours, from the shock of it.
It looked worse than it turned out to be. I can curl it but having trouble straightening it.
Used several natural healing herbs and remedies to help it heal and prevent infection. It seems to be working.
Thanks el. I'm posting pictures of our hacienda and family life in each thread. It's a good thing I didn't post another Open Thread.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
Consider helping by donating using the button in the upper left hand corner. Thank you.
Hope the herbs do the trick. Good luck. n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --