Beef Stew Gaston! Take a chuck roast, cut it into 2" cubes with fat trimmed off. Render the fat in a heavy Dutch oven and brown the meat in the...
I received a free packet of "ground cherry" seeds with a seed order. I've never grown these, nor even heard of them before. Can someone please...
Nanny, that is a gorgeous rose! Please, do "overwhelm" us with your photos. Roses are such a pleasure to look at, especially when they are grown...
I always loved that song by Ladysmith Black Mbasa, and it is especially poignant here in Texas. Saturday night and Sunday morning we got 2 1/2...
Naw, Toni, you are too warm-hearted to be an reincarnation of Frosty!
Let me get this straight--you want snow, Toni? As in more of the white stuff that is cold and lays on the ground and one has to move it about to...
Hot toddies, lots and lots of hot toddies. They may not cure your cold, but you won't mind it as much! Hope you get well soon--so annoying to have...
I am available for adoption if you want another niece to make giant cupcakes for! Those are amazing, and probably taste even better than they look.
Aces4Lilah, Heather's suggestion that you post a sketch would help us understand the lay-out of the rooms better. May I suggest that you not go...
Sidebar story: When we lived in town, we found a dead blue jay in our driveway. Didn't think much about it. Then a day or two later we found...
Animal die-offs are fairly common, according to scientists in fields related to animal/bird study. Frank is right--this is a media frenzy at a...
Your photos and observations have inspired me! I'm taking a while to walk the pasture today to see what I can find, and I'll sneak around the rim...
I must confess right off that we keep honeybees, and so I"m not exactly disinterested when I comment on this article. The use of pesticides, of...
Looks like it would be hard on the back, and it doesn't have a bright red handle, so I'd lose it in the garden (terrible tendency to lay tools...
Well, I can sympathize. We are in the process of tearing apart the guest bathroom, which means that there is a line forming early in the morning...
Cheryl, I think the moisture is always there--it just shows up as condensation when the temps get warmer. If you have a bit of water in the tray...
Oh, boy, Dooley pictures coming! We're all waiting to see them, so we are also wishing you luck with figuring out your new camera. I have an...
That's a great recipe! Since I have lots of our home-made marinara sauce, I'll be trying it next week when the weather takes a turn for the cold....
Feliz is a "queen" which is what female cats are called, as opposed to "toms" which are males. Almost all calicos, which Feliz is, are females....
Feliz likes to nap on her footstool in the sun. She is beginning to hang over the footstool, so we either have to get a smaller cat (no...
