tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82505046396218530382024-03-14T01:33:21.891-07:00Roast Garlic and Other Yummy Thingsa bit of this and a bit of that.... Ramblings from the KitchenRoasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-16675798462672417972011-05-02T16:34:00.000-07:002011-05-03T04:28:49.314-07:00Flying, Frocks and Fishies.....this past week has been a busy busy one, not much gardening was done... it's still chilly and very unwelcoming to my peppers and tomatoes and down right killing to the 2 little cucumber plants that i bought... AND all are in my greenhouse with heat pads and lights... i can 'feel' them shivering in their pots... i managed to build a few barriers from Digger Dora and maybe even the bunnies and occasional deer that might wander closer to the house....<br />
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last Friday daughter and i got to go to a lecture for Autism and anxiety...<a href="http://www.actcommunity.net/autism-education/upcoming-live-events/404-focus-on-research.html">Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism</a>, it was an an 8 hour day presentation for parents and professionals and then on saturday another 8 hour day for professionals only, put on by <a href="http://www.actcommunity.net/">ACT ( Autism Community Training) </a> and the host speaker was Dr. Judy Reaven from the University of Colorado.. Dr. Reaven is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine and is the Director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic of JFK Partners...some of the methods of dealing with anxiety are in the video on this <a href="http://www.actcommunity.net/autism-education/act-online-videos/84-managing-the-worry-bug.html">link </a> it will give you an idea of some of the lecture... daughter bought the book set <a href="http://www.brookespublishing.com/store/books/reaven-71783/index.htm">Facing Your Fears</a> which includes a therapist manual, child's workbook and parents workbook... one of the first things we are going to work on... bees and wasps!!! <br />
i'm glad i was invited along, was well worth it... <br />
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before getting the lecture we got to fly to Vancouver... on a small plane, a bit lumpy but fun...here's a view as we were leaving Nanaimo Harbour...<br />
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well that was Friday... Saturday was a fun day.... eldest granddaughter's prom day.... so old... just seems like yesterday she was a baby toddling about..... <br />
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what fun... down to the waterfront pictures galore... sushi for dinner, then off to the dance... then after parties.... <br />
ahhh to be young!!<br />
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Sunday..... new day to do things..... the weather was stellar still and so the other two grandkids and i went to the beach..... <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they had great fun... the eldest found a bucket and they wandered the beach looking for critter treasures... rocks and shells overturned, crabs a plenty, some bullheads (sculpin) and a few starfish... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and this dead fish below... which we think is a Pacific Needlefish, scanning the internet i came up blank.. anyways if you know what it is.. please let me know... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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p.s. thanks to queen of string who knew who this little guy is... <a href="http://www.elasmodiver.com/Bay_Pipefish_Pictures.htm">http://www.elasmodiver.com/Bay_Pipefish_Pictures.htm</a>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-19763966062332356922011-04-26T17:31:00.000-07:002011-04-26T17:31:36.955-07:00Bitten by the bug.......if your sqeamish... don't read any further.... if you want to know by what... keep reading....<br />
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last Saturday i was out in the garden, making fences to keep digger dora out of the beds and generally tidying up... went to throw in some laundry and something in my chest was poking me... i actually thought i'd managed to get a blackberry thorn stuck under my bra strap.....<br />
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wrong!!<br />
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a tick...a nasty little black legged tick burrowed into my flesh...YUCK... now i can put up with a lot of insects but ticks are not one of them... they are a bit like playing Russian Roulette... round and round we go, which one is a carrier.....of ... <a href="http://www.lyme.org/diseases.html">Babesiosis, Colorado Tick Fever, Ehrlichiois, Lyme Disease, Relapsing Fever, Rocky Mountain Fever, Tick Paralysis and Tularemia</a>... depending upon where you live of course......<br />
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grossed out yet??? i am!! <br />
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this year has been an incredible year for ticks here... i've found at least a dozen of the little devils on the dogs...usually i get them right away, put a drop or 2 of tea tree oil on a Qtip and dab on the tick.. within an hour the tick is dead and removal easier...<br />
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it was Easter Weekend so doctor's office was closed until today... i went in complete with a photo of the area where it's all red and swollen and the tick in a bag, (mine i killed with teatree oil but today was told they lab requests live specimens).... already i know that i'm going to have to make a few waves in order to get treated..... why you might ask.... because Lyme disease is not well known, not well addressed and finally the government is realizing, poorly diagnosed.... how do i know this??? because last year i went to a seminar on Lyme Disease on Vancouver Island it seems there are some very serious issues.. one being that a great number of people were told there is 'no' Lyme Disease on the island... hmmm i say, considering of the at least 100 people at the seminar, everyone of the audience either had Lyme Disease or knew of someone with it.... so many of the folks said the same story.. that's not possible, not here, couldn't be a tick bite, must be a spider and the list of excuses goes on... fortunately someone is finally waking up... <br />
here is an article from <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Lyme+disease+more+needs+done/4593355/story.html">The Vancouver Sun</a> regarding the B.C. government commissioning a report on Lyme Disease in B.C. ... the findings are: "testing is poor," there is "no treatment for chronic Lyme disease patients," "the true incidence of Lyme disease in B.C. is unknown," "the majority of GPs lack knowledge about Lyme disease" and "the current state of diagnostic methods for chronic Lyme and other related infections is poor." i'd have to concur..... the doctor i had today was good.. i'm glad... she finally agreed that prevention was worth it and gave me a prescription for the antibiotics but not before i repeated several times that i have friends who have Lyme Disease and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy... they were ignored, told they had any number of other things including 'all in their heads' here's the name of a counsellor you should see...they are both in serious condition from 'side affects' of the Lyme Disease.. all because they weren't treated immediately..... <br />
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the moral of my post today is if you've been bitten, try and get the offending tick ALIVE in a jar, get treatment as soon as possible.... and if you have to nudge the Doctor into prescribing antibiotics so be it... an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... or in the case of Lyme maybe not even a cure....<br />
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here is a list of Foundations:<br />
<a href="http://www.canlyme.com/">CanLyme (Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lyme.org/front.htm">The Lyme Disease Foundation</a><br />
<a href="http://www.aldf.com/">American Lyme Disease Foundation</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lymenet.org/">Lyme Disease Network</a><br />
just to name a few<br />
and a very good film about it <br />
<a href="http://www.underourskin.com/">Under Our Skin</a><br />
you can find excerpts and trailers on youtube by typing in Under Our Skin.... <br />
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a good online news article:<br />
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2009/06/04/f-lyme-disease-ticks.html">CBC news </a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ig1toEP5gL8/Tbdhjoi2eTI/AAAAAAAABXI/2KHnGBHxB_0/s1600/IMG_7441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" i8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ig1toEP5gL8/Tbdhjoi2eTI/AAAAAAAABXI/2KHnGBHxB_0/s320/IMG_7441.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>this is it after a couple of hrs... when i first discovered the tick, the area around the tick was a raised red mass about the size of a quarter.... what you can't see here is that it's very sore and raised up and actually hurt... until this morning it was like that, this morning it's still the red centre with what looks like a blister in the middle......had i not been more informed i might have thought 'oh it's just a bite' and not bothered with the doctor... Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-39639696945940426142011-04-21T23:07:00.000-07:002011-04-21T23:07:06.371-07:00Earth Day 2011 .... love our earth.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">whether your on the beach or beside the ocean</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to you all... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>“</em><a class="sqq" href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/ask_yourself_whether_the_dream_of_heaven_and/195456.html"><em>Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.</em></a><em>”</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ayn Rand </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">beside another tree is a busy busy mound of red and black ants.. nature's cleaners.. they aren't nice if you wander too close to their nest, so i stayed away... i've accidently stepped too close before and yikes.. i was a hopping and stripping off clothes , much to the delight of my daughter who got to witness it... they maybe small but quite the biting power... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and i found Trouble..... the entrance to Trouble......</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and the exit of Trouble.... </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d8vJkr3vGOM/Ta4BRJ60G0I/AAAAAAAABVU/Q6PeSKpw4Qg/s1600/IMG_7421.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" i8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d8vJkr3vGOM/Ta4BRJ60G0I/AAAAAAAABVU/Q6PeSKpw4Qg/s640/IMG_7421.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">every once in awhile i see that waskly wabbit running around and now i know where Trouble lives... i won't disturb Trouble as it seems the dogs haven't found the burrow and the cat from across the road chased Trouble but got sidetracked and wandered off after easier pickings... but i'm going to have to wrap wire around my fruit trees ... i did have the cherry tree wired, but i can see if Trouble and i are going to co-exist i'll have to protect my trees... </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">i've been pretty busy lately, i'm working on the original raised bed, not done yet, but getting there... i've planted a second batch of peas, all my walla walla onions and shallots, some beets and all the brassicas... i still have covers over everything, still far to early not too.. this week, i woke up to ice on the car... a reminder that the warmer days are just a tease..... momma nature just dangles a hint of warmth then poof ... frostbite!!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-88084881075736518552011-04-12T14:04:00.000-07:002011-04-12T15:00:24.520-07:00Big Worm Little Snake....i've been busy busy.... digging, mulching, spreading manure and compost... all actual 'pre-garden' stuff that needs to be done... the price of veggies is out of this world, when one cauliflower costs $2.50 and a cucumber is $1.50 or more one needs to expand the garden space!!! <br />
this year is the 'turn over the raised beds" year... a lot of work but not something i do on a regular basis.. normally i would just top up and or scratch the surface with fresh rotted compost or well aged manure, but this year the 10 huge bags of aged manure from granddaughter's highschool football team, the 2 old compost piles and the bags and bags of 'stewed' greens from my friends house are all being put to good use... in between rain and cold and icky weather i've managed to turn over most of the raised beds, topped up around the fruit trees and am now working on the original raised bed i had....<br />
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it's old and most people would consider not worth having but over the years supplied me with potatoes and squash and different herbs as well as a colourful supply of daylillies..... the bed originated with a load of top soil that i never got finished moving, the season was getting late so i decided i would just put a frame around it and make do... well that lasted a couple of years, then my son in law and daughter decided it was 'ugly' and made me a beautiful big E raised bed, which is most awesome i must say.... see the pile of rocks in the left side of the picture? i've spotted many a snake or alligator lizard sunning themselves on the warm rocks in spring and summer... i love those slug patrollers!!!<br />
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i'm not sure how much i'm going to do with the bed this year, but i'm going to divide it into sections, put in some squashes and a very thick layer of hay around them and pray that the beds don't get too dry over the summer.... <br />
i tend to be a bit of a 'buddhist' gardener... i have issues with squashing slugs and insects, stepping on snails or worms so i'm ever vigilant about trying to not shortening the lives of many a critter... here are a couple of the residents i unearthed today.... a sign that i must be doing something right in the garden... balance is wonderful thing......<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>When April Comes! </strong></em></span><br />
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<em>When April comes with softly shining eyes,</em><br />
<em>And daffodils bound in her wind-blown hair,</em><br />
<em>Oh, she will coax all clouds from out the skies,</em><br />
<em>And every day will bring some sweet suprise,--</em><br />
<em>The swallows will come swinging through the air</em><br />
<em>When April comes!</em><br />
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<em>When April comes with tender smile and tear,</em><br />
<em>Dear dandelions will gild the common ways,</em><br />
<em>And at the break of morning we will hear,</em><br />
<em>The piping of the robins crystal clear--</em><br />
<em>While bobolinks will whistle through the days,</em><br />
<em>When April comes!</em><br />
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<em>When April comes, the world so wise and old,</em><br />
<em>Will half forget that it is worn and grey,</em><br />
<em>Winter will seem but as a tale long told--</em><br />
<em>its bitter winds with all its frost and cold</em><br />
<em>Will be the by-done things of yesterday,</em><br />
<em>When April comes!</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/garvin/poets/sheard.html">Virna Sheard</a></em></span>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-36595079760706185732011-03-31T11:25:00.000-07:002011-03-31T11:25:42.771-07:00Help!!!!please.... i've noticed that on other people's blogs i show up as "home" not as Roast Garlic and Other Yummy Things...... sighhhh i've searched and searched and changed a few things, but still comes up as "home"........ anyone have any ideas what i can do to fix it? oh another issue that drives me crazy... i put the pictures in then when i publish it the text comes up beside, not below where i put it... <br />
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speaking of home... the 'homespread' is coming along ... in between the incessant rain and grey, i've managed to take some beautiful aged cow manure and spread it around my Rhubarb and Strawberries, dig it into some of my raised beds and even deposit into my newly moved composter...my composter was originally over by the comfrey and the hops and was useful until the bear came and lopped off it's top... after that i never really used it so the compost in it sat for several years.... i dug up that black gold, sifted and spread liberally over the manure that i'd put around the Rhubarb... i'm envisioning Rhubarb Pie ... mmmmgood futuristic thought .....<br />
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things are slow this year, including me... an ever annoying neck and shoulder issue that is only allowing me to dig and do a few things at a time... an hour here and there per day... but i guess it's better than nothing... and since i've not figured out away for Dora the Digger to dig in appropriate spots i'll just continue to putz along....as for my seedlings all the lettuces, arugula, onions have managed to come up abundantly but the rest is a bomb... not one single <a href="http://ourlittleacre.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-grow-thistles-on-purpose.html">Milk Thistle</a> has sprouted, only 1 Black Cherry Tomato seed and only a few dill seeds managed to sprout... <br />
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this morning i planted some Squash seeds... if any manage to sprout i'm just going to call them Succulent Suprise.... originally i had several different types of seeds that i'd saved from either my own Spagetti squash from the garden or the <a href="http://whatscookingamerica.net/squash.htm">Delicia and Carnival</a> i'd bought from the local farmer's market....and a most delicious <a href="http://whatscookingamerica.net/squash.htm">Butternut</a> that a friend gave me from her garden.. i was dilligent in cleaning and drying, all nicely labelled ready to go... until i took them to my greenhouse..... i was distracted and got to doing something else in there and whoosh my arm hit them and splat on the floor they went..... anyways.... Succulent Suprise was planted this morning... hopefully some will sprout!! Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-77161901107591770972011-03-25T09:39:00.000-07:002011-03-25T09:39:41.980-07:00Be afraid..........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0s9a8EUHOLQ/TYzDKtNr3nI/AAAAAAAABT8/ENCFpy9eIHM/s1600/IMG_6925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="466" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0s9a8EUHOLQ/TYzDKtNr3nI/AAAAAAAABT8/ENCFpy9eIHM/s640/IMG_6925.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>very afraid....... yesterday in '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=198285716870474&id=167527713295518"> Take back Urban Home-stead(ing)s</a> 'there was a lengthy discussion on <a href="http://www.producemoreconservemore.com/">Monsanto and seeds</a> and one of the statements on the Monsanto page was "In the hands of farmers, better seeds are helping the world grow more, while using less. Researchers around the world, in both the public and private sectors, are working to improve seeds through the use of advanced breeding and biotechnology."<br />
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the catch word that got to me was BREEDING..... i had no idea that seeds bred... not realizing that Monsanto also was 'playing God' in the animal world too... i must have been sleeping...... missed a few years i guess...<br />
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i made comment about the breeding part and nobody replied to it so that got me snooping around on the net and i found a link to a movie which shows what Monsanto is doing and if continues will be doing to everyone on this planet....be afraid.... very afraid.... <br />
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Wide Eye Cinema presents........ <strong><a href="http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=110">Patent For a Pig: The Big Business of Monsanto</a></strong><br />
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the movie is not current but i think very valid as there are many 'new' and 'current' things that Monsanto has done that should make you go hmmmmmmmm and run to your nearest garden and plant those heritage, unmodified seeds and tend to your unpatented GMO free fed flock of critters......Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-42983702254021750732011-03-22T11:15:00.000-07:002011-03-22T20:10:23.572-07:00Houston we have a problem.......today's post has been eaten...... just a few biscuits, crumbs and the ripped remains of the paper bag remain....<br />
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the above 'mutt shot' shows the guilty ones... Dora to the left, Sampson to the right....<br />
innocence exudes from every whisker and those moist brown eyes just beg for forgiveness..... burp, slurp and a drink of water and the evidence was almost consumed... <br />
fortunately i'd already given a few away to Brownie and Chewy, daughter's dogs and to her 3 degu's, 2 rats and 2 ferrets.. all loved them... <br />
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my recipe isn't exact because there is no rising, no 'chemistry' beyond holding together enough to be cut out and baked... <br />
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<strong>Peanut butter, Molasses and Carob Cookies</strong><br />
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2 cups Quinoa Flour<br />
1 cup Kamut Flour<br />
1/4 cup Coconut Flour<br />
1/2 cup oatmeal<br />
1 1/2 cup Kamut flakes<br />
2/3 cup powdered milk<br />
1 tbsp. flax meal<br />
3 tbsp. brewers yeast or Engevita Yeast (NOT rising yeast for bread)<br />
1/2 cup of carob powder or 1 cup of carob chips<br />
1 cup of peanut butter<br />
1/2 cup of molasses<br />
approx 1 cup of water (enough to make a semi sticky dough)<br />
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mix all together adding enough water to make a semi sticky dough....<br />
take a cookie sheet and line with waxed paper or parchment paper put some of the dough on it and cover with another sheet of waxed paper or parchment paper... roll out approximately 1/2 inch thick (like regular cookies) and cut out with your favourite cookie cutter.. place on another cookie sheet and bake approximately 1 hr at 300 degrees.....<br />
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bake 20 mins at 300 degrees then remove from cookie sheet and place on dehydrator racks and dry til crispy dry...<br />
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one of the reasons i used many different types of flours is because i have them.. some i have had for quite awhile and eventually they will go rancid.. so what a good way to use them up....anyways, i'm not fond of using wheat for dog treats so usually will use other types of flours such as Quinoa, coconut, barley, oat and even different bean flours... <br />
while dehydrating my house was filled with the smell of peanut butter and molasses.. mmmmm<br />
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so i guess the proof of deliciousness is in the eating... burpppppRoasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-29350532433960246932011-03-18T08:30:00.000-07:002011-03-18T08:30:15.693-07:00Fungal beauty......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6OinPWGafg4/TYN17qsmhsI/AAAAAAAABTU/_1f6o-jXGkc/s1600/IMG_7326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6OinPWGafg4/TYN17qsmhsI/AAAAAAAABTU/_1f6o-jXGkc/s640/IMG_7326.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i think the Shiitake Mushroom is a rather beautiful creature... majestic even... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">well i'm just impressed because it actually grew, i didn't kill it with kindness by overwatering.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">so all of a sudden i had a massive amount of fungal food and what to do with it... i made a stirfry and still had tons left over.... </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-r3Ip4jKe9YA/TYN32Yb8UfI/AAAAAAAABTc/X2Uzn_Gir_M/s1600/IMG_7342.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" r6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-r3Ip4jKe9YA/TYN32Yb8UfI/AAAAAAAABTc/X2Uzn_Gir_M/s640/IMG_7342.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i love my dehydrater... almost as much as my pressure canner...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">it's old and very well loved and has made copious quantities of fruit leathers, dried tomatoes, peppers, plums, raisins, jerky ... whatever was available to be dried.... i even tried potatoes but that wasn't such a great experiment... onions were the worst i must say... had to set up a place on the deck... the onion scented 'eu d cologne' wasn't exactly delightful... long lasting tho ;) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">at the moment my house smells like a simmering pot of mushroom soup.... not so bad huh!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">i can't wait to toss in bits of dried mushroom in my next pot of soup.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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MMMMMmushrooms are a growing!! Last week i went to Seedy Sunday in town and had a blast, bought some seed exchange seeds and some mushroom bags....the below picture shows Shiitake to the left and Tree Oyster mushroom to the right.. when i first got them i forgot to take a picture... but this is mid-week... <br />
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the pictures below i took this morning... a week and a day past when i first bought the mushrooms... <br />
i don't know much about them but i'm thinking that dinner might includ a few mushrooms :D .... yum yum<br />
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i've been planting away in my greenhouse as well... it's just not big enough so in my mind by next year i'll have a bigger one or at least another area where i can have seedlings ... <br />
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arugula and cos lettuce is just getting going... i no longer have them on the heat mats, but will cover them if the temperature drops down to freezing... my greenhouse gets pretty darn cold when the temperature drops down, so ever vigilant ... <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-44H7kg1LzxA/TX5I9k2OBTI/AAAAAAAABS8/099Ips4e8vg/s1600/IMG_7311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" q6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-44H7kg1LzxA/TX5I9k2OBTI/AAAAAAAABS8/099Ips4e8vg/s640/IMG_7311.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>above you can see the seedling trays are in a box.. i was fortunate to find some fish carrier boxes from a local pet store..... they were suprised that i asked for them but they make awesome seed warming boxes... i put the heat mats in the bottom, cover with a sheet of plastic to keep it dry and then the trays or plugs ... works great.. when the temp dropped to below freezing in the greenhouse, they were toasty warm at a sweating 60 plus degrees.... <br />
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below u can see how my little seedlings are covered... with what you might ask? foraged goodies!! i truly am a scavenger for things.. these covers are from a friend who had to buy new furniture and these were their covers... recycle reuse i say... the fabric is very similar to reemay which is used for crop covers... anyways.. thanks Cindy.... <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JL1zG4HGrJg/TX5Jqn0YczI/AAAAAAAABTE/LePKi71Vyag/s1600/IMG_7313.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" q6="true" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JL1zG4HGrJg/TX5Jqn0YczI/AAAAAAAABTE/LePKi71Vyag/s640/IMG_7313.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>and last but definately not least...... i sorted out my seed stash.. some seeds are from a few years ago, but hey if even only a few seeds sprout so be it... i've acquired a few more packages this year including a package of peanuts... something that doesn't grow here, but thought i'd give it a go in the greenhouse....<br />
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i still have a lot of things to sprout, such as spinach, leeks, cilantro and and ..... ahhhh the list goes on...... <br />
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i only remember going there to pick plums and sometimes apples from the remaining fruit trees... the house was gone and little remained.. mother nature has a way of covering up abandoned farms...<br />
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my parents were prolific builders... they built several boats, houses and my mother's favourite hobby, woodworking ...<br />
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these float houses are really doll houses that she made... i only remember one of them, the others had been given away to family friends children..<br />
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the Ripalong...<br />
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the Coquette... the top picture is one with the fishing poles down... for trolling... the bottom photo is one without the fishing poles... they would take the poles off for the winter when they logged and trapped.... <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">in the lower picture of the group above, you can see the smoke stack, that would have been for the wood stove and the smaller stack by the mast would have been for the engine, which most like would have been an <a href="http://www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com/modules/vmmuseum/treasures/?artifactid=127">Easthope engine</a> .. they were very common in the earlier part of the century... sometimes even today you can hear the putt putt of the engine in some of the old restored wooden boats.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the next boat is the Rae-Maid which was built in 1950... they not only built the Rae-Maid they also built a sistership for the Hadley's who owned the local Sawmill... most of the boats were built with Red Cedar, but the stern was built with Yellow Cedar, which is even more rot resistant than Red Cedar...... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the photo in the upper right hand corner is him in the pilot house... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div align="left">i'm still working on the scanning for my series on Knight Inlet and my parents homestead... today i was busy... we had a family dinner and turkey was the star.... and in my waste not want not mode i canned 13 pints of turkey broth... i especially like the fact that it's about as pure as you can get for broth... no salt, no chemicals.. just straight broth... and it didn't cost me an arm and a leg...</div><div align="left">daughter gave me several packages of peat pellets and the little greenhouse boxes they come with...greenhouse here i come... woohoo.... </div><div align="left">yesterday a friend and i went to Nanaimo's Seedy Sunday... i bought some seeds and ooh'd and ahhh'd over pots of plants and specialty seeds... and came home with 2 blocks of mushrooms... Tree Oyster Mushroom and Shiitake... i've never grown mushrooms before... should be interesting and i hope that i don't kill them... we shall see....... going to the event was good, i feel a sudden surge of plant frenzy coming on... only cure is a good length of time in the greenhouse or soon in the garden.... they are saying more snow tomorrow... sighhhhhh</div><div align="left"><br />
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the exact year of this photo i'm not sure of, but would have been in the late 1900 or early 1920's... <br />
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the following picture is dated 1920 and includes King George VI who was in a play on 'a' ship (since i don't know if he was on the Barham or not... my father loved to show this photo to anyone that was willing to look at his photo album...<br />
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after he and his brother got out of the military, in the middle 1920's Grandma Hacket and her children immigrated to Canada, to the west coast where they went into the wilderness of Knight Inlet and decided to live...<br />
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my father got a boat and went fishing to make a living.. and thats where he met my mother...<br />
she was a young girl who was working in a fish camp where he came to sell his fish....i'm not sure how the story goes but they got married in her home town of Courtenay and moved upcoast to settle.......<br />
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more to follow..... (hope i'm not boring you)Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-83180710212325107412011-03-02T09:57:00.000-08:002011-03-02T09:57:43.691-08:00Life on the Water....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">was a very different life to most people but to those that chose that path, it was a very 'free' existence... my parents always claimed it was better to work 18 hours for yourself than 8 hours for someone else.. and yes 18 hour days were often.... the hard work was endless... logging and trapping in winter, fishing in summer....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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the long poles they are using for manipulation of the logs is called the 'pike pole' ... note the laundry and of course the woman is wearing a dress, apron and heels.... (this is why i know for SURE that is not my mother, she was well known for wearing pants and comfortable shoes)... <br />
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i still find it amazing how the houses were built... not so much the skills but everything was done by hand, most likely the trees to make the boards were chopped down by my father, towed to the local sawmill and then either loaded up on the boat or perhaps a small barge to tow the materials back to the place where the house was built... i'm not sure of the process, it was before my time....<br />
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</div>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-45447974064968631272011-02-28T12:16:00.000-08:002011-03-02T07:07:21.612-08:00Remembering the past......once there was a little girl who lived in the wilderness.... (seriously folks) and had a stellar few years as a free spirit.... so long ago.. i would think about 1955 or so... the wilderness was <a href="http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/oceans/BCinlets/knight-eng.htm">Knight Inlet on the British Columbia</a> coast ... my parents were homesteaders of the coastal variety.... we lived in Sargent Pass and live in a float house which was attached to the shore with boom logs..... our water supply was a creek behind the house.... our heat was our cookstove and in the shed was a generator which ran an hour a day.....our house was tiny, consisting of kitchen/living room, small bathroom, one bedroom and my 'bedroom' which was the pantry/closet.....i have fond memories of using a blanket, which was held up by the canned goods, to cover my bed, and myself 'reading' books.... or just pretending with my teddy and 'nelly' the elephant.....i was either the nurse or the teacher... and of course teddy and nelly were either patients or students... my outdoor playmates were usually my stuffed animals or Squeaky the cat or sometimes the boys that lived further down the Pass....<br />
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to be continued......Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-28147679001413250052011-02-26T11:39:00.000-08:002011-02-26T11:39:42.562-08:00Bags and Brussel Sprouts.......unlikely combination right? well i finished another grocery bag and yesterday was 'out and about', going to our semi-local farmer's market... well not exactly since a goodly portion of their produce is brought in from california, mexico and other points far south... i took my beautiful bag with me and filled it up.. i'm happy, they hold a lot of groceries and look pretty, had no distress with the weight of the produce... all good i'd say...<br />
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as for the brussel sprouts i've found a very very good reason to grow more and protect them better from the deer.... at $8.13 a kilogram i'll not be buying many more from the produce section of anywhere..... the brussel sprouts do very well overwintering here and in the spring the stalks produce lovely tasty new spring greens and if you haven't eaten all of the sprouts you also have those ... not bad i'd say... and did i buy some? Yes.... sigh.. why? you might ask ...because turkey just is NOT the same without brussel sprouts and cranberry sauce... we are going to have a family dinner next weekend and the turkey has been in daughter's freezer.. time to cook it up and make a batch of turkey broth with the carcass...i've now used up all my canned turkey broth and am needing more... <br />
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this winter i truly fell off the veggie wagon and have been eating a fair bit of meat/poultry and fish... not sure why, but i figure if i'm craving it i most likely missing something in my diet... i'm gradually cutting back more and more on the meat department and trying to get back on the veggie/beans/rice wagon... wish me luck!!<br />
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since gas went up another 10 cents a litre... $1.23 a litre ..... i shall be home much more..so a sewing i shall go.. until i can 'sow' in the garden!!! <br />
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my poor little peas.... huddled in my raised bed, tucked under the reemay and 4 inches of snow.... my greenhouse seedlings tucked in their stryofoam boxes with heat pads underneath and triple layers of reemay on them.... brrrr .... i guess we'll see how my plant early experiment goes, since this is an unusually chilly/snowy arctic blast, and those poor little seedlings thought it was spring too.... <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">i 'liked' a Facebook page<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Take-Back-Urban-Home-steadings/167527713295518"> Take back Urban Home-steading(s) </a> due to the kerfuffle over the trademark issue and the site has taken off... within a week over 5000 people have 'liked' and i'm really impressed with the activity it's generated... some of the folks who's blogs i read such as <a href="http://www.thecrunchychicken.com/">Deanna Duke's Crunchy Chicken</a> have been commenting and contributing and it really is fun to share ideas with everyone.. i believe that a goodly majority of us farmers/gardeners/earth folk are generally solitary but not adverse to 'visiting' and what a great way, coffee, puter at your fingertips and ideas flowing ... last night the 5000th 'like' arrived and April the owner of Take back Urban Home-steading posted Rachel's blog <a href="http://turtleseatlettuce.blogspot.com/">Turtles Eat Lettuce</a> .. congrats on being punted out into the limelight ....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">another blog that i've followed for awhile now is <a href="http://mobugs.blogspot.com/">Mobugs</a> ... i really LOVE her site since i'm a bugaholic... but this week she made a post on a Crawdad (Crayfish for us Canadians) that she found attempting to walk on ice... <a href="http://mobugs.blogspot.com/2011/02/ice-skating-crawdad.html">its a heart warming story</a> and if you have children or grandchildren i recommend having a look at it, the pics are awesome and the story will make you feel warm and fuzzy (well it did me) ... the <a href="http://mobugs.blogspot.com/2011/02/crawdad-communication.html">posting</a> after this one is a semi follow-up... </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">i've noticed that i have a few new 'followers'... thanks for reading and i hope not to disappoint you... cheers.. am off to sew..... laters.... </div>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-69067876368697865822011-02-22T13:52:00.000-08:002011-02-22T13:52:34.940-08:00The word is.....my washing machine works great!!! Daughter phoned me this morning and let me know that she'd done a load of laundry .... unfortunately her washing machine is broken so i loaned her my 'new to me' one.... she was delighted to use it... one small problem tho... it leaks... but we think it probably won't take much to fix that issue... YAY...... <br />
for those of you that posted yesterday regarding Urban Homesteading etc., great posts, i've not read all of them (there were a ton) but have enjoyed reading what i have.... <br />
the <a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/riding-fences-urban-homestead-trademark-complaints">Electronic Frontier Foundation </a>has sent a letter to the Dervaes, on behalf of the several targets of their takedown requests... the letter is great to read and hopefully will make a difference... we shall see won't we!<br />
another issue i have is with Facebook .... as much as i love the connection it has given me, i find their 'holier than thou' attitude more than distressing...not just because the Dervaes were able to shut down several group pages but also their actions regarding shutting down breastfeeding and art sites which they deem 'obscene.... here is a<a href="http://www.tera.ca/photos16.html"> link</a> to the pictures.. if you don't mind looking at mommies feeding their babies, have a boo.. or perhaps that should be 'have a boob'... and if you object.. just don't look!! now back to facebook.. grumble grumble... one of the owners of a site that was shut down due to the Dervaes objections is unable to find anywhere to send them a letter..... soooooo she wrote a great one and is sharing it with others in the hopes it will be addressed... here is the facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ecopalooza-Green-Events-Network/150882124940464#!/notes/take-back-urban-home-steadings/hello-facebook-is-anybody-out-there/168808916500731?notif_t=like">link</a>, ..... enough grumbling for one day.. don't want to overload my brain and blow a gasket or anything ...<br />
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a cold snap is on it's way... complete with cold bitter winds and possibly snow.... in all reality snow first then winds would be better, sometimes snow is a good thing helping to insulate some of the more tender plants... <br />
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so back to the 'why' i'm blogging again on the same issue as yesterday... it's to show some solidarity with other Urban Homesteaders (minus the trademark) who have been practicing their own brand of Urban Homesteading (minus the trademark), not just the past 2 years, but for years... today (monday) is what i'm going to call an<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><em>international day</em></span></span></strong><em> of </em><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184707531568502&index=1#!/event.php?eid=184707531568502"><em>Urban Homesteaders Day of Action</em></a> , the trademark that is in question affects not just Americans.. it affects all of us... i'm still at a loss as to 'why' it was accepted.. was someone sleeping at the switch?? something 'stinks' and it's not my sweet smelling pile of horse manure, lying rotting and waiting to be spread on my Urban Homestead (minus the trademark) garden.... ahhh feels good to be a rebel..... <br />
i'm looking forward to reading a number of blogs tomorrow... <a href="http://www.thecrunchychicken.com/">Deanna Duke over at The Crunchy Chicken</a> is requesting people to post their blog Urls if they are going to be rebels and join in on the Urban Homesteaders Day of Action... should be a fun read.... <br />
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in last blog i mentioned that i'd planted peas... tonight it's supposed to snow..... i'm hoping this is incorrect!!! but i've covered them with a reemay house (made of pvc pipe and reemay).... it's rather cute... reminds me of a covered wagon.. i'll have to get out and take a pic... the actual raised bed is a half life raft capsule that someone gave me last year... it worked very well last year when i planted it up with 3 different kinds of pole beans and 2 spagetti squash plants... this winter i dug in some veggie scraps and freshened it up with some new soil.....there were only a few holes in the bottom but when i dug around yesterday i found some worms... YAY ..... worms make me very happy ... (easily amused aren't i )<br />
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speaking of worms.. i've been following some worm gurus and am hoping to try out a bit of worm farming this year... right now it's too cold start them... so sometime later in the season... <br />
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anyone want to play with mr. sadsack Sampson? he was very sweet and sat there for quite sometime, watching me, waiting for me to open the door and come and play.... life of a farm dog is good ..... <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">and my deepest apologies ..... i've been away for so long... i'm not exactly sure where i've been... i did all the gardening things, canned and preserved things for winter.... and then the doldrums.... long doldrums... but not unhappy... just bleh... between driving grandkids back and forth to school and doing family things, and even a quilt i've been quite busy over the winter.... </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">you (if i have any followers left) might have wondered what happened to me, i received several notes from people wondering if i was okay, i replied and hopefully you got them... </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">you might wonder what woke me up...... facebook did.. royally... a mental stirring if you will... the issue of trademarks and a certain family that have created quite a stir....... i suppose i'm not suppose to mention the issue at hand without referring back to them.. but tough... since URBAN HOMESTEADING (minus the damn trademark) has been around for a very very long time... the issue that they 'invented' it.. is obsurd... my grandparents were 'urban homesteaders'... they lived in a small town and had a huge garden, chickens, fruit trees, berries and the like.. my aunt and uncle lived next door and had a huge garden, chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, sheep, goats AND 4 pigs.... all URBAN, all homesteaders... thats what people did to survive, have clothing often and other assorted things.. self sufficiency wasn't something that was hip/cool or anything else.. it just WAS..... as for today's world... the more URBAN HOMESTEADERS the merrier!!! we all need to be more self sufficient, to share and care and just be supportive of each other.... </div>i've 'liked' several 'organizations on Facebook because they all 'give a damn' about the issue... for myself, i worry about the precedent that it's setting... i could go on about it, but i suspect that most of you are more than aware of whats going on...<a href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2011/02/trademark_dervaes_urban_homesteading_fight_institute_of_urban_homesteading.php"> here's a link</a>.. many articles and blogs are out there with their opinions etc.... <br />
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ahhh i feel much better.... my rant for now is done... but definately not forgotten..<br />
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</div> YAYYYYYY spring is on the way........<br />
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see my new washing machine... i'm sooooo jazzed... been looking for a very long time!!! it's an 'apartment' sized one and will be perfect in the summer when my water is at a premium!!! it was a very worthwhile $75.00 and is in mint condition... <br />
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sooooo more buggy events... did i ever mention how much i love insects ;)<br />
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this wee jumping spider, species unknown, found lunch on the windowsill... i didn't have my camera handy on viewing the initial pounce but did get it out for the remainder of the 'event'... i must say i did feel badly for the fly... hard way to die... <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A9wsHbTfd6s/TIcmbrLHyJI/AAAAAAAABPQ/cJVzChtSKZo/s1600/DSC_0070.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A9wsHbTfd6s/TIcmbrLHyJI/AAAAAAAABPQ/cJVzChtSKZo/s640/DSC_0070.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">one has to admire the tenacity of the spider to hang on to his dinner...i removed spider and fly from windowsill to outdoors to take 'better' pics... moved them around several times (for better lighting) and not once did the spider let go... i guess lunch was tasty! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">outside in the garden i didn't have my camera but there was a difficult drama going on, a poor honey bee and one very determined red/black ant...in the hopes of saving the bee i had to detach the ant from the bee several times, mr/ms ant just came coming back for more.. finally with a dry stalk of grass and a good flick the ant went for a flight of his own.... as for the bee.... i put him/her in my garden in what i hoped was a safe spot... at least for a short while! </div>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-30211812540253374072010-08-09T10:15:00.000-07:002010-08-09T10:15:20.009-07:00Island hopping.....last week a couple of friends and i went island hopping... <a href="http://www.saltspringisland.org/">Salt Spring Island</a> to be exact! if you've never been and are on the west coast, it's a very 'cute' little island which is what i like to think of as 'artsy fartsy'... i've only been a few times but i think a fall visit will be required for photography... it was extremely hot, humid and smokey from the mainland's forest fires so my shots weren't very good and i didn't take very many... Salt Spring's micro climate is warmer than where i am so they get to have a bit longer seasons, not so cold and have great little farms which they are famous for their lamb...they are famous for the Salt Spring Island Coffee Company and most famous for some of their art and music inhabitants..<br />
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arriving at Vesuvius Bay...<br />
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was a nice afternoon spent snooping around.. next time i go, it will be me and the puppies and i'll be checking out many more places... hopefully passing on some pics your way!Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-87686682917848638232010-08-03T20:29:00.000-07:002010-08-03T20:29:17.335-07:00Dog days....of August.. yikes... already it's here... and what did i see this morning...... Geese flying in formation..... i'm assuming its a practice run but there is a definate pre-fall feel, the temperature has lowered, the humidity is up and the garden has that August frazzled look.... the beans are just starting, i've had a few cucumbers and a lot of tiny tomatoes... it seems that i neglected to plant any bigger tomatoes.. no sandwich size... must remember for next year.. (thats what my blog is good for!!) i suffer from a cronic case of CRAFT (Can't remember a flipping thing) disease... and no, nothing new either! anyways... next year i MUST plant at least 1 beefsteak type tomato.. i've even had the first start of my cute little Patty Pan Zucchini... i was beginning to wonder what was going on... flowers flowers and more flowers but nothing would set... i have what looks like crookneck squash and 2 spagetti squashs flowering and even some fruit... wish me luck!!! i've been doing some succession planting of salad greens, a couple of rows of peas and made a spot for my fall brassicas... <br />
my peppers are doing very well and i've had a few in salsa and added them to some dinner things and salads... <br />
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this past weekend was a bit of a road trip over to Port Renfrew, which is on the southern west side of Vancouver Island... was a gorgeous day so got a few pics... the bear was on the beach, and thankfully not too close as there have been some 'issues' with bears lately... perhaps they are fed up with us humans!<br />
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</tbody></table>Roasted Garlicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07556028794687730410noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250504639621853038.post-61563496120043359402010-07-20T10:27:00.000-07:002010-07-20T10:27:44.790-07:00Adoptive 'children'...even in the wild there are adoptions going on....i'm not sure whether the baby is a Brown Headed Cowbird ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbird">Molothrus ater</a>) or a Starling (<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/European_Starling/id">Sturnus vulgaris</a>) .... both are Brood Parasite birds.... a very interesting but world wide phenomenon, there are a few different species but in my world the Cowbird and Starling are the parasites... they will find a host 'nest' lay their egg or eggs and leave..... the unsuspecting parents will hatch and raise the baby as their own.. BUT in most cases the alien baby will 'dispose' of the other eggs or hatchlings and have the parents to themselves... there are some excellent sites if your interested in reading more about the parasitic birds... for a more detailed study on the parasitism of Starlings here is a great <a href="http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/16/3/507">site</a><br />
i've been trying to get a shot of the parent <a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-eyed_Junco/id">Junco</a> feeding the baby but as of yet, this is the best i've come up with... as for this 'family' there are no other babies, just this one, so am assuming the junco babies were destroyed either as eggs or as hatchlings.... 'ain't' life grand ....<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">this red cabbage is from last year... it came up so beautifully i decided to leave it.. it's not flowered yet, just keeps growing and growing... i keep thinking the leaves would be good for cabbage rolls but since it's from last year and doing so well, i just don't have the heart to pluck it's leaves..... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">this hoverfly was pollenating my parsley plant..i guess some people would call me 'odd' but i find wings fascinating.. how such a delicate appendage doesn't rip, tear or fall off is amazing... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A9wsHbTfd6s/TEXVHhKesTI/AAAAAAAABKY/YjRPa7SuzYk/s1600/DSC_0030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A9wsHbTfd6s/TEXVHhKesTI/AAAAAAAABKY/YjRPa7SuzYk/s640/DSC_0030.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">the Daddy Longlegs had it's one leg stretched out... thats some gams! i noted that something black was on it's back.. i'm not sure what it was, parasites perhaps? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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