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Comments (13)When I lived in humid coastal TX zone 9 I frequently did light to medium pruning in the miserable end of summer. I cleaned out dead wood, lightly tipped teas & Chinas, added mulch & old manure on top & kept watered. Around Sept. I'd lightly feed. Sometimes I'd cut totally bare plants back a third. It seemed to work very well. I didn't prune every rose radically every year & I didn't prune plants under 3 years old more than the lightest tip pruning. But for that climate, major pruning at the end of summer seemed to work better than the traditional Valentine's day pruning of cutting all HTs back a third. By Feb 15 most all of the roses had fresh new growth & it seemed counterproductive to prune then. At the end of summer they seemed more dormant & in need of grooming, mulch & a light feed. I gave them a good dose of fertilizer Oct. 1 to take advantage of the best rose weather of the year that was typically mid Sept through late Dec....See MoreFixed Female Cat Urinating on the Bed
Comments (6)Could it be possible that she has a bladder infection? When my tortie was younger, any change regarding the litter box was a problem- it took us a while to figure this out because she's so social that we didn't realize that she also has a lot of anxiety too. On a couple occasions, changes near the litter box sent her into inappropriate urinating and bladder infections. She would avoid box and then end up with a bit of an infection. One time, DH leaned a small wooden shelf against the wall near the litter box- that alone was enough to make her avoid it and end up with an infection- which she then showed us by peeing on laundry directly in front of us. If you don't think she has an infection, then I would do what lzrddr suggested and see if other boxes placed in other locations solve the problem. If she keeps doing it, I'd have the vet check her just to be certain. Sorry to hear about your new down comforter too, and the rest of your bed clothes. How frustrating that must be for you. Hope you get your cat back to herself soon....See Moreneed help with British terms
Comments (61)Vee, until I went to live in England, I had never heard of, much less eaten, most of the fish you listed, with the exception of cod. Iowa is about as far from any sea as one could get in North America, so when Iowans had fresh fish when I was a kid it was freshwater kinds caught in local lakes and rivers. Otherwise, we had to depend on either canned fish/seafood or frozen kinds, such as cod. My Norwegian great-grandmother carried on the tradition of preparing lutefisk from dried cod (or some other whitefish). It was soaked for days in several changes of water to remove the salt, and then soaked in a lye solution for a couple of days, and finally soaked again in water to remove the lye. Only then was it cooked, either steamed or fried. Most of her descendants were less enamored with lutefisk than she was (it stank to high heaven and had a gelatinous texture that most disliked). Still, we ate it, mostly not to hurt her feelings and secondly just to carry on the tradition. I've had lutefisk prepared by other cooks, including Norwegians on a seismic vessel in the Chukchi Sea, that tasted better than great-grandmother's, so perhaps she wasn't very good at making lutefisk, which is not surprising because she wasn't known for good cooking of any sort. Fridays were 'fish days' in our school cafeteria, too; I guess in respect of Catholic students. You will probably laugh at what we were served: frozen breaded fish sticks, served with ketchup or tartar sauce and, for some reason, macaroni and cheese; tuna-noodle casserole with crushed potato chips (crisps) as topping; tuna salad sandwiches or pimiento cheese as alternative for those who couldn't stomach the tuna; and 'fishburgers', breaded fillets on hamburger buns, dressed with lettuce, mayonnaise and sweet gherkin relish. Garrison Keillor in his Prairie Home Companion radio show poked fun at the ubiquity of tuna-noodle casserole in the American Midwest. A 'fish dinner' that my family particularly liked was our mother's fried salmon patties or croquettes, always served with 'English peas' and potato chunks creamed together in one of those white sauces you referred to. I recall mama's white roux being very tasty but I know what you mean about the insipid ones and all those overcooked vegetables (not mama's). Another thing about the canned salmon that mama used to make her patties: My brothers and I thought it was disgusting because it was canned with the skin and bones included. Mama had us pick out those things. One day my brother decided to taste a bone and talked me into trying one, too. From that day we were dedicated salmon pickers and bone eaters, because the canning process had rendered the bones soft enough to chew with a very pleasant crunchiness. I'm sure other people have known this for a long time, but it was a revelation to us. Since adulthood I have loved fish and seafood of all sorts....See MoreCXLV111 Just You Wait And See
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