FlamingO what new things have you made
pattico_gw
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FlamingO in AR
7 years agoHi Patti, thanks for asking. Lately I've mostly been making quilts (background) but I did get a new pattern from Craftsy for this Honeycomb Basket. It was fun to make but took quite a bit of time. I'm not sure what I'll do with it, if I put things in the pockets, the cats look at it like a challenge and try to empty them. LOL
What are you making these days?
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Lemon Plum-What New To You Things Have You Tried Lately?
Comments (6)Patti, think of it this way....the dark green stems are left on to protect the tender part from damage and dessication. I've heard some TV cooks remark about freezing those stems for use when making stock. I've not done that but it sounds like a good idea. I save shrimp shells for stock! I love plums and always look forward to seeing them in the markets. I agree that this 'lemon plum ' is special. Plums don't have a very long shelf life, sadly, and bruise so easily. They shouldn't be picked when they are still little hard because they don't continue to get sweet once picked. They'll soften up but taste mealy and bland. They are picked much too early to withstand the rigours of the commercial market. I haven't gone exploring in the right grocery stores (lately) to find something new to me. I taught a college course one year about exotic, tropical, and world foods and for a fun assignnent challenged the class to find, research, and prepare for eating something that fullfilled the assignnent. It was a night class, so conducive to sharing a little meal. What fun! I had never tasted starfruit until that night....delicious. Students sleuthed out really neat grains, spices, fruits and vegetables. Luckily, our little city was multi-cultural....and larger cities very close by....See MoreWhat crazy things have appliance salesmen (or your KD) told you ?
Comments (53)How I remember the frustrations of my appliance research! My favourite was when I wanted to see a particular Electrolux fridge and freezer. I had seen Electrolux ICON appliances at a well-known Canadian retailerÂs flagship store in Toronto so I went there to see if they had the models I was interested in. Not finding them, I asked a salesman for help. Oh, he tells me, Electrolux doesnÂt make appliances. Odd, I say, since you have some Electrolux cooktops right over there. Oh no, he says, those are ICON. Yes, I say, Electrolux ICON Â it says so right on them. So he proceeds to scour his Electrolux materials for information about the fridge and freezer, with no success. Finally I tell him I will email him the model numbers and perhaps he can then give me his price. So I email him the model numbers for the units IÂm interested in and I send him the direct link to the fridge and freezer on the Electrolux website. And he sends me a reply email telling me that Electrolux doesnÂt make refrigerators or freezers!!...See MoreA heartfelt thanks to FlamingO
Comments (3)Oh, good, it got there in good shape? I'm glad you like it! I worried that I hadn't packaged it well enough, Erin. Bobbie loved everything to do with the sea, actually she loved everything, period, but most especially sea life. I knew you had a thing for dolphins, a tattoo, right? So I immediately thought of you, sweetie, when I looked at it recently. I have many, many reminders of Bobbie, in fact I'm wearing one of her nightshirts right now, it has a giant fish on it. She will always be special to me, I want so much to be more like she was. And be sure to use the scrubbies and dishclothes, I can always send you more when you need 'em! You are so very welcome, Erin. I treasure your friendship, too. And I'm still nibbling at my tomato jam you sent me! Thanks, Bump. You're a doll, too. And Liz, you're all very sweet....See More11/2/15: New things you learn & wonder about & what you hope for?
Comments (46)Thanks so much for the info on these amazing beneficial herbs Strawberry Hill, I will definitely plant all of them for my cat friends. I will cover the catnip with a small cage contraption so that they'll only be able to get to the new growth... :-) That is such great news - that after so much rain still no BS on your potted roses. We also had mega liters of constant rain for 2 days and I decided not to use the corn flour dusting, and there is not one BS leaf on any rose....just as you said, the soil is the key....I also gave the BS prone roses an extra teaspoon of Gypsum as you advised (along with the Potassium Sulfate) ...just before the rain started falling. I watered in in very quickly with alkaline tap water, the rain did the rest. I think that's another great idea - to keep feeding them Gypsum and Potassium Sulfate to keep them BS-free during winter - until our next spring. many thanks :-) I won't give any Nitrogen either, seeing that they stop blooming anyway during winter. Carol, maybe you can try wrapping just a tiny piece of any citrus fruit peel around the area where the aphids are worst? I did that over here and the aphids jumped of like flies... but the Hydrogen Peroxide sounds like a great treatment for the aphids plus it adds oxygen, I think that is the best solution, as advised by Strawberry Hill...I will also try that...I think clay can do with some oxygen.... thanks for liking the Nguni cows, yes they are so beautiful...and quite docile... we have another breed here called 'Afrikaner'-cattle...they are quite strong as well but not so docile...used in the beef industry. They are also much bigger than Nguni's. I hope you enjoy your snowy winter wonderlands, I hope you, Jim, and Strawberry Hill will post winter photo's. Today it is 96.8 F and a strong warm berg (mountain)- wind is blowing. really magical. I decided to look up the definition of a berg wind: Berg wind (from Afrikaans berg "mountain" + wind "wind", i.e. a mountain wind) is the South African name for a katabatic wind: a hot dry wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast. When the air that has been heated on the extensive central plateau flows down the escarpment to the coast it undergoes further warming by adiabatic processes. This accounts for the hot and dry properties of these off-shore winds, wherever they occur along South Africa's coastline.[1][2] Although berg winds are often called a Föhn winds, this is probably a misnomer, as Föhn winds are rain shadow winds that result from air moving over a mountain range, resulting in precipitation on the windward side. This releases latent heat into the atmosphere which is then warmed still further as the air descends on the leeward side (e.g., the Chinook or the original Föhn).[2][3] Berg winds do not originate in precipitation, but in the mostly dry, often arid central plateau of Southern Africa. On the other hand, katabatic winds are technically drainage winds, that carry high density, usually cold air from a high elevation down a slope under the force of gravity.[3] These are thus "fall winds", which occur most typically down the coastal ice slopes of Antarctica and Greenland. Berg winds blow off the African escarpment in response to large scale weather systems in the South Atlantic Ocean, the African interior, and the Southern Indian Ocean....See More
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7 years agoFlamey, that basket is amazing--I've never seen anything like it. I can't imagine constructing it. You and Wanda take my breath away with your quilt creations. Yes, please post more pictures--both of you!
Just last night I finished hooking this very small (6x6) piece for my 5-year-old grandson. He saw the much larger Chinese Water Dragon table mat I hooked for my granddaughter (who is 25) and an initial coaster I hooked for his dad, and requested that I hook something for him in his favorite colors ("red and indigo") and with a shark on it. This is the result. I was glad to find some wool in my stash that looked indigo-ish.
I still have to bind the edges, and then start on one for his brother--an orange octopus. Since the boys are 5 and 3, I expect these mats will suffer quite a bit of abuse. But even if the hooking doesn't survive at all, Grammy came through. :-)
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI LOVE that basket! It would be the perfect holder for all of my different colored yarn balls while I'm crocheting one of my afghans! My current project (it's for my boss)
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7 years agoJudy Good
7 years agoThat basket is very cool. It does look like quite a bit of work. I have been making Dutch costumes in preparation of our up coming Tulip Time Festival in May.
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