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Help I can't get rid of my lambs ear and I really don't like it.
Comments (18)I figure I could add something years later since other people added comments a year later. I moved into a rental house in Boulder, CO that had very well done perennial beds around the time this original post was written. It's been neglected for 7 or 8 years or so, especially the last 3 years. I can tell from Google maps the last year the lambs really took out for the rest of the beds and even the yard. I've been digging, pulling and now have covered an entire bed with clear plastic to kill the seeds before I'll consider planting there. The roots have formed an impenetrable mass and are sometimes thicker than my thumb. They have smaller roots finding them all together. I think if I were building a prairie Sod house I would be thrilled to find these. I'm constantly facing masses of sprouts and churning them over with hopes of killing most of them. We live in a Bee Safe neighborhood, and I don't think Round Up would have helped much anyway. I put an ad on craigslist and I've had many people haul garbage bags of plants away but eventually I got tired of answering the text-I think I had probably 50 people take A wavering amounts of these plants. I've never had them spread before but I stay on top of them, possibly since I use them in flower arrangements or pull them out as soon as they stray out of their designated area. I've discovered I now despise them and I don't think I'll ever let them grow again. I see them downwind from our yard and I'm tempted to go pull them now to spare them future agony- especially since it's likely the seeds came from here in the first place....See MoreHelp! I don't like the grout :-(
Comments (3)We haven't even used our new bathroom yet and already I'm having second, third and fourth thoughts about the grout. I can see it'll get dirty very quickly. Before I clean it thoroughly (what do you use to clean grout well? Bleach?) and then seal it I'm wondering if I should color it - if there is even a color that will work with the tiles. The current grout is a sort of not quite silver - what it is really is whitish with grayish flecks I guess you could say. It mimics the variation in the white tiles. I checked out the Aquamix color chart online and the cadet blue looks like it MAY work -but I'm not sure it will because of the variation in the tiles. Are these colorants flat? Or do they have some kind of variation in them? I like the way the color I have now makes the grout disappear but I don't think I'm going to like it when it gets dirty! any suggestions? :)...See More*blush* help I don't like it...
Comments (14)Terri, We are not wine drinkers either nor are my other family members. I had a birthday party a couple weeks ago & served this Cioppino. I sent DH to the store for a bottle of "decent" wine for the recipe. He returned with Cabernet Sauvignon. Everybody raved about the flavor & aroma plus there was none left so it must have been good. I doubled the recipe & used the entire bottle of wine knowing nobody around here would drink the small bit leftover. I don't know where I got the recipe...it may be from somebody here??? Anyway, if you want to prepare a 'feast'...this stuff is great! CIOPPINO ¼ Cup Olive Oil 2 Onions, Chopped Small 4 Cloves Garlic, Minced 2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste 1 Teaspoon Oregano 1-1/2 Teaspoons Salt 1 Teaspoon Black Pepper 1 Teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes 1-1/2 Cups Good Quality Red Wine (Trinchero Family Cabernet Sauvignon) 1 Cup Chicken Broth 1 Cup Fish Stock 1 28 Ounce Can of Whole Plum Tomatoes, juice reserved 12 Clams (Quahogs) ¾ Pound Shrimp, Peeled, De-veined but with the tail left on 1 Pound Sea Scallops 1-1/2 Pounds Alaskan King Crab, in shell & Cut into 2"-3" Pieces 1 Pound Snapper, Cut Into 2" Pieces Basil, One Good-Sized Bunch, cut into a Chiffinade Lemon Slices, Garnish In the olive oil, sauté the onions with the oregano, salt, pepper, & red pepper flakes for about 5 minutes or until onions are nicely wilted. Add garlic & sauté another minute. Then, stir in the tomato paste. Add the red wine & simmer until reduced by about half (about 5-7 minutes over medium heat). Add the chicken broth, fish stock, & tomatoes plus the reserved juices. Crush the tomatoes with a wooden spoon. Simmer for 30 minutes. After simmering, the broth may be refrigerated & reheated to continue finishing the dish & cooking the seafood. Bring the broth to a strong simmer & add the crab and clams. Cover & cook for 5-10 minutes. After 5 minutes start checking to see if the clams have opened. Discard any clams that haven't opened after 10 minutes. After 10 minutes of simmering, remove the clams & crab with a slotted spoon to a bowl. Put the shrimp, scallops, & snapper into the broth, cover & simmer for about 5 minutes. Return crab & clams to the stock pot, stir & simmer for another 2 minutes. Pour into large serving bowl & top with the basil chiffinade. Garnish with the lemon slices. Serve with warm sourdough bread & a salad. I used Ina's Green Goddess Dressing on the salad garnished with roasted halved Plum Tomatoes that I'd sprinkled with olive oil & S/P. /tricia...See MoreI don't get it...colors I don't like
Comments (6)It reminded me of Jonathan Adler..a very colorful guy in all senses..rather, him saying in one of his books he doesn't like neutrals-unless they're from nature, like clay, or yarn, or stone, or wood, or.. When in nature-whatever it might be-we're deeply touched by very different settings ..I don't know why but let's pretend that's because there's invisible hand of the Master that put it all together, and we don't know another worlds, not yet, so we are touched by ours. When in home-if one can get one seventieth of that Master's touch..it changes our general connotations. Because there's texture, variation, light, all this, yes-plus something made by hand, taking this natural things, clay and wood, etc, and working on them, and loving them while working. Simple things-yet they all get to sing. I know this because for example I also have variated terracotta tile in the bath-and it's less variated, just three colors..and it's textured custom too..and we were there when the guys from the shop were working on color and texture , working on samples, showing them to us..we waited with them, we were witnesses to that process, and you see the real excitement and passion that goes into creating and playing with things like that. (they liked the pallette themselves and made a sample of it for the store, and called it "April's". lol) And this excitement, passion and patience is what probably makes what was clay and wood shine under that light. It brings together what they are-natural materials-and what people with passion and patience wished them to be, and got them to be. So. That's why I love my grays and my browns.. Even though my house is pretty colorful-no one will call it neutral It's true, they remind me some scenes from my childhood which I percieve as happy. And all sorts of things. The juxtaposition. Of course I prefer certain grays and certain browns, that's normal. For example I love mostly very warm grays. And (surprize) mostly warm browns)) But also because some of them, I witnessed to be made, I knew them to be painstaikingly made, or I knew nobody made it, it was created like that- and I was just lucky to spot it, like a piece of gray marble with golden rusty streaks..and it makes it a bit more magical. Sense of discovery can come in many shapes. It can be quiet and subdued. And nothing we generaly like even maybe. Yet it still will be a sense of discovery. I would love to do truly neutral room one day, just like a challenge even. yet I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to pull it off.....See Morewhaas_5a
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