I decided to do some tinkering last night as I wanted a fudge pie, but really, I don't like pie crust (unless it is the cream cheese, butter conconction I make) and I knew "crustless" pies existed. So I made the filling just like always, except I added an egg because I thought it might need more body. Failure. It was too cakey. Next time, I'm not going to add an egg. My favorite mashed potato tinkering, found recently? Really, I am a purist when it comes to potatoes. Guess it must be my Irish blood, I want it to taste like just a potato. But we've had dried garlic in the pantry forever. I tried addig it to the water when the potatoes are boiling. It's really good for a change. And it's using something rather than throwing it away, my favorite. It's time to make a cake and it could be the vehicle for that frosting! Oh my gosh. Awesome. Meldy, I get the cleaning/nesting bug when I get stir crazy too. I think I want it to be a better place since I am stuck in it. :) Right now I am frothing at the mouth since I put seeds out, it's raining, and the temperatures are about to start their steady climb here. I keep my nose pressed to the glass and dream of the days when I can go dig in the dirt without freezing my hands. It's close.

That's my problem as well. I also do a lot of vegetables, and we finally decided to eat healthy (we'll see how long it's going to last, hope untill the harvest), so I have order yet again tons of different greens. No trip to any story that carries seeds is without some purchase. But I'm seriously "gardening" right now in my zone 5b (Chicago subs). I have some greens and lettuce going in my kitchen window hopping to put them soon into a hoop house. Yet, my husband has to finish it. I planted peas outside (!!!) in a large container - now under the snow. Also, last week, I planted peas in containers that I keep in my screen porch. Yesterday, I sowed lettuce, radish and spinach in containers on the screen porch. My screen porch is becoming my green house. Of course, still ws'ing, almost 100 large, fat milk jags outside. I'm still new in this, I'm in my third year, but my beds are already full. Time to make some more....

I am thinking spring and crocus opened the other day, right on schedule. So I am hopeful. Maybe those pesky packages will stop arriving at my door. LOL. Jan, The solar lights are from QVC. ( I was super, super bored that day, as I never watch that channel!!) So glad I did. It was funny, because a coworker announced to me that she ordered the daylilies from QVC, cause she remembered me always talking about my daylilies!!! I didn't have the heart to tell her the ones they were selling were overpriced, and don't rebloom as they were claiming. When I told her I had ordered the solar lights, she told me she has the exact same ones, and that they are really nice, very bright, and she has had them out all year, even in the snow. HEY, here is something to pass along, when the lights arrived, they had included a schedule, and on Thursday, March 10th, it will be all day garden day on QVC. A few of the 'shows' are also airing from the Philadelphia Flower Show, so I may just have to watch again.!! NancyVB, The windmill mole chaser is from Gardener's Supply Co. They had sent me a survey and then gave me an offer of free shipping, what was I to do?? I saw the same product on Amazon at a lower price, but it was not offered by Amazon, and there was a shipping charge, so it kinda balanced out. Boy Judy, sounds like you have some great garden goodies too. Here is my crocus, the sun wasn't out, so they didn't open yet, but it is so nice to see the color.

No, that's what I mean. Wind shouldn't go through good clothing. You really need to be getting into the modern man-made fibers. It's still fairly expensive, but Gore-Tex isn't kidding. Athletic wear designed to stop wind works. Then the down and the wool layers go underneath, with a base layer of polypropeline. All that is good to about zero, and massive overkill for working outside around 30. I've been out pruning on snowshoes. The nice thing about standing on all that snow is that it makes you taller, so you can reach higher things. There are things that are fixable, and things that aren't. Getting upset because you can't go outside because you don't know how to dress is fixable. Ever been to Olean? My family is from south of there.