Let's talk about these new echinaceas
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Comments (8)I always put a tomato cage around my cone flowers - I have had them quite a while and the clumps are pretty large. I don't want to risk them falling over and they seem to like the help! (If they fall over they could hurt me!) The dopey deer like to knock them over as they sneak thru the yard - they are so clumsy! When we have the annual perennial swap in the park in Wayland (Sept 8th this year) someone always brings some echinacea along and they get snapped up quickly. I do have to watch for the gold finches and chickadees as they have a race with me to see who can grab the seeds first - I just scratch up the dirt around the clumps and shake the seeds there and the birds get what is left up on top! A friend just gave me three new varieties - one is yellow, one is peach and the third is deep pink. I hope they make it over the winter - they are so lovely! If they are half as nice as the white or purples I will love them! Here is a link that might be useful: pics of past swaps plant size and quality...See MoreLets talk about paste tomatoes
Comments (14)"PC, Zapotec Pleated is often hollow as grown by many and it wouldn't be on my list to use as a paste variety." Thanks for weighing in on that. It is actually the hollowness that is most interesting to me. I have this irrational thought that such hollowness in tomatoes might possibly result in very flavorful flesh ("meat"), which is why I would like to try it for dehydration, which is really what I'm after, which I would use not so much for snacking but more to create flavor stock for cooking, like with different hot peppers in dishes like a favorite of mine, Asado de Puerco, or like dehydrated shrimp in Siete Mares. I'm not quite sure if this would be considered a paste use or not to be honest, but it is what I have in mind. It is basically a rehydration of the desiccated flavor where they are used as a spice with a very heavy hand. About my comment on paste, sadly I don't have the luxury to prepare much paste ... Don't have tomatoes to spare in my limited growing space (and I am trying to go more vertical to change this but that it is a PITB in containers here). Your comment on not being a paste tomato is well taken for the traditional simmering to make Mama Leone's sort of delicious cuisine ;-) PC...See MoreLet's talk about Refrigerators and Bad Backs
Comments (18)I went to the LG site and it said that that model had been d/c'd! Oh, well. We are wondering the same things. I think the lower drawers would be heavy when full of food. Some are heavy even empty in the stores! I'm thinking of getting a side by side, where I could keep most of the stuff at the mid to upper shelves and put seldom needed things in the bottom. Tell me why side by sides are not liked. I have a freezer "up" now and it just seems "uncool" these days. Not literally of course. It works fine. We are building a home and want a new one. Any thoughts for those of us w/bad backs?...See MoreLet’s talk about funeral homes!
Comments (47)My mother had purchased her interment site decades ago - in her hometown, where she hadn't lived for the decades since. She had also picked out a dress to be buried in, and had shown it to me several times in the years before her final illness. She was in a nursing home in my town, 115 miles away, with hospice. The nursing home (or hospice, I don't recall which) arranged for her remains to be picked up by a local mortuary after death was declared. I arranged the funeral with the funeral home in her hometown, that had been used by my family many times. They arranged to have the body transported to them, handled all of the paperwork (including obtaining the death certificate from my county), and placed the obit that I wrote in the local paper. 3 of my 4 siblings, my aunt and her best friend, and 2 of 5 my nieces came to the small service that we had in a parlor of the funeral home. There was no one else who knew or were friends with her (and I had no friends that I had remained in contact with) left in town. My niece's husband (they lived locally) arranged for the chaplain from his work to give a little homily and lead prayer; I found a musician to play 3-4 of her favorite hymns on guitar. Then all we went to the interment at the cemetery. One of my SILs arranged with someone she knew to prepare and serve a casual lunch in a facility at the cemetery for us. BTW, that was the only family member who did anything - the others never even offered - to arrange or help pay for it all. Mom didn't have any insurance benefit or funds left to help pay. ETA: I did all this really out of respect for my elderly aunt - that it pleased my sister and 2 of her daughters was nice but really not a consideration. My brothers wouldn't have minded either way, but I was glad that the oldest drove up from Tennessee - I hadn't seen him in many years, and probably never will again - I was 7 when he left home at the age of 18 and we were never close as adults. At the time it was rather a stretch for my finances. So, I did negotiate with the funeral home about the charges; in fact, I declined their caskets and found a company that sold and delivered lovely caskets in Cincinnati at a much lower cost....See Morelkayetwvz5
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