Has anyone else's love affair with Le Creuset waned?
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Comments (101)Morning all, Well my computer is finally fixed! Woohoo! Doug is a genius. I had some type of nasty virus/malware/spyware/Trojan.. something that completely gummed up the works. I couldnt keep a browser window open for longer than a minute and they it would randomly close, couldnt open aol and in general, nothing on line was working. Anyway, Doug spend the better part of 24 hours or so eliminating the damned things. They seemed to propagate themselves because hed get rid of one thing and then another two would show up. What a pain in the neck. I have no idea how I picked anything up because I almost never download anything off the internet and only when Ive checked out the source. Anyhow, it appears that my computer is fixed and thats a wonderful thing. The gardens are really going into their late summer foliage die off which makes me a bit crazy. I cant keep up with it. I just love daylilies but I wish they didnt look so bedraggled this time of the year. LOL I also had some powdery mildew explode on the lilac, heliopsis and a couple dahlias practically overnight. Id run out of my Garden Safe fungicide so Ive got to get to the store today and get something to treat this or its going to get really out of control. Oh dear V. I just hate those hornworms! They are so huge theyre nasty and give me the willies. I hope your peppers will be OK. I had a similar but different evidence of pests in the house yesterday. I had some sawdust appear under the light fixture over the kitchen sink. I didnt think much of it but wiped it down. When it showed up again I knew there was something chewing behind there. Well, midway though the day I walked through the kitchen and had a little mouse run over my toes. Euuuuuwwwww!!!!! It ran like h e l down the cellar stairs then hid behind the bookcase at the foot of the stairs. I told Doug about the situation and he ran outside and got the cat. I said to him, it doesnt work that way, you dont just put the cat in the house and hell find and get the mouse. Well, Mr. Rahjii, made a liar out of me. Within ten minutes he started sniffing at the base of the bookcase (I thought the mouse would have been long gone) so I moved it out and the cat pounced and ran up the stairs with a mouse in its mouth. He seriously caught that rodent in less than a second after I moved the bookcase. Incredible! Well, he proceeded to bring the mouse into the dining room and drop it to play with it there and it immediately ran under the sofa. Doug moved the sofa and Rahjii caught it again, brought it into the middle of the room and dropped it again. We finally caught the thing in a colander relocated it to the great outdoors. What a drama. Kathy, your daylilies are nestled comfortably in my holding bed here and theyd even put out some lovely new roots into that newspaper youd packed them in. They are amazing plants. ~~ Love those agaves! ~~ Ill have to grab some photos of my brugs for you. They are finally starting to bloom and it looks like they will be smothered with flowers in a couple days. Mary, how lovely to hear from you. It sounds like you had a terrific visit with Fuquan. Thats just marvelous. It seems that your summer vacation was just a whirlwind of activities. How are the gardens doing? Cindy, so sorry for the continued heat and drought you are dealing with. I use oscillating sprinklers here too. Ive used soaker hoses in the past but they dont uniformly wet down the borders and then I have to hand water the dry spaces and other problems. Then Ive dealt with the clogging problems too so I just do overhead watering. Its a lot more even and if done in the early morning or evening there isnt so much of an evaporation problem. ~~ Thanks much, so happy you liked the pictures. Martie, great score on that Bonfire. Ive got three of them and I read on the begonia forum that they overwinter well! How cool is that? ~~ Marvelous that youve got buds on your camellia. Bug, it sounds and looks like you had a terrific vacation. That wedding looks like it was fun and interesting. Brenda, you are absolutely a scream! I love it that you went out and bought a television with DVD player. So glad your Princess Weekend was a great time. Woody that photograph with the Disco Belle hibiscus with the Bacopa is lovely! It makes a beautiful combination. Michelle, I agree with you 100% about the joy the gardens bring. I love it that I go to a different place in my mind when gardening. ~~ Thanks so much, so happy you liked the photos. Yes, that is a four year old Sunray fuchsia in that photo. Its an extraordinary specimen and I just love it. Eden, lovely news for your family! OKie dokie, Ive got to get my day started. Have a good one everybody! Deanne...See MoreSlightly OT but Still Cooking Related-Favorite Le Creuset color?
Comments (41)I see you picked the Dijon - good choice! I had not seen it before and think its beautiful. (I did not like the Citron) Just for comments - l I think Cobalt blue is a classic sort of kitchen accessory color because over the years country kitchens, white cabs etc. come back into style and blue looks really wonderful with that. Also "yellow" sunny walls are popular in kitchens and blue looks good with that. I have the Flame and occasionally think I'd like to switch, but then change my mind. Its classic in its own right as one of the original colors of a pretty old name in French cookware - now too trendy for being copied by Rachael Ray, Mario Batali etc. but I like the sense of tradition it gives me and I believe orange is supposed to induce hunger? (not that I need any more of that:)...See MoreLe creuset and Chantal confusion
Comments (11)I bought all my le creuset at a non-chain kitchen specialty store that was offering them at 50% off on some items and 75% off on a few others. It was a discontinued color and they were getting them off their shelves. I was in the right place at the right time and got just about every size, shape, and quart size and only paid about $1200 for over 15 separate items to add to my other pieces at home. The only one that I am not fond of is a 12 quart big oval baker/roaster. It is so heavy by itself, that when food is in it, I have to rig a cherry picker in the kitchen to get it in and out of the oven. They are all made in France. Nothing else or anywhere else. However, I did hear a rumor that some china and cookware companies were experimenting with other countries manufacturing their items. British china companies were being sent to somewhere in South America, and I bet it was maybe lecreuset and chantal that went pacific rim?? And, knock-offs are common, so that might be the case of a good price at a discount department store. Did you know that if you have auction houses in your area, you can sometimes let them know you are interested in these items and ask to be contacted when they come up. I did that a few years ago to collect some Fostoria Crystal. It isn't all that great, but I wanted some from the 50's that reminded me of my grandmother's holiday table. I was able to get service for 20 of all the pieces I wanted in the pattern I wanted. It took me a little over two years at auctions and eBay....See MoreIdyll 279-The Waning Days of Summer
Comments (100)Good evening all, What an absolutely, over the top, fantastic day I had!!!!! (See Eileen, I can use exclamation points too!!!! BTW I miss you.) Anyway, the day was perfect. North Hill is an amazing garden with an unbelievable collection of trees and shrubs. We all want to go back in June and see the stream bed filled with primula. It is supposed to be wonderful. So many beautiful vistas. Sue and Monique can give you a better description of all the plants as they are more knowledgeable than I am with plant IDs. Then we had a lovely lunch in the picturesque town of Wilmington VT, went back to Burlington and stopped at this amazing deli/bakery where we indulged in decadent desserts and bought selections to take home for our dinners. (Like we needed dinner after the lunch and the dessert.) They had dinner plate sized cookies, and this chocolate mousse cake that had a lovely hint of orange in the mousse. We also sampled their carrot cake and this wonderful custard/almond concoction that was out of this world and into the next. We bought these four different desserts, found a picnic table next to a covered bridge and split them four ways so we all got to sample a bit of the different desserts. Oh yes they also offered Starbucks coffee so I had a lovely coffee to wash the decadent desserts down with so life just doesnt get better. Michelle, I just love the frog picture! I had to look at the photo a few times before I saw him in the pic. Talk about cryptic coloration! Very neat! ~~ Have you heard any results from Ricks sleep testing yet? HI Saucy, yes indeed Martie is coming to visit tomorrow. I just got off the phone with her and I can hardly to finally meet her in person. How cool is this forum where Ive met so many terrific people who also happen to be gardeners. ~~ Good for you with doing your walk today. An hour is a great workout. Eden, so sorry you had rain for your garden tour but Im not surprised that the rain didnt bother them at all and they brought umbrellas and did the tour anyway. I know they had a great time. I wish Id been there. Id love to see your gardens again. ~~ Glad to hear your Mom is doing well. ~~ I was thinking of you today when I was looking at my enormous Rex begonia and trying to figure out where to put it over the winter. What do you do with yours? Do you keep them under lights? ~~ I wish youd been with us today. We had a great day. ~~ Too funny that you ordered little honeys and didnt remember youd done that. We were talking about that plant today. Marian, I hope Nolon had a great birthday. Wish him a happy birthday for me. Did he have his birthday burger??? Norma, thanks for the ID on the buddleia. I really like that plant. ~~ BTW, you really do need to get yourself up and running so to speak so you can get back to your walking. If I dont get my exercise on a regular basis I start feeling pretty lousy. OK Ive got to get ready for bed so I can get to the gym early and get ready for my visit from Martie! Cant wait until tomorrow. Nitey nite everyone, Deanne...See Moremxk3 z5b_MI
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