General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...part 5 :-D, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Here I am for another cup of tea AND some of Jo's cobbler, oh yummy yummy! Julie, the BBQ with potatoes and cole slaw sounds good, maybe I will bring home something from the store today that needs the BBQ treatment. The guys used up most of the leftovers over the weekend while I was gone, so now I have to start cooking again.

No lambs yet, but I will be helping give the ewes a pre lambing trim, bellies and hineys, it helps us see what is happening when they start lambing, helps the lambs find the lunchbox easier, and is much cleaner. The whole sheep shearing comes later in late spring. Right now it is snowing so they'll need those coats for a while. The first lambs are due March 1 but we'll start watching them about 5 days before that.

I had an interesting salad lunch while I was at the convention. They called it an orchard salad, and it had shredded lettuce, feta cheese, apples, nuts, bacon bits and maybe a couple other things I don't remember (visiting at the time!) and had a mild dressing that might have been yogurt. I should try to make that while it is still more or less fresh in my mind.

If you would like to contact my friend about dahlias go to the member page on DG, find Lenjo, and send her an email. Right now these are still in the ground but it has been a mild winter so they are ok. She has an acre or so with a row about every 4 feet, lots of different types and lots of color and size variety. This spring they plan to plow under whatever is left, yep, that is sad. Below is a pricture I took a couple of years ago in the fall when they were past their prime but still very impressive!

Last year I had a lot of aphids in my gh and used some of the sticky traps. You could easily make your own with yellow paper, double faced tape and some wire with a twist at the top to hold it up off the ground. The bugs stuck to the double faced tape that was holding the bubble insulation, we didn't use enough of it and the weight of the insulation pulled away from it leaving the tape on the gh wall to get covered with bugs. So many things are learned by accident if we just take time to look. Bugs are attracted to yellow they say, but then they put amber light shades on yard lights because they don't attract so many bugs. Something wrong with this picture but I haven't figured out what.

Thanks for the goodies, see you later.