Apropos of Nothing v.12

Yes, please on the coconut cake.

I want the recipe, I want the recipe!! :)

And if I can get my hands on some chestnuts, I'm going to try Laurie's recipe too... Don't they sell chestnuts in packages at Trader Joes?

Cornflour.... that is sooo much cuter and more accurate than our yankee corn "starch"... ;)

Kur - corn flour is different than corn starch! I have the recipe as a Word document so I will need your email address.

Julie, that is a worrisome racoon. They definitely do not generally fall out of trees.

Judi, now you know a new word! I think you have to have a pond with fish to know what a shubunkin is. I should have just said 'fancy goldfish', as this is pretty much what they are. In this photo, she was the one with long fins on the right. Red with white fins. Rest in peace, little sweetie. You made my pond more beautiful for a few years.

Except that Julie makes it sound as if there was a two-raccoon scuffle that caused the poor thing to fall out of the tree, and it was healthy enough to scuttle back out of her dogs' reach, dazed or not.

I didn't get that impression from Julie's post- I thought "ruckus" meant branches thrashing or something... when coons fight, it sounds like demons gone wild, the way they snarl and scream. Creeps me out every time I hear it. Ugh. Julie, was there a fight goin' on up there? That would explain it falling out of the tree, I s'pose.

Oh! Summer! Did your dahlias get to you okay?

Judi - Oh... :) I was under the impression that corn starch was also known as cornflour in Britain... maybe it's ambiguous...

email: kureleni@aol.com

Kur - I learned that the hard way! Also potato flour/potato starch - tapioca flour/tapioca starch.

I'll send the recipe-

Pony, yes! I have them in my hand right now because the sun is out & it's a day off for me. Trying to figure out how to showcase them best; they look AWESOME & very new to me. Do I have to worry, are they slug bait?

You definitely want to use slug bait (or coffee grounds, as we recently were informed) all around them- slugs *love* dahlias. They will most likely need stakes, as well.

Coffee grounds? I must have zoned out on that part of the discussion, but that's great, since I'm hauling home several pounds a day from my job.

Argh- I can't find where it was- but somebody said spreading coffee grounds on top of the soil around plants worked to repel slugs. I can't swear it works, 'cause I haven't tried it yet. I still have sluggo left, so I am finishing that up first.

Pix- I think I saw your shubunkin in the claws of what looked like a red tailed hawk the other morning..go figure???

Thanks Sofer for rescuing Pony on her birthday...What a guy!! Happy belated Pony

For anyone else who might run into a cash crunch, the Angel Fund IS there for us -- it has a "committee" and I got a DMail this morning -- they would have "1ponied up" except that Sofer beat them to the punch. It takes a village, in this economy, no doubt about it.

That's really cool. Thank you for making the effort on my behalf.

It was an article I posted. I saw it on Facebook. Organic Gardening, maybe?

For slug control article, scroll up to post 7759019:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7759019

Thank you! I knew I wasn't imagining things... LOL!

Aaaaand we've hit 300, so it's time for a new thread!

NEW THREAD! *dingdingding* NEW THREAD!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1096670/

:)

This message was edited May 12, 2010 6:47 PM