Veggies 2 (and other Edibles!)

What month will you take your spring road trip to Maine? Is May too late?? I don't get back up here until May, but that sounds like a really fun adventure! Schickenlady - how far is Newport from Keene???? Yankee and Kassia - I'd love to go for some plugs if I'm here in time........I checked out that site and their things look great!

Hey, Victor, you typed your message while I was typing mine.....nice to have you back. Did you have a nice vacation?

Hi Louise - thank you for the welcome back! Yes, we had a good time (Lancaster & Hershey PA) but it was just so hot & humid. Hershey Park was packed. Thought Hershey might melt! Kids had fun though.

You'll never regret making fun memories for your kids! I've never been to Hershey, but I know a lot of people who like to take their kids! Good to be home, huh?!

Yes it is. It's always a great feeling when I get to the parkway that takes me home. Dorothy was right!

...and she had great taste in shoes and dogs too!

Yeah - but the friends she picked to hang out with needed an awful lot of work!

who is Dorothy????

that's right Victor I will add my review.... silly me...

I got my plugs by mail end of May so I don't think may is too late... it will be great... we should start a thread for roadtrips... or just a dmail group list for the people interested in adventures throughtout New England!!!!

Yeah, I like hanging out with those types too though. :)

A road trip thread is a great idea! Could it be a sticky?

I can ask Dave to make it a sticky!!!!

How about a GPS map that shows where all the NE members are in real-time??!! Don't laugh - Dave will probably be able to do it soon!

Kass - Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. Yes I like her friends too - especially the Scarecrow who's afraid of birds! I can use him to try to scare my deer. Maybe he'd get so petrified that the deer will fell sorry??

Great idea - the GPS map. Then I will know where that #*%$# Wallingford is at 1 am instead of waiting up for him!

No curfew??

oh!!!! ok.... for some reason I was thinking of the wiggles and dorothy the spoted dinossaur!!!!! the queen of the roses!!!!! yeah... I have a nephew named Victor and he still loves the wiggles....

yeah, technology is amazing... we should take a camcorder and record our adventures....

hey when are we doing our RU in the Fall???? I am going to San Francisco the week of Sep 17th... and I don't want to miss meeting you guys in CT!!!!! can we decide a date???

I am going to start a thread!!!! so we can choose a date!!!! ok????

Good idea on the road trip thread! I'm so excited that May won't be too late to go plugging!! I'd like to go!

Kassia - Victor was referring to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. :)

Yes Victor, Wallingford has a curfew. It is when I go in the house for the night. I put him on restriction for breaking curfew - then I realized - that I had turned into my own parents! (He came back at 1:30 am and I was waiting up for him.)

Hope you gave him a good lecture - including the 'right' cats to hang with.

Yeah right - like he would listen. I just gave him a big hug and went to bed. I was just happy he was back safe and sound. Of course I'm double careful about letting him out in the evening now. Believe it or not - he usually comes when I call him AND he knows that I have a "cookie wookie" in my hand. What I can't figure out is why both cats like my neighbor's yard better than mine. That is usually where I find them - just hanging out.

Yank..I know you have heard the say "the grass is always greener..." Wallingford knows too.

I am about to sit down to corn on the cob from my garden, BBQ pork chops and broccoliflower from garden also.
Yum....gotta go!

Celeste, can I come for dinner????

Not fair Celeste! Was it your own porky too??

No Victor...I can't do that. I grow to attached to my animals to eat them. We had a turkey as a pet once....well it wasn't suppose to be a pet! But anyways...DH tells DS to double up on the food in Sept. to fatten up the turkey for Thanksgiving. The first of Nov. comes and turkey is looking a little thin....lost weight not gained any. DH watches one morning as DS goes out to feed turkey and notices he's only giving him one scoop of food instead of 2-3. The darn thing would starting gobbling up a storm everyday when the bus dropped Josh off, we thought he just loved Josh. Come to find out he was hungry and knew who feed him!!
Turkey lived another year and pack of dogs riped his pen apart one night and killed him. I won't go into detail about the dogs...but they are no longer with us.
It must be genetics cause DS couldn't stand the thought of eating turkey any more than I could. So NO, we don't have farm animals here even though we have the room.

Ooh - didn't mean to trigger unpleasant memories.Sorry. I couldn't do it either. As much as I despise the deer now, I could not be the one to pull the trigger.

Same here I get attached to animals. Won't even eat wild meat. I had a white bunny as a pet when I was six. At Christmas Dinner my fathers said "You were bad for Christmas and Santa took your Bunny away". We had rabbit for Christamas Dinner - arghhhhhh

Oh - that's awful schick!

pirl writes, "I checked out the site, too, and found lots of Delphiniums I haven't yet tried. Thanks, Kassia."

That settles it. I'm going to Maine this May. If you, with all you grow, found stuff you want, I'll have to rent a flat-bed.

David - 18 wheeler is even better to make sure you get a good supply.

Hello again all. Still really busy for me and hard to get here.

Yankee, congrats on your figs! Seems forever since we crossed paths.

Victor, Welcome back and I hope the vacation was great.

oh!!!! see the roadtrip will happen!!!! we even have a flat bed!!!!! really great!!!!

Ok Celeste, this was dinner today!

brown rice, chicken, my own grown Okra.....

yummy tomatoes....

and cukes!!!

oops... forgot the cukes!!!

Kassia...oh man, real meals. We single guys are condemned to one course meals. Here is mine tonight (truthfully, there were several courses but all involved these same ingredients):

lol!!!!! David, my mom cooks almost every day.... and she is a great cook.... my sister Karla bakes wonderful cakes... so after 20+ years I am eating like I used to.... healthy!!!!

I have not cooked in a long time... I think I forgot how!!!!

Looks good Kassia. You don't have to cook? Now im the envious one!!

Yummmm, you guys! I love the serving dishes as well!! Go, Big Papi!! And that blue plate is really pretty too!

David - That's the most artistic open-faced BT (where's the L?) I've ever seen. For a single guy, you do ok!!! :)

I just ate breakfast, but now I'm hungry for lunch after seeing your pics!

David - that flatbed idea sounds good for the roadtrip....Maybe we could all meet and ride together on the flatbed...sort of like a hayride with a Maine plugging destination......whatdya think?

Thanks Dave - had a good time. Wow, this is becoming the food thread! Luckily, most of the pics are of healthy foods. After all, we do grow them to eat them, don't we?