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so Gloria, I can give you a good recipe for great black beans, if you want........Clemen

black beans. great. black beans are a basic at my place. I usually just pressure cook. Then make a burrito with salsa.

As I remember chiggers were mostly in the woods.

In the open field were sweat bees.

Good to hear there is a remedy now adays.

those chiggers would get in your socks at the top of your boots. And in other places where they had no business to be.

Clemen, I'm interested in the black bean recipe.

My iris and roses survived the storms.
My cats and I survived.
My pansies didn't.

Happy Derby Day, y'all.

sorry to hear about the pansies Sharran

I'd rather have you, Sharon, and your memories, than the pansies anyhow.

Now the storms are sweeping across Alabama. For the moment they have swept east of here.

Dogs wouldn't let me sleep in. Ugh!

Lots of rain for the Alabama peaches. I hope there wont be any excuses this year for not having a great crop.

And a couple of bushels for me to put up in the dehydrator.

Sharran, glad to hear most of your plants made it. Those must have been some storms to wipe out pansies. We started getting "weather" a few hours ago. Looks like a day in the garden is a bust.

Laurel

Then just enjoy your juleps, instead of your tulips......

hehee

Oh No.....I will never ever watch another derby. Barbaro, and now this poor little filly.

How utterly sad.

I watched Sharon. I knew I shouldn't have. Our filly came in second and then lost all. I think I need a pitcher of Juleps. Can someone post the recipe.........and send a case of Kleenex

Isn't it awful.
I have cried since My Old KY Home was sung.
Might just cry all evening....
Cryin' in my juleps.

My Old KY Home always makes me nostalgic...although I have never lived in the south. It's just such a pretty song of American life at it's best. I am still crying. Why does the horse pay for man's monetary follies?

Wow - glad I didn't watch. I've said for years that horse racing should be banned.

i rode horses for years.... and barrel raced trust me when i tell you my horse enjoyed both just trail riding and he loved to race.... you could tell he always had his game face on the day of a race and went willingly and strong into the arena

the only complaint i ever had to professional racing is those horses are too young and bones are not fully developed at that age... joints and bones can't handle the abuse a track horse takes

Soo true, too young and too fragile.
But also true that horses love to race, it seems to be their favorite thing, and the race horse's tiny bones just seem too fragile.

So so sad.

Many animals like to race. It's quite another thing to say we need to race them! And to make it such a big $$$ thing to boot.

Hi to all the newbies from me ... uh, Candyce!

Glad to hear the storms are abating down south and that my friends are all OK, even if some plants got a bit messed up. Like pirl, I'd rather moan over messed-up plants than my hurt friends.

Victor, I agree. Horse racing is such a nasty business, only one notch below prostitution. For every Eight Bells that dies on the track there are hundreds of thousands that are abused, drugged, and or killed.
Onewish, I also did gymkana(sp) and showing and in my early years I was hired as a trainer for English showing. Loved it and love horses which is probably why I don't like "money" horse racing. Man (I use that term generically) makes sure they get their money one way or another. ie..golf balls, sponges The horses lose. Too many times their life. THAT is my rant. For the decade. I promise.But the Derby should go on. Put up a field of twenty in a grass filled field and bet on who eats the fastest. I will take their waste. I am still so sad.

What happened? I missed it because the radio up here didn't get it. Don't tell me. I think I'm going to cry. She went down? Don't tell me. I only had mint tea, no juleps. No paper, T.V. and barely radio here.

Julep recipe...for each cup H2O, one cup sugar. Bring to a simmer in stainless pot and stir down sides to keep crystals from forming. This is known as 'simple syrup'. Place muddled mint leaves (bruised) in simmering syrup, turn off and cool. Remove mint. Add a jigger of premium bourbon, a sprig of mint, and a topper of chilled syrup to an iced demi. Silver is the container of choice as it gets very cold. You can freeze glass for similar effect. Very rich sippin'.

I found my greyhound at a rescue shelter near here. In the next town over there is a greyhound race track.

My little emmagreyhound was some kind of racing reject, but she still loves to race and she really gives me a work out.

Maybe I am the one who should be running that track. Ooof. Probably wouldn't make it that far.

Thank you for the recipe Laurel. I think I will use it for 8 bells. She put up the good fight coming in second against the guys, but both front ankles had compound fractures and she was put down on the track. To quote Thom, oh-crap-o-la, I just started crying again.

OK, I just saw the news blog. I'm done with that. These horses are being run too young. So sad. I've had horses all my life until recently and started with thoroughbreds. I wouldn't describe them as innately wanting to race so much as being very eager to please. All the more reason to not abuse these regal hot bloods.

Sorry about the filly---they do race them too young--2 yr olds should not be raced. A very good friend--now deceased--raced trotters & pacers for many years--we used to go to Hinsdale in NH when it was a horse track to watch his son drive--also went to Saratoga a few times. Mac's horses were treated very well--lived on the farm with 9 grandkids on the same road & they were always with the horses, even the big studs. I saw one huge stud take a peppermint from one child who was probably 9 or 10 at the time--right from her lips! They scared me--the Holsteins, too. Guess I can only be a veggie farmer!

I want to ride a horse before I die and go to Austraila. Oh well live life and dream.

You're going to Australia after you die? Cool!

Lots more room there than there is here. Why not?

Down under down under!

down under and go around.. Dunee

the wonder down under here he is.

(photo is the property of Wonder Down Under DG member.)

So cute.... Love his eyes.

down under down under kinda cool!

awe.....what a cutie!!

I agree!

My pansies are not doing well, it is mainly the plain yellow ones, i can't understad why
clem

Clem---not too much sun & plenty of water--also deadhead. Gloria--what kind of cutie is that pup?

Robin, actually cannot understand, I think it is just the plain yellow ones, the yellow with painted faces semm to do the best anyhow. It will be sad when all of my tulips are gone and the plain pansys too at the same time, that was not the idea. Anyway, I will survive????? What is this down under? Clem

Gloria that looks just like a puppy we were just petting at a lady's house near the park around the corner form us, too cute.

I showed the photo to a woman here who raises shi tzu.
She thought the pup was a shi tzu mix.

I like the caption: destroyer of worlds. Many years ago I raised pekes.
Most "dog' people say they hate small dogs. But pekes and shi tzu's done know they are small.

One of my male peke puppies attacked a full grown weimereiner across the street. I was able to extract the puppy before he was swallowed.

The lady around the corner said hers was a maltese/shi tzu mix. His fur was super soft.