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  1. Everything looks good. I have been cooking a lot too. Today, chicken soup too. It will be our dinner for the next few days Tomorrow falafel. I am doing so well with that recipe. I found I like the cast iron trick better than the air fryer. I can cook it in a cast iron with very little oil. On my homemade naan bread it's like a falafel soft taco. Shredded carrot, avocado, and shredded lettuce is great with this. Some creamy tzatziki finishes the dish. I am home for a week and I have been making alll kinds of good food. Chicken was a bogo deal so I butchered a couple up, saved the meat for the freezer and cooked down the rest for soup. Bulbs are coming up here. All the effort I have put in is now paying off. I found a bumblebee nest on the property and mason bees or leaf cutters have encased themselves in my mason bee house. It is really a bee haven here. There are so many flowers. I hope for the best for them. Hope you and the family are well.
  2. Carrots are just a part of a healthy garden rotation here. They sure are cheap, but nothing in the store compares to the taste of what I can produce. Baby carrots in the store are terrible. The babies I get from thinning. Garlic is just too easy. I never buy it anymore. Even green onions can be super easy. I replant the butts if I do buy them. They eventually turn to bulb onions and the bees dig the blooms and then I get seeds for yet more green onions. Nothing gets wasted. Pickled beets last so long and they are so tasty and good for you. Tomatoes here are hard. We have stopped planting them so much. There are other fruits that will be good in that valuable space, like sweet potaoes, cucumbers, tomatillo, squash etc. Really, this is just a fun hobby and I am not fooling myslf that I save much money doing this. It's mostly just for the bees and the smiles.
  3. Hi Dr. Mick. We grow carrots in a raised bed outside. We harvest little by little by thinning and leave some of them in the ground until well after first frost. We have never tried growing them indoors to harvest. Carrots and beets seemed very easy to grow but you have to really keep the soil wet here to germinate. It gets so dry here that seeding can be difficult. It’s really windy on the hill where my house sits so that doesn’t help. we did start a bunch of warm veggies inside to transplant after last frost but little knots from the soil drove us bonkers. I was happy to get them all out of the house. Those little bugs sometimes come from soil matter. We don’t bother with much indoor plants except for a few house plants. I have a bonsai lemon tree that I really love. It produces lemons for us. It almost died last year when I left it for too long. I had to cut it way back and it seems happy again. Whew!
  4. Thank you for the nice comments, all. Note: I merely joke about just stapling and filling the copier. I don't really post about how I manage a program that is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Budgets, reporting, travel and a host of other things. It's more fun to post about my babysitting deets though. I still have problems with people that don't understand the 3 hole punch and jam the heavy duty stapler. It isn't that I don't like you all. I don't like the deliberately devisive and hurtful comments. I just don't have time or energy for that. On a happy note, I am doing fantastic. I am doing my best to embrace the heart of DH. I am very inspired and working out a ton. I have dropped 25 pounds and it is staying off. I entered my first MTB XC race in a very long while. We fixed up the van suspension and I look forward to my next trip in it. Maybe this month. I am not cheating on you, @Ralphie. Just spending time on healthy things that make me feel good. @jsharr, I am glad we are friends over there. @12string, I am not dead yet. Not ready at all for the cart. I was bench pressing yesterday. Oh, i really hope I can get up to my body weight. 50# so far. I hired this gal to train me up, and it is so fun. She is very affordable. She sort of gives me homework and vids and I do that. She is training me up for mountaineering and I am training myself for bike racing again. 50+ class, oof, here we go. Hi, Dr. Mick. We raced in 91? This pic on the momo, was around 1991. I am sure I was faster on this bike. <Much jest> I am making falafel with my air fryer today. I am going to share the recipe with you. I make homemade pita and do falafel in a healthy way. Still gardening when I can get out there. It is cold and muddy right now. Peas go in next month or so. spinach is suprisingly resilient. It's a warm winter here, but plenty wet. It will be so fantastic with flowers soon. Investing thousands of dollars in plants, trees, seeds and bulbs seem to have been a happy investment for me. Soe of these little trees are so big already. I put in a goji berry tree. It LIVED. I am thrilled for what it is gonna do. ----- Gotta jet now, I have a meeting with a senator, then shopping for my camp stove that I have been saving up for. I am going with the mini mo. I am loving my bikes. I look forward to racing Brutus in June. My new e-bike is rad and it isn't a crime, nor should I be punched over it. @Square Wheels
  5. Stay safe, all. It's a whopper out here. TIme to shovel and work clearing.
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    My tree

    I don't bring them in. They go right in the ground. If I feel festive, I put them on a log by a window and toss presents in front of it. Nice tree, @2Far
  7. The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way–and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).
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    No Way Down

    On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers—some experienced, others less prepared—ascended K2, the world's second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers—many without oxygen and some with no headlamps—faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history.
  9. It is like I can take PP with me on the adventures. It makes me wonder about her Mom and the things she did.
  10. Petite, thank you so much. I will treasure your Mom's compass forever. I need to figure out how to fasten it on my jacket. It is so cool. I could even use it as a weapon. Thanks for the camper socks too. I love the cute sloth too. it is just in time as my socks are becoming sacks. Whomever did that thank you so very much. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year
  11. I didn't mean to piss you off. As a person that owns one we seem to be the butt of the joke quite often. It does grow tiresome. That is all. Beating up e-bikers, I just thought the joke was mean. This is your playground. I never asked for you to hide it. It is an elitist snob joke. I fully believe this.
  12. Oh. A joke to beat up e bikers. OK. Elitist snob joke.
  13. Really? How is riding an e-bike any different than deciding to drive a car around?
  14. What is your problem? Why are you going out of your way to correct my lingo. Please leave me alone.
  15. What are you talking about? I started the thread to thank PP for helping me. I mentioned I don't call them man makers. I am a woman. I don't want to be made into a man. You thought it was important to make fun of my logic for not wanting to make myself a man? Got anything else to chastise me about?
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