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Posted by LibraLuv
This is funny talking about southern roots. My grandmother used to have a vegetable garden and I just told my son the other day to get ready, because I want one in the back yard. Sadly, some trees will have to come down, not enough full sun back there. We are surrounded by trees. So I guess, we'll be playing lumber jack first and then I can start my oasis of a garden. 🙂 I can't wait, I don't have the greenest of thumbs but, I think I can remember some of what she did to keep it going. I just have to watch out for the snakes... :/ I know, lime and sulfur keeps them away. However, what to do with the crows and deers and all the other nice animals that we haven't named yet, who knows... I'll get creative.
go for tomatoes and peppers - easy peasy... forget the leafy stuff for now, leaks are forgiving too, and raspberries.
This Gemini woman gets it! The great, Lauren Hill. Ooops, I mean Gladys Knight. 😉
Ohhhh, this is fabulous, it really is. Shoot ladies, let's just have an amazingly huge garden, plenty to go round. Bring it . LOL I'll scootch over in my ultra schmexi bib-alls and straw hat LibraLuv.
True Roaming, and did you ever notice that no matter what the packet says tomatoes must be staked? That was my first lesson, I got Rutgers I do believe, clarioned "No staking!" bold as brass. You guessed it, it was like playing Where's Waldo? for tomatoes. 😄
*smiling huge* I need to slow down typing. Typos are rife. LOL
Posted by GeminiMind
RoamingFree, you just need a man that had a matriarchal upbringing with strong men that protected the matriarch and taught the do's and the dont's of manhood is all. My father always said to never be with a woman that put herself in a man's position. Wise words from that Bull.
true.
I have no issues being at home - I kicked the corporate job in favor of raising my kids and haven't looked back and refuse to even get entwined with a man who doesn't get that. Each has their role to play in the family circle and a woman cannot be a woman if she is not given the honorable place that she deserves, which in turn puts a man on his place he earned rightfully. I think people forget that this is not a competition. I think they forget that family is about all having distinct parts to play and all roles need to be fulfilled. It's not a push and pull. It's a give and give. The taking comes after all has been said and done and than can be and should be taken with a free hand well deserved and given with gratitude. People forget about the importance of each role and diminish it quite easily because the pure fiber of familial education has been broken and disregarded. I think a lot has to do with people moving away from their roots and leading lives separate over distances where the appreciation for all becomes non-existent just because the communication is diminishing, even if we live in an age where we have the means for it. People forgot to look in each others eyes and bare their souls. I wonder if it's because life seems so distracted right now. We chase all that is just an illusion to prove our self worth through visual tricks...but we rot inside from emotional and humane starvation we impose on ourselves.
Me included - I chase that Coach bag just the same as my neighbor...
Posted by LibraLuv
This is funny talking about southern roots. My grandmother used to have a vegetable garden and I just told my son the other day to get ready, because I want one in the back yard. Sadly, some trees will have to come down, not enough full sun back there. We are surrounded by trees. So I guess, we'll be playing lumber jack first and then I can start my oasis of a garden. 🙂 I can't wait, I don't have the greenest of thumbs but, I think I can remember some of what she did to keep it going. I just have to watch out for the snakes... :/ I know, lime and sulfur keeps them away. However, what to do with the crows and deers and all the other nice animals that we haven't named yet, who knows... I'll get creative.go for tomatoes and peppers - easy peasy... forget the leafy stuff for now, leaks are forgiving too, and raspberries.
So true and a good start. One of my older neighbors has a tract of land and he has a nice size garden, with the greens and all that, so I guess I'll be trading my peppers for his greens until mine is fully up and running. 😄
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beefsteak for sandwiches and salads and roma for sauces - just omit the seads in the sauce - it's what makes some peoples sauces acidic - it's the seeds.
ok, I love tomatoes, lol
😄 Me too. It's a learning process, isn't it. It was one thing to go and pick tomato worm and gather in mothers garden..quite another to plot and plan my own and put it into motion. And those evil companies are at it again I see *haughty sniff*. Teasing with their catalogs. LOL Classic. I had cucumbers for days and days. One day you have these polite green vegetables, couple days later you've golden U-boats. I thought I'd be clever and out came the WWII era cookbooks ( which really are the best for canning I've found ) and I found "Golden Cucumber Relish". It smelled great putting it up, but not one of the children liked it. They don't like it when I put up pickles in general. Dills or bread and butters, the house smells like a vinegar sneeze. I like it though, smells nice to me when I'm canning that or my green/hot pepper jelly.
Posted by venusianbull
Ohhhh, this is fabulous, it really is. Shoot ladies, let's just have an amazingly huge garden, plenty to go round. Bring it . LOL I'll scootch over in my ultra schmexi bib-alls and straw hat LibraLuv.True Roaming, and did you ever notice that no matter what the packet says tomatoes must be staked? That was my first lesson, I got Rutgers I do believe, clarioned "No staking!" bold as brass. You guessed it, it was like playing Where's Waldo? for tomatoes. 😄
lol. true...
I love straw hats 😄
I never buy seeds 😢...I buy plants 😢...and yes - stake! must stake, lol. some can be 6' tall and they needs the sun dearly all day than they are beautiful
Posted by venusianbull
*smiling huge* I need to slow down typing. Typos are rife. LOLDon't slow down. I am the one alwayyyyyys posting late...hehehe. This year has been really weird here with our weather. We have had more tornado warnings than I can ever remember. Strange happenings.
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We were under a twister warning just last night. Every spring and autumn it's heavy rain and twisters. This house has stood for 106 years and still going, but you still get goosey when that siren goes off.
Posted by venusianbull
Ohhhh, this is fabulous, it really is. Shoot ladies, let's just have an amazingly huge garden, plenty to go round. Bring it . LOL I'll scootch over in my ultra schmexi bib-alls and straw hat LibraLuv.True Roaming, and did you ever notice that no matter what the packet says tomatoes must be staked? That was my first lesson, I got Rutgers I do believe, clarioned "No staking!" bold as brass. You guessed it, it was like playing Where's Waldo? for tomatoes. 😄
lol. true...
I love straw hats 😄I never buy seeds 😢...I buy plants 😢...and yes - stake! must stake, lol. some can be 6' tall and they needs the sun dearly all day than they are beautiful
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LOL Straw hats ROCK! Plants are so much easier, costlier but easier. No hardening off in the cool with fingers crossed that your seedlings ( your babies! ) don't wilt or give up the ghost entirely, no peat pots going off if woops! a bit too much water, etc.
This song speaks for itself. 😉
Posted by GeminiMind
RoamingFree, you just need a man that had a matriarchal upbringing with strong men that protected the matriarch and taught the do's and the dont's of manhood is all. My father always said to never be with a woman that put herself in a man's position. Wise words from that Bull.true.
I have no issues being at home - I kicked the corporate job in favor of raising my kids and haven't looked back and refuse to even get entwined with a man who doesn't get that. Each has their role to play in the family circle and a woman cannot be a woman if she is not given the honorable place that she deserves, which in turn puts a man on his place he earned rightfully. I think people forget that this is not a competition. I think they forget that family is about all having distinct parts to play and all roles need to be fulfilled. It's not a push and pull. It's a give and give. The taking comes after all has been said and done and than can be and should be taken with a free hand well deserved and given with gratitude. People forget about the importance of each role and diminish it quite easily because the pure fiber of familial education has been broken and disregarded. I think a lot has to do with people moving away from their roots and leading lives separate over distances where the appreciation for all becomes non-existent just because the communication is diminishing, even if we live in an age where we have the means for it. People forgot to look in each others eyes and bare their souls. I wonder if it's because life seems so distracted right now. We chase all that is just an illusion to prove our self worth through visual tricks...but we rot inside from emotional and humane starvation we impose on ourselves.Me included - I chase that Coach bag just the same as my neighbor...
Ha! Girl, you deserve a medal for that. So True!
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(blushing) - see...being single makes my brain grow, lol...ok, I'm sheepish now. but it's true. I really believe that. It's really sad when you think about it.
Posted by venusianbull
😄 Me too. It's a learning process, isn't it. It was one thing to g
also pickled pears with cloves are fantastic with pork roasts
That's part of it, passing that love down so it is never forgotten. One of my very first memories was crouched down low around my Grans clothesline scalping her wee strawberries. Best berries in the world. I go in with my mouth smeared red and she said A--- D----! Have you been out near my clothesline? with the biggest twinkle in her deep brown eyes. I down low all eyes expecting the scolding ( hadn't she told us not time and time again? ) until I looked up and saw all that warmth shining out of her. Lord I miss that woman. Her pies were sin, the kitchen her domain and all within.
honestly, I have to say...something is in the air - all this talk of love, food, and music made me feel sooooo good 🙂
something lifted, things are brighter and better 🙂
Posted by roamingfree
also pickled pears with cloves are fantastic with pork roasts
That sounds fabulous. I've never made pickled pear. Usually reduce it down to spiced pear sauce, or pear butter for pancakes. Ever swirl apple butter into cottage cheese? Terrific. I make mine in the slow cooker after I've sauced and drained the apples. Ahhhh this is so homely in the classic definition and wonderful. Does my ticker good.
Agreed. 🙂
Posted by venusianbull
Ohhhh, this is fabulous, it really is. Shoot ladies, let's just have an amazingly huge garden, plenty to go round. Bring it . LOL I'll scootch over in my ultra schmexi bib-alls and straw hat LibraLuv.True Roaming, and did you ever notice that no matter what the packet says tomatoes must be staked? That was my first lesson, I got Rutgers I do believe, clarioned "No staking!" bold as brass. You guessed it, it was like playing Where's Waldo? for tomatoes. 😄
lol. true...
I love straw hats 😄I never buy seeds 😢...I buy plants 😢...and yes - stake! must stake, lol. some can be 6' tall and they needs the sun dearly all day than they are beautiful
Seed--- yea takes a lot of patience. It's nothing wrong with a mixture of both though. Depends on what you are trying to plant and how fast you want those suckers to grow. I want to take my time with mine this time though, so I'll be a seed girl this time around. I just want to see the fruits of my labor from the very beginning and I want my children and grands involved in the entire process because they need to know.
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that's fantastic 🙂...even if they will not see the full purpose of it 🙂
Does everyone understand the deep joy of cola ham? 😄
I think I would be lost and not know what to do or where to start if someone would present me with the shoes I am not able to fit yet...gawd...I have no patience at all...I don't know how you do it
Posted by venusianbull
*smiling huge* I need to slow down typing. Typos are rife. LOLDon't slow down. I am the one alwayyyyyys posting late...hehehe. This year has been really weird here with our weather. We have had more tornado warnings than I can ever remember. Strange happenings.
We were under a twister warning just last night. Every spring and autumn it's heavy rain and twisters. This house has stood for 106 years and still going, but you still get goosey when that siren goes off.
Well, this one is only 37 years old, but my dad built it from the ground up himself. So, it's very meaningful to me and will be passed on when I leave.
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That would mean much to me as well. He put his sweat and heart into that house. To pass it along would be a point of pride and great love.
Posted by venusianbull
Does everyone understand the deep joy of cola ham? 😄SHO YA RIGHT!!!! hahahahaha... HONEY BAKED ain't got Nothing on it. 😉
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HELLLLLLL YEH!! 😄
Posted by THEKingofLibra
Cola ham.. is that when you pour coke on ham and worms come out?
NO! LOL You slowly simmer a ham in Coca-Cola ( bone in, a proper ham mind! ) then you lovingly lift that bad boy out, place it in a sturdy baking pan and score it. Stud it with clove. Make a mixture of brown sugar, dried mustard and pack that on. Drizzle it with the darkest molasses you can find. Bake it low and slow till that love just glazes up. I think I just drooled on the keyboard.
lol. true...
I love straw hats 😄I never buy seeds 😢...I buy plants 😢...and yes - stake! must stake, lol. some can be 6' tall and they needs the sun dearly all day than they are beautiful
LOL Straw hats ROCK! Plants are so much easier, costlier but easier. No hardening off in the cool with fingers crossed that your seedlings ( your babies! ) don't wilt or give up the ghost entirely, no peat pots going off if woops! a bit too much water, etc.
click to expandtrue...but you can do the seedlings in pots first at home by the window and bring them out when they are at least 8-10"...they seem to adapt ok.
all leafy and roots straight to soil though...can't transplant that.
I like beets and carrots the most I think from these
Posted by GeminiMind
RoamingFree, you're a FOX, by the way. 😄
thank you...but, it does no good when a certain some 42 year old Lib decided it ain't good enough 😢...craps (well, there goes a dollar into the jar)
Posted by GeminiMind
This song speaks for itself. 😉
you know...that song is so ageless...
and now I'm a mush 😢
Posted by THEKingofLibra
Ugh.. I don't do sugar. I would have to go with.. cheese stuffed turkey stuffed into ham stuffed into a chicken, injected with garlic and spices. Mmhmm
LOL Well you know, that might not be bad. Cola ham is a sweet/salty, and I'm a definite fan. I don't make them often, but when I do I joke that I should be kept well away from leftovers.
Posted by THEKingofLibra
Cola ham.. is that when you pour coke on ham and worms come out?NO! LOL You slowly simmer a ham in Coca-Cola ( bone in, a proper ham mind! ) then you lovingly lift that bad boy out, place it in a sturdy baking pan and score it. Stud it with clove. Make a mixture of brown sugar, dried mustard and pack that on. Drizzle it with the darkest molasses you can find. Bake it low and slow till that love just glazes up. I think I just drooled on the keyboard.
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ok...I'm off to the butcher tomorrow to find a good ham...is that with the skin on or off? I think I would do off...I add some dried fruit to ham too. appricots and prunes, sometimes raisins...pork loves fruit
True. I didn't either at the time, when I was out in the garden with my grandmother. It wasn't until I had my own family that I understood the real importance of it.
click to expandbut they WILL have memories...the significance will kick in later 😄 and that's exciting!
Posted by venusianbull
*smiling huge* I need to slow down typing. Typos are rife. LOLDon't slow down. I am the one alwayyyyyys posting late...hehehe. This year has been really weird here with our weather. We have had more tornado warnings than I can ever remember. Strange happenings.
We were under a twister warning just last night. Every spring and autumn it's heavy rain and twisters. This house has stood for 106 years and still going, but you still get goosey when that siren goes off.
Well, this one is only 37 years old, but my dad built it from the ground up himself. So, it's very meaningful to me and will be passed on when I leave.
That would mean much to me as well. He put his sweat and heart into that house. To pass it along would be a point of pride and great love.
Yes he did. My brothers and if I can remember about two other men helped him. I still have all the pictures of the him building during the process. It took him five years to complete it. However, can we say rennovations are no joke. I learned some things from him though which helps and Home Depot... I should've had stock in them. A lot of the stuff, I'm doing myself, the rest well, I'll have to call in the professionals. But it's worth it.
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Definitely worth it, you're putting your stamp on there as well. His mark and yours intertwined. And it will follow on down the line. It's such a sense of accomplishment when you step back and say "Yes, I did that."
Posted by THEKingofLibra
Cola ham.. is that when you pour coke on ham and worms come out?NO! LOL You slowly simmer a ham in Coca-Cola ( bone in, a proper ham mind! ) then you lovingly lift that bad boy out, place it in a sturdy baking pan and score it. Stud it with clove. Make a mixture of brown sugar, dried mustard and pack that on. Drizzle it with the darkest molasses you can find. Bake it low and slow till that love just glazes up. I think I just drooled on the keyboard.
ok...I'm off to the butcher tomorrow to find a good ham...is that with the skin on or off? I think I would do off...I add some dried fruit to ham too. appricots and prunes, sometimes raisins...pork loves fruit
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Skin off. And quite right, pork loves fruit. 🙂 I really like apple/raisin stuffing in thick chops for just that reason.
Posted by roamingfree
also pickled pears with cloves are fantastic with pork roastsThat sounds fabulous. I've never made pickled pear. Usually reduce it down to spiced pear sauce, or pear butter for pancakes. Ever swirl apple butter into cottage cheese? Terrific. I make mine in the slow cooker after I've sauced and drained the apples. Ahhhh this is so homely in the classic definition and wonderful. Does my ticker good.
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the pears have to be hard and green, cloves, sugar, vinegar. I forgot the ratio but they are fantastic.
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my family makes cherry liquor - 1 kg black cherries, 1 kg white sugar 1L of at least 90 proof spirit alcohol...something to really...try on ice cream - ok, adults only, lol
Posted by GeminiMind
RoamingFree, you're a FOX, by the way. 😄it does no good when a certain some 42 year old Lib decided it ain't good enough
ROFL.. Look at the bright side, that dude was dating a younger woman. Now you have a chance to date a younger man. Speaking of emotional transference, do you x/2+7?
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now I have a chance to be me...that no one can beat, lol 😛
what does this mean: "Speaking of emotional transference, do you x/2+7?"
are you testing my math or asking me something tricky I don't know about?
Posted by THEKingofLibra
Cola ham.. is that when you pour coke on ham and worms come out?NO! LOL You slowly simmer a ham in Coca-Cola ( bone in, a proper ham mind! ) then you lovingly lift that bad boy out, place it in a sturdy baking pan and score it. Stud it with clove. Make a mixture of brown sugar, dried mustard and pack that on. Drizzle it with the darkest molasses you can find. Bake it low and slow till that love just glazes up. I think I just drooled on the keyboard.
ok...I'm off to the butcher tomorrow to find a good ham...is that with the skin on or off? I think I would do off...I add some dried fruit to ham too. appricots and prunes, sometimes raisins...pork loves fruit
Skin off. And quite right, pork loves fruit. 🙂 I really like apple/raisin stuffing in thick chops for just that reason.
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I find chicken and duck loves fruit too. duck especially.
Posted by roamingfree
also pickled pears with cloves are fantastic with pork roastsThat sounds fabulous. I've never made pickled pear. Usually reduce it down to spiced pear sauce, or pear butter for pancakes. Ever swirl apple butter into cottage cheese? Terrific. I make mine in the slow cooker after I've sauced and drained the apples. Ahhhh this is so homely in the classic definition and wonderful. Does my ticker good.
the pears have to be hard and green, cloves, sugar, vinegar. I forgot the ratio but they are fantastic.
also
my family makes cherry liquor - 1 kg black cherries, 1 kg white sugar 1L of at least 90 proof spirit alcohol...something to really...try on ice cream - ok, adults only, lolPass me some cherry liquor please, I'll try it...lol
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you and I both, lol
🙂
Posted by roamingfree
also pickled pears with cloves are fantastic with pork roastsThat sounds fabulous. I've never made pickled pear. Usually reduce it down to spiced pear sauce, or pear butter for pancakes. Ever swirl apple butter into cottage cheese? Terrific. I make mine in the slow cooker after I've sauced and drained the apples. Ahhhh this is so homely in the classic definition and wonderful. Does my ticker good.
the pears have to be hard and green, cloves, sugar, vinegar. I forgot the ratio but they are fantastic.
also
my family makes cherry liquor - 1 kg black cherries, 1 kg white sugar 1L of at least 90 proof spirit alcohol...something to really...try on ice cream - ok, adults only, lolclick to expand
Ahhhh, it sounds similar in flavor to a pickled crabapple. Those are very nice. Hehehehe, definitely a topping for the adults, and it sounds terrific.
Posted by THEKingofLibra
Cola ham.. is that when you pour coke on ham and worms come out?NO! LOL You slowly simmer a ham in Coca-Cola ( bone in, a proper ham mind! ) then you lovingly lift that bad boy out, place it in a sturdy baking pan and score it. Stud it with clove. Make a mixture of brown sugar, dried mustard and pack that on. Drizzle it with the darkest molasses you can find. Bake it low and slow till that love just glazes up. I think I just drooled on the keyboard.
ok...I'm off to the butcher tomorrow to find a good ham...is that with the skin on or off? I think I would do off...I add some dried fruit to ham too. appricots and prunes, sometimes raisins...pork loves fruit
Skin off. And quite right, pork loves fruit. 🙂 I really like apple/raisin stuffing in thick chops for just that reason.
Damn VB, you sound like Paula Deen! I think food network has just found their new chef!
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WHAT a great job, I'll TAKE it! 😄
Ohhhh duck, I've not had duck in ages.
what does this mean: "Speaking of emotional transference, do you x/2+7?"
are you testing my math or asking me something tricky I don't know about?Excellent question, but first, does this smell like chloroform?
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Classic KOL.
LOL ^ I was just going to congratulate him on his oh so subtle approach but you beat me to it.
Posted by venusianbull
LOL ^ I was just going to congratulate him on his oh so subtle approach but you beat me to it.
Oh that Gemini speed. 😉
what does this mean: "Speaking of emotional transference, do you x/2+7?"
are you testing my math or asking me something tricky I don't know about?Excellent question, but first, does this smell like chloroform?
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hmmm....well, if I am objective and realistic than shuuuueee...
but if I let myself continue to be blind that it's more akin to cinnamon
crap, I have no clue, but why are we talking dead?
what does this mean: "Speaking of emotional transference, do you x/2+7?"
are you testing my math or asking me something tricky I don't know about?Excellent question, but first, does this smell like chloroform?
Classic KOL.
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he's making me think of necrophiliacs...
Posted by LibraLuv
Damn that flew right over my head! I missed all of that. Me and running my mouth. ump ump ump Oh well. I'll just depend on you guys...haha
it's ok. he's suggesting someone is dead in this whole circus of mine...
but that ain't me, Kol - I see you far and wide and know where you are trying to go with that ...bugger
Oh I can just imagine LibraLuv, I like her personality, her show and have some of her cookbooks as well. Any woman with a love that deep for real butter, ooey gooey cake, real sugar cream pie and bacon most definitely has my vote. And who doesn't want to taste something and cross their eyes in that 'unnnngh ungh' response? We all do it, and I laughed so hard the first time I saw that. I bet it's a good eating experience there, her man reminds me of a huge teddy bear.
Posted by venusianbull
LOL ^ I was just going to congratulate him on his oh so subtle approach but you beat me to it.Oh that Gemini speed. 😉
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🙂 On wings of Mercury..fleet of foot and swift as wind..
Ew! I thought he was just trying to slip a roofie in your cherry cordial.
^ Definitely. LOL
trouble with KoL is that he is not dumb...he's eccentric, but somewhat predictable in his arrows he chooses to throw...
or
I'm extra sensitive to smart-ass comments today
idk
Hey, who doesn't have those days. Especially when your nerves are taut. I know I certainly have them.
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Hear hear LibraLuv, as it should be. 🙂