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Skriven 2008-01-22 11:31:13 av Carol Shenkenberger (7156.cooks)
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 > -> I should set up the kitchen table, but we like the center part totally
 > open.

 > I'd like another 20 square feet myself, but you do with what you can get.
 > My arrangement wouldn't work with your back, at least for some things.

Well, I get by <g>.  Back is on another good day.  This is a good sign.

 > -> Sounds very workable.  I liked the stainless steel ones in the housing
 > after
 > -> we got used to the look.  Cant hurt'em either.
 > 
 > Just not the old 50s metal prefabs; those things were horrible.  A lot of
 > labs use stainless because it's hard to kill.


Not sure what that looks like but we didnt like the look of the stainless at
first.  Now, we can handle it as the stuff is hard to hurt.  Our current
counters are a sort of woody butcher block look but laminate so not as
sturdy.  Some cut marks (had them when we bought the place) but not bad.  I
use a small plastic cutting board over it so as to not make more.

 > -> Hard to tell!  Probably not though <g>.  Bobby did have many offspring,

 > This would have been an ancestor a few generations removed.  Given the
 > original Max's nature and proclivities I wouldn't put it past him.

Hehe maybe Max was an ancestor of Bobby?  Bobby was from 1983 though.  Maybe
early 1984.  It was either late fall or early spring when I found him.


 > -> LOL!  Roscoe would have jumped in the boxes.  Thom would have sauntered i
 > -> looked and sniffed, then sauntered off for a well earned nap after all
 > that
 > -> exercise.
 > ->
 > Louise naps in the boxes, but hates the tape.

*snicker*

 > ->  > and other fruit if they can get it.  They leave hot peppers alone
 > though,
 > ->  > at least after one bite!
 > ->
 > -> Fortunately none seem to bother the tomatoes which is my main thing to
 > 
 > No hot peppers?  THey can be fun with raccoons if you coat a few in peanut
 > butter. (G)


Naw, but we coat the bird feeder with leftover chicken fat and have fun
watching the squirrels slide back down as they try to climb it.

 > ->  > Lettuce that escapes could be interesting.  Around here it's not a
 > self-seed
 > ->  > annual.  I never have to worry about lettuce "leaving". (ahem)
 > ->
 > -> Well, once it bolts (it always seems we have more than we eat) it
 > 
 > ...for the back door?  Has it ever applied for asylum in a neighboring yard
 > on the grounds of persecution? (sorry, couldn't resist)

Hehe have to ask the neighbors.  With a 6ft fence all around the back yard,
cant tell if they have any escape artists there.

 > -> there arent that many wild bunnies here so it makes it.
 > 
 > You don't have enough rabbits; I get more than you do, evidently.  My back
 > yard backs up on wetlands, so we get all sorts of stuff walking in.  My
 > cats nailed two or three baby bunnies last year.  Cats like baby bunny
 > tartare, because these two never eat their catches but one did chew on the
 > rabbits.

Well, we always have a few and in a portion of spring, Don refuses to cut the
back yard (not that I push him any) because baby bunnies tend to hide there. 
After they get a little older, it's safe again to cut and they hop away when
they see the mower instead of freezing in the tall grass.
               xxcarol
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