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Skriven 2010-04-06 12:17:59 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 36452 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Catching up...AGAIN! :)                                  [1]
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Hi Janis,

 JK> Hope you folks had a great Easter :)  My daughter and her family came
 JK> by so we enjoyed ourselves here.... except I cooked and cooked (vbg).
 JK> Her husband and the boys are now eating grass-fed meats (only), so I
 JK> made a pot of sauce and meatballs and Rigatoni for lunch.  I was lucky
 JK> enough to find a 5 1/2 lb. Leg of lamb at the health food store so we
 JK> had for dinner with roasted potatoes and Italian spinach.  Now my
 JK> daughter still isn't eating meat - she requested clam sauce and
 JK> linguine haha.. so I made that while the roast still had about 45
 JK> minutes to go.

Sounds good.  We'd just gotten in from our trip the night before so
didn't really have anything suitable non frozen.  We went out with some
friends from church to a local (Southern style food) cafeteria.  Just
before we went to NY, Kroger had leg of lamb on sale so we got one and
popped it into the freezer.  Now that we're back, I've got to decide how
I'm going to fix it.



 JK> > Sounds like a nice idea; we'd love to see you & Ron again.  We'll
 JK> also > get to meet the new critters.

 JK> Yes, that would be super :)  If you have some spare time this week,
 JK> give us a buzz - you don't have to wait til June (g).  Whatever works

We're back in NC.  Classes started again yesterday.  We left my parents
about 2:30 Friday afternoon & drove until about 9, with a few stops. We
stopped in Hancock & got 4 quarts of maple syrup, some mple candy, maple
cream, some ginger cookies and granola bars.  We also stopped for supper
but spent the night in Martinsburg, WVA.  That got us back home by about
5 pm.

>> working with them to get them to use the doggy door (as you can

 JK> > They will be there before you know it!

 JK> We took them outside today to play with the kids.. it was quite a
 JK> scene to watch. Drew, the little guy who is 4 now, would run straight
 JK> back through the yard.. Sophie and Indy right behind him.. by the time
 JK> the kids left, the dogs were flopped on the floor exhausted :)

No surprise there.  The dogs don't have the stamina right now as they're
so young.  Give them a few more months and they will keep right up with
Drew and the others.

 JK> > OK, we'd need to make them on the hig side as he's restricted on the
 JK> > amount of bending/reaching he can do.

 JK> That is the nice thing about raised beds.. you can make them as high
 JK> as is necessary.

 JK> >  It would be a multi year project
 JK> > at best.  He admitted today that he's not really interested in
 JK> getting > into too much gardening any more; I guess he's beginning to
 JK> reallyfeel > his age.

 JK> I hope this early spring agrees with him.. I know right now I feel
 JK> pretty wasted but I attribute that to the changing temperatures..
 JK> (freezing one night, then suddenly the switch to 80's).

But you don't have the heavy pine pollen we deal with down here. Our car
is supposed to be a (very) light sage green but it, like just about all
the other cars in the area, is a not so nice yellow green from the pine
pollen.  I stay inside as much as possible.

>> of vegetables can be grown in big garbage pails, I'd think.. I know
>> Hap mentioned a site where the author discussed potatoes growing in
>> garbage pails :)  Not sure if I still have the link here since I had a

 JK> > We can probably find some information (What can't you find?) on the
 JK> > internet about garbage can gardening.  The local bears like garbage
 JK> can

 JK> That's the truth :)  It's become a popular way of doing things.


Saves tearing up the ground if you're renting a place like we are.  We
still get the garden.


 JK> > diving so we'd have to watch out for that.  One of them knocked down
 JK> the > bird feeder Dad had re-installed last year after a bear got to
 JK> it but > this year the bear was unable to knock down the pole.  Dad
 JK> had added
 JK> > about 240 pounds more of concrete to the base when he put it up last
 JK> > year.

 JK> I'd hope they wouldn't care about vegetables but who knows.. if they
 JK> get into garbage pails, then they just might want to see what's so
 JK> interesting :)


I don't know.  It appears there are several bears in the area that
really like to get their food, etc from garbage cans.  They're a major
pain; my parents don't even grill outside any more because the bear
would tear the grill apart if they didn't steam clean every little bit.
After raising rumpus all spring, summer & part of fall, they disappear
during hunting season.

>> the pups.. they still do it, but the pups follow right along!!! Talk
>> about having trains blasting through your house haha.. They as so cute
>> though, it's insane :)

 JK> > I can imagine the fun they must be.  I'd love to have a couple of
 JK> > kittens but can't so I enjoy cats & dogs whenever I visit others.

 JK> These are feral kittens.. sadly, when we got the pups at first they
 JK> were very very scared and reverted to their earlier shy behavior.
 JK> They wouldn't come out at all..  Finally Lulu, the largest of the
 JK> kittens, decided to try a face on meeting.. she still comes out now
 JK> and then to see what's going on haha..

 JK> I'm hoping the other kittens will follow her lead.

They probably will come out as they realise the pups are there to stay.

>> I feel bad for Toby sometimes because as wonderful and patient as he
>> is (he's really incredible sometimes, putting up with the pups jumping
>> all over him), he's accosted by the pups day and night.. and right
>> now, they are mostly teeth and nails :)  I'm still putting the pups in
>> the 'extra kitchen' at night though after 10PM, with a child-gate,
>> just so Toby gets some peace when he's sleeping :)

 JK> > Poor old guy.  Sounds like Rachel's older cat--when they got a puppy
 JK> a > couple of years ago, she started harassing the cat all the time.
 JK> The


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