Glenn- I suggest putting a jar of Miracle Whip next to your garden. When Satan appears for his favorite condiment, the fire and brimstone should dry it instantly.

It was nowhere near the Miracle Whip scarecrow I put by the garden. That stuff scares that crap out of everything. I might even take the fence down now.

I saw an oriole in my trees but it hasn’t found the jelly yet.

Coming up on 25yrs of having a desk job. I used to get out on our hunting land to look for sheds and mushrooms outside of hunting season, but we sold our share. I never stayed put during ice fishing, but frostbitten fingers forced me into early retirement from that hobby. Now about the only exercise I get is gardening, which is pretty hard work, but it’s getting easier with the weight loss.

I’ve never had or made butter chicken before, so I looked up the recipe and I’m going have to pass. 1/2 stick of butter plus a cup of heavy cream. We’re way too fat to eat like that anymore. I’ve lost #35 since Thanksgiving and I’d like to lose another 30 or more. I’m 51 in two weeks, 6′ 3″ and #250 as of today.

I’ve got some boneless chicken breasts thawing out for supper right now. I’m out of fresh ginger, but if our little local store has some I’ll be doing a butter chicken with the yogurt. Cooking over any type of fire hits that primal part in me. Same with eating what you’ve hunted, foraged or grown for yourself.

I had about a cup of leftover braised pork shoulder, fat and onions yesterday. Tossed it into a pot with chopped carrots, celery, onion, garlic and a pound of lentils. Seasoned it with garam masala, Thai red curry powder, cayenne, salt and pepper. Gonna be better as leftovers tonight and it was great last night. I don’t know why I don’t make lentils more often. I grew up in an Irish split pea soup house, which I still love, but this is so much better.

Turtles and otters will beat on those flow troll doors until they open if they’re not wired shut. Both of them could be guilty of shredding bait bags.

Just filled up my jelly feeder. Shouldn’t be long.

Wow, that’s way too close to home. Glad your daughter and everyone else is safe.

A dry brine or marinade goes a long way to keeping white meat juicy. And not overcooking it. 160-165 should be the final internal temp, and if you grill it to that temp it may go up another 10* after it’s taken off. Cook it to 155. Dark meat will still be juicy at 185 and higher. I like to cook legs and thighs into the 190’s for crispier skin and well rendered fat.

The kids identifying as animals (furries) is a thing, basically they were the Goths (apologies to a few of you here ) back in our day, but the litter boxes put out by the school was BS as far as I could tell.
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Yes, it is. My nephew is dating a lady with two kids who had been in a very abusive marriage. He brought her to meet the family on Christmas, when there were at least 25 relatives at my mom’s. Her older daughter was too afraid to speak and her roughly 11 year old daughter had a tail pinned to her pants, a mask with ears, and crawled around the house and yard for hours.

I started turnips, beets, arugula, prizehead and butter crunch lettuces inside yesterday. I’m going to be direct seeding another round outside when I put the transplants out in 2-3 weeks. The 75 sugar snap peas I direct sowed in a raised bed on 4/21 started poking up yesterday. I’m going to do more weeding in the asparagus beds tonight. I seeded a 72 cell tray of crackerjack marigolds on 4/18 and only got 21 to germinate. Not sure why.

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Anyone taking advantage of the new Cannabis law and planting?

Who wants to know?

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These same idiots were supportive of Bin Laden’s letter to America on Tik Tok six months. They think they get actual news from that garbage app.

throw some Hellmans on there, that’ll kill them weeds!!!!

I put Miracle Whip jars on the corner posts and the critters won’t go near it now. Maybe I’ll try good old real mayo on those weeds.

Hi, my name is Pat and I have issues. I already have 57 tomato plants that I started on 4/10. It was cold, windy and wet all weekend and I got bored Sun and started 72 more. I’ll be selling and giving away most/all of the 2nd round. I spent two hours weeding one of my asparagus beds yesterday and probably have 10 more to go before I get both of them done. My wife is typically on weed patrol but she blew her knee out last Sep and it really got away from me. They’re on year 3 and there are a few nice ones now.

I am sure the Wine Caps would do good in those chips. Its good material for them. The issue with foreign mycelium is that its just more competition for the Wine Caps. Maybe add in some straw to give it a good kick start when you spread the sawdust spawn for the wine caps. I am sure it will work fine either way. You will just get less mushrooms and want to make sure you picking the correct species if there is other mycelium in there!
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That’s a really good point. I’ll keep using the chips as mulch and walking paths around the garden. I’m barely confident enough to positively ID a morel.

I’ve been working my way through a huge pile of maple chips from storm damage in June 2022. Would those chips be useable for wine caps? It was loaded with some type of white mycelium on the south facing side once I got into the wetter stuff two weeks ago. Would that be detrimental to another type of fungus?

Been watching a lot of bushcraft and foraging videos and I hear them say quite often if it smells like onion or garlic it’s edible. DON’T take my word for it. I learned it on the internet.

It’s been at least 30yrs but this takes me back to my days of hanging a work light and gill nets off the steel piers in Burnham Harbor in Chicago. My dad used to take us a few times a year and as soon as I was old enough to drive I would take my friends. I can still remember the drunks hollering COHO! whenever one came through.

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A sequel is rarely as good as the original but we’ll see how it plays out.

Thanks. We like it here. I try to improve the garden each year and it’s coming together nicely. It’s about the only physical exercise I get so I’m paying for it after being lazy all winter.

I’ve got some asparagus about 1/2″ tall here now. Got my inground rows prepped and ready for tomatoes and whatever else now. I planted about 75 snap peas on the edge of the raised bed with the netting.

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Nicely done, chef.

Never been to Hawaii or had a real loco moco. I’d seen it enough times on cooking shows that I’ve made it a time or two and it’s really good.

It doesn’t look as low as I expected it to be.

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That’s interesting. I have people telling me they pull their 21 Ft bass boat with a 225 with their Tacoma and have no problems. I think the towing capacity of the Tacoma is about 2X the weight of of my boat, motor, and trailer weight. I’d guess the total package weight on my setup is no more than 3300 Lbs
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Thinking back on it, my last trailer didn’t have surge brakes and I bet that would make a difference.

I pulled a Lowe FS165 and a 90hp Merc with a Tacoma for years. I don’t think I would have wanted to pull anything larger. I traded in the Taco for a Tundra and had the perfect excuse to get a larger boat. Traded in the Lowe for an Alumacraft Edge 175 with a 150hp Vmax SHO. It’s similar in size to the Fish Hawk and I don’t think I would have wanted it behind my Tacoma.