Renai Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Junie said: @Renai How's Dancer doing today? Praying. They stopped the contractions and I went to pick her up today. 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 14 minutes ago, Renai said: They stopped the contractions and I went to pick her up today. Hooray for more time for the little one to grow! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Now I want to try....@Junie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 It didn’t work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Ima try again @Junie Woohoo. It worked now. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Now I will try.... @Susan in TN 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 That is fun. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Good Saturday Morning! Coffee's brewing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Good morning! So glad dancer was able to go home! The kitchen has been tidied and the jars are going through the dishwasher now, so I have a couple hours to eat, ITT, and prep rhubarb and strawberries for jam. Dd13 is tea-staining a journal and said this morning that she wants to use it for a story, but she needs dd17 to do the actual story-writing. 😄 Coffee! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Good Morning! Happy Saturday! Going to a zoom wedding today. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Mmmmm...simmering rhubarb smells soooooo good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Good Morning!!!! COFFEE!!!!~D Saturday!!!! Housework. My aunt and uncle brought by. Huge box of apricots, so I think I will make some pie filling to freeze and the rest we will eat fresh. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 28 minutes ago, Susan in TN said: Mmmmm...simmering rhubarb smells soooooo good! I have never had rhubarb in my life. It is not a California thing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Just now, Servant4Christ said: Best as I can tell, rhubarb is a Northeastern thing. I'm from the South and had never even heard of it until I moved North. Celery family, but pink and green in color. Super duper sour and needs lots of sugar and/or other sweet fruit mixed with it to make it even remotely palatable. But it happens to be in my yard and I refuse to let it go to waste, so I've found ways to use it that our family enjoys. Southern produce I miss are figs. Yummy! 😋 People here in Utah grow rhubarb. Rhubarb pie was my mom's favorite when I was a kid. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I think I have a rhubarb plant in my yard. It's in a back corner where the former owners very strangely chose to put some raised garden beds--that spot gets almost zero sun. I haven't done anything with it other than look at it suspiciously because I'm not 100% sure it really is rhubarb 🤣 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, maize said: I think I have a rhubarb plant in my yard. It's in a back corner where the former owners very strangely chose to put some raised garden beds--that spot gets almost zero sun. I haven't done anything with it other than look at it suspiciously because I'm not 100% sure it really is rhubarb 🤣 There IS a plant that looks like rhubarb but you shouldn't eat it. It might be called wild rhubarb? I saw some when we were backpacking in the mountains and was very disappointed to learn that you can't eat it. I loved to eat raw rhubarb as a kid, mostly for the thrill factor, I think. 😂 Like kids who eat that super sour candy stuff. I'm pooped. The strawberry-rhubarb jam is all done and canned. Imma sit here for a few minutes and decide what to eat for lunch and then eat lunch and then get started on the triple-berry jam. It's actually quadruple-berry, but who's counting. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I found mulberries growing along the path on my walk this morning. I snapped off a couple of twigs to see if I can root them, I like mulberries and these are different from the ones I have. Some had white berries and some black, the leaves were all lobed. The mulberries in my yard don't have lobed leaves. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I went to take a look at my maybe-rhubarb and something has eaten the leaves--probably my chickens. If it is rhubarb I hope the leaves aren't dangerous to chickens like they are for humans 🤣 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I need to do school planning. I have hardly touched it. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, maize said: I found mulberries growing along the path on my walk this morning. I snapped off a couple of twigs to see if I can root them, I like mulberries and these are different from the ones I have. Some had white berries and some black, the leaves were all lobed. The mulberries in my yard don't have lobed leaves. Are those the things that look like little white grubs? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 The triple-berry jam is done and canned. I'm extra pooped. It's Very Humid in here - 7 hours of boiling kettles of water and jam will do that, I suppose. Imma sit here for a while and do nothing. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Happy Summer Solstice! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 25 minutes ago, KrissiK said: Are those the things that look like little white grubs? It is. My parents’ neighbor has a white mulberry tree and my dad picked some and we tried it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, Susan in TN said: Happy Summer Solstice! Happy Summer Solstice to you, too. Longest day of the year. I hate summer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 5 hours ago, Servant4Christ said: Best as I can tell, rhubarb is a Northeastern thing. I'm from the South and had never even heard of it until I moved North. Celery family, but pink and green in color. Super duper sour and needs lots of sugar and/or other sweet fruit mixed with it to make it even remotely palatable. But it happens to be in my yard and I refuse to let it go to waste, so I've found ways to use it that our family enjoys. Southern produce I miss are figs. Yummy! 😋 I've never had rhubarb and never heard of it until adulthood. I'm born and raised NJ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 23 minutes ago, Where's Toto? said: I've never had rhubarb and never heard of it until adulthood. I'm born and raised NJ. It's fairly popular in MN and the midwest, or was at least, when I was growing up. It may be the Scandinavian influence. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Friend is married. It didn't rain. No one wore masks. I stayed #saferathome. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Susan in TN said: It's fairly popular in MN and the midwest, or was at least, when I was growing up. It may be the Scandinavian influence. DH claims to like it, but his mom is from Oklahoma. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 I got three packages of apricot pile filling in the freezer. It’s 103 degrees out. Freezing food for the winter gives me hope that winter will come again.❄️☃️🎄🎄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 4 hours ago, KrissiK said: It is. My parents’ neighbor has a white mulberry tree and my dad picked some and we tried it. Did they taste like grubs? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, KrissiK said: DH claims to like it, but his mom is from Oklahoma. That's crazy! 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Just now, Susan in TN said: That's crazy! 😂 They like it in Oklahoma. I don’t know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, KrissiK said: I got three packages of apricot pile filling in the freezer. It’s 103 degrees out. Freezing food for the winter gives me hope that winter will come again.❄️☃️🎄🎄 Sounds like we need some weather poetry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Came to check up on Dancer. So, so glad she is going home and the baby gets more time to grow! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Ima go water some plants. They are all wilting. Did I happen to mention that I hate summer?. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Susan in TN said: Sounds like we need some weather poetry. Ode to Summer Summer is hot. Too hot. Too hot. Summer is butt. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 7 hours ago, KrissiK said: Are those the things that look like little white grubs? They look like slightly elongated white raspberries 🙂 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Dd15 and I finished watching Gone With the Wind. Dd15: Seriously? That's how it ends? Me: Well, if the movie lasted any longer two more people would have died. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 9 minutes ago, Junie said: Dd15 and I finished watching Gone With the Wind. Dd15: Seriously? That's how it ends? Me: Well, if the movie lasted any longer two more people would have died. It really did have a disappointing ending. But what else could have happened?? Scarlett was truly black hearted. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 23 minutes ago, Paradox5 said: Summer is scorching. This is true, especially if you are in Copenhagen for the Summer Solstice Witch Burning Festival. 😄 I wonder if they can resist reenacting scenes from Monty Python? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Raspberries are popular around here. Dh keeps blaming our garden not doing well on me not watering enough. Except I'm watering every day AND we are getting late afternoon thunderstorms almost every day. But it is super hot during the rest of the day. I think it's more due to the crappy seeds he bought. Way more than half of them didn't sprout anything at all. And we have something chewing on the leaves which I'm sure isn't helping either. I'm ordering seeds from a legit seed catalog way ahead of time for next year. And we probably should redo the soil in the planting bags or somehow redo the raised beds but we keep having problems with the neighbors pine tree roots taking over the beds. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Where's Toto? said: Raspberries are popular around here. Raspberries don’t grow well in our climate. We have a lot of boysenberries, which are beautiful and make a delicious pie. And blueberries are getting more popular as they are getting plants that can deal with our heat. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 1 hour ago, maize said: They look like slightly elongated white raspberries 🙂 Yes, they do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Junie said: Dd15 and I finished watching Gone With the Wind. Dd15: Seriously? That's how it ends? Me: Well, if the movie lasted any longer two more people would have died. Well, there is a sequel if you're interested. Not by Margaret Mitchell of course. Booyah. Edited June 21, 2020 by Another Lynn 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Good Morning! Happy Sunday! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 58 minutes ago, Another Lynn said: Well, there is a sequel if you're interested. Not by Margaret Mitchell of course. Booyah. I didn't know there was a sequel, but if it's not written by Margaret Mitchell I don't consider it canon. 😉 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Morning, Happy Sunday. I decided to skip my workout with dd today because I woke up to a really painful ankle. Not sue if it was all the workouts or something I ate, since that seems to have an effect too. I'll see her this afternoon at my moms. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Good morning! Happy Father's Day to all the ITT Dads! The weather is all rumbly-tumbly outside. We could use some rain. Can't believe I'm saying that after the nonstop rain we had all winter and spring. Dh and ds24 left a while ago for services. They'll be back around 1:30 or 2. I need to pick up ds15 from his campout at noon. The rest of us have Big Screen church this morning. Baked french toast is for Father's Day lunch. Coffee! Edited June 21, 2020 by Susan in TN 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Summer Rush The blackberries drop potent berries Bright black beetles on the deep green plush Of a green ground, not yet abandoned by the rain. Over the fence the pumpkin vines shout, "Hurry, hurry, hurry" Because it's a short season, The space between plenty and drought, And now, now, now Is the only time to grow. R. Musings Will that do? I don't like the heat, but when you can almost hear the vines climbing the fence, it's something else. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Good Morning!!!! COFFEE!!!!~D Sunday!!!! Happy Father’s Day!! Amazon did not come through for us this time. DH’s gift was supposed to be here Thursday and is still not here. But, Baby is whipping up a couple of quiches for a Father’s Day breakfast and we are going to my parents’ house after TV Church for lunch. Love the poem, Critter. You do a much better job than I do. Maize, I hope you’ll forgive me for saying mulberries look like white grubs. I was just teasing you. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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