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Arby, I didn't see your post until this morning. I grew up in the LA area but have relatives all over the southern and northern parts of the state. A brother and his family and also cousins, etc. in Southern CA. Another brother and his family in the Sacramento area where my nephew is the Sacramento Co. Sheriff. Then I have a niece with her family in San Francisco and of course, number 1 is our daughter in SF. I moved to Iowa in 1968 (yes I am old) and love it here....except I'm no longer crazy about winter....to be honest, I pretty much hate it! I have made the trip from CA to Iowa so many times (just like in the movie, by plane, train and automobile) I think I could do it in my sleep. My first trip Mom was pregnant with me, the 2nd I was 5 months old and it has never ended.

I do! As soon as I saw the title I started humming that darned tune and it will probably be in my mind all day! Have a safe trip!

She's registered so she has a la la name but we'll call her Lucy. We name everything with the letter corresponding with the year and 12 is the letter L. If her calf is a girl we'll call her Lollipop, a boy, I think, will be Lancelot.

DH and I drove 70 miles today to buy a bred Jersey cow. She's to calve on Sept. 15th but we hope NOT to milk her. We're too old to start that again UNLESS things really do get bad and then we'll be glad to have to milk twice a day. I mainly wanted her just in case. What we're planning, if all stays good, is to buy 2 or 3 more calves and let her raise them. Anyway, here's a picture. Isn't she pretty???

I'm headed to CA again in Oct. dogmom4. DD is getting married on the 26th. First we'll go to the L.A. area for my brothers 70th birthday party and then up to Sac. for a couple of days and then on over to S.F. for daughters wedding. I picked our 1st watermelon today. Yum, was it ever good. A little warm though as I brought it in out of the sum and we chomped into it immediately. The rest is cooling for later. NOW it's time to show pictures of what we're pulling out of those gardens after all our hard work this summer. So here is the watermelon. It's just as red and pretty as it looks. BTW, in the background is my pork tenderloin. Just out of the pressure canner and pinging as I write.

I put them in tossed salads but then I put everything but the kitchen sink in salads.

If food does get scarce in this country, how many of you know anything about foraging? I really don't but I know you can eat cattails, milkweed, etc. which we have lots of with the creek and pond. So, I looked up some recipes on the internet for those 2 things. I don't think I have any interest in it unless I'm hungry and food is scarce but I printed off some recipes "just in case". I know you can eat lily bulbs also but know it has to be certain ones so I need to look that up too. I'm thinking more of winter eating than summer. What else is there we could forage in winter climates? Any ideas?

The blurb will give some information about the seed you're looking at and if it's drought resistant it will probably state it. Afterall, they want to tell you all it's good points so you'll buy it!

You will be busy but what fun! Have a great time Mt. Ridger.

Good Morning Everyone Just in from my walk and I was almost chilly. It's 66 but that's 20 degrees cooler than when I've walked for the last couple of weeks. Oh my, is it ever nice though. It's also overcast with a 30% chance of a tenth of an inch of rain. Darn, I should have done a rain dance while I was out there!!! Not a whole lot going on here today. I need to get ready for church before long. I think I'll check on the beets and see if they'll be ready to can tomorrow. DGC will probably be over sometime today. Haven't seen them for a couple of days so one or the other will be calling to come visit. Hope you all have a good day!

26 packages, 2 in each package, of enchiladas for DH and DS.

Glad you're enjoying your birthday!

We've spent almost $40,000 putting in a corn crop on 100 acres. That does NOT include tractor gas, repairs, etc. It is simply for seed, fertilizer and herbicides. If we go another week w/o rain we'll lose some of our crop. If we go two weeks w/o rain our whole crop will be gone. We have NEVER had a crop failure in this part of the state BUT this year looks alot different from the norm. Those that didn't borrow money to put in a crop will lose all they've spent because of not having insurance. The big guys that borrow boatloads of money have had to buy insurance to cover what they've borrowed. Corn and soybean prices are going up like crazy and if this drought keeps up they'll do nothing but go higher. The price per bushel, just today, for corn jumpmed $.49 and soybeans were up $.54. $7.11 a bushel corn and $15.39 a bushel for beans is unbelievable. If you need it, unless we start having monsoons in the midwest, you better be buying. With no rain there is also no hay but you might wait on buying beef. If this keeps up beef producers will start liquidating (some already have) and you should see decent sales before long. I would think, although I don't know as much about pork, that with all the confinement buildings pigs are fed grain so with the prices I've quoted there may be hog producers liquidating too. It's a rough time for so many right now, all over this country, so prepare what you can and breathe. We have got to keep as calm as we can and just take it a day at a time.

I missed 3. The state that was not one of the original 13. The number of years a senator serves and what is not a right in the Preamble. Cool test, thanks gofish.

Thanks Snowmom, I hope you and everyone here has a great 4th. We're staying home and inside enjoying the air-conditioning on this 93 degree afternoon. Sooooooooo, glad we're not having to go someplace!!!