Mt_Rider

That looks gorgeous! And hubby with new job... MtRider

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE Hope you get to be for the day! MtRider Mmmmm!

What kind of goats? I have horses, goats [Nigerian Dwarf], and ducks. .... but you might already know that if you've been lurking for years. Glad you're here to talk to us now tho! MtRider

Tube sox are a great way to recycle alllll my sox with holes in the heels. Mine don't last 6 months! They also are beginning to sell a plastic device to 'box' up 12 canning jars. Lehman's catalog had some and I saw some of them in one other place. Expensive but would be a good investment in earthquake country. At least give you a better chance. Putting these meals in the glass jars is one thing I had reservations about. Glass and I don't get along so well on my uncoordinated days. So while I love the idea, I might hesitate to take food out of the protection of the #10 cans. MtRider [... n'other use for holely sox ]

I agree with Daylily.... Whew! Sounds like fun (or would have been a couple decades ago ) God protect the whole family as they adventure together and apart this summer! MtRider

I have a triangle-faced calico too. She'll be 12 this July. My constant indoor companion and fearless mouse-catcher. I'm getting an itch to have a kitten [tho mine still acts like one] cuz another friend of mine just got two bitty kitties. MtRider [Cute Cute Cute !!!! ]

It's really interesting and informative when we can get a perspective from around the globe. We have several ladies [possibly a gent or two] who hail from other parts. It's important to have that broader view. MtRider

I remember you..... BACK! Hope all is well with your DD. MtRider

So many choices in this life.....and mere mortals can't see the future of them. MtRider

Wow, you DID expand your garden, Darlene. Looks wonderful! You all have such advanced stuff growing and I'm thinking our attempts this year might be completely thwarted. First...we are still going down to 20 degrees many nights. But there are things that should be in by now or at least under lights in my basement. I just keep having TIME/ENERGY consuming stuff happen. It's been annoying and astounding...all these delays. I'm trying the straw bale gardening [so far I'm growing oats ] and the soda bottle tower [ nearly got to construct the first one today...nearly! ] and the potato towers [have two of those...nothing coming up yet...and Ambergris informed me that the Yukon Gold taters won't do multiple layers in those towers. Right now, I'd settle for just SOME taters in the wire tower so I don't have to dig in this concrete "soil" come fall. But I sure am enjoying the pics you all are posting. Memories of childhood gardens in Iowa. 1/2 acre or more in those days. MtRider [...might be only enjoying gardens from afar this year??? ]

Wow, that's a Happy Mother's day, Arby! Yeah, the Kindle, etc are certainly a portable way of having a whole library. And Internet access too? Coool. All those resource books you can download. MtRider [...never too many books!!!! ]

Meanwhile at 9,000' in the Rockies.... we're having SNOW for the second time this week. Y'all are making me jealous, y'know. I'm prepping the straw and hay bales that I plan to plant in but other than 2 potato towers, nothing is yet planted. We have also had an extraordinarily warm season. Never saw it's like up here. We could have planted some things but have been tied up with projects like acquiring horses, major repair to vehicles, dealing with power outages (twice in three weeks), etc. Like Darlene, I'd LIKE to get real serious about garden this year but.... I just can't seem to get to it behind the other things. Ah well, we NEVER get stuff in this early anyway cuz of late season temperature drops so, I'm not really behind. Just not taking full advantage of this early start this year. MtRider

LOL Jeepers. MtRider sees her waving her hand wildly in class...before she falls out of her desk chair in her enthusiasm. OK...but what if my email changes...cuz that's the other thing you have to type in besides your password, right? And...iPod Touch device does not have those thingies that Vic is talking about, do they??? MtRider [....laptop is fine right now but I have "history" with computers! ]

THANK you, Windborn! You must be from a younger generation if you can peruse thru books while watching TV. I'm afraid I've left that level of multitaxing.... I mean "multitasking" behind. Just can't do it when one gets older, tho I'd love to be an exception. I have a question.... but I forgot what it was..... .... ...... ........ah HAH! I remember. Is the Amazon account tied to your email address OR your actual computer OR what? In other words, if my computer crashes, can I go fetch the acquired books from my archived account there with the new computer??? Could I access to read my books from someone else's computer...like a library computer? MtRider [...even with the advantages of eBooks, paper copies are lots simpler! ]

I download a lot of classics from literature which I may or may not have previously read. I also down load a LOT of reference books. I don't 'read' them but can use them to look stuff up. [provided we don't have an EMP.. ] As for the others, some will prove to be dumb or boring and I'll delete them. Many others I will read. I've read a LOT of them already. Being disabled, I read while I can't physically do anything else. Beats counting knots on the rafter logs. If we ever have a type of Hooey that allows for these reader devices to continue working [and at least periodic electric to charge them], then I will have my library. If in such a way that all my eLibrary goes {poof} , that will be sad but I also have "one thousand" books in paperback and hardcover too. But a laptop and/or iPod is WAY more portable!!!! If I devour 4 books per week...times 52...that's 200 books in a year. Not even counting the reference books or ones I'll eventually reject. MtRider

Yipppeeeee...I was HOPING that it would be a rediculously L A R G E number of books. Thanks for the info. Anyone know how to compute for an 8GB iPod? MtRider

Everyone is joking about how MANY eBooks they are downloading....cuz so many are FREE! And we're all sure the big red light will go off like a strobe and declare: THAT'S IT! YOU ARE MAXED OUT! So does anyone know how to tell??? 1) I have Kindle For PC. I have well over 200 eBooks...Prolly closer to 300 if you add Adobe Digital Editions. How can I tell if I'm reaching capacity? Some of those 'books' are barely pamphlets and some are huges volumes. 2) For folks who use a Kindle device? 3 ) For anyone using a Nook? 4) Oh...and I also have an iPod [8GB] with nothing else on it but the address book. I truely wish to figure out how to download some of the books to there too. 5) What other types of eReaders are there? MtRider [...seriously, I'm the one that filled up my PM box on MrsS some years back... ]

HUH? What did you say, Ambergris? Yukon Gold won't work for this????? Why? That's what we bought this year. Are there any other ones that don't work? MtRider [...another layer of the seed taters,huh AH? ]

Not to strike terror ....but the term Lyme disease is very, VERY serious. It is a disease that is subject to a LOT of contention between doctors. But I know two close friends who have the systemic, long-term version of this. I'd get that site checked pronto. And research Lyme for yourself - both sides of the controversy. Don't accept a pat-on-the-head answer. What you have might JUST be an annoying itch. I do not know what the initial symptoms of Lyme are.... But I'd make very sure, if I were you. MtRider

OK...adding what will look like green gummy worms to my freezer then. MtRider [..thanks ]

THANKS, y'all! I have my front window sill lined with pseudo-canning jars [pasta sauce kind] filled with water and medium sized aloe. Good grief! If all these *do* restart...where am I gonna put them all? I've got a tiny cabin with only the cabin-traditional window space. AND this plant doesn't seem to like summer-time direct light. Happy in the north window. I've never drank the juice. I like to have it for burns tho. Is there any way to preserve the juice/gel for applying to burns? Freeze, mebbe? MtRider ...uh, don't think I need more right now, Annarchy.

I was forced to move a large aloe plant. You know. The type where the 'leaves' were crawling out over the pot. They are so fragile at the root by that point. As expected, 90% of the plant broke off from whatever bit held them into the dirt. So...do I have baby aloe plants now? Or will all that part die? Will they root again if I put the ends in water for a while? Or will they root if I put the ends in well-watered soil? It's the one plant that has medicinal value so I'd rather not lose so much of it. AND...anyone know if I can 'harvest' the aloe juice and somehow preserve it for medicinal use???? MtRider [ I can't remember what I did before. ]

Good to get some news but we'll miss her! MtRider

Be careful of 'natural' things when you are sending them with a child to school or whatever. A number of years ago now, a kindergarten child was suspended for 'passing out drugs'...... Which turned out to be.... Sharing his lemon drops with his best buddy. A brand of lemon drops that wasn't recongnized by teacher or admin. Organic lemon drops, actually. But they did not recind his suspension.... {can you spell homeschooling? ] Just make sure it remains in the original packaging. And thanks for the tip...cuz this is a BAAAAAD allergy year where I hail from. I have some instant ginger tea in granular form. Available in Asian markets. Yes, has a bite! Hmmm, mix with ginger ale, huh? MtRider

MtRider [...no words can express.... ]