The WE2's

Found a healthy supply of squash bugs in all my squash plants...lost 2 baby plants before I noticed what was causing them to wilt & die. Found a recipe for what I call "veggie soap" and gave whole garden a healthy dose. No more squash bugs by morning! Love the stuff. Recipe: in a medium sized sauce pan filled half with water, put lots of garlic powder, lots of onion powder, 2 handfuls of orange peels, several tbsp. of ginger powder, and a bar of pure glycerin soap (I buy it at hobby stores for my homemade insect repellent soaps). Bring to a boil, and reduce to simmer until soap is completely melted. Then let it steep for at least 20 minutes. Strain into a spray bottle and then fill bottle water. Use it diluted. When completely cool, just spray your veggies leaves and stems. Again, love the stuff but bugs hate it! Be sure to wash your veggies though (smile)!

Added another ingredient to the boil mixture...red pepper flakes...for this coming garden veggies!

I have never needed to harden them. I am so abusive to the plants, one plant sits on top of the cement and has been growing, slowly, for a couple of years.

 

 

 

Here is a photo of the two types growing in our yard.

 

Red Aloe:

 

Yellow Aloe:

They look beeeUtiFUL!!!

Alas...I just buy Aloe gels by the dozens, and keep them stored...LOL

Well!!!!!!

 

I went out to water, and the pretty little zucchini seedling is snipped off at the stem, with no sign of the green lieaves.

 

Guess I need to plant more, if it isn't too late in the season here.

 

Silly birds........

And rabbits, and raccoons!

These are from this year...the very beginnings of our square foot garden. We have four 4x4's but we're planning to add four more this next spring. Did potatoes in 8 buckets. Didn't use up hardly any space with this method, only a small portion of one yard.Love all the pics!

Got them copied onto my hard drive! Thanks!

Abby has the amber eyes also...she is so funny for us! We both said we'd never have another dog...but...we wanted a faithful, loyal and bigger sized dog for our camping, to be our "alarm".

I've used this site a couple of times when I didn't know if a site was down or if it was just my computer. So far it's always worked. It's always be trouble with a website. Just type in the web address and click on "or just me?"

 

http://www.downforev...neorjustme.com/

Thanks!

Lived in the mid-central USA most all my life. When living on west coat I missed the changing seasons, missed hearing birds greeting God every morning and missed the "silence" of the morning coffee people! We've chosen to stay here where our taxes are cheap, groceries are reasonable, car gas is lower than the nation, and you know your neighbors and their kids...IF you want to! I'd love to post a pic of myself and Mr. P...but we fly under the radar! Hugs...

Put together another one of my "gift baskets" for a friend today and boy was she surprised! Used a silk scarf as basket liner, put in 2 matching tea cups and 2 packs of green tea. Then added a small jar of dehydrated orange slices and a packet of peppermint foot rub that was given to me as a sample at a festival. Created my card from my pc with directions to have a relaxing cup of tea with a floating orange slice and then she and her husband could give each other a foot rub. Bonding!? LOL (I love these animated graphics!)

Mr. Philbe...the squash whisperer.

Become one with the squash... OHM

You are so FUNNY! Lovya! How about this pic...when we were in Arizona 3 yrs ago for vacation, went up on Pinal Mountain. Saw a horny toad (that's what we always called them) and had my son catch it so I could show them it would lay in the palm of my hand as long as I rubbed it's belly! LOL They now call me the "toad whisperer"!

Keep Tea Tree Oil on hand but not stocked. A bit pricey for us right now. However, it is very good mixed with Noxema and some Lavender facial mask for insect bites. Just a few tiny drops mixed with about 5 TBSP of Noxema and 1 TBSP of lavendar facial mask. I buy the lavendar facial mask at Dollar Tree, but I'm sure you could use other types...cucumber? Dab it on the bite (mosquito!) and let it take out the itchy itchy!This little forum has soooo much good things about it!

Just a suggestion...find a pair of cheap cotton gloves. Cut the fingers out up to the first knuckle. At bed time, rub your hands with Unkers (lots of Dutch/Omish stores carry it) & put the gloves on and go to sleep. Pretty good.

 

 

Additional comment...I've had "great" muscle rubs from hubby with Unkers... and it feels soooo good! Unkers isn't the same concoction as mentholatum rubs though, so don't bypass it as an anelgesic (?). Just as another footnote...I stock mentholatum rubs etc.

No, Unkers is definitely NOT the same as a mentholatum rub mix. And yes, I stock plenty of jars of mentholatum rub, it's good for fungas around nails plus feels mighty good on the bottoms of your feet and as a chest rub when you're sort of congested at night. Dollar Tree has them for $1 a jar whereas WM charges nearly $5 a jar...figure?

You're gonna love it here girlfriend. I'm a relatively newbie myself, but oh have I enjoyed browsing. I'm still reading posts from years ago and having a ball! I and my husband are the "over 60" babyboomers but lively! We have our "Lab Brate" we call Abby. She's 9 months old this week, other than that we're empty nesters who love to RV, motorcycle ride, canoe, kayak, hike, and you name it...she goes with us. Even to the rifle range, tractor pulls! She loves to swim in her own lifejacket too! Again, welcome to one of the most diverse web sites I've found!

Added shredded yellow neck squash (from our garden) instead of hashbrowns, to our omelet this morning, along with bell peppers & onions. Yum, yum, yum! Hubby didn't used to like squash but he's become quite a "witness"!

Jordan Rubin..."wash every opening on your body twice a day...then you don't catch what's going around". Practiced this for a long, long time and I'm a believer!

Well last winter I had pneumonia and just a few weeks ago stomach virus (flu), so I'm fixing two flu boxes now. I was not prepared for that stomach flu. My dad has Alzheimers and its only the two of us, he was unable to do things anymore. I needed so many things, so I'm fixing a box now to sit beside my flu box.

 

My flu box is sparce so I'm having to add everything. Need to add some more cough syrup for sure from Vitacost.com, I think that's it, found it from on here. Only thing I've found I can take with all the meds I take and it works. So I've got to start getting that together.

 

BTW, does anyone know anything good to help build your immune system up so not to catch everything that comes along. I so don't want to get sick again this winter, esp. pneumonia, and I feel like my lungs are still weak. Still cough a lot a night. Just wondering.

Hubby used to have pneumonia every year until he took the pneumonia shot. You only take it twice in your lifetime, and from our point of view...well worth the time and money to not get so sick when you have weak lungs. Just our thoughts. Hugs to ya!

Way to style Abby!

Yesiree...can you see her amber eyes glowing? LOL Her daddy is a red Australian Shepherd (her mom a black lab) and she took her amber eyes from him. She often really gives people a start when they look at her and don't see "gentle black/brown orbs" that they usually expect from a dog! All the more to send you packin! LOL (I figured out that if you click on the pics they enlarge and you can really see it better!)

I know Dogmom, it's depressing.

 

Philbe, I'd be afraid I'd get a catastrophic illness, get in an accident or have a stroke (God forbid) and couldn't pay and they would liquidate my assets to pay off the medical bills. Wonder if they could take my house etc. to pay on the bills? That is a scarier thought that paying the monthly premiums. I guess we are going to pay one way or another. Pick your poison.

I understand your train of thought, like I said...darn if you do and darn if you don't. But...when my mom had a heart attack, the insurance only paid a part. Then the hospital threatened to put a lien against the house...scared them into gatting a loan. I don't think they can take your home, but I'm not an authority. I guess neither of us is frightened enough to get in a peeing match with the government, insurance company or hospitals/doctors. We'll pay what we can and then...??? We'll keep our money in our pockets. Hey Jesus...got some more room up there?! Truly a "Bug Out"!!! Living rapture ready.

Just have to share this about Abby...when we scold her with a high pitched accusation of "did you do that!" she "dive bombs" under our coffee table and thinks she's hiding! This week she turned 9 months old.How do you like her sunglasses and her backpack!?

Let's hear it for Katz!

Hubby is an over 60 self employed individual...and has no insurance, never has. I dropped mine many, many years ago because I couldn't afford it even then on a secretary's pay. Turned to my Bible where it says "Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not ALL of His BENEFITS. He's been good! We've had some expenses but always had the money to pay them. Catastrophics...no. But most insurance companies have limits on those too. Couldn't recommend any way to win...seriously, because it's most likely a "no win" situation if our USA comes totally "unzipped".

I have just been given a Seal-A-Meal (my Dad and stepmother bought a Food Saver). I have never used one. The hose, etc wasn't with it. Any idea if I can use Food Saver bags with it since I can't find any Seal-A-Meal bags at the store?

Probably will work just fine. I've used Rival's with my Gamesaver/Food Saver, but prefer the Food Saver bags because they're cheaper. I buy the rolls, cheaper than the pre-cut bags!

Don't have any trouble with anyone eating mine...but everyone enjoys their own I think?

1 lb ground beef

4 tablespoons of milk

1 small onion chopped

1 cup cooked brown rice

1 whipped egg

salt

pepper

1 diced green bell pepper

1/4 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp. liquid smoke

Mix all ingredients together. Then form a meatloaf and roll up in aluminum foil. Place in your favorite cast iron skillet bake in oven at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out "done". Unwrap & drizzle ketchup over top and brown under broiler.

Another funny from Abby...We had taken a sticky label off of something (?) and it was on the tv table. Somehow or another Abby got it stuck to the end of her tail (no...we didn't do this deliberately) and this pic is of her trying desperately to "chase it away"...LOL We both laughed sooo hard we cried! I keep a camera on my end table for occasions such as this!

Reminds me of one of my own favorites, when someone finds out where my goat is tied! ..."you don't pay me enough to occupy my mind all the time".