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Comments (16)OOOhhhh - this gets my Irish up. There is a special place in HELL for people who abuse animals. Humans, children, yeah its bad, but animals, especially dogs will come back for more. I had a lovely rescued part Corgi, many years ago. My SO at the time kicked him while we were indoors. SO was a strong guy, but I lifted him into the fridge, and let him know that this was NOT acceptable. I remember a story about Banting & Best, the Canadian drs. who found the treatment for diabetes. I know that this was a very good thing, my head knows that this is a really good thing. But having grown up near where they did the research, the story was about the fact that they did vivisection to test the liver function on the dogs they used - one of the dogs licked the hand of the lab person as they did this. My heart just melts. Yet I still believe in the research. Maybe there's a special place in hell for me, too. Nancy, who has 4 rescue cats....See MoreCounting my blessings
Comments (9)Larry, Ouch! Do you really want dead carcasses in the road by the house all the time? The other day we had a dead armadillo in the road and the vultures swarmed around it all morning. Then they came and started circling the garden where I was working. I was wondering if they were trying to tell me that my time was about up, but then I realized they likely were attracted to the bone meal and blood meal I had added to the garden a couple of hours earlier. I often do get circled by vultures after I've used those particular organic fertilizers. Carol, My summer peas hardly made anything because those plants seemed to be the preferred food of blister beetles and grasshoppers. The fall peas are doing a lot better. I am about starved-to-death for fresh cowpeas from our garden. I really don't mind shelling them. I can buy them fresh and already shelled at Central Market in Southlake, or I even could buy them fresh, shelled or unshelled, by the bushel, from the purplehull pinkeye pea farm in Thackerville. I just prefer to raise my own whenever I can. To me, they taste best when I pick them, shell them, and put them right into the pot on the stove and cook them. While they're cooking, I make homemade cornbread. I can make a meal out of purplehull peas and cornbread. Progress in my fall garden goes slowly. Parts of it are such an overgrown jungle, and I have to go slowly while clearing it because of the snakes. It never ceases to amaze me how many snakes like to come into the garden and climb the trellised plants. It is such a rude awakening to be looking at a plant and to see those beady snake eyes looking back at you. It is a wonder I haven't had a heart attack and died right there in the garden. I make a little progress every day, but it is such a big garden that I feel like I am not making progress quickly enough. It is still so danged hot that most of my cool-season plants seem stalled and not growing much. I know they'll grow more as time goes on, but these windy, warm days with temps in the 90s aren't the weather that the cool-season plants prefer. The Seminole winter squash has watermelon vines, Grandpa Ott's morning glory vines, cardinal climber and some bindweed mixed in with it. I've been trying to cut out and pull out the watermelon vines (no melons or flowers on them at this point) and the bindweed vines without destroying the Seminole winter squash, morning glory and cardinal climber vines, all whilewatching for snakes. I could save time by leaving all those bindweed vines in there, but I'm trying to get them out before they set seed. I am hoping to get out in the garden early, early tomorrow at first light and do some clean-up of the vining areas while it is so cool that the snakes shouldn't be up and moving yet. Larry, That's the reason I haven't bought a pea sheller--I don't want a bunch of mashed-up summer peas. I went through a period of really wanting one during a good summer when we had oodles and oodles of peas, but talked myself out of it after talking to someone who had one and said it mashed up the green peas a lot. It is a lot of work to shell them by hand, but if you cook them fresh, nothing's better. Some years I get a lot of them put up in the freezer but I doubt this will be one of those years since the nights are already cooling down quite a bit. I'll be happy with a few meals of fresh ones though. I do always do put up one frozen packet of southern peas for New Year's Day. It is like summer in the garden when they're cooking on the stove. When I was a kid, shelling peas was just something you did in the evenings--that and snapping green beans. We'd just sit out there on the porch with a big pile of purplehull peas or green beans and work out way through them and, before you knew it, they were done. Dawn...See MoreCount Your Blessings/Have a Blessed Thanksgiving
Comments (2)God bless you too, Lu. I stopped by to say a prayer for all those who are grieving today. May your memories of your loved ones give you some comfort. love, cocooner...See MoreCounting my blessings
Comments (3)I just don't get people who abuse animals. It takes a serious mental problem to take out your frustrations on other living beings. I wish everyone had the foresight to seek help when they feel like hurting something, but obviously that doesn't always happen. I love happy ending stories of pets who have had unfortunate beginnings. My pets are my cure to frustration. When I am having a bad day or am stressed, I scoop up a kitty and have serious cuddle time or take a hamster or two and watch them explore. They make me laugh, which is the best medicine. I count all 7 of my blessings everyday, thanks for the reminder!...See MoreJilly
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