Coffee anyone ?

[Ridgetop]

I'd like to build a deck at the edge of the bluff with the big satellite dish as a trellis at the end of the deck. Covered with some sort of vine, I'm thinking maybe grapes, but there's a beetle here which just decimates grape leaves and I'd not want to put a lot of bug spray/deterrent around an outside sitting area. Maybe a Zephirine Drouhin rose since it's a climbing thornless big pink rose? Can't eat it, but it would look pretty and smell nice.

If it is going at the end of a sitting area that you will be using a lot, got with the rose. Fruit attracts bugs and flies as it ripens and drops. Dropping fruit requires raking it and picking it up before it rots. Sitting area is for relaxing and enjoying, not for realizing you forgot to put on big repellant and need to go get the rake and trash can! LOL Fruit and veggies are better at a slight distance from the patio.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Got more plaster down yesterday. Then picked tomatoes, going to make sauce today. Even got school done also.
Today is ds birthday, he is 12! had the party Sunday. So that's out of the way but am letting him sleep in at the moment. Horses are getting hoof trims too. DH is upset we aren't making hay this week.... not sure when that would have happened....it can wait until next week.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee!

 

[Mini Horses]

Coffee still going on here.....

Up and out for a few morning chores, looked over yesterdays clean up & work. Satisfied but, now need to sweep up the grass I cut....waiting for it to dry. Having 2nd cup now. Have 3 hrs of work for others -- then home to finish things here. Home tomorrow, so plans for more. Hoping to get an overgrown holly (was a bush, now tree size) cut back or down. Then powerwash rails on that porch. Will paint next week -- if dry weather. Looking at pulling & replacing some other bushes there.

While cutting by the house yesterday ...I moved three big pots of comfrey. Those rascals had grown their root thru a center hole...into the ground below. Of course, broke when moved. So, dug some of the root, potted, and now hope to have new plants from those plus what was left in ground. Potted ones limped from the damage but, standing back up now, after some cool & rains. All will get their own "bed" established soon. I've fought off chickens & goats to keep these going -- after they totally ate the first group to death. These were fenced off.

Didn't get to outside barn clean up -- I had rain arrive instead

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Still working on tomato sauce. Have enough tomatoes picked to make salsa also, dh wants it hotter. And some jalopanos to pickle. Going to use the pressure canner for all to save time. Rabbit cages need cleaned and camper packed.
Lightning gets his teeth checked and floated today. Potatoes need harvested too. I am exhausted thinking about it...though we do have most of tomorrow also to get it done.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee! I’ll be canning pears today. A neighbor brought us some and we love them peeled, quartered and canned in a light syrup.

 

[Baymule]

@promiseacres I'm going over to the recipe section to post my BBQ sauce recipes. I made 2, one is sweet, one is more smokey and not so sweet. Make a batch of each to see which one you like best.

 

[Bruce]

Potatoes need harvested too. I am exhausted thinking about it...though we do have most of tomorrow also to get it done.

Kids and dogs LOVE to dig in the dirt

 

[Mini Horses]

cool and overcast here....would be a good day to can None to do.

Stripped bed, washing sheets now. Line dry is planned. Got my Carhart jacket washed last night -- last of my "winter" gear to get ready. Now I have a shelf of that "stuff" ready. It's coming...the cold. If it's like all these other extremes we are seeing -- I'm already sad. Hate the cold! Anticipate a lot of it.

Looking at the damages from hurricane Sally. WOW 28+ inches of rain in Pensacola. At the rate it's moving, they'll get more. Still seems NC & VA will see some Fri/Sat. Hope it has emptied out before then....I'll share but, not wanting all that. Check on our members in the path of this........report in if you can.

@Baymule add a link for recipe thread, pls. I can't search all day.

Been searching for trailer tires.......need oil change in truck, need chicken feed....need to get my butt in gear.

 

[Baymule]

@Bruce here ya go !

BBQ Sauce Recipes

2020 has been my best tomato year ever! I've had to get real creative to use them all. I've canned plain sauce, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, salsa, dehydrated tomatoes, and BBQ sauce. At @promiseacres request, I am posting my BBQ sauce recipes. I made 2 different BBQ sauce, sweet and savory...

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