Hi Taria--Just a word about lilacs. Is yours the old-fashioned kind? If so, let me tell you how hardy they are. When we moved to this place in 1973, we tore down an old house to build a new one, and did a lot of clearing. There was a huge lilac here, DH did not know it was a lilac, he thought it was just old scrub. He not only chopped it to the ground, he set fire to the stump. I was so upset at the time I cried. The only saving grace was, it was dead winter and the thing must have been dormant. Here's a pic of the same lilac taken a couple weeks ago:
I was wondering if that might be what is happening. I really was surprised that it lived at all. The heat of summer is no time to be transplanting the size and type of plant the lilac is. I do have a new lilac in a pot I picked up at the nursery last week. When weather goes right that one can go in if the other one bites the dust. Thanks guys, Taria
It looks lovely. Dh is doing a major overall of our garden. The heavy rain we had ruined a lot of plants, they just went black. The trellis that was covered in ivy, roses and clematis has rotted so DH has had to take it down. The trellis that bears the Boston ivy also has rotted so that will have to come down after we have had the pleasure of the changing colours of the leaves. So we need to replant it for next year, bearing in mind we are getting older so need a lower maintenance garden. Shirley
Red Delicious??? Up here most of us don't eat those. We ship them out to people who don't ever get to eat REAL apples that have flavor and fragrance and real crunch. Fuji, Braeburn, Jonagold, Honey Crisp, Ginger Crisp......Some of these are available for only a month or so. But oh so good fresh off the tree. Once they put an apple into the CO2 sheds for storage, just forget about fragrance and most of the taste.
Taria, I admire your persistence. Lilac is definitely worth it
When we lived in Tempe. Arizona I was so lonely for the plants of my childhood. One day in Tip Top Nursery I saw a lilac and bought the thing. I planted it in the only spot in our yard where it might possibly grow. I wworked and worked to get that thing to live. I even packed its roots in ice every night for a couple of months trying to create a false dormant period. All for naught, of course. It died. But now I have a huge beautiful lilac that blooms every spring. My neighbors have a lilac hedge. Yum the nighttime breeze is full of lilac perfume.
I'm not wild about Delicious apples of any color. The ones we get in our stores tend to be mealy and flavorless. Ugh. I much prefer Gala, Fuji and a few others whose names escape me at the moment.
You can have all your apple orchards (we do have a few in Texas but it's not a priority; we let you others grow those).
From Texas just let me say: Pecos cantaloupe.
(in other words: who needs another apple orchard?)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I haven't been in Joann's in months, having stocked up on Hobbs batting last winter w/ all those 40% coupons, ya' know. So when I went in there today to look at their batting: No Hobbs! None. And no intentions of having it again. Not on their website, either. Pa-tooey! Well, no reason to go in there again, not really. There's a Michael's craft store just a couple of miles south of here, easier to get into, no Arlington football stadium tax to pay there (I have my priorities), and Michael's carries pretty much the same stuff, altho' they don't have a fabric dept.. Which means they don't have a mess in one quarter of the store w/ bolts of fabric slung all over, dripping from the shelves, puddling onto the filthy floor. Anyway, when did Joann's stop w/ the Hobbs? They're crazy. I "researched" some of the other batts, all the newer blends, opened up pkgs and played w/ the batting, a couple of other women helping me ; "We are not amused." Or impressed. Gave my coupon to some women in the parking lot; "Oh, we were just fussing about forgetting our coupon!" Went to the quilt shop & bought a Hobbs batt.
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Came home & took my own recommendation to KarenT: buy a roll ofHobbs from Batt-Mart:
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it's good enough for Karen, that's good enough for me! ;-D Hobbs: it's from Texas, you know.Thing is, they have to ship it to Alabama before Batt-Mart shipsit to me; Hobbs is just 100 miles south of here. LOL
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As to the rest of the subject matter: Easiest cake: duh! stop in at the mini-mart & pick up some Hostess or DollyMadison or Mrs.Baird's chocolate cupcakes! I mean, really!
*snort*
Ragmop/Sandy -- quilting away in north Texas while Hurricane Dean churns his way across Mexico ...
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On 8/21/07 12:13 PM, in article snipped-for-privacy@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com, "Sunny" wrote:
Joann's probably figured out all most of us ever used the coupon for was Hobbs batting, Since we all had a mess of them put back for later maybe they decided the shelf space was better used with other brands? That was all I used my coupons on for a long time. Then I realized how many of the bagged batts I had. I hear there was a problem with the quality of some of the HObbs batting. Rumor I can't substantiate but maybe someone else has the poop on that. I like the
80/20 and just wish I was getting more quilting done these days.
Do you have any idea what is in that kind of cakes? No thanks. Golly, I haven't been in a mini-mart in forever. I lead a sheltered life though. Life is too short to eat crummy calories, that I am sure of.
Oh, I didn't say "healthy" or "tasty", just "easy." I can't eat those "cakes", either, prefer to make my own (low sugar, no fat, no egg yolks). I'm with you, save the calories for the good stuff, like corn on the cob w/ avocado lime "butter". ;-D
*sigh* Too bad they d> Joann's probably figured out all most of us ever used the coupon for
We had the Helms Bakery truck in our neighborhood once a week. They would open the double back door, and slide out this really looooonnngg drawer, musta gone clear up to the front seat! Once or twice a year we got to get a glazed donut. We also had Foremost Dairy delivery twice a week. Went in to town for the meat, but once Mama got the chest freezer, the half side of beef she would buy got stored in there, instead of down at the butcher shop. Bartered/traded with the ranchers for fruit and veggies.
G> You don't remember the Helms bakery trucks here in So. Cal.
Is it any wonder the heart drs. are doing a land office business with all those donuts? Topic line making you giggle? YOu gotta admit it is a better one that poor Jo's cat peeing one. (donuts, cake and quilt batting I know. Cat pee I am no expert on)
Where did you grow up? Do you remember big grocery bags full of oranges and avocados? That was good eats!
Taria
G> We had the Helms Bakery truck in our neighborhood once a week. They
I buy my Hobbs at Hobby Lobby when they have their batting on sale. Only sell packaged quilt size bats but that is easier to store. I haven't checked in a few months. They might have stopped selling it too. They have cut the size and selection of their fabric departments. Not the same gold mine on their sales tables.
I grew up in Goleta - about 10 miles north of Santa Barbara on the coast. Went in to Sta Barbara about 4 times a year.
Yep I remember the bags full of produce. Sloughhouse corn, lemons, avocados, peaches, walnuts, plums, grapes, and the veggies. to this day i prefer my fresh corn raw, not cooked, at most lightly steamed.
G> Is it any wonder the heart drs. are doing a land office business
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