Q and A: Sweet and spicy pickles, planting potatoes, and planting fruit bushes
Sweet and spicy pickles
What I would like is a recipe for sweet and spicy pickles. My husband and I were at a flea market in Abilene, Texas and bought a jar from a vendor....
My surgery was cancelled again; my cold came back
I was unbelievably depressed Saturday when I started coughing. It felt just like when I had my two-week-long cold that got my gallbladder surgery postponed. Oh no, couldn't be! Oh yeah? Well, I coughed...
What a win/win situation
We just butchered two steers and will be getting our meat back in a short time, so I've been working at cleaning out the freezer. Gee, what a job as it's not been done...
It feels like fall
All of a sudden, a cold front hit us with highs in the low fifties F plus very high wind. Boy was it cold! And, unfortunately, our son, Bill and his family, were scheduled...
Holy Cow! It’s not supposed to be in the nineties in northern Minnesota
For the second week now, we're experiencing a terrific (for us!) heat wave with steady temperatures in the nineties every day. What makes it so hard for us is that we're in our frantic...