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Eeewwee, I am lost in translation. Give me Billy any day.

Heck, Yeh, Watered Garden, ANYTHING fried in butter is good. I am with ya, sister girl!! Okra, may be the one exception!

Rotatation is very important concerning solanaceous plants...PARTICULARLY if there has been disease with the plants. Beans have to be rotated, also. Good rule of thumb with tomatoes is a 3 year rotation. There is a large plot where the grass has grown over. A fusirium wilt devastated my tomato plants (and nearly me) 6 years ago and lost 24 tomato plants. Next year, I will plant tomatoes there, again. The greenbeans are spent. They have been good to us. Much to forge on for the winter. The butterbeans are still coming in. The corn has tassled amber and will pick tomorrow. The 36 plants are down to 30. Next year I will plant the corn where the tomatoes are this year. I will plant the tomatoes where the corn is this year. Corn is wind pollinated. Plant no less than 3 rows. Aaahhh, I am with you, everybody, do love my gardening. Best drug in the world. It is my happy pill.

Eewwee, honey, I was young(er), wild and free and had the world by the tail, baby!!! I was go with the flow and heck, yeh, I'll go to a festival in Ohio. I would have gone just about anywhere with anybody. I was a little country girl and wanted to explore the world. Ohio sounded like a good start. Golly, how I remember a bunch of us would pile stuff in a car and just go. Throw caution to the wind, baby!! I did have some fun. I always appreciated those that worked the roa. After marriage and then came the children no more tenting. We had arrived!!! It was pop-up camper time!!! When we went wow I remember praying to go to Arizona. Go west, young woman, was my mantra. We went to Iowa. Iowa??!!!!?? Where the bleep is Iowa?!!!??? What the bleep is in Iowa?!!!??? Being from the south I thought the weather in Ohhh-Hi-Oooo to be mild.

Dang, Tazia, you go lovie, on book 3 already and I have not cracked the first page on book 1. Your last paragraph has me even further intrigued about what this author has to say.

Woo wee, bowtwi, I just remembered that KFC is fried in a pressure cooker.

I would pay Billy for doing this since he is not able to work a job. What a way to reinforce a Christ like soul.

Remember the days of the Truancy Officer? Back in my day boys carried pocket knives and duked it out in the play ground. If you got in trouble at school you got in trouble at home. Now, mamas hot foot it to school and want to know what you did to make her baby mad that made him/her misbehave. That is, the parents who care enough to show up or are available. The breakdown of the family unit is the greatest contributing factor for the pathetic state of our education system.

Happy Birthday, Krys. Enjoy your posts. Hope your day was all you wanted it to be.

okie, dokie, leafy, twinky and gc. I have parched soil on this mega chip brain of mine. It is a condition that attacks us southern farmers and gardeners this time of year. I promise to remember better when the rains come.:)

bowtwi, my mom cooked a lot of food in the pressure cooker. One thing she always stressed to me was to allow the pressure to cool down properly. Don't open it until the gauge says so. About the only meat mom cooked in the pressure cooker was beef stew. I don't ever remember her cooking any kind of hamburger meat in the pressure cooker. I would imagine, though, hamburger meat being cooked under a steam pressure would turn out kind of soggy. I don't do pressure cooking but I do a lot of pressure canning. The same is true. You have to treat the cooker with extreme care. In the right situation it could be considered a weapon.

Watered Garden, I always plant the yellow crook neck squash. Straight neck will do just as well in this recipe, also. One thing I did forget to mention in the recipe about the sour cream. I used fat-free once and it was too watery. Yuk, yuk, bland something missing. No flavor or richness. Then I used low fat and the casserole was nearly the same. Whole sour cream does provide a rich moistness to the recipe without that watered down effect.

gc and leafy, ya'll help me refresh my brain. gc is in England, right? Leafy is in California, right? Leafy, is a native of England? I know gc is native to Lousiana, me thinks.

Ruth Simmons, my number two hero, would give Miss Trina a good talking to.

My 8th grade science teacher, Mrs. Warner, wouldn't let me miss class to go.

I'm with Rum. Let's just party over His victory. Of course, I could go for surf and turf every year. Porterhouse, ribeyes, NY strips, ribs, lobster, crab, oysters on the half shell, shwimps (not a typo)infinity choices every year.

How old is this v2p2?

O. k. I am sharing my top secret recipe. Back at the Memorial Day cookout we had at mom's I made this. Many folks said this was the best part of the meal. I make this once or twice a week during the summer at home. 6 to 8 small yellow squash cut into rounds 1 large white onion cut into rounds 2 large tomatoes, (home grown the best) quartered then quarters cut in half 8 ounces (at least) sour cream salt and pepper, more pepper than salt 2 bay leaves A little bit of each minced: basil, parsley, oregano and thyme a dash or two of red pepper flakes spinach noodles Cook spinach noodles. Place bay leaves in water and allow to simmer, covered, for one minute. Place squash and onion in steaming basket, place in steamer (pot, whatever)and cook for one minute covered. You want the bay leaves aroma to saturate the veggies. Remove from cooking and turn veggies into mixing bowl. Remove bay leaves. Gently mix salt, pepper, sour cream and herbs into veggies. Then very gently fold tomatoes into mixture. Bake, covered, at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. If you bake it uncovered it will dry out. Yuk!!! Serve casserole on spinach noodles. The boy hates tomatoes and squash but loves this casserole. I don't like squash but I love this recipe. Something about cooking the squash and tomatoes and sour cream together gives it a delicious flavor. When I made this at the Memorial Day cookout everybody wanted to know what kind of cheese was in the casserole. No cheese just sour cream. If you have to use grocery store tomatoes refer to my earlier post about how to prepare them. Then use them in this recipe.

o. k. gc, you get lots of rain in England. Rub it in, honey girl. We are having the typical southeastern dog days. I should have kept my mouth shut a few days back about it being cooler and less humid than usual. All I know to tell you, gc, is that in our area we know to stay out of the greenbean patch when it is wet because of the chance of brown rust. Actually, I remember my grandmother lamenting over the wet garden when she knew she needed to get out there to pick. She always said, "you don't galivant through the garden when it is wet." Funny, the little things one remembers. Anyway, the local university extension service advises the same thing for our area. If the garden is wet because of recent rainfall I know to stay out. I wish that was the case at this moment. The wetness does seem to affect the more bushy plants in rows close together. I suppose in your area the veggies are acclimated to the wet ground and not affected.

Brainfixed, does your relative have a library card to the local county/city library? My local library has a gazillion dvd and vcr videos on how to decorate a cake to roofing your own house to oil painting to sewing. I am a big advocate and supporter of the library. There are shelves and shelves of dvd and vcr movies, documentaries, and music cd's. No charge. A precious little library card is all it takes. Wish all of life was that simple. Some years ago I came upon a traffic check. I could not find my driver's license. I was crazy because I could not imagine why I would not have my license with me. I pulled out a couple of other ID's. The officer was hmmm hmmm, yes ma'am, yes ma'am. I showed him my library card and he said o. k. you are good, you can go!!!!! I tell folks this story and they think I am lying because in our state you go to jail, plus $250.00 fine, if you don't have your driver's license in your posession while driving.

The publisher's description of this book sounds very interesting. I particularly like... "Where personal daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a belief system, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally right." Tzaia, when I think of Christianity the religion I think of Jesus' words..."you draw nigh unto Me with your lips but your heart is far from Me." See, honey, even He lived with it. Don't let your colleagues cause you any fret. You go on loving and giving and thinking just that, as always, no matter what others may say or do. I struggled for a while with the attending a church thing. I don't now. It doesn't happen. Don't see it happening. Maybe in August when Mars is suppose to be closet to earth than in an infinity it could happen. I don't need the "institutional church structure" to live and give love. The last part of the publisher's description I found very interesting because it has been my experience in most "institutional church structures" that being "doctrinally right" IS being "authentically good." I am going to purchase this book, Tzaia.

Twinky, although I don't grow zucchini, I do buy them at the farmers market. Put them in a steamer basket. Add kosher salt to the water. Steam for 1 minute. They are so tender it doesn't take much for them to become mush. Then spread zucchini onto black and white newspaper and allow to rapidly cool. Place in a good freezer bag or freezer container. Because they don't have the crispness of fresh I use them in soups and casseroles. I use the same technique with yellow squash. For an abundance of green bell peppers: wash peppers in a salt and vinegar mixture. Then cut open, seed and slice them. Sprinkle slices with a little kosher salt and freeze them. I don't even blanch them. Not fit for salads but almost like fresh for sauces. As all components of canning and freezing should be clean and sanitized don't forget work surfaces and especially hands.

My grandma grew Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake (pole greenbean) and Contender (bush greenbean). I grow Contender. I have to tell you when everything else seems to fail in my garden the Contender sails on through. I didn't grow greenbeans last year because I wanted 2 varieties of butterbeans. I really missed the greenbeans last year because I had to buy them to make vegetable soup. The bush bean does seem to produce all at one time but if you are diligent to not give up on them and fertilize them well after the initial harvest they will produce prolifically again. I save two bushes that I do not pick from to get seed for next year. Just remember to stay away from the greenbeans when the leaves and ground are wet. They do not like that and are susceptible to Brown Rust. This can really affect the soil for the next couple of growing seasons if you plant beans in that same area. I picked a 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes today. Yeh, uh huh, uh huh!!!!! I think I will sleep with them by my bed, tonight!! Thank God for tomatoes!!! XOXOXO

Well, since it seems to be good stuff, I am happy for you WordWolf.