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Thanks, they are oats for feed for the horses...then we keep the extra to reseed again for next year. People have been calling all week because they can't find oats to seed their fields this year. We have none to spare sadly.

Today I got my veggie plants on the same trip to make a drop off at DD's. I got cherry tomatoes, cukes, peppers, lettuce and cauliflower along with marigolds and lobelias(GG's flower request). You call in your order, they pack it up and bring it out to your car.

I hope people learn to plan ahead from this as you and your DH do, Sunny 🌞.

Yay for veggie and flower plants. I wish we had that service here. Even the stores with curbside pickup will not being out plants.

I planted out my last flower for this year...well Unless another one jumps into my hands... and I had picked up just enough soil to finish filling my pots..Carol is happy.

Junie, we plan ahead due to finances....we just can't afford to go out and buy what we need like others do.

I didn't get any flowers for myself except the marigolds for the garden but I'll get a few petunias to put in the birdhouse in two weeks. I was just worried that the veggie plants would be all bought out by the time the frost is over. It is a family run nursery, so that is why they do curbside...they are scared that if one gets sick they'll have to close and quarantine.

Well still planning ahead is a good thing, Sunny. And people know you have things or else they would not call you asking if you had extras.....The reason you plan is not really at issue...things are easier for you because you do plan. I think that is something to be happy/ proud about.

You have lots of time to treat yourself to a flower or 2. Besides they may run a sale.

Love the birdhouse Sunny. We had storm that blew over a tree and blew my vegetable garden to who knows where.

Oh my, NO! Will you have time to replant your garden, Sheri.?

That is so sad. In hope you and yours are OK.

I think haying season is almost over here for the winter. Fall through spring is the feed grasses season. Some of it doesn't feed any domestic animals. The farms are owned by the Saudi's, etc, for export.
I'm so gglad you've got your veggies, Sunny, Planning us everything.
Do either of you know the plans for your schools this coming year? Last I heard my state was looking at a July opening but that may have changed. It was weeks ago.

Sweet dreams all.

Thanks gals

I hope you can replant Sheri...that is so discouraging.

Tina, we are on hold here for September for the new school year. We still have two hrs of online/project work at home until the third week of June to complete the year. They are working on a new plan in case school is closed longer. If so, we will have special booklets and such sent to us with plans to open in January of 2021.

Your seasons are so different Tina, here we are just prepping for hay, oats, barley and such. Wheat is not a main crop here though because our seasons are so short.

We are putting out the oat seed today, it was too windy yesterday.

I am sorry I didn't see your post last night, Sheri. That's awful about your garden. Hurricane Arthur has a lot to be answered for.
Yes, our temps are very different than yours,Sunny. Fall, winter and spring bring out the cool crops like potatoes, onion and leafy greens.spring, long summer and Fall bring out bring our warmer crops like beans cukes and various fruits. Although if I grow tomatoes here they will burn on the bush and slow to a stop in summer if I don't throw shade cloth over them. I can grow squashes of different varieties year round. And citrus etc.
The only down side I can think of our weather is that it attracts lots of people. People that need housing and they are using up farmland for the housing. We have 39.5M+ living here in California. That is a couple more million than in all of Canada.
I can remember when the area was filled with orange and citrus groves. And olive groves and grape vineyards. Huge herds of sheep were brought in to clear the land around to mitigate fire danger. I miss it all.

Good morning ....indoor Paperwork here today.

But first I must put something the crock pot...beef roast.

Mmm, beef in the crock with onions,carrots and potatoes. After your meal the leftovers are great with a dusting of chili powder and shredded for burritos or tacos. My favorite use for it.

Pork chops for supper here....I need something quick and easy, DH is finishing up the rolling of the field at the minute....we look like we have been in a 'dust bowl'

Tina, is it still rural where you live or has that grown a lot as well over the years?

Sadly the only leftovers were carrots and gravy. Which is sad..Rod loved the gravy.He said he even liked the beef roast..he normally does not care for roast....so now I need to see what I can come up with to serve the rest of the gravy with.

I have some pork chops in the freezer..perhaps I need to make them next...

Well, l live well out of town and the basic rule is you can't build on less than 5 acres where I live here. So it is most;y horse properties around me. Not growing farms. With a few emus, llamas and such around. It's not farmed, There is barely enough water for people, pets and fruit trees that people have. Other valleys near me grow apple trees and cherry orchards. Those areas are not so desert-y as mine. Mpst of my grasses are drying up now.

We had that 5 acres thing back when we.loved out in the country. But too many developers wanted to sell smaller lots so it was changed to 2 screws when out of town/ city limits. I have no idea what the rules are here in Missouri.

Sorry about the water issue. That can be tough.

At least you do not get freezing winters , right, Tina. ??

Tina, I don't know how many years ago you bought up a bunch of different types of seeds and planted them for erosion control. Did that work out? Also you were making a cross country trip and were stopping by. Is that still on the bucket list?

How do you guys cook pork chops. Unless I do mine in the oven they're always, and I mean always, tough.

Pork chops:
My thin breakfast chops, I fry.

Regular chops I often brown and then put them in my slow cooker. Then I mix a can of cream of mushroom soup with 3/4 can of milk.. I have also added a pkg of dry onion soup mix.

Really I usually mix all of the above and pour it over the chops. Then cook it all day or until chips are tender (falling apart)

You can mix rice with the soups as well.

sweet dreams all.

I guess then Tina you are as rural as rural gets in California

Sheri, I bake my porkchops on low heat in the oven...sometimes I put them in a casserole dish and smother them with applesauce and slow bake them that way.

The only rule where I live is that you have to have one full acre to build a house.

Well, that rule is only for this area. You get across the freeways and the houses are much closer. They didn't want to see anyone crunched together over here, like the campground next door that has turned into a trailer park over the years.Up the road from me is another campground where they beefed up the fencing with razor wire and moved in around 20 trailers and started removing the homeless from town who are covid positive to recover. It looks like a prison. And the patients are not free to leave on their own. So far it has worked out without any notable problems.
This is the first year of not going to the cemetery in May. Maybe we can make it next month for John's birthday. Teddy loves the ducks in the lake.

Yes, I think not many people are going many places, Tina...I really do not pay much attention to it all as if this pandemic would not have happened, Rod would still be wanting to stay home. The next time that we got " home" I will be going to the cemetery to "see" my family there.

It is starting to be overcast here now. I will say the house is beginning to be too warm to be comfortable. Just like Illinois was..you have a jacket or more in one day and are roasting the next day.

The weather is just as strange here...it is freezing today then it is calling for extreme heat later in the week with a chance of severe thunder storms.

Oh well, we can't change the weather so we will all wait it out for nicer days.

That is true.,the weather will be what it will be. " They" say it will cool off here on the next weekend. Whatever that means...Rod turned on the A/C.

Yes, it will get very hot this week here. I'm going to put up with whatever comes along.

We had a very strong rain storm here complete with thunder...now the rain has stopped and the thunder is in the distance. For now I think we can settle down and sleep peacefully.

I will say goodnight now.. Sweet Dreams.

Sweet dreams, Carol.

Thanks, Tina. Butter Braid in the oven, then I will head to sleep. Sweet Dreams to you also Tina

Fresh biscuits here this morning......they are DH's 'go to' when he has to get up very early.

Do you use a regular bread recipe for a butter braid, Junie, I have tasted one before and it was sweeter than normal....like honey was in it.

Today is a clean and mop day....followed by a 'catch up on laundry' before the rain as well

I love bakery items with honey. There used to be a sliced bread available made with honey. Then they began using fake flavoring and lost me as a customer.
Good morning. I have no plans today. .

I was in after Sunny, and posted...honest I was...let me try again.

Good Morning, and Happy Memorial Day !.

Sunny. I personally buy a braid. It is the "Butter Braid". Brand. You buy it frozen and you set it out on your counter for 8-12 hours to thaw and double in size and then bake it. It has a packet of glaze to use when cools as well.

I do have braid recipes. in the recipes that I have you use puff pastry for the bread part, so no sweeter than usual.
The filling does really not have much sugar in it either. Perhaps a braid with a potesa dough would be sweeter, depending on the type of recipe.

I wasn't sure if one said Happy Memorial Day or not so I awaited someone else to do so first.

GG is getting on my last nerve today, she was outside and waited until I mopped myself out the door....then ran through the house with her dirty shoes on the wet floors. If I had done that as a child I'd be wearing the mop handle on my shins.

Well, I didn't know if one said that either, Sunny, given the reason for the holiday but I did anyway..I wanted you all to know I was aware of the day.

Oh my.....yes, I would have been in pain as well, if I had done that, back in the day, Sunny. And she is not new to your routine, she should have known better. Did you make her clean up after herself ? Perhaps doing that would help her "remember" not to do that in future.

She knew better but did it anyway. She cleaned it up and made more of a mess in the end.....sometimes I wonder if the old way of bringing up kids is better than this new 'talk only' routine.

She is really being a handful today...she is punished right now for refusing to do her schoolwork. How do I punish her? I make her do twice as much of it

I understand, Sunny. Kids can be tough.

That is so true about how we have to raise kids. The old way was.much better. First, there is a difference between a spanking or a slap on the face and a beating or mistreatment.

My girls are 6 years apart. My oldest got spankings and was made to behave...she was a well mannered polite girl and is the same today. My youngest was raised at the beginning of this " new" way of raising kids, where if the child went to school with whatever happened at home (truth or not) the parents went to jail. She was rude, smart mouthed and generally an honery child who thought nothing of smarting back to me. She is a bit better today, but still nothing like her older sister. I am so glad I not raising children today.

I think you came up with the perfect punishment ! Good for you.

We didn't get any rain...but for the next 4 days at least 50% chance of rain is forecast.

Oh my. Goodnight sweet dreams. Sleep well.

Sweet dreams, Carol.

We are under a heat/storm warning for today.....oh well, It will melt the last of the snow in the woods

Keep cool and hydrated, Sunny.