Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012 21:46:31 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:28:16 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:46:23 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:18 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On May 29, 5:11 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Why hot just make the crockpot meal on a day you're home, and freeze
>>>>>>>>>> in small portions the results? Then, on a workday, you can pull a
>>>>>>>>>> frozen portion that morning and let thaw in the fridge.
>>>>>>>>> On a day one is home why would they use a crockpot? I despise the
>>>>>>>>> results from a crockpot, canned is better. But on days I'm home I
>>>>>>>>> cook conventially and prepare amounts large enough to freeze several
>>>>>>>>> portions.
>>>>>>>> Woe is me - I realized that after i hit send. But dared not another
>>>>>>>> piggy back post.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When I do a cooking marathon, I never use the crockpot, come to think
>>>>>>>> of it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When are you not home? I thought you were one of those lucky retired
>>>>>>>> dudes.
>>>>>>> I never worked so hard before I retired, but I do what I want when I
>>>>>>> want and as much or as little as I want, and most importantly no one
>>>>>>> tells me. Actually I'm mostly always home but I don't have a kitchen
>>>>>>> out on the back forty. During good weather I don't have much time to
>>>>>>> cook, today was a very stormy day, even tornado warnings. I slow
>>>>>>> cooked 3 pounds of kielbasa with two big cans of B&M baked beans. I
>>>>>>> simmered the sausages (barely simmered) for two hours. Then drained,
>>>>>>> added the beans and simmered (barely simmered) about 4 hours. Now I
>>>>>>> needn't cook for three days.
>>>>>>> That's one ominous sky:
>>>>>>> http://i46.tinypic.com/t63qqo.jpg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And then the sky opened:
>>>>>>> http://i47.tinypic.com/1zplf68.jpg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then the sun... look carefully down that forest path:
>>>>>>> http://i48.tinypic.com/11qiufa.jpg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I didn't see that girl until after I down loaded:
>>>>>>> http://i45.tinypic.com/4uf7mf.jpg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The tele from some 1,500' makes that path look short but it's 600'
>>>>>>> long, takes me the better part of a day to do maintenence just inside
>>>>>>> that path, and it's hot, humid, and unbelieveably buggy. My back
>>>>>>> forty begins at the far end of that path, can spend a week there and
>>>>>>> hardly make a dent.
>>>>>> Lovely! We finally had a thunderstorm here tonight after being
>>>>>> threatened by such for days.
>>>>> Didn't someone say that Beryl couldn't affect the weather in NY, well
>>>>> very often storms that hit in the south push right up the Hudson river
>>>>> valley, and bring the briney smell of the sea too.
>>>> Oh, you remind me. Didn't I just hear something about hot weather
>>>> down the coast? I hope THAT doesn't come up here. BTW, Sheldon,
>>>> I just saw my first deer since I moved. It was in front of the
>>>> house. I thought it looked confused/scared. :-( I hoped it
>>>> would go dine in my back yard, but I don't think it did.
>>> How far from the road? During daylight deer are very cautious when
>>> approaching roadways. But in darkness they don't seem to notice
>>> roadways and they'll walk right down the center amd even frollic on
>>> the road. If you toss a couple slices of cheap white bread into your
>>> yard at about the time deer pass through they will find it, deer can
>>> smell bread for hundreds of feet. Then they will come looking for
>>> their snack at the same time most every day. Eventually you'll notice
>>> deer peering into your window as if saying where's my bread. They are
>>> very patient, some will wait about an hour for one slice of bread:
>>> http://i47.tinypic.com/15cd3m1.jpg
>>> Throw a little cracked corn and they will come:
>>> http://i47.tinypic.com/rt3xnp.jpg
>>> http://i49.tinypic.com/2hmjzh2.jpg
>>> You need to keep a camera nearby.
>>>
>> Thanks for the tip. This was slightly before dusk. It was on the
>> edge of the pavement, no traffic--although I don't know whether a
>> vehicle was there right before I saw... either it was a doe or it
>> was young. No spots though.
>>
>> I have found one camera, the old one, and will get the battery
>> charging. The new one is again buried. (I put it somewhere
>> "safe" when I had people around, and then the safe place was
>> covered with things.) Actually, just today, I was eying my
>> favorite part of the yard and thinking I still need to post pics
>> for you. (But it is NOTHING compared to your lovely expanse.)
>
> Take lots of "before" pictures, one day soon you'll be very sorry you
> didn't. My yard was unkempt when I first moved here. Do your
> landscaping first, that takes time to grow... you'll have plenty of
> time for indoor improvements that can be done at any time the weather
> doesn't permit outdoor work.

The improvements were done before I moved in. Somewhere I do (or
did) have before and after pics--unfortunately most were taken
with the old camera.

As for the property... I had plans but now need to conserve....

--
Jean B.