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It's that time of year again, we're having our Christmas at our
daughter's house with most of the clan being on hand. We're taking a
smoked turkey and several other dishes plus lots of hugging and kissing
of the many babies in the family.

We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year and that
your gardens are prolific and the canning is all done right and tasty.

Our garden is still producing cherry tomatoes and eggplant. The fall
garden of cabbage, broccoli, spinach, beets, radishes, lettuce, and
green peas is doing its best and we're enjoying the fruits of our labor.
It is nearly time to start inventorying our canning supplies and I have
multiple newly cleaned jars to rebox and store.

George, Miz Anne, and Tilly Dawg
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> We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year and that
> your gardens are prolific and the canning is all done right and tasty.

....
> George, Miz Anne, and Tilly Dawg


thank you George! i hope you all have a great
Christmas too. i'm always glad and envious to hear
of gardens exploits this time of the year.

it's nice to finally be on the upside slope with
the days getting longer now.

in 8-16 weeks we'll have spring flowers and i'll
be able to see which seeds i put out to stratify in
the winter cold have come through. i had a lot of
seeds from these this year:

http://www.anthive.com/flowers/100_7219_Miss_Blue.jpg

so it will be interesting to see how many sprout or
perhaps they will take a few years to sprout or are
not viable. dunno. i'm always enjoying seeing how
things like this go as time progresses. even if they
do sprout it may take four or five years or longer
to get to flowering size... i have a ton of tulips,
crocus, and other seeds scattered around too. more
things to give the critters a challenge if they try
to eat them all.

not much else going on, but we'll enjoy the season
for sure, i am liking having some time for reading
and coding and otherwise taking it easy other than
a few walks now and again. i'm sure there will
eventually be snow to shovel. we finally got
another shovel so perhaps it won't snow this winter?




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On 12/22/2014 9:26 PM, songbird wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> ...
>> We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year and that
>> your gardens are prolific and the canning is all done right and tasty.

> ...
>> George, Miz Anne, and Tilly Dawg

>
> thank you George! i hope you all have a great
> Christmas too. i'm always glad and envious to hear
> of gardens exploits this time of the year.
>
> it's nice to finally be on the upside slope with
> the days getting longer now.
>
> in 8-16 weeks we'll have spring flowers and i'll
> be able to see which seeds i put out to stratify in
> the winter cold have come through. i had a lot of
> seeds from these this year:
>
> http://www.anthive.com/flowers/100_7219_Miss_Blue.jpg
>
> so it will be interesting to see how many sprout or
> perhaps they will take a few years to sprout or are
> not viable. dunno. i'm always enjoying seeing how
> things like this go as time progresses. even if they
> do sprout it may take four or five years or longer
> to get to flowering size... i have a ton of tulips,
> crocus, and other seeds scattered around too. more
> things to give the critters a challenge if they try
> to eat them all.
>
> not much else going on, but we'll enjoy the season
> for sure, i am liking having some time for reading
> and coding and otherwise taking it easy other than
> a few walks now and again. i'm sure there will
> eventually be snow to shovel. we finally got
> another shovel so perhaps it won't snow this winter?
>
>
>
>
> songbird
>

Wow! That's a beautiful flower, doubt it would grow here in our heat
zone 8b. Didn't show the picture to Miz Anne or she would be trying to
order seeds from Cattlegap, Egypt or some other strange place.

The purchased smoked turkey is slowly thawing in the fridge and will be
heated up on Friday the 26th for our family chow down time. With two
kids and spousal units, five grands, and six great grands we will need
all the food we can gather, kill, steal, or buy. The two young teens can
eat a whole turkey and the little ones can eat a whole ham, not counting
extras and sweets.

George
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George Shirley wrote:
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> Wow! That's a beautiful flower, doubt it would grow here in our heat
> zone 8b. Didn't show the picture to Miz Anne or she would be trying to
> order seeds from Cattlegap, Egypt or some other strange place.


they are very pretty as they come out so early.
good to zone 9 according to the catalog. if i get
more seeds next year i'll send you some along with
a few bulbs if i remember. i was very surprised
to find seeds in these this year as they do bloom
so early. it is called lady beatrix stanley orchid
iris. they flower first before much of the leaves
come up. they aren't very big plants and look
great in a rock garden. not sure how they would
do with the heat either.


> The purchased smoked turkey is slowly thawing in the fridge and will be
> heated up on Friday the 26th for our family chow down time. With two
> kids and spousal units, five grands, and six great grands we will need
> all the food we can gather, kill, steal, or buy. The two young teens can
> eat a whole turkey and the little ones can eat a whole ham, not counting
> extras and sweets.


hehe, i recall those years too when i could eat
four heaping plates and still find room for sweets,
pies, cakes, cookies, ...


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On 12/23/2014 10:54 AM, songbird wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> ...
>> Wow! That's a beautiful flower, doubt it would grow here in our heat
>> zone 8b. Didn't show the picture to Miz Anne or she would be trying to
>> order seeds from Cattlegap, Egypt or some other strange place.

>
> they are very pretty as they come out so early.
> good to zone 9 according to the catalog. if i get
> more seeds next year i'll send you some along with
> a few bulbs if i remember. i was very surprised
> to find seeds in these this year as they do bloom
> so early. it is called lady beatrix stanley orchid
> iris. they flower first before much of the leaves
> come up. they aren't very big plants and look
> great in a rock garden. not sure how they would
> do with the heat either.
>
>
>> The purchased smoked turkey is slowly thawing in the fridge and will be
>> heated up on Friday the 26th for our family chow down time. With two
>> kids and spousal units, five grands, and six great grands we will need
>> all the food we can gather, kill, steal, or buy. The two young teens can
>> eat a whole turkey and the little ones can eat a whole ham, not counting
>> extras and sweets.

>
> hehe, i recall those years too when i could eat
> four heaping plates and still find room for sweets,
> pies, cakes, cookies, ...
>
>
> songbird
>

Miz Anne and Tilly Dawg went out for a little walk this morning. They
walk around the retention pond and on this trip she scattered wild
flower seeds here and there plus some Louisiana iris seed. Hoping to see
something beside the other weeds come spring. Will probably spread some
more next week and later. The retention pond has a few turtles, some
frogs, and a family of nutria living there. I call it our emergency
pantry myself. Some critters and a few roots from the cat tails and you
have a meal.

George


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George Shirley wrote:
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> Miz Anne and Tilly Dawg went out for a little walk this morning. They
> walk around the retention pond and on this trip she scattered wild
> flower seeds here and there plus some Louisiana iris seed. Hoping to see
> something beside the other weeds come spring. Will probably spread some
> more next week and later. The retention pond has a few turtles, some
> frogs, and a family of nutria living there. I call it our emergency
> pantry myself. Some critters and a few roots from the cat tails and you
> have a meal.


nutria? i thought those were coastal and swamp
critters? how big do they get?

i've never dug up a cattail root. what are
they like? supposedly the tops are also edible
when eaten young but i've not ever tried that
either.

around here there's not many places close that
i would trust any cattail roots, the ditches are
too full of runoff from agricultural poisoners
and in many areas the cattails are sprayed in an
attempt to get rid of them.

i think we got a bit of snow last night, i
went to bed early thinking i could use a few
extra winks for a long day and i wake up early
anyways.

hope you folks have a nice day down there.


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On 12/25/2014 4:19 AM, songbird wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> ...
>> Miz Anne and Tilly Dawg went out for a little walk this morning. They
>> walk around the retention pond and on this trip she scattered wild
>> flower seeds here and there plus some Louisiana iris seed. Hoping to see
>> something beside the other weeds come spring. Will probably spread some
>> more next week and later. The retention pond has a few turtles, some
>> frogs, and a family of nutria living there. I call it our emergency
>> pantry myself. Some critters and a few roots from the cat tails and you
>> have a meal.

>
> nutria? i thought those were coastal and swamp
> critters? how big do they get?

We are coastal bird, only about fifty miles to the Gulf, heat zone 8b,
mostly flat as a board, lots of bayou's, creeks, small and large rivers,
etc. They get up to about twenty lbs. Most coastal states now have a
bounty on nutria. Louisiana had a bounty, if I remember correctly, of a
few bucks on the tail alone. Lots of people eat the meat and the hides
are still valuable in Europe so there are sometimes hide buyers around.
>
> i've never dug up a cattail root. what are
> they like? supposedly the tops are also edible
> when eaten young but i've not ever tried that
> either.

Think of a small potato, the cattail tassels used to be harvested for
the seeds to make a sort of flour, haven't done any survival hikes in
years so haven't taken any in a long time. In addition the tassels make
a good fire starter when fluffed up. Very useful the cattail plant.
>
> around here there's not many places close that
> i would trust any cattail roots, the ditches are
> too full of runoff from agricultural poisoners
> and in many areas the cattails are sprayed in an
> attempt to get rid of them.

Then they're making a mistake, cattails are filter feeders and will
accumulate a good bit of those poisons and then can be harvested and
burned or buried in a landfill.
>
> i think we got a bit of snow last night, i
> went to bed early thinking i could use a few
> extra winks for a long day and i wake up early
> anyways.

We had frost on the cars parked outside this morning, low was 37F.
>
> hope you folks have a nice day down there.
>
>
> songbird
>

Since we're doing family Christmas tomorrow at our daughter's home today
will be lazy Christmas with just the two of us and the dawg. Tomorrow is
also our 54th wedding anniversary and the 28th will be our daughter's
54th birthday, get it all over with at once.

Got to sleep in this morning until 0800.

George
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On 12/21/2014 11:15 AM, George Shirley wrote:
> It's that time of year again, we're having our Christmas at our
> daughter's house with most of the clan being on hand. We're taking a
> smoked turkey and several other dishes plus lots of hugging and kissing
> of the many babies in the family.
>
> We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year and that
> your gardens are prolific and the canning is all done right and tasty.
>
> Our garden is still producing cherry tomatoes and eggplant. The fall
> garden of cabbage, broccoli, spinach, beets, radishes, lettuce, and
> green peas is doing its best and we're enjoying the fruits of our labor.
> It is nearly time to start inventorying our canning supplies and I have
> multiple newly cleaned jars to rebox and store.
>
> George, Miz Anne, and Tilly Dawg


Picked more cherry tomatoes and a large eggplant this morning,
yesterdays light frost didn't hurt anything. Also picked a bunch of
radishes and a few beets, tomorrow will cut a cabbage as it is cabbage
time of the year.

George
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