Joylynn Hardesty

Hans, Johnny's chart tells me I'm in the short day category.

Dang! I guess it's just too expensive to eat them there.

A friend from a coastal region spent a couple summers on a commercial fishing boat. He said they never ate fish, cause it was "cheaper" to sell it and buy a different meat.

Usually a couple inches once or twice per winter, the neighborhood melts in a day or two, mine takes an additional day or three to go away.

2025 has been a blizzard year. Our county has almost no budget for snow mitigation. Just salt on the main roads, and plows intended for the state highways only. We're 2 miles from an occasionally plowed road.

I think the above snowstorm closed all but Walmart and my work place. We brought in $178 retail.

I shop cheaply. Vidalia onions are a splurge item. Yes folks, I'm THAT cheap. I finished the latest splurged bag  of vidalias a couple weeks ago. I made roast veggies last night and wished I hadn't put the special onions in... a soup. Any old onion does good in a soup! Ah well.

It FINALLY occurs to me that I can plant a couple of those onions to produce seed! Duh!

However, I once read that what makes vidalia onions be so wonderful is the soil that they are grown in.  Is this fact, or fiction?

Also, I have not yet successfully grown onions from seed. Sigh. What are YOUR tips to do so?

I am sooooo glad precipitation is non existent this go around. The roads remain clear.  There is bread and milk at the grocery store, and my workplace is still getting customers. I'll get paid next week!

5 days after snowfall, the neighborhood was clear of snow. Except in my yard. WTF? Though this is usually the case, I am always flummoxed. My trees can't be the full explanation. Other yards have them too! See next door under all the pine trees?

"I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole" How often do you carry that ten foot pole around? How do you fit that pole in your pocket so you can take it out when you do feel the impulse to touch things with it? What ARE you willing to touch with it?

Are you even sane?

Welcome to Permies!

“I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!” If you keep on giving it away, you won't have any left for yourself.

“I'm gonna take a shit.” Really? Whose shit are you taking? And why would you want it? Ewww!

Several times I have pressure canned two layers of pint jars full of cubed pork. I filled the pressure cooker to 2 inches above the base of the top layer of jars. I have not had any jars that did not seal.

Oh wise Permies! Would 2 inches in the bottom of the pressure cooker be sufficient, while canning two layers of jars?