Ela La Salle

Ben Zumeta wrote:Statistics indicate whitewater boating is similarly dangerous to driving. Similarly, alcohol and other coordination and risk assessment impairing drugs, low light conditions, and bad weather increase the risk for both similarly. Learning how to drive or paddle safely, and identifying when it is not safe to do either, is also an effective way to reduce risk. I would not want to force anyone onto whitewater who doesn’t want to try it, but the drive to the put-in is as dangerous as most boating trips get.

I beg to differ. I have breaks and steering wheel to my disposal in my car. No such things on a "paddle boat" Sorry, I just had to say it

Definitely an interesting post to read. Thank you for typing ALL of this.
I won't dispute/agree/disagree with the information.
However, for me, I prefer Rosa Rugosa only. Petals and hips. I use petals to make "jam" (by using special ceramic bowl and lots of elbow grease, no blender/mixer), and dry petals for making tea in Winter.
Hips (dehydrated) for tea or something between clear jelly and a  "jam".
Many other roses, while may be tasty in some format, loose taste after being processed and only look pretty, are fragrant but come short on taste, if any. I haven't tried every rose there are in existence of course.  Just many different variety (wild and garden). That's all I know. So... I keep with those that work for me

Nope! I'm a "small row-boat girl" LOL
I leave "adrenaline junkies"  to their own fate. Maybe...just maybe because I can't really swim. I can lay on water but crazy rapids are for crazy people in my mind.
I mean no offence!

Hmm... as many recipes as there are potatoes LOL
I like potatoes in any form. However, my favorite (hard to pick) would be new, small, boiled, freshly pick red potatoes with tons of butter and  tons of finely chopped dill.
I've had a bad luck growing them 2 seasons in a row  (small yield) so I didn't bother this year.
The strange thing I noticed for the past few months, is that if I buy them from grocery stores, regardless of variety, are green while peeling !? They look normal, until I peel them. All have green color as if exposed to sunlight. Just can't win! Taste crappy too.

I do the same as Dennis Barrow  using leaf blower LOL. I don't bother taking the hose outside.  I just  unscrew  90 degree stove pipe elbow attached to dryer with self tapping screws, and screw it back in the same holes. I vacuum lint collector often. I don't have much lint as  I religiously do that twice a year (Spring and late Fall).

I don't know anything about oven hood filters. Had 2 of those and found them useless and a pain to clean (ended up always being sticky anyway. Ugh), so I wow never to bother with those contraptions

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I had similar problem but with white rubber on same glass jar type you have. I used Goo Gone by placing jar upside down on a small glass plate filled with Goo Gone, let sit for few minutes, wiped off with paper towel. Repeated same for the lid. Washed the jar, put a new rubber on, and it's fine.
Goo Gone came in a box with other items I bought few years back at a yard sale. It turned out to be useful . Who knew

Nancy Reading wrote:Ela,
I'm not sure what you mean by brave? Foolhardy perhaps planting beans this late here! At least they are in the ground now, and plants do grow very well here in the summer due to our long daylight hours and rain, and certainly better than they do in the packets.

Well, you DID IT! "Foolhardy" is a compliment, and well deserved one.  I think many people who are interested in gardening/growing things/raising animals and so on just don't give up In trying to do "unthinkable".  While sometimes it may work, sometimes it may not, it gives a piece of mind of "hey, at least I tried". See what I mean?
You did it your way, and should be proud of it.  So, you are brave! Besides, just think how many  people on permaculture site will benefit because of you!
P.S. I should be so lucky with trying to grow skirret (have to wait till next Spring while the seeds are going to rest in the fridge until then! LOL)

I'm more like Timothy Norton when it comes to gardening
As a rule, I do not chop & drop most of my plants because some  will go to seed  after pulling & dropping (dandelions, forget-me not, and few more I can't remember the names of right now,  but I have them).
I spread the unwanted into the bush, and the ones with bigger roots I keep trimming because any root is better for building healthier soil, than yanking it out and leaving it bare.
In the Fall, rye grass and red clover is a must now (since my experiment last year).

... Helloooo, and Welcome. Hope you stay for a looong time