Onions

I planted a bunch of onions this afternoon wherever I could poke  a hole and stick them in.  They are long overdue for planting so I don't know how they will do.  Onions are pretty hardy 'though and if you forget them over winter they will come right back up again.

I also pulled out a few "volunteer" potatoes from the ground.  Not a lot, but enough for one meal.  There are more out there; I just need  to find them.

I was going to mow the yard today and got the mower out and filled it with gas.  It wouldn't start.  The battery is dead so it is on the little charger.  It takes about eight full hours to charge so I won't be mowing much until tomorrow.

I didn't waste my time 'though.  I have been busy cleaning off the fence line.  That is a some job.  Most of the vegetation growing along and on the fence comes from the other side.  There is Virginia Creeper and Morning Glory the length of both fences.  It is the kind of vegetation that just takes over a fence line and creeps right into the lawn.  It will ruin a fence and cause it to rust out.

The new neighbors say their kids can't play in the back yard because they are all allergic.  What am I?  Non allergic?   If I don't get out and do the job my mower gets all tangled up in the vines and that makes it more difficult for me.  Plus, it is a great harboring place for mosquitoes, chiggers and insects .

My Plum tree is so productive, but the wind knocks the plums off onto the ground before they are ripe, and then the ants get them, then the flies.  I am going to trim it back just slightly...sometime.

I added this picture from a previous post.  I have been buying them at yard sales and at the Good Will Store.  They are cast iron frying pans and a couple of small ash trays.  They sort of fell in a random order, in the center of the post

The hard, physical work causes me a little discomfort, and then my "everything" hurts.  I took a half of a Lortab around noon, but when they are gone, they are gone.  I have been nursing them along for quite a long while, now.  I doubt I can get them renewed as this whole area is drowning in drugs and meth. labs.  Oh Well.

I am/was too tired to cook and then clean up after myself so I made a fast trip to Wendy's...and no dishes to wash up.  Thank you,  Wendy's. Your just too good to me!

I have been outside most of the day, from about 9:00 and on.  As Alice says, the best laid plans have to change according to the needs.  I really wanted to get the grass cut.  Tomorrow is to be about 90 F. and I don't like working in the heat: I can feel my B/P thumping right along.

So, tonight I guess I will go to bed earlier than usual and recover from a busy day.  No, I didn't get my Split Pea Soup started, either.  Dang...shoot me with a pea shooter...remember them?

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Cast Iron

Here is a shot of my cast iron frying pans. They are old, beat up, but still usable. They heat evenly and retain the heat. The two tiny ones are an ashtray and a "sample." The two big ones are number 8's and a number 6. The one on the bottom right is a 6 1/2 and on the left is(darker)a 6 3/4 pan. The one small pan is pitted, but serviceable. I continue to look for an old Dutch oven with a lid, a deep chicken fryer and a long griddle. I used to find cast ironware in yard sales and at the Salvation Army or the Goodwill store. They have become very scarce because people are buying them up as antiques or for real cooking. I use mine for cooking. I made my spaghetti sauce in one of the big pans.

I took my van to the auto shop and they checked the tires. While I was there I got the oil changed. If you keep the oil changed and car greased your auto will serve you well for a long time. If I cleaned out the inside it would serve me even better!

Chuck came and mowed. He also dug up the sweet potatoes and a healthy crop it is. You can not buy sweet potatoes as big and pretty as these are. I will leave them outside overnight and let the dirt dry off before putting them in a box for storage. I will try to post pictures of them tomorrow or on Monday.

The little female wild canary was in the sunflowers eating the seeds again. She loves those seeds! There are honey bees after the flowers, still, and nasty little sweat bees, too. If you have never-or ever been stung by a sweat bee, than you will know why I call them nasty. They really, really hurt.

My eye glass frames are finally in, but it is too late to go pick them up. This old pair will "see" me through 'til Monday.

Melanie, tell Big Ellen about this blog site. It will give her something to do or look at. Maybe Christine and Denise, too.

Because I was out at lunch time I stopped in the Golden Corral for something to eat. I got a bad piece of liver that was starting to have liver-quiver. A couple weeks ago I got a bad piece of chicken that was turning. Yuk. They never used to have bad meals.

Beverly said I could freeze Spaghetti in 1 qt. freezer bags. I am gonna try it and see how it turns out. What can you do to preserve sweet potatoes?

It is half-past time to put my frying pans back where they belong.

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