CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Albert1434]

Marty your nuts

[Page Scrawler]

We had Cacio e Pepe pasta with homemade noodles and pesto Bruschetta.   

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

If I were allowed out to the garden centre, I would buy some raspberry canes for the new garden. And some blackcurrant (and maybe redcurrant) bushes. Oh, and a root or two of rhubard, as well! Not to mention a few apple trees (and maybe a pear). Looks like the majority of those may have to be on next year's shopping list.  

It took me three years to get rid of two separate patches of rhubarb. I dug up some of it, and kept mowing over whatever sprang up. The suckers are hardy. One was near the fence and my neighbor was worried about his cows eating it. Apparently it is toxic as it matures. The other patch was beside my barn where I used to park the horse trailer. I wish now I had replanted it elsewhere.  

[Marty]

3 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Marty your nuts

Thank you, Albert, you say the nicest things.

Or do you mean I should buy a few nut bearing trees as well?

[Albert1434]

Rhubarb and strawberry pie rocks I have one plant

[Albert1434]

And that thing is a monster

[Marty]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

It took me three years to get rid of two separate patches of rhubarb. I dug up some of it, and kept mowing over whatever sprang up. The suckers are hardy. One was near the fence and my neighbor was worried about his cows eating it. Apparently it is toxic as it matures. The other patch was beside my barn where I used to park the horse trailer. I wish now I had replanted it elsewhere.  

The leaves of rhubarb contain very large amounts of oxalic acid, which is toxic (causing kidney failure) to humans. Apparently in Britain, during World War 1, there were a number of fatalities caused by people boiling and eating rhubarb leaves as a substitute for cabbage...

[Page Scrawler]

I also made pistachio-chocolate Biscotti earlier. 

[Marty]

5 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

And that thing is a monster

I trust you're talking about your rhubarb plant...  

[Albert1434]

Yes Marty 

[Albert1434]

Do follow the conversation

[Marty]

Well, guys. I reek of bonfire smoke. So I'm going to have a shower. And then I shall throw all my work clothes from the past couple of days in the washing machine to get the smell out of them as well. Maybe chat you in a while...  

[Albert1434]

I did wonder what that smell was 

Edited April 5, 2020 by Albert1434

[Valkyrie]

28 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Blackberry jam is one of my favorites, actually it is my favorite as it's the one I typically have on hand though orange marmalade runs a near second.

My mom always made homemade jelly when I was a kid, from berries we'd go pick or grapes from our neighbors' vines.  My absolute favorite was grape jelly made from our neighbors across the street's grapevines.  Sadly, the neighbors have both passed and the vines are long gone, so the jelly is a distant memory now.  The closest I've come to tasting something similar was when I visited Cole a couple of years ago.  He made grape jelly that was very similar to my old favorite  

[clochette]

1 hour ago, Marty said:

If I were allowed out to the garden centre, I would buy some raspberry canes for the new garden. And some blackcurrant (and maybe redcurrant) bushes. Oh, and a root or two of rhubarb, as well! Not to mention a few apple trees (and maybe a pear). Looks like the majority of those may have to be on next year's shopping list.  

[EDIT: Fortunately I have a number of strawberry plants in tubs]

Garden nurseries will reopen this week as it is considered necessity and to save all those plants that would have otherwise been destroy. 

One of our raspberry plant already has some unopened flowers, about 1/4of the strawberries are in bloom, the redcurrants are full of tiny green flowers and the blackberry plant seems to have unopened flowers too. I've got the feeling it'll be a good year 🤞🏻

[Albert1434]

Shirley Douglas, Actress and Mother of Kiefer Sutherland, Dies at 86 

[Bucket1]

8 hours ago, Headstall said:

I have them named, and I did look everywhere. I had sent the doc to my email, but that version was even shorter than my word doc.   I'll have to do it more frequently from now on, but I'm sure I'm hitting keys that delete... just don't know what they are. The doc ends in the middle of a sentence, so that tells me I did something. I hate computers!   

You don’t have to be hitting a delete key... if you have a section highlighted and then type, whoosh, it’s gone and replaced by the new typing. Easy to do if you aren’t looking at the screen while typing.

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

I did wonder what that smell was 

Impudent young rapscallion!

[Albert1434]

Aloha Bucket 

[Albert1434]

I said this before get a life Marty 

Grumpy old man

Edited April 6, 2020 by Albert1434

[Marty]

Just now, Albert1434 said:

I said this before get a life Marty 

Okay...

Mind if I take yours?

 

[Bucket1]

6 hours ago, dughlas said:

Hour long showers? What in the world was he doing ... 😯 ... never mind that, more importantly just how big is your hot water heater?

Size queen 

[Bucket1]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

My favourite is raspberry. As a child I preferred strawberry, but am not as fond of it any more.

 

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

I love Raspberry also we grow our own 

Raspberries are yum and a close second but bosenberries are my favourite

[Bucket1]

2 hours ago, Headstall said:

I just made tortilla pizza with jarred tomato sauce, yellow sweet pepper, old cheddar, kolbassa sausage, and parmesan cheese. They were sooo good.  

Mmmmmm nice, I should do something similar tonight

[Bucket1]

25 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha Bucket 

Hello young Albert