*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* This is my Blog…and I can write about anything I want….. And I want to talk about rocks….. I like rocks….. I’ve always liked rocks….. Even when I was little…I liked rocks….. …..my Father liked rocks too….. We were always picking up precious rocks…and showing them to each other….. Maybe I inherited my love of all kinds of rocks from my Dad….. I’m looking at an assortment of rocks right now…next to my…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Well…I won’t complain….. I’ve seen the weather maps for the States up North….. You guys are getting hammered….. When I recently spoke with my Aunt Cory in northeastern Ohio (just a few miles from the Lake)…she keeps me updated on the snow storms….. She just looks out her kitchen window and estimates how much snow is stacked on her picnic table….. …..(and there’s a lot)….. A few weeks ago…she lost her mailbox to…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** What could possibly be better than a starchy carbohydrate…wrapped in a starchy carbohydrate(?)….. I may have found the perfect food….. This is an up-grade from mashed potatoes….. …..this is mashed potatoes Three-Point-Oooooh….. When I was young…I remember a lot of schnitzel…and cabbage rolls with various fillings….. …..after all…I was raised northeast of Cleveland, Ohio….. A lot of my relatives are of Germanic descent…but the Cleveland area has a large Polish population…I’m surprised I…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* As we already know…I was raised on a small homestead-type Ohio farm….. I live on a small similar-type farm in Florida now….. I guess I’ve always been a functional homesteader and didn’t know it….. But that was what everyone did back in the 1950’s and ’60’s….. …..you planted things…you ate the things you planted…and you canned the rest….. …..it’s been engrained in me from the socks up….. ***(On An Aside: My daughter recently…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Spring’s around the corner…(it’s actually already here)…(temperatures are regularly getting up into the 80’sF)….. My eldest’s Birthday is just around the corner, too….. …..she’s going to Nashville to celebrate with her childhood friend….. …..(she’s going to freeze her butt off up there)….. But…where has the time flown?….. I still remember them both growing up…tumbling off of Josie (our donkey then)…and later…various horses….. …..and dumping each other out of wheelbarrows…or hanging out of the…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Well…you already know…I bought a lot of seeds….. …..probably too many….. …..(maybe not?)….. …..(probably)….. But then…I was talking to a gardener-friend of mine…and she asked why I didn’t get more peas…..(?)….. …..Not enough peas…you say?….. …..I can solve that….. …..Easy Peasy…..(Pea-sy…HA!)… Then she asked…why I didn’t include any sweet potatoes…..(?)…..(I didn’t?)….. She said all I needed to do…was to go to the organic section of the produce department at our local Winn Dixie……..
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** It’s not one of the coldest days….. …..but it’s that damp kind of cold that just seeps right into your joints and settles there….. …..the type that makes a shiver snake up and down your spine the entire day….. Maybe it’s because the clothes that you buy in Florida look like winter clothes, but aren’t actually warm like real northern winter…
I’ve got one good eye….. …..kind of….. But hey….. …..things could be worse….. I try to count my blessings…..whenever I can….. I went to the eye doctors recently to check up on my wonky eyes….. …..FYI….. …..they’re still wonky….. To begin with…..I come from the state of Ohio….. That where it all starts….. Firstly…..there is a condition called….. …..Histoplasmosis….. *****Histoplasmosis…..A Fungus Among-Us***** Apparently…..I grew up in the perfect setting for this disease to get a foot-hold (or an eye-hold)……..
So apparently……. …..my older daughter told me that my little ditty of a folksong (The Erie Canal)……. …..is not really common knowledge……. …..(I thought everybody knew “Sal” and could sing along)… …..I bet my cousin (Betty Joe Bob) can sing it…….(but then again—she did go through the same public school system that I did in northern Ohio in the ’50’s & ’60’s)… …..hmmmmmmmm……. Soooooooooooooo…….without further ado…….I have copied the lyrics and history of the folksong, “The Erie Canal” for your…
It looks like we dodged the bullet…….(or the Ziti). …..this time….. …..however, our escape still isn’t etched in stone…….Mother Nature is at the helm… …..but again, I find myself asking——-why am I still in Florida…..? …..oh yeah, I have Floridian children who were both born here and don’t know anywhere else… *****Muckluk Definition***** I could just buy them muckluks & scratchy, woolen underwear and drag them back up North with me to an Ohio farm… …..it’s a thought… …..a serious…