George Shirley wrote:
songbird wrote:
....
how do you get them finished? do you leave them on
the plant until they've dried completely or do you pull
the plant and hang it or what?

i've never done any dried pepper anything...
Nope, have you seen those drying peppers on the tv shows?

no, i hardly ever watch tv these days. most
time i might listen if that, but usually i tune
it out. not my type of thing. i do like a good
movie or documentary once in a while.


Some folks
pull the entire plant and hang it upside down to dry, I never did that
one as the peppers sometimes keep producing for a year or more in our
climate. Basically I put them in an old produce bag, one of those red
jobs, fill it with peppers, hang in a dry place with little moisture,
wait until they dry completely then strip the goodies from the useless
stuff. You can also weave a line of string and tie the chilies into a
line on it to dry.

i will be eating ours or making pepper sauce of
some kind out of them. sweet and sour is likely
since i need some acid in there (i don't pressure can
anything here). just mainly want a good red pepper
sauce to replace tomato sauce for pasta or some other
common dishes.


....Tilly ...
aw! glad it was something that could be taken
care of.

gonna be out there weeding, watering today
and get the cucumbers picked through again. will be
another hot day later.
....
Well, she's not snoring anymore for one thing, the other is that she is
healing rapidly. She's lying on the couch behind my desk chair sleeping
peacefully. She finally got a real meal this morning plus a very small,
lean treat just for being a good girl. Her two main things to love are
eating and pooping, typical dog. G She's a good watch dog too, she
starts growling before anyone ever steps on the porch, when they knock
or ring the doorbell, she goes berserk, hair standing up, etc. When they
get inside she tries to lick the skin off their ankles if she knows
them, if she doesn't she walks around watching them closely and growling
very low but ready to leap at their throats. I really don't think she
could get a throat unless they trip and fall on the floor, she's not
much of a jumper with both hind legs rebuilt.

heheh, some doggies are quite the characters,
i like a lot of them, but we can't have any here,
so i have to like other people's doggies when i
can visit them. same with kitties or other animals.

just worms here as pets. that is as far as i go
for indoor critters at the moment. and a few house-
plants. good enough.


songbird