George Shirley wrote:
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We are inundated with squash bugs every summer. I will try the yellow
dishes with water. May have to buy some yellow dishes though, maybe I
can find some cheap plastic ones.

someone mentioned they need about a month of below
freezing weather to take them out. which may explain
why we don't see huge numbers of them here. some hide
away for the winter...


In our 57 years of marriage we have a service for 12 of the good china,
plus some cheaper stuff for every day and then there are the remnants of
at least three other sets of dishware.

Our family motto is: keep it clean, wear it out, turn it into something
useful, then dump it when it is totally no good. With a large family
things get broken regularly.

we get cheap glass plates and glasses because Ma
likes to break one once in a while. so when she
finds some at the bigbox store we get a few sets so
she is supplied for a few years...


We just gave the church pantry about two dozen Japanese eggplant, a bag
of small peppers, and the last of the kale. It's about time to plant the
winter garden, temps got down to the low seventies last night. Winter
might be coming our way instead of another summer like last winter.
Screwy weather, must be all the volcanoes blowing around the world.

in the longer scheme of things, it's just weather
and temporary. i'm hoping we figure out how to do a
better job of managing things though because the
future will be grim otherwise if we can't figure out
a closed system ecology to be sustainable for us...


songbird