--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGI00002 Date: 12/13/97 From: DORIS DIGNARD Time: 09:21pm \/To: MARIA EDELHAUSEN (Read 2 times) Subj: Canning/preserving ME>At this moment I don't grow Sprouts, but I've been growing them several year >ago. One year I had nice sprouts and the year after I only got very small on >Just as for Kale, Sprouts need also to get some frost, to tast much tter. Is the frost what takes away the strong taste? Doris Dignard dorisdignard@better.net doris.dignard@capcanada.com * 1st 2.00 #9125 * Hippies never die...they just go to pot. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGI00003 Date: 12/13/97 From: DORIS DIGNARD Time: 09:29pm \/To: BARBARA HAZEN (Read 2 times) Subj: Christmas BH> The only problem I am going to have is that I >am suposed to get my Guidedog back next week and my mom and her husband >will not let her in there house. It makes things complicated. Anyway, Am I correct in thinking that you are blind? If so, how do you manage the BBS? Do you have special software? If your dog is necessary, it's too bad that you can't take it to your moms home. Guide dogs are such well behaved dogs. Doris Dignard dorisdignard@better.net doris.dignard@capcanada.com * 1st 2.00 #9125 * Insanity is inherited, you get it from your children. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGJ00000 Date: 12/13/97 From: BARBARA HAZEN Time: 08:09pm \/To: SANDRA PEAKE (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: A second use .... Hi Sandra -=> Quoting Sandra Peake to Barbara Hazen <=- SP> I thought I was the only non-coffee drinking "taster" around. (I SP> swipe only when I'm very cold or thirsty, and he never got me a hot SP> chocolate when he stopped at a coffee shop.) I don't mind coffee in small amounts. Especially if it has a flavoured creamer in it. I also like the capichino English Toffee from "Tim Hortons". It doesn't taste anything like coffee. Just watch out though since I think it is almost all sugar and flavoring. SP> I routinely recycle coffee tins when they fall into my hands. (Hubby SP> saves 98% of all instant coffee jars for small hardware.) They make SP> bread tins (round 1-lb loaves) or the large ones make cheese moulds, SP> with a few drainage holes drilled from inside out. Or you can use SP> them for storage containers of various dry items. I use leftover tins for storage of flour and other baking supplies. I recently got a really good price for 20 pounds of flour and the tins all got pushed into service. Take care Barb ... 1 chocolate,2 chocolates...ah hell,eat the whole box!..S.C.. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Blue Beam MailServer Stoney Creek Canada (1:2424/3120) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGJ00001 Date: 12/13/97 From: BARBARA HAZEN Time: 08:10pm \/To: SUSAN MERSER (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: A second use .... Hi Susan I think I heard Susan Murcer say to Sandra Peak: SM>Back to second hand use. I make my living through second use. I have a SM>small used-book store. I can't stand the idea of abandoning a good book I am looking for books on tape. These are either condensed versions of the entire book, or the entire thing. Please write back and tell me whether you deal in that kind of thing as well. Barb ... The best kind of cat toy has a person on one end. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Blue Beam MailServer Stoney Creek Canada (1:2424/3120) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGK00000 Date: 12/15/97 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 11:00am \/To: DORIS DIGNARD (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: A second use .... DD>cans into the recycle bin as I have no use for them. I stored them for DD>a while but I was losing valuable living space...(ggg) Paint them matt black, glue attractive designs on them if you will ("Doris has designs on a coffee-can ... nyah-nya--nya"), fill them with water and place the plastic lid snugly atop. Place them on your window-ledge. My theory is that the cans will absorn heat during the day and release it at night. David Williams will now enter stage left with a counter-argument, but I don't really think they'll absorb much heat if you place them on a counter. christopher.greaves@ablelink.org www.interlog.com/~cgreaves * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Don't Brake! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGK00001 Date: 12/15/97 From: SUSAN MERCER Time: 12:03pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: A second use .... CG>There below me (I was supine, you will recall) on the ceiling >were HOLES! Gaps in the very fabric that stops the people in the >penthouse above me from dropping in for supper. Hey Chris, thanks for the smile. Such an ardent re-user as your self surly took joy in the opportunity to re-use empty pockets of air or should I call them holes. :-) Last year I had had enough of one of the trees in the front. That sucker had made it's way into the sewer pipe and every 6 months I had to get the pipe drilled out or I would get a truly nasty surprise all over the basement floor. This tree was a pine and was looking pretty bad. I think it had been around for about 60 yeaars. It was planted too close to the house and any hardy burglar or wirey teenager could have used it to get onto the front porch roof. The neighbour's cat regularly did this and would start a hissy fit with my cat in the upstair window in the middle of the night (eeiks what a fright at 2 AM). Well I sacrificed the tree. I traded the trunk and larger branches of the pine for good quality maple chips that I used in the garden and gave several bags to friends (started with 27). The leftover branches were tied and strapped to the front porch railing. From the side garden I pulled the dead, almost bleached to a golden white/yellow stems from some Solomon's Seal plant. (They are tall with elongated leaves growing on either side of the stem all the way to the top and they grow back every year). These stalks still had the leaves on and were bundled together and attached to the greenery with bows I made from leftover lawn chair webbing (This stuff is weather proof and the one I had was white with gold threads.) I had a string of plastic beads that I had used inside before but the paint was chipping off exposing a dull white plastic underneath. These beads were wrapped into the greenery and because you weren't up close you could not tell they were loosing the pearly white paint. The top of the tree came inside and became the sorriest looking Christmas tree I have ever had. Somehow though it is my all time favorite because of where it came from. So it cost me $800 to down the tree from which I got all those goodies and I don't have to spend $200. every time I need to drill out the basement drain and no ugly stinky surprises when I forget to drill the drain. Susan --- SLMR 2.1a * Origin: Bits & Bytes BBS - Toronto, Ont. 416- 532-1784 1:25 (1:250/350) --------------- ** A related thread FOLLOWS this message. FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGKI0778 Date: 12/16/97 From: TIMOTHY DUEHRING Time: 02:12pm \/To: SUSAN MERCER (Read 2 times) Subj: R: A second use .... Susan, SM>The leftover branches were tied and strapped to the front porch railing. SM>From the side garden I pulled the dead, almost bleached to a golden SM>white/yellow stems from some Solomon's Seal plant. (They are tall SM>with elongated leaves growing on either side of the stem all the way SM>to the top and they grow back every year). These stalks still had the SM>leaves on and were bundled together and attached to the greenery with SM>bows I made from leftover lawn chair webbing (This stuff is weather SM>proof and the one I had was white with gold threads.) I had a string of SM>plastic beads that I had used inside before but the paint was chipping SM>off exposing a dull white plastic underneath. These beads were wrapped SM>into the greenery and because you weren't up close you could not tell SM>they were loosing the pearly white paint. SM>The top of the tree came inside and became the sorriest looking SM>Christmas tree I have ever had. Somehow though it is my all time SM>favorite because of where it came from. Martha Stewart, eat your heart out! Timothy Duehring tduehrin@execpc.com FIDO=1:154/280 ___ * UniQWK #5098* "Let's see them figure *that* one out!" - Hobbes --------------- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LAST Message In Thread <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGK00002 Date: 12/12/97 From: DEBBIE FORD Time: 5:23Aam \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: Knobby Trees Check out what Marilyn Boissoneault wrote on 10 Dec 97 10:36:29: Marilyn> Yes your messages are getting out. I'm afraid I just don't know Marilyn> anything about knobby trees. They sound interesting though. Marilyn> Perhaps if you went to your local nursery they could help you. Marilyn> If it grows in your area they should be familiar with it's needs. Thanks Marilyn...but the problem is that I have never seen one around here before nor heard of it. The "parent tree" is in southern Calif. and I live in northern Calif. a big difference in climate and all. As for the nurseries around here...well..I think that they would look at me as if I were insane..(BG) The tree seems to be doing ok so far..but of course it is in the dormate state right now.. It has only planted 2 and a half months ago..about four days after our wedding. We have been getting some frost more now...and that is my concern...it has been dropping to 26 or so at night..I know that it isn't cold for some parts of the country.. but for the Sacramento Valley of California that is getting on the cold side...burrr...we aren't aclimated to it..8-( Thanks for getting back to me.... Debbie Ford ford@syix.com ... The power of love is only as mighty as the heart. --- DLG Pro v1.16 * Origin: ShadowFire_Amiga Honcut, Ca. (1:119/699) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGL00000 Date: 12/16/97 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 09:17am \/To: SUSAN MERCER (Read 2 times) Subj: A second use .... SM>several bags to friends (started with 27). So. How many friends now? (g!) SM>The leftover branches were tied and strapped to the front porch railing. SM>proof and the one I had was white with gold threads.) I had a string of SM>into the greenery and because you weren't up close you could not tell What a stupendous use for dead wood. You'll have CFTO-TV knocking on your door if you keep this up! SM>The top of the tree came inside and became the sorriest looking Ah, but just think, for 60 winters that poor tree had struggled to get inside, edging closer and closer to the house and then, at the very end, Success! being invited inside, and for Christmas! What a nice person you turned out to be! I should write a children's Christmas story about you. christopher.greaves@ablelink.org www.interlog.com/~cgreaves * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Don't Brake! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EGL00001 Date: 12/16/97 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 10:36am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: a bulb garden for Xmas A bulb garden for Winter ======================== Two methods are presented, along with the preparation for the bed. Materials: You will need a stock of half a dozen or so old light bulbs. Preparation: Prepare the bulbs by placing them in a plastic bag (orientation doesn't matter) in the freezer for a half-a-day. This will chill the bulbs below freezing-point. Containers: Fill a pail or large plastic bowl with boiling hot water and wearing GLOVES AND GLASSES (a long-sleeved shirt might help, too), grasp a frozen bulb by the head and plunge the metal neck into the boiling water, immersing not more than one-quarter inch of the glass. After three seconds, raise the bulb from the water and tap the glass at the boundary of the neck with the back of a sharp knife. (See "Opening your very first boiled egg", lesson three). This should fracture the glass bulb from the metal stem somewhat easily. Bulb Garden Mk I variety: