Add more milk if noodles seem to dry. Pour in the chicken stock and water, then add the spice blends. You may even find a bottle of soda pop that you can pull out of an ice box! A ghost pumpkin to spook Halloween. A durable wand with variable settings costs around $10 to $12. Gently place blueberries in plastic quart containers. We may have a few more frost days remaining. Beat cream cheese and finely shredded sharp cheese, add pumpkin pie spices and marmalade or preserves until smooth. We store them in a small box in a warm room. The final few days of Piedmont strawberry season. Keep a durable snow and ice scraper with a stiff brush at the other end of the scraper. Sow seed and cover seed with a layer of peat moss and an application of Garden-Tone vegetable organic food. The same kit can be used the carve watermelon baskets, honeydew bowls, melon balls, as well as designs on unpeeled cucumbers. And as much as we dislike wild onions, we’ll leave them for now just because they add a welcome shade of green. April can feature a variety of weather patterns that can fool many gardeners with its fickleness. It tastes best if it's a fire that's created from hardwood. When birds take baths, they splash water, making the remaining water heat up quicker as the afternoon sun bears down. Cool and top with a handful of fresh blueberries. Honeysuckles have almost cycled out and other flowers are just reaching bloom stage. New evergreens will not have to contend with warm temperatures drying them out. Wet snow makes good snowmen and snowballs, but rough to clean from driveways and sidewalks. As children, we were taught to get in the house when we heard thunder. Use Black Kow on autumn vegetables. As long as I was on duty, absolutely nothing was stolen from this factory.” “Oh really?” said the supervisor, “Then how do you account for the fact that the recent audit shows we have lost 64 wheelbarrows?”. There are plenty of hollow, old barns, sheds and piles of brush and leaves. The chill in the late November air signaled it was hog killing time in Northampton County in northeastern North Carolina. To prepare a pan of fried squash, wash and cut into quarter-sized chunks (about ten or twelve per squash). This is an easy apple cobbler prepared with simple ingredients. Plant-Tone and all the Holly-Tone family of organics are fine-textured, totally organic and clean and easy to apply. Pour the thickened mixture into graham cracker crust. Starting tomato seed for a late summer, early fall tomato harvest. Browse our listings to find jobs in Germany for expats, including jobs for English speakers or those in your native language. Add drained mandarin oranges and orange flavoring. A sure sign of spring: The seed catalogs are arriving: Along with the holiday season, December brings the seed catalogs. Peak season of the majestic monarch and tiger swallowtail butterflies. Now that all the Christmas decorations have been taken down and stored away, it is a perfect opportunity to gather all the boxes, bows, ribbons and containers that Christmas gifts were wrapped in and break them down and store them up to use during the year for birthdays, showers, as well as next Christmas. The birds of winter are continuing to search for food and water. Mix all these ingredients together and pour into a 13x9x2 inch baking pan or dish sprayed with Pam baking spray. Place an apple in each box to promote ripening. You can choose from Iceburg, Buttercrunch, Grand Rapids, Green Ice, Oak Leaf, Red Sails, and many others. What is as rare as a night of fireflies in early June? Most established nurseries will include proper directions for planting their stock. The woman told the artist she was doing this in case her husband ever remarried, she wanted his second wife to go out of her mind trying to find out where he had hidden all those jewels. Remove and place berries in second sink for half minute. With only 28 days, February is the shortest month of winter. Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: “How bright he is!” Teacher: “How long did the Hundred Years War last?” Student: “I don’t know; ten years?” Teacher: “No, think carefully. It is both a taste and a “look” of Christmas. This really provides any seed a great start. Forget-me-nots, Periwinkle, and Veronica blue flowers that make unusual perennials. Do you call this soup?” “No sir” said the mess sergeant, “I call it dish water!”, “Story time’ – The six year old son rushed to his mother’s bedroom at two in the morning wanting her to tell him a story. Even in the month of November, pansies can still be planted. Why put the garden to bed when you can enjoy something green from it in all four seasons? The morning dew’s are getting heavier and lingering around longer each day. They should have blooms by late November. The ancient design of kamado grills goes back at least 3,000 years. Helping prevent blossom-end rot on mid-summer tomatoes. Plenty of building material for the compost pile or bin. A chemical way to control blossom-end rot is to apply “Captan” mixed with proper amount of water and poured into a spray bottle such as Windex window spray comes in (or any type of spray bottle). Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Another preventive measure is applying Vigaro tomato food with enriched calcium as a side dressing once a month while plants are growing. Cool cake before removing from pan. The selection is great and they will not spoil. It is God’s Christmas card in the western skin as the heavens declare His glory. There is plenty of action on the lawn and at the edge of the garden. Pour mix into pan and bake about 25 minutes or until golden brown (until an inserted toothpick comes out clean). The nights are getting cooler and the lawn has more leaves to rake and vacuum every morning. Mid-May is cucumber and squash time. Grass is tough to mow on a Dog Day afternoon. What a wonderful way to celebrate the beginning of the season of Advent. The cukes seem to grow overnight and it’s important to discover and harvest them before they get too long to eat. Even though today is the day of Valentine, it is not too late to pick out a special Valentine and the right gift is still there waiting for you to go and pick it up. Now a 5-year-old can do it! Make sure you keep plenty of washer fluid in the windshield washer. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until top is golden brown. Run the hot dog buns through the blender in “grate” mode. In Colonial Williamsburg, they use plenty of apples and oranges as decor. Mix the crushed crackers with stick or melted margarine (add more margarine if you think it needs it). Slice the bottom to make it flat so it will sit upright on a pie shell aluminum plate. At Christmas time, the mixture of aromas like hens roasting, collards, bread, cakes and pies not only filled the kitchen but the whole house. It kills germs in the air that have influence on our bodies, it is good for our lungs to breathe in a fresh snowfall from above. Clean out the inside and spray the nest with several coats of clear varnish. It will not be long until they have tiny green spuds developing under the foliage. Pick a day during February especially when snow is forecast in the area. As we reach the final day of the month of May, the time is ideal for setting out pepper plants in the sweet, hot, and very hot varieties. The garden vegetables of summer are almost at the finish line with peppers and late tomatoes on their wind-down. We should all be guardians of the environment we live in. A stick of winter green, an orange, and a blanket on the front porch. Trimming evergreens in October. The American violet is a perennial that does not come from the garden shop but from the wilds at the edge of the woodlands. The roses of mid-summer are still beautiful and with a little bit of extra care they will continue to bloom until we have frost. Enjoying a full buck moon tonight. It is a great tomato food and calcium in the Uigaro prevents blossom-end rot. In keeping the Moravian star lit all night, you are symbolically lighting the way for the Christ Child. The gift of love is at the very heart of Christmas; of all the gifts, love is the vest best! Mix the medium with enough water to moisten the medium. They still have about one more month to remain outside before moving them back to the sunny living room where they will spend the autumn and winter months. December is the best time to purchase one because at this time of the year they should be in full bloom and you can choose the color you want. Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: “Operating Room?” A husband took his wife to a small town doctor’s office. Checking out the harvest of Irish potatoes. This works well in winter because you may want to use the mower to run over leaves and break them down for mulch and compost. Beat for a minute. There are many materials in today’s fashion world but none like a cotton sheet! And for extra taste, add some diced turnips. The American bee balm performs better year-round if you trim it back and it winter in a sunny room. Set chicken aside. Mix all crust ingredients together and pour in baking dish over melted margarine. The water pump failed on our vehicle and the temperature gauge topped out. With just a bit of tender loving care, they will endure for a long season on the porch. Add more until it reaches the thickness you desire. The most welcome relief from the humidity of Dog Days comes in the form of the quick formation of a thunderstorm that dumps an inch of rain, perks up the garden, conditions the air and makes it easy to breathe. After more hummers arrive, fill the feeders completely full. Most cucumbers will produce fruit in 55 to 60 days. Each day in August, she kept a close eye on the foggy mornings of August and whether they were thick or thin, and also the days of the fogs. Tomatoes are the fast food of the garden. Place in a dry place and check them two or three times a week. Mid-summer is now officially here since Saint Lammas Day occurred last week that marked summer’s halfway point. We should give daily thanks because giving thanks to God is always in season. Planting a row or bed of mustard greens. Bake at 350 degrees until firm and golden brown. font-size: 85%; Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: “Pass the stuffing!” Johnny: “Sonny, that’s a beautiful stuffed tiger you have there. There are several varieties designed just for lawns in the Southeastern area. The other difference is that at sunrise, the sun fades out the colors of the sunrise, but at sunset, the sunset fades out the sun. As we referred to the arrival of seed racks in supermarkets, hardware stores, and garden departments, you can now discover different varieties of four o’clocks among the racks of seed for less than $2. Coffee was always available, and biscuits or cornbread, too. One evening a worker tried to leave the factory with a wheelbarrow full of newspapers. The very best week control is the two hand and ten fingers that God gave you! Feel the medium before you buy it, and skip over it if you feel bark, chips, or lumps in it. Keep collard plants fed with Vegetable-Tone organic vegetable food once a month during winter. All these products dissolve quickly in the soil and plants and vegetables will quickly respond to these organic reasonably priced and easy to handle products. They are a root crop that needs to be sown before August ends. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until cake tests done. Straight-necks are the best of summer squash, because they are meatier, have less moisture, and have smaller and less seeds, plus they are easier to cur into uniform cubes or chunks. When they finally arrived at the restaurant, and the wife left the car to retrieve her glasses, her crow-eating husband said “While you are in there, get my hat!”. Form the mixture into a pumpkin and use a knife to detail sectional lines on the pumpkin. Mix all ingredients together for two minutes. The acorns were loud as we tried to sleep to the sounds of the acorns pelleting the roof above us. Combine Bisquick, sugar, apple pie spice, stir and then add applesauce, milk, egg, and Crisco oil. This thins the egg nog but also provides a taste that brings memories of my father. To place the flag at half-mast, raise the flag to its peak for a second before lowering the flag to half-mast. Where did you get him?” Lonnie: “From India when I was on a hunting trip with my uncle.” Johnny: “And what’s he stuffed with?” Lonnie: “My uncle.”, Location, Location: “I don’t think my parents like me. Drain off the liquid and reserve it for the “pot licker” soup or sauce. This 3.5 quart casserole Crock-Pot is slowly becoming one of my favorite slow cookers in my arsenal. Then in late April you can move your cactus outside to a porch or deck. Weeds are growing faster and have to be pulled up more often. Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: “Wrong Diagnosis!” — A man walked into the doctor’s office, and the receptionist asked him what he had, “Shingles” the man replied. Siberian Kale is a hardy cole family cool weather vegetable that will produce greens from late autumn all the way until early spring. Wednesday, April 1, was April Fool’s Day. The secret of spring bulbs such as hyacinth, jonquil, daffodil narcissos to bloom every spring is allowing the blooms and foliage to cycle out. It would make an unusual attention-getting, cute, ghost pumpkin jack o’lantern. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 minutes or until they test done. They are tough and perform well outside all during winter. Do no use 10-10-10 fertilizers or chemical fertilizers on tomatoes because they do not need nitrogen but calcium and other nutrients that promote healthy growth as well as better production. Use a black permanent marker with a wide tip to design two big, round oval-shaped eyes and a round black nose, and very long oblong-shaped mouth (vertical). Add three cups sugar to the eggs and beat until creamy. Keep the lawn smoothly cut, but don’t set the blade too close. It’s always when setting out tomato plants to mix a handful of powdered lime around roots of tomato plants when setting them out to help prevent rot. There will be a new moon on the western horizon on Tuesday, August 18 and will reach its first quarter on Tuesday, August 15. Mix together the next five ingredients, then add the corn meal mixture and fold in beaten eggs and melted butter. They will keep in refrigerator for a week if they stay around that long. Give them a drink of water twice a week to cool them down when no rain is forecast. Believe us, they were dollars well-earned! The four o’clocks are still standing tall. Many are only around at Christmas time. That way I can save a few trees and make a few bucks.”, For the next two months, the worker left every night with a wheelbarrow full of newspapers, but the watchman remained alert and he checked him every night. There are birds with straw and building materials for nests in their beaks and sipping water from the birdbath. No bags. Keep the hot varieties a distance from sweet varieties to prevent bees from cross-pollinating them and causing all peppers to be hot. It is our hope that you learn to live a richer and fuller life, and that all of you have a blessed and bountiful Thanksgiving filled with love. Winter from the front porch. We should always celebrate the season of Thanksgiving and not just the day itself. Raising a row of royal burgundy beets. Keep out of heat of direct sunlight (preferably in the carport). We don’t think it is a matter of global warming or weather extremes. Dog Days will come to an end on Tuesday. If any is left, you can place it in the freezer. Watering hanging baskets. Dogwoods and Judas trees adorn the Carolina woodlands. Our favorites include several on Main Street in Mount Airy, where there are hardware stores, candy stores, specialty shops and plenty of good eating places! When squash sprouts, thin to two healthy plants per hill and keep soil hilled up to the squash. The Cabbage Collard is a favorite collard variety in eastern North Carolina. Think about this as you pick toward harvesting your quota. Dissolve strawberry Jello in the boiling water, add fresh strawberries, add cubed bananas, sprinkle with lemon juice. This morning, at 2 a.m., we lost an hour of daylight and our friend, Daylight Savings Time for the next four-and-a-half months. On Thanksgiving Day, all the families, kids, and grandchildren would be there and the table was filled with food and desserts, but nothing could top smoked ham with collards, corn bread and sweet tea. Happy Thanksgiving. Strawberry season is slowly winding down in Surry and Stokes counties and only a few more days left to pick your own harvest of fresh strawberries to freeze and enjoy in pies, shortcakes, jams, jellies, and preserving. Spice mixes make Thanksgiving recipes easier to prepare. Armed Forces Day will be Saturday, May 16. The aroma of smoked ham and oak wood was soon filling the air. As November days become chilly, the juncos, chickadees, and sparrows crowd the bird feeders looking for a quick meal. Save the broth. At noon, she would test the ham for tenderness, remove it from the pot and add collard heads one by one until they cooked down. If you have any pots of perennials, place several of these pots on the table cover to keep winds from blowing the cover off the table. I think the vest best is Sealtest, which is still popular in supermarkets. It is great to see them come to new life. The pansies planted early in October are thriving as November arrives. The mighty oaks still have green color and it will take frost to turn them brown and gold and red. With chunks of cornbread dropped into the “likker” and it became a meal in a bowl. They can become dilly green beans. Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: “Saturday Night Fever”: This fever usually comes on every Sunday morning. Enjoy the glow of fireflies this evening. Leo will move a little farther to the west each night until it sets in summer. As the month of November grows colder, the creepy crawlers and four legged pests such as mice and rodents will be trying to slip into your barn or shed for winter. Enjoying the waning of the full Hunter’s Moon. Write the size of your furnace’s filter on the door of the furnace with a black permanent marker so you will know at a glance the size to purchase. Fry on medium head in Crisco oil. With a frost not too far away, it is time to move the panda and asparagus from outside, as well as the Christmas cactus, inside the sunny living room to spend the winter. The month of harvest festivals, Halloween carnivals and cake walks. Thanksgiving Day will be Thursday, Nov. 26. You will also need one-and-a-half sticks of melted light margarine, one can of Comstock cherry pie filling, one eight-ounce box of cream cheese, one-and-a-half cups sugar, one cup of milk and two cartons of Cool Whip. At 8:30 a.m., the fever begins and last until about 12:20 p.m. in the afternoon, the patient is much improved. We talked about thunderstorms and their benefits in the above paragraph. Trimming and shaping will also protect evergreens from snow and ice damage. A patch can sometimes become a “no-no” because it makes it harder at the time of harvest. Yom Kipper begins at sundown on Sunday, Sept. 27. Repeat the process over and over one quart at a time and immediately place containers in the freezer. The cardinals visit the feeders and birdbath every morning and add plenty of color to the winter landscape along with the crystals of frost lingering on the lawn. Portaluca is a rainbow of color in a container. Displays in florist shops hint that it is the season of the Valentine. It never said what waters they came from. A green bean and white corn casserole. Feed the tomatoes with Tomato-Tone organic tomato food every ten days by side dressing and pulling up soil on each side of the plants.