WTF-Beta

Tear it down? Trying to figure out if that awful cement room with the unfinished ceiling is the pool. It looks like a bad motel from the 70’s.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/55-Equis-Ln-Butte-MT-59701/78203497_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

Wow. Glad you are ok.

Not much yet, and not the best photos:

Hanging baskets from Costco.

A bazillion dandelions and that pink flowered bush called a rose tree of China among other things.

Daffodils

Lilacs are just starting:

This tree, it smells heavenly, the leaves turn purple in the summer (it’s an ornamental chokecherry) and the purple flowering ground cover Lamium underneath it.

And this cart, that Steve just put together for me, to keep my back happy when pushing flowers in an out of the garage because we usually get a hard frost mid June.

and I used ground turkey.

Oh, and you need to cook it longer with the Orzo before you add the spinach. (No I have not fixed my edit function issue yet, lol)

Oh, and it says “handle meatballs carefully when you mix them” but I didn’t. I kept forgetting to add ingredients, so I mashed them big time multiple times with a potato masher and then scooped them out with a small ice cream scoop and tossed them in the pan, they are totally fine, moist and delicious. You do need a wide bottomed pan - I used our extra large Le Crueset pot.

This is SO good. I did what the first comment suggested and used orzo in the soup instead of the extra rolled oats (you just need to add extra broth). It says 1/3 package fresh dill (I hate when they do random non-standard measurements) but 1TBS chopped fresh dill was plenty for me. I even screwed up and added both the grated onion and the diced onion to the meatballs - I just made them smaller and cooked them longer to make sure the onion got cooked, and it worked out fine. We will definitely make this again.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021943-lemony-chicken-feta-meatball-soup-with-spinach?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik8.VKzS.uMhPYpwPEVJR&smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

Hi!! Welcome home!

@Mik said in What's cookin' at the LA County Fair:

I would guess one of two likely outcomes, possibly both.

@Mik said in Urban micro apartments/senior living?:

It could help with senior loneliness too, a real problem.

Yes it could. As long as I had enough private space to do my own thing if I wanted to (like make my own food) I could do this.

Me too.

Me too.

Beautiful color!

Wow.

I’m sorry.

I adore marmalade.

Not yet. Barely lost the snow here. Though I did notice a couple of flowers this morning.

That’s really pretty.

️ thank you!

I like jam better than jelly too - though I made currant jelly from the bush in our yard, the one year that it had a ton of fruit - and it was delicious. Slightly off topic: I have since had to chop it to the ground, to try to rid it of the sawfly that was decimating its leaves every year - so I could expose all the soil around the base to winter weather to try to get rid of the insect - but I think I’ve also killed the currant, as there is no new growth. I had the same issue with my gooseberry bushes when we lived in Washington State. No way to kill the sawfly without super toxic chemicals that I didn’t want in my garden.