All About Pocket Knives

bighomer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:47 pm Thanks fellers, the boss and I are doing the best we can she seems better today after a day of not feeling so good. The pain seems to have abated somewhat.
She ate like a little pig at breakfast after not having much appetite yestiddy. She not draining as much as she was, so I'm hoping the healing has begun in earnest. If spoiling will cure her I can provide that.
How this could be comfortable I can't see but she likes to use this ole brick hearth for a pillow.20201129_102852.jpg
Thanks again for the concern, thoughts and prayers.

Dogs are very smart, and i would suspect the brick hearth she uses as a pillow to keep her head raised, this would stop her muscles stretching, which i would think would be extremely uncomfortable for her at the moment.

Here's demon dog, Layla, next to the neighbor's fire! She's a killer!! She wouldn't turn her head so the flash got her eyes! Lol

Poor pups were getting hungry watching us eat wings in the garage..so I went up to you house and made them two bowls of food with a little bacon grease on it for them.. they wooffed it right down!

Stanwade wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:08 pm Poor pups were getting hungry watching us eat wings in the garage..so I went up to you house and made them two bowls of food with a little bacon grease on it for them.. they wooffed it right down!

Bacon will do it every time. Works on me too!

Ken

Ken--right?!

How's Sissy comin' along, BH?

Well, my 15 month old cattle dog aka Blue Heeler, Pepper, has decided to start napping on the sofa by taking up residence between my mother's legs and the sofa back. She's a very sweet dog but she's got a lot of demon in her - loves to chew on "stuff" - no shoes or furniture, but she does go after envelopes, toilet paper, etc.



She is the largest cattle dog I've ever had - not the heaviest, as she is only about 46# but her legs, neck and body are longer than any cattle dog I've had. She can put her head onto the cabinets and rolling bar when she stands on her hind legs. I'm trying to break her of that. She has stolen tomatoes, carrots, and a roll of pie dough off the cabinets. Based on her coloration and measurements, I'm figuring that more dalmation is coming out in this Blue Heeler, rather than the dingo of the Red Heeler or typical Blue Heeler Blue Merle Collie traits.

zzyzzogeton wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:28 am
She has stolen tomatoes, carrots, and a roll of pie dough off the cabinets.

Sounds more like the Red Stealer.
It's easy to tell you like that dog.

With the first freeze of the season coming in, I went out and did the final harvest off the fall garden - tomatoes, bell peppers, Tepin peppers and okra. The okra wasn't much as I harvest those daily - the take was 6 little dinky 1/2" to 2-1/2" pods.

I gleaned over 35# of Celebrity, Better Boy and Roma tomatoes, 8-1/2# of bell peppers in various stages of ripeness and 13 ounces of Tepins.



After giving my brother, B-in-L and nephew large sacks of the produce after this morning's deer hunting session, I laid out the remaining green tomatoes on the treadmill to ripen over time. They won't taste as good as vine ripened, but they'll still be better than store bought. A while back I had a bumper fall crop and the week of Thanksgiving that year I pulled in 13 5 gallon buckets of green tomatoes. The last of them ripened to eating stage in MARCH.



And here is the final take on my Chili Tepins. Tepins are extremely hot native peppers, the ancestor of all peppers of the Americas. They can range from 50K to over 160K on the Svoville Heat Index, depending on the environmental conditions under which they were grown. Green ones are hotter than ripe ones. It takes 70 to 100 tepins to make an ounce of peppers. The spring peppers tend to be pencil eraser sized while the fall ones tend to average smaller.

Other names for the Tepin is Chiltepin, Turkey Peppers, Bird's Eye Peppers and Bird Peppers - Turkey because native turkeys love them, Bird's Eye because they are about the size of a bird's eye, Bird because birds in general love them. The primary method of new plant distribution is via birds eating them and pooping out seeds.

They ARE NOT Chili Pequins. Pequins are different variety altogether. The stem and leaf structure is different and the heat of a pequin is different from that of a tepin. 50K-160K vs 35K to 50K on heatness. The tepin heat is intense but short-lived. Pequin heat is not as intense but is drawn out in duration. The tepin is round to kind oval and the pequin is oval with a point and nearly 3x the size of a tepin.



A picture of pequins for reference - snitched from the internet since I don't grow pequins.

Wow I've seen everything now groceries parading around as pets
Sissy is healing up nicely, she is getting the urge to ramble. Gonna keep her on a short least till next Wednesday when she gets her stitches out.
She is a sweetie pie.

Glad she's doing good!

BH I'm sure glad Sissy is making good progress in her recovery. Griffin has gotten over his issues and is back to eating like a little pig and always begging for one of his treats. Right now he is spending a lot of time near Vera, my mother in law, because I think he can sense that she is not feeling well. He is a great comfort to her.

Griffin had to get in on the action too.

Good to hear David!

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:12 pm Wow I've seen everything now groceries parading around as pets
Sissy is healing up nicely, she is getting the urge to ramble. Gonna keep her on a short least till next Wednesday when she gets her stitches out.
She is a sweetie pie.

Good work ZZ! We had our first frost here last week and I did the same thing. We put the green tomatoes in paper bags and store them in the pantry, checking every few days to pull out those that have ripened. We will have ripe tomatoes for Christmas dinner!

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:25 pm Good work ZZ! We had our first frost here last week and I did the same thing. We put the green tomatoes in paper bags and store them in the pantry, checking every few days to pull out those that have ripened. We will have ripe tomatoes for Christmas dinner!

Ken

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:12 pm Wow I've seen everything now groceries parading around as pets
Sissy is healing up nicely, she is getting the urge to ramble. Gonna keep her on a short least till next Wednesday when she gets her stitches out.
She is a sweetie pie.

Well, SOMEONE, who will remain nameless, seems to be unable to remember to change the thread he is posting in.

Since my dog has turned into a couch tater, those must be counter peppers and tomatoes.

zzyzzogeton wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:02 am

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:12 pm Wow I've seen everything now groceries parading around as pets
Sissy is healing up nicely, she is getting the urge to ramble. Gonna keep her on a short least till next Wednesday when she gets her stitches out.
She is a sweetie pie.

Well, SOMEONE, who will remain nameless, seems to be unable to remember to change the thread he is posting in.

Since my dog has turned into a couch tater, those must be counter peppers and tomatoes.

There you go I knew there was a connection. I enjoyed looking at those fine veggies wherever posted them. :

Synodontis eupteris... feather fin catfish. The last man standing in my 20+year-old 55gal. Malawi Cichlid tank:
He can smile... he thinks he's handsome, but it's very debatable!

desmobob wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:40 pm Synodontis eupteris... feather fin catfish. The last man standing in my 20+year-old 55gal. Malawi Cichlid tank:

Synodontis Eupteris.jpg

He can smile... he thinks he's handsome, but it's very debatable!

S. eupterus smile.jpg

Synodontis eupteris2.jpg

Boy, is he a "catch"!

Stanwade wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:42 pm

Boy, is he a "catch"!

Stanwade wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:42 pm

desmobob wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:40 pm Synodontis eupteris... feather fin catfish. The last man standing in my 20+year-old 55gal. Malawi Cichlid tank:

Synodontis Eupteris.jpg

He can smile... he thinks he's handsome, but it's very debatable!

S. eupterus smile.jpg

Synodontis eupteris2.jpg

Boy, is he a "catch"!