Category Archives: Gardening
Spot for you to do some reading on gardening and staying healthy. Also a great place to put your feet up and relax for a bit.
Health Tip
I remember Laura the lady that raised me one time saying. “George, every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it!” So, in layman words, stop eating junk food and eat the food you are supposed to eat. She told me that over sixty years ago, and it is still being said today.
Garden Tip for Jan 25/2023
Over the years I have found, through trial an error, a few veggies that helps with memory loss, along with helping your brain wanting to learn more, which in turn makes you more healthy.
What would these veggies be?
Well, I’ll tell ya.
Tomatoes, Lots of Leafy Vegetables, like Lettuce of all kinds, Green and Yellow Bell Peppers, Sweet Potatoes mixed with Red Potatoes 50-50, Pumpkin Seeds and last but not least, Beets.
Enjoy a few of them every week for a month, and your brain will be a happy camper. What have you got to lose?
Red Pepper Jelly
Herbs Drying
Fresh Dug Garlic
Garlic
Homegrown Garlic
What’s Happening In & Around Port Loring, Ontario, Canada on Nov 27/2022
Good Morning!
It’s another cloudy morning here in Port Loring, but the temperature isn’t that bad for this time of year, sitting at 2.9 C | 37.22 F. We could see a shower as the day progresses. The snow we did have is almost all gone, and once again I am seeing green when looking out of my living room window. As much as I know it will be short-lived, it is nice to see.
Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning, which will make travelling good today for those wanting to get a head start on their Christmas Shopping. Speaking of Christmas Shopping, I see there are a lot more people shopping online these days instead of going into the stores. In a lot of ways, I think it is a good way of purchasing the things you need. Especially if you live in a remote area like ours, where it takes a person an hour and a half to get to a store. Not to forget what gas costs these days. And another thing is that for a lot of things you order online, you get free shipping right to your door. I have also found that when you go to a store to buy, you have to take what they have, or do without. Online they have anything and everything, and before you buy, you can read the reviews on whether it is any good. I like that.
On another note, yesterday I worked in my woodworking shop on a few things. Got lots done. My lovely wife put up and made her decorations outside. She can make things out of nothing, that woman. Out front of the stores in town, they charge huge dollars for just a few branches taken from trees. Heck, I saw at Home Depot last week, they were selling 5 White Birch branches for $20.00. Kind of made me rub my whiskers a bit, wondering who would buy them. My wife … she simply walked around our property and came back with an arm full of what some would call weeds, put them together with some plants we have left in our gardens, and within an hour or so she has them all put together in pots sitting on our porches and hanging on our doors. And I have to tell you they look fantastic. But then again, she has designed homes, gardens and stores in Niagara for years, along with hundreds of window displays. It just comes natural to her.
With that I am off for a bowl of oatmeal, and then I think I will write up a story or two, which in doing so will give my old bones a bit of a rest today. I have been hurting a bit lately.
Take care and stay safe.
In Closing, I Would Like To Wish You Well.
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Fall Leaves In Port Loring Ontario Canada Oct 11/2022
Fall Crocus
Dandelion Roots
Thanksgiving Pumpkin
Unexpected Guest
Hi folks. Looking out a couple days ago we saw an unexpected guest enjoying our apples on a tree out back of our home. He wasn’t a large one, but just the same we didn’t bother him. It looked as if he was sure enjoying them apples.
Thought I would share. The pictures aren’ t the greatest but it was the best I could get looking out window.
Flowers In Full Bloom
I took a couple pictures of some flowers in front of our house yesterday. The first one is called Helen’s Flowers or what I call Up Side Down Daisy’s. The second one is a Crocus.. Usually they come up in the spring but this one always comes up in the fall. Sure is pretty though.
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Pumpkins 2022
I took a picture of some of my Pumpkins yesterday. My wife will use some of them for decoration on Thanksgiving, some we will sell and the rest will make some Pumpkin Pies. Although the ones in the pictures aren’t Pie Pumpkins. Pie pumpkins are much smaller. I will take a picture of them in a week or so as they aren’t quite ready yet.
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