Comments for Chickens in the Road http://chickensintheroad.com Life in Ordinary Splendor Sat, 25 May 2013 21:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on A Pot of Beans by PaulaA http://chickensintheroad.com/cooking/a-pot-of-beans/#comment-158053 PaulaA Sat, 25 May 2013 21:54:34 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=15062#comment-158053 Loved coming across this post nearly 4 years late! 84 stories added to the post! So cool! Kinda proves how important bean culture is. I cook other kinds sometimes, but what I always crave are pintos. I didn’t learn to put in a ham hock until I was grown, my mother and grandmothers all just used fat back, and if Grandmother could get them, we’d have cracklin corn bread. My mother loved to make them in her new-fangled pressure cooker. Sometimes I dress them up with veggies and spices (mostly so my PNW husband will think he’s eating Mexican insead of Southern) and sometimes I just use liquid smoke and salt. Granny made chowchow, and that’s about the finest accompaniment. But now I can only get it if I haul it across the country in my suitcase!
I still eat ketchup on big lima beans, but all I need with pintos is a hunk of buttered cornbread at the bottom of the BIG bowl.

]]> Comment on Dating Update by Dumbcatluvr http://chickensintheroad.com/dailyfarm/dating-update/#comment-158052 Dumbcatluvr Sat, 25 May 2013 17:38:05 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=55162#comment-158052 Shaw’s Geneva, 1939:

She: No hanky panky. I am respectable; and I mean to keep respectable.
He: I pledge you my word that my intentions are completely honorable.
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]]> Comment on The Slanted Little House by AmandaW http://chickensintheroad.com/living/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-158051 AmandaW Sat, 25 May 2013 17:29:51 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/blog/2007/09/05/the-slanted-little-house/#comment-158051 Wow! I came for a recipe for homemade yellow cake mix and have decided I may just move in with you! Your little area sounds absolutely delightful! The husband and I long for something more simple, just as soon as we pay off this darn student loans!

]]> Comment on How to Make Soap by amysapothecary http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/how-to-make-soap/#comment-158050 amysapothecary Sat, 25 May 2013 16:45:35 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=22572#comment-158050 :wave: Hi Suzanne
I made attempted your vanilla sugar dreams soap. I didn’t know which way I’d like more CP or HP so I did it both ways. At trace a took some soap aside and put it into molds to go the CP route then I cooked the rest for the HP process. My HP soap is super sticky and SOFT. So soft I can actually cut it with a butter knife. The CP stuff seems appropriately hard (it was much harder than the HP) Is this a function of HP or did I goof somehow? Thanks for your amazing posts. I am really enjoying this hobbyhttp://chickensintheroad.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wave.gif

]]> Comment on How to Make Soap by amysapothecary http://chickensintheroad.com/house/crafts/how-to-make-soap/#comment-158049 amysapothecary Sat, 25 May 2013 16:44:35 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=22572#comment-158049 Hi Suzanne
I made attempted your vanilla sugar dreams soap. I didn’t know which way I’d like more CP or HP so I did it both ways. At trace a took some soap aside and put it into molds to go the CP route then I cooked the rest for the HP process. My HP soap is super sticky and SOFT. So soft I can actually cut it with a butter knife. The CP stuff seems appropriately hard (it was much harder than the HP) Is this a function of HP or did I goof somehow? Thanks for your amazing posts. I am really enjoying this hobby

]]> Comment on Natural Gardening by EMarie http://chickensintheroad.com/house/garden/natural-gardening/#comment-158047 EMarie Sat, 25 May 2013 00:41:36 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=55151#comment-158047 :ladybug: I love natural gardening….never have really liked a regimented, formal look. I seek to replace grass with naturally-growing wildflowers, intentionally planted perennials, and shrubbery for little birds to hide in. :ladybug: :snuggle:

]]> Comment on Natural Gardening by Joell http://chickensintheroad.com/house/garden/natural-gardening/#comment-158046 Joell Fri, 24 May 2013 22:46:10 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=55151#comment-158046 :purpleflower:
I startrd going natural a few years ago—gardening that is. I dont really like the look of a “formal” flower garden. Most of my gardens are flowers that friends have given me and wild flowers, I have hostas that go back 70 years. I love the way it looks, and I dont like mulch either, if someone notices weeds in my garden, they can feel free to pull them up.
I was looking at the third photo, are those chives in bloom?
I made the mistake several years ago of bring home a lemon balm plant, good grief, it is every where, I pull it up but can’t get all of the roots, but we have learned to get along with one another. Yup, au natural is the way to go.

]]> Comment on Natural Gardening by brookdale http://chickensintheroad.com/house/garden/natural-gardening/#comment-158044 brookdale Fri, 24 May 2013 19:03:53 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=55151#comment-158044 I’m also a fan of natural gardening. Might as well go with the flow anyway! I never can tell which are the weeds.
Love your big blue ladybug! Did you make it?

]]> Comment on Here They Are Again by gardnerh http://chickensintheroad.com/dailyfarm/here-they-are-again/#comment-158043 gardnerh Fri, 24 May 2013 17:23:32 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=55145#comment-158043 Our goats have been escaping lately too. Maybe the planets are aligned funny?

]]> Comment on Dating Update by emmachisett http://chickensintheroad.com/dailyfarm/dating-update/#comment-158042 emmachisett Fri, 24 May 2013 15:44:38 +0000 http://chickensintheroad.com/?p=55162#comment-158042 Don’t ya just love that phrase “hanky-panky”. Wonder where it came from. I am assuming that is the Mister on the left, as you said Glory Bee was somewhat “more full-figured” ahem. I hope things work out. Would love to welcome a new calf in the new year. Good luck.

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