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whoreganic, posting in gardening @ 01:04 pm: Getting ready for a flower and tomato show...
Despite this disaster earlier in the week, the other plants in my garden are quite happy. After the cut, pics of gladioli, jalapenos, tomatoes, and my Brett-monster.

( Peekshers... )

justcari, posting in gardening @ 12:15 pm: Roses - Help!
Looking for some advise on my rosebush. A few weeks ago it was lush and beautiful - I was *thrilled* with it. This is the first year it's bloomed (just planted last year) and it couldn't have been more beautiful a few weeks ago. But now... something has gone horribly wrong.

( Photos below )

ryryforsale, posting in austincommunity @ 08:58 am: Room 710 Closing?
I wore a Room 710 t-shirt out yesterday and someone assumed I work there and said to me, "I heard ya'll are closing, that sucks!!" Which just upset me because I love that place ;-) Then someone else nearby said they were just going under new management ...

Does anyone have more info about this?

factoryisland, posting in slash_this @ 01:39 pm: SPEICALLY AND UNIQUE HANDMADE GIFTS!!!

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maisquared, posting in austincommunity @ 10:54 pm: Local Travel Agents?
I looked in the tags but only found one thing related, but I'm looking for a travel agent who can help me apply for a work & holiday visa for my trip to Australia. I don't have that much time (2 months) and so I don't even know if it is possible. I went online to look at the process and apply online but it is really confusing so I need help with it since deadline is approaching.

katu @ 10:55 pm: awwww.
OMG. I am home from work. And NO ONE IS ON.

Lonely. :(

giveitfullheart, posting in gardening @ 09:21 pm: Can you tell me...
What is this plant? It seems like it could possibly be a viney plant but I'm not sure. I'm very new to gardening. There are little green things that at first looked like very young grapes or something but I think they're actually the flower bud. The flower is purple and very small. It's a very bleh looking plant aside from the pretty flowers (which is possibly due to my lack of care...I never go where that plant is). If it's a weed, I'd just remove it but if it's something that has potential, I'd like to move it out of the dogs' reach and care for it! Oh yeah, I'm in zone 6a.

Thanks in advance!

( Pictures under the cut! )

Tags: plant id

eqfe, posting in gardening @ 08:40 pm: Time to can the green beans
The pole beans are heavily laden with beans, so tonight the pressure canner comes out for the first time.  7 quarts of bean will be in the basement by morning.  I'm starting to feel that this year might get decent yet.

totbl19, posting in austincommunity @ 07:22 pm: public tracks
What are some tracks that are open to the public 24 hrs? I'm in town, and I don't know where to run. I prefer more to run on tracks than on sidewalks etc

trampledamage, posting in altparent @ 05:39 pm: Suggestions please - lunches for school days
Need help!

little miss trampledamage is starting kindergarten in September (yay!) and it's an all day school, but she'll be coming home for lunch. She'll only have an hour though. This is going to be a change of pace for both of us (and younger brother!) because up until now I've run the day as morning activities, then come home and relax while I figure out something for lunch, then relax some more before doing stuff in the afternoon.

Any suggestions of good things to make for lunch. There are no allergies or dietary requirements to be concerned with. It just needs to be easy (because I am no kind of cook), something I can prepare in advance - the morning before or, even better, the evening before and left in the fridge or something I can freeze and re-heat, also something filling but not too heavy - I don't want her falling asleep at school!

I'm having the usual real life = chaos problems at the moment so I'm not getting any time to get my head round this. So I need help :o)

Thanks all.

jigganerd, posting in ut_austin @ 05:48 pm: We're TEXAS.
Does anyone know where I can find video of any of the commercials where Walter Cronkite (RIP) says "We're Texas. What starts here changes the world," the whole phrase not just one or the other? I've looked on utexas.edu which only has the new one where he doesn't say "We're Texas," and youtube didn't have the right one, either.

driftingfocus @ 02:48 pm: Sully Plantation Photos: Part 2

A woman portraying one of the Andrews Sisters sings for a veteran.

 

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Originally published at Teh Blog. You can comment here or there.

Tags: living history, photos: reenacting, reenacting, reenactor, sully plantation

heinleinfan, posting in gardening @ 12:35 pm: Zucchini questions
This is kind of about cooking, but I figure fits here as anyone who grows zucchini typically has to find ways to cook it all...

My husband and I grow a variety of zucchini called "eight ball" and we really love it, it grows round.  We're usually good about catching the ninja zucchini before they've gotten "too big" but we missed one.

So now I've got a zucchini roughly the size of my head.

Now, with regularly shaped zucchini I use the big ones for zucchini bread, since they taste less...tasty...and when shredded are typically less watery than the small ones and have more skin surface...but I'm not sure what to do with this giant round one.  I have it in my mind that one of the tasty zucchini aspects of zucchini bread is the skin...it's the nice flecks of color and texture and I think flavor, since the meat of bigger zucchini is kinda flavorless...but with this sucker, if I shredded it it would be all mostly the meat, rather tasteless meat, without as much skin ratio.

...is this just my imagination about the whole skin thing in zucchini bread?

I mean, I suppose I could shred it up and see what happens...but before I do, any other thoughts on what to do with a huge amount of zucchini meat, not much skin, that's rather tasteless, but also quite seedless and not very watery?



Too bad it wouldn't last until Halloween, I'd just carve it up and then compost it...it's that big...heh.

Thanks!

driftingfocus @ 01:47 pm: Sully Plantation Photos: Part 1

In the interests of actually getting photos from Sully Plantation up, I’ve decided to just make several posts of them, in no particular order, but with grouping within each post. So, here you go – as usual, there are more below the cut. Enjoy:

Marc teaching a kid about the footwraps that the Soviets used instead of socks (and did until 2007).

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Tags: living history, reenacting, reenactor, soviet, sully plantation

ahumdinger, posting in gardening @ 01:12 pm: what is this?


I'm sure all you knowledgable gardeners in the community can help me out. I bought this plant dirt cheap at a local greenhouse (zone 5) and, silly me, did not even ask what it is.

Tags: plant id, zone 5

whoreganic, posting in gardening @ 11:47 am: Another sad day in Monica's garden...
Hello again.

Despite last year's wonderful flower show, my Rose Mallow hibiscus is not doing so well right now. After soaking the branches in insecticidal soap (potassium salts) to remedy a sawfly infestation, each bud has turned black and died. I don't know if the buds were affected by the soap, or if there is a fungal infection (like botrytis?) going on. I don't know enough about diseases to make a judgment. My biggest concern: is it salvageable? I greatly appreciate any advice.

( A sad hibiscus, sawfly larvae damage, and a sad delphinium...image heavy )

readylettucego, posting in austincommunity @ 10:54 am: drycleaner - near downtown/south
best drycleaner/laundry service near downtown/south austin? doesn't need to be super quick turn around time, prefer if they do the service there vs shipping it off and a place that isn't using super harsh chemicals.

I just found Westbank Dry Cleaning. any experience with them?

bifemmefatale, posting in gardening @ 10:29 am: plant id please?
This lovely flower is growing in one of my clients' gardens. It has grassy foliage and sprays of bright orange-red lily-like flowers opening in succession from the back of the stem forward. Apologies for the crappy cameraphone pic. I'm in Zone 5a, northern IL.



Tags: plant id, zone 5