Chicken and dumplings from scratch.
Boiled three chicken thighs to make stock, then deboned them. Made a white roux, added the Trinity and the Pope to sweat down. Added the stock back with the chicken.
Sliced up tortillas for dumplings, like my great grandfather taught us years ago..
Admittedly, I got a way late start planting peppers this year. So I cheated and bought sprouts from a local nursery. They all went in the ground around the time Texas turned up the heat.
My serrano, jalapenos, and ancho peppers, while not really prospering, seem to be holding their own. But my chilis de arbol are whithering away and I'm not sure why?
I drip irrigate twice a day. They're planted in a raised bed that's grown a lot of veggies and I added a sack of Black Kow manure to this for added benefit. I also mulched around them to protect the roots from the sun's relentless heat. Why do they seems to be "dying on the vine"?
Any ideas?
Pretty underwhelmed with Blink Arc. I've had it since February. When it works, its great. But it seldom works perfectly and usually leaves me with disparate videos from both cameras. It decided it wasn't going to work for a week or two and the best Blink's customer service could suggest was rebooting the cameras and the Sync module.
Does anyone else have one of these? How do you like it?
I am in Garland, Texas - East DFW.
I have vine growing on a trellis in my garden. It popped up last year under a decorative trellis out front and the PictureThis app told me it was a muscadine. Great! So I overwintered it and moved it to the garden.
Now the PictureThis app thinks it might be a Frost Grape. Or a Porcelain Berry Vine (not edible).
I am hoping for someone to confirm what this is. I'd like to have a native Texas grape in the garden. I'll tear it out of it is a Porcelain Berry.
Thoughts?
The lymph nodes on my neck have gotten a little more swollen since I was first diagnosed earlier this year. My CBC and CMP have been fine over the course of the year and I'm not really experiencing B symptoms yet. However, I've noticed the side of my neck has gained some mass over the last six months, though my onc wasn't too concerned at my last 3 month follow up. I'm going for a full body CT at the end of August and another 3 month follow up a week later to see the results.
At my last appointment, I brought up my neck to my onc's colleague and he suggested the possibility radiation for that one spot if the rest of my lymphatic activity had not changed. That sent me down the rabbit hole looking at radiation options. As it turns out, there is a proton therapy center that is "in network" for me about 5 minutes from my office. I think that's worth asking about when I go in for the follow up in September.
Has anyone had proton therapy over x-ray radiation therapy? Was it more effective? Was it more expensive? Were there side effects?
I understand that radation therapy is only a few minutes a day, five days a week, for a 2-3 weeks? And there is likely an awkward mask involved.
Surely, I'm not the only one with a friend or family member who is supportive but also keeps peddling their own solution for your condition?
Like, I appreciate the support but please, stop reminding me that I have a chronic, incurable disease and NO, I don't want to do a cleanse, take supplement, read your book, or take the advice of your best friend's cousin's momma who had some other type of cancer and managed it some kind of way. I'd like to take the advice of my oncologist who presently recommends that I live a healthy lifestyle and try not to exacerbate my condition.
Case in point: my mother is a worry-wort, a control freak, and conspiratorially minded. She insists that I need to take a combination two particularly divisive anti-helminthics because she's convinced it'll help. And I need to read the book she's sending me. And she has a podcast I need to listen to. And why am I resisting her on this? I have tried to assuage her concerns by explaining that the statistics behind lymphoma and proven treatment are in my favor. And in fact, I don't even have to do anything just yet.
I finally got fed up and told her that someday, when she has her very own cancer, she can treat it anyway she sees fit and I'll support her decisions. Until then, I'm a grownup who is capable of making informed decisions and I'm going to listen to the professionals. Thank you.
Surely, I'm not the only person who deals with this? It's extremely frustrating.
And I had to explain that they were making babies. 😇
(Garland, Texas)
I've been relandscaping the front of my house in Dallas County for four years. I've sourced most of the plants from plant sales at Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park. I tried to go with a pollinators mixture in the sunniest spots then went with a mixture of beautyberry and Turk's Cap in the shadier section. I also let the Horse herb take over the majority of my front lawn. It's a work in progress. Enjoy.