u/badgersister1

The garden is looking rough. I’ve cut back the day lilies as they had gone yellow and brown. I’m never sure if I should cut other plants back too. Right now it’s my Asian lilies. They are prolific bloomers and I’ve always left them to be cut back after the frost. But they do look pretty rough and messy.

Cut or leave?

EDIT: thanks folks. I will but the ratty tops off and leave them to soak up the nutrients!

Edit: I did it! I actually used whole clementine oranges and fresh peaches puréed to pulp in my food processor. Then I took out the milk, added a bit of oil to the butter, and added a tsp of baking soda. It worked! I’m icing it now.

and My favourite birthday cake recipe calls 1.25 cups of milk. How do I substitute fresh peach puree for some or all of the milk? Or use puree mixed with cream? I haven’t found a recipe on line that I think could work except perhaps a passion fruit cake. (I haven’t found never had passion fruit so I don’t know how it would compare)

My recipe;
3 cups cake flour
1 3/4 cups white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1/2 cup butter
2eggs
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

I bought a slab of halva that is completely crumbly. It just disintegrates into a pile of sand if you try to cut it. I’m open to suggestions for how to make it solid, or for good recipes. Ottolenghi’s walnut halva cake sounded good but it only uses chunks for a topping and that won’t work with this stuff.

I’ve got so many old slides. And looking at them on our little slide viewer is so unsatisfactory. Is there a good inexpensive place in town to convert some of them to digital so I can share them with family?

The vet I’ve been going to has had suspicious price rises and beautiful makeover of the clinic! While I liked the vets I’m not a millionaire and this is getting to be too much.

I hate changing from people my pet knows and that know her history. I’d have to be confident in the care, and that they wouldn’t be bought up soon too!

My SO got me a great sewing box many years ago. It’s very large, has a top tier with dedicated slots for 30 bobbins, scissors, shears, pins and pegs for 40 spools. That lifts out and there’s a second tier with slots for measuring tape, hemming measure, needles and other long things. That lifts out and under it there’s room for elastics, ribbons, machine accessories etc. The problem is it is plastic and the plastic is now old and cracking. The handles broke off and it has split.

Nothing I have seen compares to my great crumbling box! Does anyone have suggestions for a really good replacement?

Can anyone recommend hoses that last?

A split halfway down a 25’ hose that I got in the fall to replace one that almost made it through two summers. Yes I drain them. No I don’t run them over with the mower.

I have a 200’ property with spigots at both ends and I have good brass Y valves and soaker hoses. But the feeder hoses never last! And no I don’t leave the water on all the time so they aren’t under constant pressure.

I have some retractable ones that have lasted a couple of years and when they spring a leak I’ve been able to cut them and reattach the fittings. I like them because they are so lightweight.

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