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Ah, so that's why my lacy one has never bloomed since the first year...wonderboy has been cutting off the old stems.

I took these today before it rained. This Rhody has different colored flowers on the same bush. Probably needs something added to the soil to keep the color. My orange azalea:

And chewing young teaberry leaves. And bark from birch twigs.

Or This! - Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Makes one 9-inch pie 1 recipe unbaked homemade double pie crust 2 1/2 cups rhubarb, sliced into 1/2-inch pieces (about 3 large stalks) 2 1/2 cups hulled and sliced fresh strawberries 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup all purpose flour or 1/4 cup cornstarch 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces 1 large egg yolk beaten to blend with 1 teaspoon water (for glaze) Preheat the oven to 450

That was my first thought when I saw it...grab the salt shaker and chomp away. Makes my mouth water thinking about it!

Gosh, I think it came from my grandma's farm back in the 70's. It is old!

Those are a Rhododendron and the bottom two are both honeysuckle, they were nicer but are starting to drop already. I wish they would bloom all summer.

My tomato plants look awful. They are tall, but did not bush out. The Amish paste plants have only one or two clusters of tomatoes on each plant and what was supposed to be Beef Stake are more like Duck Egg. Other than that everything has done well.

I found another great source for history seekers! If you click on "All digitized Newspapers" set "State" ot Pennsylvania and "language" to English, it brings up a clickable list of Pennsylvania newspapers if you just want to browse. Or just use the search page tab. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ The Pennsylvania list is here: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/?state=Pennsylvania&ethnicity=&language=eng

We made one from one of those big square containers, but I just ran onto this one and thought I might share: Rain barrels collect rainfall and store it, so that it can be used later. There are 3 main components - The roof, the barrel, and the hose. These are not always a roof, barrel, and hose, but those functions will be present in almost every system (collection, storage, and output). A very common setup is to place barrels under gutters and fill watering cans with the water as needed. Our system will use a small awning as our roof (our gardens and barrels are located a bit away from the house), a barrel for each garden bed, and a soaker hose that runs into each bed from the barrel. Here's how we made the barrels. http://christinehennessey.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-make-rain-barrel.html

Interesting. I will have to casually bring up "Bigfoot" next time we see Jimmy's cousin and see if I get any reaction from him. They live out in the boonies of Indiana County, so perfect place to bring it up.

I was surprised that my mother kept the photos all those years. He died in 1958 at 36 years, of a heart attack. Dad is in the photo of Barricks 4, the guy with the curl of hair on his forehead. I printed on the front what was written on the back of each. Somewhere in my papers I have the dates he was there.

Only one more. Sorry they are so big.

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I thought I would share these photos from CCC Camp S-116-PA when my father was a worker. It is now S B Elliott State Park.

I didn't want to start another new post, but this is new, posted this evening. "PENDLETON, Ore.

Curiosity and speculation on the whereabouts of Edgemont Park has been discussed on the Photo thread and I just thought I would add this information. The obituary of one of our ancestors, published in the Falls Creek Times newspaper 2/28/1908, stated that he died at the home of his brother-in-law, William Collins, of Edgemont Park. His sister lived on Taylor Ave. in Falls Creek. I found William Collins listed in the 1910 Cencus on Hill Road, DuBois, employed by the railroad. I am thinking this might now be Larkeytown Road because people by the name of Larkey lived in the area. Then in 1920 he is listed on Tannery Road. Anyone know the history of that area?

A chicken has saved a family from a house fire. Dennis Murawska and his wife were woken early in the morning at their home in Alma Center, Wisconsin, by their pet chicken Cluck Cluck. A fire had started in the garage and their smoke detectors failed to work. At 6.15am yesterday (December 27), the couple fled the house before the fire reached them. Firefighters later saved the chicken, who had alerted its owners with loud clucking from its cage in the basement two floors below. "The chicken gets quite vocal when she gets excited," said Murawska. Chief fireman of Alama Center told The AP: "We are used to hearing about a dog or cat or something, but we never heard of a chicken waking up a resident for a fire, that's pretty amazing." Cluck Cluck came from a nearby farm and began wandering over to Murawska's house. His neighbor said he could kill it for meat because it had failed to produce eggs and had a mutated foot. However, Murawska kept the chicken as a pet and built a coop. He and his wife even let it sleep in their basement on cold nights. Murawska, 59, said: "I spent way more money than I ever should've. I guess it paid off." Read more: http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/news/a447594/chicken-saves-family-from-house-fire.html#ixzz2GgwpjWLe

Different clip, in English! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iRBAuT4bpXo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

History Channel tonight was Ancient Aliens / Bigfoot. Very interesting, this is 44 minutes long. http://tinyurl.com/AncientAliens-Bigfoot

A couple of photos from trail cam with orbs. At this location no matter which direction the cam is set there have been orbs photographed. There are two other trail cams set on this property and this is the only one that captures the orbs.

Thank you for sharing that. I myself was wondering if they might be descended from neanderthal man, I am glad it was mentioned in that article the neanderthal DNA link had been ruled out.

From Conan O. show 11/14/2012 http://www.bigfootencounters.com/films/bobo-on-conan.htm