Recent content by Bill Johnson

Yvonne, Just read your thread about edible perennials, and I may be getting off -topic, but I happened to think about edible flowers. One year that I was volunteering in a master gardening booth, a member was serving up Stir fry daylily flower buds that hadn't opened up. They tasted almost like...

Glad I didn't throw in the fact that it was often served with polk that was gathered in the woods.

Thank you Joe.

I just watched a program on The Food Channel about making Bavarian sauerkraut. You don't shred the cabbage. Either ferment the heads whole or half or quarter them. Would love to try it, but I gave away my large crock. Might try a version of it in a gallon jug.

I'm green with envy. Always wanted one, but now too old to manage it.

My kids were unaware of that tradition until I told them. They thought I was kidding. They thought that was a dumb Tradition. They say our family was quirky enough without bringing that in.

Mary, I too, regretted not asking more questions. I joined a certain genealogy research org., but just got more and more confused. They send you a list of people that are second, third or fourth cousins. But you have to figure out which side of the family they belong to. Also, when those...

My youngest is in his 50's, and he got along with his sisters, as well as anyone could ask. However, his two older sisters could never get along with each other. But if either girl ran into into trouble, the other girl was the first one to protect her. They get along great these days, but...

The last thing I would ever do is to hurt someone's feelings. This day was an exception. My neighbor was very kind, but so needy for attention, and so very nosy. One day, after watching a piano being delivered for my daughter who wanted to take piano lessons, she was at the door, and asking how...

Because of being iced in, most of the day, my little dog and I took several snoozes on my Lazy Boy recliner and just listened to the peaceful chirpings of my pet finches. Won't take much time to make a one-pot chicken, potato and veg dinner. Just shove it in the oven for one hour while me and...

Love and survival instincts got us through it, and made us stronger. Mom worked so hard during the war to make jellies, jams and canned vegetables to get us through. After the war, and after my dad was hospitalized for awhile, I told my mom I would continue dad's garden. She looked at me in...

My dad's garden took up most of our back yard, but he allotted me a little space to have my own V-shaped vegetable garden. Dad even had enough for us, but he always shared with the neighbors.

Went to Catholic school, and one day, Mother Imelda, my fifth grade nun teacher asked me to help her with gift baskets for people in need. As I was leaving, when the baskets were done, Mother Imelda called me back and said, William, this is the basket for your family. Very embarrassing. Never...

Don, Yup!! My dog and I have a bad case of cabin fever. But thank God I don't have to go outside and use the lawn. Bill Bill