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[pshaw_raven]

 Monday is typically errand day. I need to make a couple of extra stops to pick up stuff to work on the ATV, and I'm headed out towards Fleming Island anyway so I was considering finding somewhere to get a burrito. I am craving a big-ass bean and rice burrito, dripping with guac and hot sauce. A chonker of a mission-style vegan burrito, is that too much to ask? Apparently, yes. The places I could typically get such a thing don't open until 11. Wawa makes a decent burrito, but for whatever reason, they go heavy on the rice and are kinda stingy with beans. I'm making a pot of vegan chili mac this afternoon anyway so maybe I'll just buy some tortillas and live with it.

I have a serrano pepper plant that's very happily growing in the compost bed. Considering it was a rescue from the dead plant rack at Home Depot it's doing very well, and I recently harvested about two dozen peppers from it. Problem is I don't cook with fresh serranos as often as with other peppers, so I wasn't sure what to do with them. I think I'm going to dehydrate them starting this evening. From what I've read, it can take about a day to completely dry halved peppers, and then you can grind them, if you wish, or toss the halves into stews and chilis. That compost also had some volunteers - a couple of unknown peppers that got "bitten" in the recent freezes we had, green onions, and a bok choy. By March I plan to dig out about half that bed and use the compost in two of them just to see how well re-mediated the soil is. I probably need to go ahead and start getting seed trays going soon, but I think the pumpkins need to be started in place. The cats would also appreciate another pot of cat grass.

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[we_are_spc]

...Cat grass? What is this cat grass you speak of and where can we find it?

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Craimar is just here enough to be riding co-frunt with me, so his accent wants to come out my fingers. xd As does his cursing style.

I still love that fucckin' Irishman. xd

But I digress...

-T~

[pshaw_raven]

This is some that I've been buying for a few years - https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/grains-and-cover-crops/variegated-cat-grass

It's barley, I believe. Oat straw grass is also a good pick for kitties. Our cats love this and they recognize the pot I grow it in, so when I bring it indoors for them the meowing begins!

*waves* Heya Craimar :)

[raptorish]

Love your icon; loved that show.

"A chonker of a mission-style vegan burrito..." Um. YUM? I am not ashamed to say that a good chunk of my diet consists of vegan burritos because I can't seem to get enough.

I love reading about gardening and such!

[pshaw_raven]

I feel like I could happily live on a diet comprised mostly of vegan burritos. I may get ambitious and make a big batch of my own and stick them in the freezer.

Glad you like reading about gardening! I'm starting seed trays and hopefully going to get my garden fence repaired soon. I'm not really able to produce a lot of my own veggies yet, the soil is is pretty poor. But I'm experimenting with compost methods and looking forward to a more productive year, if I can avoid deer, squash beetles, hurricanes, rabbits ... oh my.