Riona Abhainn

So I found it on there and now I can easily listen while doing other things.  Loving it, and the recent episode was a consult with someone in Portland for her community about willow feeder toilets, I don't know her, but now I want to haha.  So excited about easy pod access so I can add it to my list of other really cool podcasts that I enjoy.

Yes, with the curry, I don't remember it having cheese?

Warm warm warm:
While we're back down in the 80s now after 2 days of 90+ my new arrivals to my yard are still mad at me.  Those four clumps of mint aren't super happy with me right now, and my potted camamele isn't happy either.  I'm watering them each day to ease them through, but hopefully we'll get less intense weather for the rest of the week to help them adjust.  I also think that perenials like camamele likely don't like being transplanted at this time of the year.  So we'll see.  You know who's really happy though?  My mini white pumpkin plants, they're loving the sun.

I was reading the thread about being okay without air conditioning.  And thinking to myself "thank goodness this new house has central air",  So I can keep being air conditioned haha.  I am careful about using it sparingly though, less monies spent and less yucky for the environment.  We need it some of the time though, because my husband runs warm by nature so he needs to be able to cool down.

I've decided to be less concerned about slugs, we don't seem to have them often here, so I'm going to stop checking nightly.  I think if it rains sure, but other than that if they show up they show up and hopefully my plants survive.

So my Italian plum tree (grown from a pit under its mom's shade in a friend's yard), flowered this year for the first time, this is its 4th summer I believe.  It got transplanted into its current container, which it seems to like, back in winter, I'm thinking its like 8 to 10 gal.  My question is would it be possible for it to fruit next year in this size of container?  Or do I either need to plant it in the ground or find an even larger container for it?  My goal with fruit trees is to keep any that I have short enough for my 6 ft. 3 in. husband to reach the highest fruits, so it won't be getting gigantic ever.

Similarly do different fruit trees need to be certain sizes or have certain sizes of containers to fruit?  I know that there are people who have fruiting trees in containers, I just don't know the necessary size of said containers.

My fave of all time is hands down green bean casserole!  With mushrooms added, my father is a champion at making it and my husband is catching up with him.
My grandmother used to make 2 casseroles I liked.  I was very picky about casseroles, I guess I still am, but I liked her breakfast casserole, which involved a layer of breading and then eggs, sausage and cheese.  I wish I had the recipe now.  I also loved her chicken divann (spelling)?  I haven't seen it anywhere else and don't have any other friends or family members who know how to make it and I haven't seen it in any restaurants either.  

These days I like breakfast casseroles with egg as the base, because its what we know how to make.

So hot here:
While I'm thankful the 90+ degree weather waited until summertime this year, sometimes it shows up early, I still don't like it.  Summertime is my favourite season and I love 70s and 80s, but 90s are too hot for me, unless I'm swimming in the river of course.  I had my first river swim of the year on Thurs. afternoon with my best friend, I swim and play in natural water every week in the warm months, its something I do for myself that really makes a positive difference in my life, I started being purposeful about this in 2020 to get me through the brutality of restrictions, and have done it every summer since.  I've always loved swimming/being in natural water, but this committment to myself and my wellness in this way has been amazing and really good for me, and I intend to continue doing so weekly as long as possible.  Its always very sad when that time comes to an end each year, "fake" water like swimming pools just doesn't have the same effect, I mean its nice when natural isn't an option, but it doesn't work as a replacement.

I planted the camameel and another lacy fiddleneck phacelia tonight in pots, as well as planting four clumps of mint on the borders of the yard to get them started.  I really hope they can work down into my disaster rocky/hard-ass dirt underneath all that crabgrass.  I had to plant them in little piles of compost because I can't really dig into the ground its so hard.  There are at least dandylyons in my yard which is a good sign.  I hope later in summer, like August?  To have at least a couple of wooden raised beds built, and of course a composting 2 bay system.  There's a spot in my yard that is barkdust so I'm hoping to convert that into a mushroom patch come latesummer, but that's a few months away and I don't want to hurry it along.  I'll keep growing most things in their pots for now but will eagerly await the shift to also having some raised beds in a month or 2.

Because money isn't growing on my plum tree I have to really think carefully and take my time and be realistic about slow going goals.  I wish I had a bunch of money to throw at all of the projects and goals I have, but even if I did I don't know that I'd be capable of making it all happen, with my mental health differences small steps work best for me anyhow, so I'll crawl along like a tortus, because the tortus will win in the end anyhow.

I've become really into using every edible part of the plant.  So everything we grow we eat as much of the plant as possible, including things we didn't grow but which "showed up" and become our friends, this year its been mostly chickweed with a bit of nipplewort so far, but I have some lady's thumb, bitter cress and other little friends coming in unbidden to join my purposefully planted things.  And dandylyons too.  We tend to eat greens in salads or sautee them with other things, but I'm inspired by some of these recipies I'm seeing here to branch out even farther.

I like how others are adding their experiences with 3 sisters in this thread as well!

Welcome to permies.

It sounds like a lot of good potential for folks.