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Day 195/365: Imagine Changing This Flat Tire?

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John Deer Floater with a Flat Tire
John Deer Floater with a Flat Tire

I have never seen a John Deere sprayer with a flat tire, so when I drove by it just called for me to stop. Each tire is over five feet tall and designed to travel between the corn and soybean rows without damaging the plants. These sprayers cost close to $200,000 and the tires several thousands of dollars.

Changing a flat tire in the field is no easy feat as you can see. The corner must be braced to keep the rig level. It’s a job I wouldn’t want. I’ve changed plenty of car tires in the past twenty years, but this is one I’d leave to the experts.

Day 196/365:Pampered Chef, My Collection

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My Pampered Chef Collection
My Pampered Chef Collection

I am having an online Pampered Chef show! You have lived vicariously through my food, so here is some of what I use to make it. If anyone wants to order I have my own order page on the Pampered Chef website. A far cry from catalog orders of days gone by.

Seeing how I post so much food to my blog I thought I would highlight some of the tools I use on a regular basis. I love my Pampered Chef cookware and tools. My ultimate favorite is the stoneware bar pan, it’s the dark pan on the bottom for those of you unfamiliar with stoneware.

The date on the bottom is 1998 and it’s been well used for everything from cookies, chicken, pork chops, to biscotti. The rich brown cured hue has taken years to obtain and it is now a nice smooth non-stick surface which I love to use every week.

Who doesn’t love their handy chopper? It’s sturdy enough to chop hard candies that I use on my chocolate covered pretzels, and still stays sharp enough to prepare soup vegetables.

The mini roller in the middle is also a favorite for not only rolling pie crusts in the pan, but granola bars.

What is your favorite Pampered Chef item and why? I might just add it to my wish list.

Day 194/365: Summer Lily, start of Summer Flowers

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During the summer, after the blooming of the irises come the daylilies. I’m not too much of a lily person, but they are in my exiting flower beds so I gotta take what God gives and I  need to appreciate all flowers, even those that grow like weeds and crowd out all the other flowers.

They are very hardy and seem to thrive where ever they are planted. I often see them on the roadsides or in the middle of a field where there once was a homestead or house. The farm house may of not survived, but nature still lives on with passion. Someone told me this yellow Day Lily is a Stella de Ora

Stella de Ora Day Lily
Stella de Ora Day Lily

 

Day lillies are drought resistant, which make them an ideal landscaping flower for southwestern states and areas with water restrictions.

Facts and Trivia about the Daylily

More About Summer Day lilies

Gloria Ballard: Daylilies are the perfect perennial

Welcome to June, the month for daylilies in Middle Tennessee. Soon now, you’ll see them blooming everywhere. What’s the appeal? “They are the easiest perennial in the world to grow,” says Jay Turman, chairman of the Middle Tennessee Daylily Society’s …

Bring summer color alive with daylilies

Gladiolus, cannas, gloxinias, tuberous begonias, callas, caladiums and daylilies are some of the many types making a show. Technically, daylilies are not true lilies, nor do they have true bulbs. They are clumping perennials with fleshy roots and are …

Hearty Daylilies perfect for Tulare County gardens

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Daylilies – The Perfect Perennials – Atlantic Avenue Orchid …

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THE DAYLILIES ARE A’BLOOMING! : Foster Folly News …

which is located on Gainer Road offers over 600 named varieties of daylilies and many more which are unnamed. All are featured in neat beds scattered with salvia, zinnias, rose bushes, gardenias, Mexican heath and …
 

Day 193/365: Texas Longhorns in Nebraska

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Texas Longhorn Cows in Nebraska
Texas Longhorn Cows in Nebraska

The grass is as high as an elephants eye….oh sorry that’s from the musical Oklahoma, wrong state, on both accounts. Spring grass in Nebraska is like candy to these cows, I love seeing them belly deep with calves by their side hidden. Can you see him to the left of her?

This was taken north of Syracuse Nebraska which is located about 30 minutes east of Lincoln and 45 minutes south of Omaha.

Photoshop Notes: The background was a little blurrier than I liked so I accentuated the edges in the artistic filters and set opacity to 30%. Seemed to make the tops of the trees a little crisper.  It was an overcast evening with no sun what so ever.

Day 192/365: Cats Paws

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Kitty Paws
Kitty Paws

Meet Tom, like any typical cat  he’s stoic, independent, and does that funny little thing with his paws when he purrs and is happy. I was being lazy and randomly pointing the camera at various locations while we were on the couch. He didn’t like the lens right up in his face, kept batting at it, so kitty paws is what we have today.