Got Curcurbits?

Doesn't that sound like some kind of bizarre disease? Actually it is the family which cucumbers, squash, melons and the dreaded zucchini fall into.

Last year the squash borers killed all my cucumbers, yellow squash and zucchini before I got a handful of vegetables from them. No relish or pickles in the pantry for us.

My sister said all her plants had all died as well. According to her father-in-law it was because she didn't plant radishes in her garden last year. According to him the radishes discourage the borers. Since no one eats them we both skipped planting them.

This year I sprinkled a few radish seeds down the row and now I've got more curcurbits than I can possibly use. I've canned dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, zucchini relish, yellow squash relish, and dill relish and they're still coming on strong. Since everyone loves bread and butter pickles I'll do another batch of them and another batch of yellow squash relish. And I think I'll try drying some zucchini chips and see how they taste.

Anyone need curcubits? Right now everyone sees me coming with a bag and runs the other direction.

Firefox "Too Much Recursion Error"

Since this is the second time this has happened I want to make note of the easy fix that I accidentally discovered, because I know it will take forever to figure it out again in six months.

The thing I like best about Firefox is the ability to customize it with add-ons. One that I really like is the One Click Weather Add-on that shows the weather in the bottom of the Firefox window.

Unfortunately this particular add-on sometimes causes an error message that reads "too much recursion" and won't allow Firefox to even open. After several Google searches and only finding complicates fixes, I decided to uninstall Firefox and try to disable add-ons.

There wasn't an uninstall menu item for Firefox, but there was a safe mode which let me open Firefox with add-ons disabled. From there I was able to uninstall the One Click Weather and re-enable the other add-ons, restart Firefox and everything was back to normal.

Much easier than creating a new profile and copying information from the old profile to the new.

It's That Time of the Year Again

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Originally uploaded by tormash9

Last year I didn't have enough pickles or summer squash to make pickles, so I made up for it yesterday.

• Dill pickles in the back for Ashley from Mrs. Wages Mix
• Zucchini Relish from page 43 of an unknown book
• Yellow Squash Relish from Beth
• Bread and Butter for me from Farm Journal Cookbook

I don't usually have very good luck with dill pickles, so we'll see how the mix turns out. The other three recipes I've used or tasted and they're all great.

Unfortunately the stove top got too hot and I actually caught the counter top on fire. I think I prefer a range over a cooktop or an outdoor kitchen would work, too. Keep all the heat and mess outside.

Knitting Treasury Blog

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Originally uploaded by planetdyann

Melissa and her friend Paige want me to knit laptop covers to protect their laptops while they carry them back and forth to college classes, so I started looking for really cool cable patterns last night.

During this search I ran across this awesome blog that is recreating swatches of the stitch patterns in the Barbara Walker Treasury of Knitting books. Some of these stitch patterns are take your breath away beautiful. Now I need to try to find these books.