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Who's ready to up their game now that spring is here? I was doing great in January and February, but have slacked off the last few weeks. Running the Robie Creek half marathon on 4/16, so I need to kick some butt for the next couple weeks. Current fitness goals are pretty simple: Run 3x/week (today ...

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We are winning at dinner this week. Tonight was chicken roasted with pesto and garlic under the skin, roasted beet salad with lemon zest, pecans and gorgonzola, and a kale and chard green soup.

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Great dinner tonight: pork loin roast seared and then pressure cooked in the Instant Pot with shallots, mushrooms, beef demi glace, Rosemary, thyme and dried lemon, then the liquid taken out and cooked down into a gravy. On the side, Brussels sprouts roasted with ghee, sea salt and red chile flakes....

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Got home later than planned from the barn (but trimming feet is so fun, and my gelding's feet finally decided to let me trim his excess bar!)

So it was a quick Basque chorizo, blue potato and asparagus hash with a couple homegrown eggs sunny side up on top.

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You might need to make it more saucy to qualify as a curry, but I LOVE this stuff: http://nomnompaleo.com/post/57975313761 ... iced-keema It would be awesome with ground goat. Bet you'd get bonus points for homemade flatbread on the side.

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Love, love, love my Discover card. Had one since 1997. Accepted almost everywhere now, cash-back in a couple different formats, EXCELLENT customer service. Yep, I like Discover too. I had some fraudulent purchases for about $1500 show up on my Discover Card a couple years ago and they were on it so...

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I used to love the place, then we finally got one in Boise and I can't be arsed to go there. But they do have this really spice trail mix with kaffir lime leaf. That's tasty, but probably not if you don't like HOT. I used to be a sucker for the cocoa-dusted chocolate covered almonds. Yeah, lots of t...

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Just posted more in the soy thread, but I also feed Renew Gold to both my retiree and my coming 3 year old (not under saddle yet). The retiree is suspected EPSSM/PSSM and was on 1 cup of canola oil plus LMF ration balancer for the last few years, but now that he is not in any work at all, I decided ...

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I'm very interested in this topic and trying to learn what was the reason to avoid soy based feeds? I just looked up the TC Natural feed then I read it was high in starch. My guys have minimal access to grass and I am always concerned for founder. I would like to feed a more natural diet and supple...

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I'm feeding Renew Gold with a multi vitamin with alfalfa cubes (adding camelina oil as well). StraightForward, what multi vitamin are you feeding? I used to feed Purina Ultium but he would go off it periodically and especially in the winter. Finally got tired of stressing about it and made the swit...

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My hairdresser owns her shop, so often I don't tip. However, she's grandfathered in my cut and color rates, so sometimes I add some on just because, or because I was a PITA and had to reschedule or whatever (She charges me $42, so I'll just round to $50 about half the time). If she upped my rates to...

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I also feed Renew Gold with a multi vitamin. Add alfalfa for protein as needed.

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Great, something else I "need"! My two are in full-on shedding mode right now.

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A friend of mine in Phoenix has been doing this for a few years and absolutely loves it. Enjoy!

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I'm in New Mexico this week. Chile relleno, enchilada, tamale and pot beans for dinner. They're going to have to roll me onto the plane on Friday. And you'll have a big smile on your face, too! Gads I miss that place. And a suitcase full of green chile. I like to visit, but no desire to live here a...

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I'm in New Mexico this week. Chile relleno, enchilada, tamale and pot beans for dinner. They're going to have to roll me onto the plane on Friday.

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It sounds great! I'd love to be five minutes from my horses. That alone would be the kicker for me, being able to pop in to say high and just groom or check on things quickly. With a heated indoor and a reliable trainer, you and Laddy will make great progress. Having fun following along on his voyag...

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I've actually wondered about how allergy issues are handled on planes. In general, it sounds like they aren't. I was on a flight a few years ago where they announced that someone had a severe peanut allergy, so no one was to eat peanuts and obviously they wouldn't serve them. In this case: did the p...

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Yay, congratulations!

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We're having some nice weather here and the arena's usable again, so we're working on this stuff a few days a week. Forgot to add clipping to this list. She is not a fan of the clippers, but we're getting there. Cannot wait to give her a bath; we got an Insta-Hot for Christmas, so if it hits 60 next...

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I dilute Tide and spray the blanket down, scrub with a stiff brush, then pressure wash until clean and soap free. Hang dry.

Also ditto on the tent spray. We don'the get a ton of rain here, YMMV in wetter conditions.

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She is seriously adorable; what a nice find. My appaloosa mare could.not.canter. when I got her. Getting out on the trails and hand galloping did wonders for her, as did little jumps and especially grid work. After a year of very steady work her canter was actually pretty good. That trope about not ...

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I wish this would migrate more into the western realm. I know it's how we rolled when I was a kid, but now that I'm older, I shudder at seeing kids running barrels and things with no head protection. I talked to a woman who was riding western at a public arena and she expressed relief that I was the...

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Umm, so when do we get to start helping you shop?

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PPE jingles!! Hope we're seeing photos and training updates soon

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Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a mug. Add 3 cloves, 3 slices of ginger root, a small piece of cinnamon, and a teaspoon of local raw honey. Add boiling water and leave to steep for 10 minutes. Sip away. I do something like this, but let it simmer in a small pot and drink as needed. 1 large or 2 s...

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He's adorable and you're obviously having a blast with him. Thanks for sharing the pics!

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I looked on warmbloodsales.com and Dream Horse a lot, but ultimately found my horse on EquineNow.com (and the one I had vetted before her too, come to think of it).

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Ok, you people with fancy trailers time to post some photos for us simple Aussies!!!! Pics of these 'dressing rooms'. I've camped in my float a fair bit for competitions (eventing) and it's very basic. I take out the chest bars and divider and put my swag on the floor and it's like a little cosy ro...

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I have a corded one that was about $60 at Lowe's. It has a speed adjustment, so it's not too powerful on the low speed setting. I use a round sandstone attachment with it. Have been using it on my dog for almost ten years now, and sometimes it comes in handy for other stuff too. My dog doesn't love ...

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No. We have very limited tack room space at the boarding stable, so I rely on the dressing room for space to stow extra tack and equipment. I also change in there when I'm going straight between work and the barn. Love my dressing room and when I order my dream trailer I'm planning to get an extra 2...

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Hitching Post has some good deals on Weatherbeeta and Rambo. I'm actually tempted to grab an extra for my piglet of a mare...
http://www.hitchingposttack.com/turnout-blankets/

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I'm pregnant and have horrible food aversions, the smell of food makes me so sick I haven't cooked anything other than frozen waffles in weeks. This might be a solution for us, if I don't smell it cooking I can usually eat a bit of food. Congratulations! That seems like a great occasion to buy one....

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Can you smell the food cooking? Mostly, no because it's in a vacuum seal bag. Tonight I came home and covered a turkey breast I'd thawed out with pesto and used the Ziploc bag it was in instead of a vacuum bag, and the house did smell like pesto when I got home from the stable. And OMG, it was ultr...

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If I find a shirt that I really don't wear - my go to answer is - I'll use it to clean in....and I do...but, I have too many clothes that I can clean in! LOL For some reason, I seem to find a reason to repurpose items, sometimes they actually get used and sometimes not! That's a perfect example of ...

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I'm having far too much fun with my Sous Vide machine. Today I did a pork tenderloin sous vide with olive oil, salt, pepper and herbs that sat in the bath all day while I was at work. Then I got home and cranked up the heat on the water bath and cooked diced beets with butter, lemon and chile flakes...

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The pretty new one https://www.cookmellow.com/ The one I have https://www.sousvidesupreme.com/Default.aspx Made great turkey in it. As said, cook dark meat separately from light meat. I actually made an entire Thanksgiving meal with it, just cooked it in advance and brought it all down to my mom's ...

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I don't think going room by room is very effective; stuff can get shuffled from room to room, and you might have related/duplicate items in different rooms. Go through by category of item, from least to most sentimental or otherwise difficult to get rid of. You will probably find over time that you ...

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When it's getting over 95, I try to get up extra early and ride before work.

My little appy would start getting more lazy and behind the leg once temps got into the 90's, which was not a good combo with me getting grumpy when I'm drenched in sweat. Having a shady place to ride would help a lot.

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Sous vide salmon with lemon and dill; French green lentils cooked with carrot, onion, garlic, turkey stock and butter.

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For the (lazy) cooking illiterate...what is a Sous Vide? Susan Basically it cooks the food in a water bath held at a very specific temperature depending on what you're cooking. The gizmo I bought clips onto the side of the pot and has a pump to circulate the water. Eggs go straight in the water, bu...

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What are some of your favorite uses for it, Wicky? Do you use a torch?

I'm pretty excited about it. I really hope its durable because I think it will be getting lots of use.

Just now I plopped some rib eyes in there and went to the gym. Can't wait to sear them off and dig in!

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Well, I guess delayed gratification is not my strong suit. Once I realized that Sur la Table sells the Sansair Sous Immersion Circulator , that there is a store 10 minutes from my house, and that I had a gift card from my MIL, it was all over. I'm currently making hard boiled eggs, which will be fol...

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Thanks! The possibilities with this are starting to multiply. Turkey was one of the things I thought of. Sous vide turkey breast and roasts for lunch meat, pasteurizing eggs for homemade mayo, perfectly cooked salmon etc. The set it and forget it aspect is what I'm really liking, and the idea of hav...

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My slow cooker is digital so it wouldn't work. That hack was probably well worth it when the machines were more expensive, but now they can be had for $99. I am liking the look of one of these, since they're so much smaller than a dedicated sous vide: http://www.amazon.com/Gourmia-Digital-Immersion-...

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Does anyone have one of these? A year or two my husband asked if I wanted one, but at the time it looked like a bread-machine sized thing that cost $400. Now there are little circulators that look to be the size of an immersion blender that just clip onto the side of your existing pot, and they're i...

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Nice work Susan. :) After I posted I got off my butt and loaded up the truck. With the cardboard that wouldn't fit in the recycling bin, plus the glass that they don't take at the curb, and then all the stuff to donate to the thrift store, the bed of my F250 was full. And thank you for the tip on gi...

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Last night I made babyback ribs in the Instant Pot under pressure for 20 minutes. I think I'll tweak the method a bit going forward, but they were tender and delicious and on the table in under an hour. That's a game-changer. Made the sauce very much from scratch since the base was a jar of the toma...

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Finally posted some stuff on Craiglist today. If I don't get any bites I'll lower the prices next weekend. More stuff to feed into the trash, and we have a semi-working weed eater that I need to set out at the curb with a "free" sign on it. More and more I just lean towards giving stuff aw...

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