Q:Frogs croak all night and disturb sleep.

Frogs are our Friends.Give in to their serenade. Remember that the lovely croaking sound is coming from something that is eating hundreds of pesky bugs each night.If people can get use to living next to Railroad tracks then I'll bet the frog mating sounds will grow on you.Remember, love the frog,they are your friend. Or you could go out at night and stomp all the frogs you can.

Q:Not sure of the year of the cookbook, but the recipe is not in any current Better Homes and Garden Cookbook or any I have found at the library. I believe the egg foo yung recipe was listed exactly as that. It contained cabbage, bean sprouts, celery, and green pepper. It included a sauce recipe. This is my huband's favorite recipe, and I have lost it. My cookbook fell apart and I operated from the loose page, knowing I should have attached it to something. Procrastination is an awful thing. Tomorrow is my husband's birthday and he always requests this recipe. I know I may be too late here and will have to punt tomorrow, but I would still like the original recipe, if possible. Thank you.

try this one Cantonese Egg Foo Yong Ingredients: 1/2 cup chicken stock or water 6 eggs beaten 1/2 tsp. salt 4 dried chinese mushrooms white pepper 1 clove garlic crushed 1 can bean sprouts 2 spring onions [scallions] white part only Method: wash mushrooms,soak in water for 20mins. Rinse,squeeze dry and cut into thin slices. Rinse bean sprouts in cold water and drain. Mix salt, pepper and crushed garlic into beaten egg. In a wok heat 1tbsp. oil add bean sproutsand mushrooms. Stir fry for 1 minute. Add stock or water and cover. Cook for one minute. Add egg mixture and scallions and stir well. Press down on the mixture with a spatula to flatten. Fry until light brown underneath. Turn over and brown the other side. [this is an old recipe and used monosodium glutamate. I have left it out because of health concerns. If you want to, add 1/2 tsp. with the pepper etc. to the beaten egg] You can do a simple pour over sauce with stock, butter,cornflour and oyster sauce. Just make it in the wok after you have removed the efy to the serving plate.

Q:...says its weather resistant.It has faded almost totally. I'm disappointed.

repaint it (at walmart you get what you pay for...)

Q:the food and drug administration claims it does not have enough man power to inspect everyone's garden for food safety.

I wish he would make stupidity illegal.

Q:I am starting up a home garden and was wondering if anyone has experience and what are the best fertilizers to buy at the garden center. Is liquid better than granular? What brands are the best? Any advice would help.

I like fish emulsion liquid; you can buy it concentrated and dilute it. There's also a worm casting tea concentrate that's sold in recycled soda bottles, which is great. But the best fertilizers are the ones you don't have to buy - old tea, coffee, flat soda, stale beer, fruit juice that's gone off, water from cooking veggies, the bloody liquid from meat packaging (diluted until you can just barely see the pink) - all of these liquids have valuable nutrients and it's a shame to waste them by pouring them down the drain. Sprinkle used coffee grounds all around your garden - the worms love them! Start a compost pile and make compost tea to water your garden.

Q:Built by Aeronautic engineer by the name of Andrews.

If you have his full name google him Check BHG web site for back issues. google bhg 1980 feature homes. contact BHG for back issues. Good luck.

Q:What should I grow in my vegtable garden first this year?

Any and every seed you can get a hold of for you do not know what grows best in your dirt.

Q:I am contemplating buying a home in this town. It has a fair amount of land, and I would like to know what fruits and or veggies will thrive?

Are you near the river or up a bit to the west? The reason I ask is cold air settles down near the river putting you a little closer to zone 6 than zone 7 the rest of the area is. What you can grow is darn near everything! The limiting factor is water! If you are right against the river, your soil may be so highly alkaline from the underground water table so near the surface, nothing will grow. If you are in sand soil, your plants will be needing near constant watering. Soils range from sand to clay depending on location. Each has its benefits and problems. OK, back to plants: fruits: trees...apricots and sweet cherries are iffy near the river where late spring frosts usually destroy the blooms or very young fruit. You'd have excellent luck with apples, pears, sour cherries, blue plums and somewhat less results, but not impossible with peaches and nectarines. Grapes do very well as do raspberries/blackberries. Of course no blueberries, the soil is way, way to alkaline and can not be adjusted enough to grow the blue yummies. Strawberries are tough due to the hot summers, but not impossible. Nuts: pecans are growing at the Experiment Station just south of the prison. Normally the area is too cold for pecans. Veggies.......just about everything. Realize we can warm up very quickly so delay in pea and other cool season planting may have them ripeing when temps are 90 plus. The other concern is the wind. Spring winds have destroyed many of my early spring plantings......sand blasted. If you can protect them, great. The area is well known for growing chile peppers.......usually family farms. Most chiles are grown further south or now in Mexico. About the only veggie I couldn't get going was asparagus ( which is embarrasing because there was an asparagus farm must a quarter mile away and about 40 years ago) and my rhubarb just won't work for me.

Q:I had an old, old version of the Better Homes and Gardens white and red checkered cookbook. I used to make an old Corn Chowder Recipe. Any one have it? or know where to get it? We're talking 50's or 60's. I can recall some of the ingredients: Brown Onions and bacon, add cubed potatoes and water. Corn, milk, bay leaf, can't remember anything else. I adapted it by putting in pieces of cooked chicken breast meat and tomato paste. Any one????

In my edition from the mid 60s I find Supper Corn Chowder 5 slices bacon 1 medium onion, thinly sliced and separated in rings 2 cups cooked or canned whole kernel corn 1 cup diced cooked potatoes 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 1/2 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt Cook bacon till crisp in large sauce pan. Remove bacon; pour off drippings. returning 3 tablespoons to pan. Add onion and cook till lightly browned. Add remaining ingredients and dash pepper. Heat to boiling reduce heat and simmer a minute or two. Top each serving with crumbled bacon and butter. Makes 6 servings.

Q:My question is: Do other high ranking generals/admirals (like other members of the JCS) get similar houses? Obviously they get huge residences but do they have old historical homes similar to the one of the commandant? For example, where does the Chairman of the JCS live? Where is the official military residence of the Chairman of the JCS???

Flag Housing on Yokosuka Naval base is REALLLLLLLY Nice. former homes of Imperial Navy Admirals who put Emperors up for the night nice. koi ponds, bridges over gurgling streams, formal Dining rooms that seat 20. every older base has heritage housing that is set aside for Flags and Base COs