Hello everyone, How are you guys doing? Good to hear from you Carrie, and I know how you feel about that dreaded tax time of the year. This was a bad year for us tax wise. But crying does not make Uncle Sam give in. I think I could win over most any human with the story of our predicament. But not Uncle sam. the hubs is still not employed but has out leads and apps all over. he may have to mow grass at a nearby park to get by until a better job comes along but I cut our grass because he hates it so much. I think he deliberately made a mess of it until I said "Nevermind, I will do it myself." That is kind of how I got him started doing most of the cooking while he has been laid off. I started talking diet and healthy eating and he jumped in the kitchen and started frying away. I am gaining weight but I was tired of cooking 3 meals a day.
Jim and/or Kay, I was thinking about a logo for Armagia. I picture in my mind a really lovely mother nature (almost fairy like in appearance) with her arms open wide surrounded by flowers,birds, butterflies and veggies swirling amongst a glittering stream of pixylike dust coming from Mother Natures' fingertips. I was thinking about Mother Nature's Bounty in your gardens. The fact that composting is so important in organic gardening and it means you are giving back to the earth and also giving back in your community.Sorry but I have a vivid imagination like the child I am in my mind. Any opportunity to use it is fun. I just had to share my idea.
Sheri, have you gotten your plants from Armagia planted? I have been in the yard all day and have plans to do the same tomorrow. We bought a zero turn lawn mower today because ours bit the dust at the end of the mowing season last year. I borrowed my brother's to finish out the year. We really could not afford one but we had to have it so we tried to get a good one so we will not have to worry about that for awhile. With God's Blessing that is. from my lips to His ears so to speak.
Vickie, How is it going? How is the BP.
Gotta go to bed. Goodnight all, Love and Prayers, scraps
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Your package is in the mail, Vickie. For real this time! LOL. Mailed it myself. (See, Carrie. With encouragement and reminders we husbands can be trusted to do important stuff. LOL.) It is packed rather tight. Oxalis, a tree holly, a few purple-leaf cannas and a few of the green leaf variety with orange centered, yellow flowers. (What the ladies call “flame cannas.”) Hope that isn’t an overwhelming amount at one time. I thought you might use the extras as a bribe to get someone to help you put them in pots or in the ground.
We have plenty of oxalis, Carrie, if you would like to try growing it up that way. It actually likes cooler weather. You could plant it in honor of your husband’s ancestry. Oxalis violacea is believed to have been the actual plant St. Patrick used to illustrate the Holy Trinity to the pagans so it has a strong association with Ireland.
The ladies loved your logo idea, Scraps. I don’t think Kay is thrilled with the donkey logo and its possible implications. I pointed out her favorite coffee shop has a donkey logo, but she points out the place is named Kick Ass Coffee so it makes sense. The post master got a chuckle out of our donkey logo when he noticed it on the shipping label. He thought I should give her a hat too. That WOULD get me in trouble. Kay is too strongly associated with funky hats. That would almost certainly be taken the wrong way. She’s wearing her coastal cowgirl hat today. A straw cowboy-style hat with a band made of little seashells.
Little V. wanted to get his “Mimi” a yellow Easter hat so she could be like the mysterious “man in the yellow hat” in the Curious George books he loves so much. I’m glad we couldn’t find a yellow hat. Kay would probably have actually worn it to church. LOL. (Jim)
BTW: Vickie and Sheri, you can re-use the water crystals in the packages if you want.. Just dig them into the soil of any moisture loving plants and you won't have to water the plant so often.
Hello everyone, Hope you guys all had beautiful weather today. It was just right here. The sun was shining but we had a breeze to keep it from getting too hot and a shade tree to fish under. They bit slowly but we caught a good batch. I got my new lawn mower this morning and it was so nice. I cut grass fast with it. Then had time to fish. Now that is a good day. The zero turn took a few minutes to get the hang of but then it was a blast. I could have a ball on that thing if the hubs were not watching. He has a more level head. He thinks about repair cost and I think wheelies are fun.
Jim I am glad that the ladies liked my idea. That is about all i am good for sometimes is the idea. Lately however, not as many people get in trouble as when I had ideas in high school.LOL. At church, when I was still able to go, I had creative ideas that other people liked and were willing to fund. Those kind I like and they benefit others.
Got chores to do must run. Scraps
Driving a zero-turn doesn’t hurt your back, Scraps? Jim has been looking at (drooling over, might be the better descriptive.) one every time we go to the home improvement store. I argued it looked like it would be rougher on his back than the standard riding mower. He thought it might be easier on his back because it has a larger wheelbase and there would be less sudden movements. Should I concede this one? I will have to find someone with artistic talent and give your logo description to them. There isn’t anyone here right now that really has any artistic talent. Jim played around with computer art to get the donkey.
Vickie, I think there are little cannas like we sent you in the photo Jim posted. I wonder if EvaMae is too ill to be gardening yet. I promised her some cannas this spring too. Has anyone got news on her condition?
Kay*
Hello everyone, Hope you are all doing well.
Kay, I only rode it a short while once to cut grass but It was not bouncy at all like it had good shocks or something. Also the seat seem to have good springs on it. It hurt less yesterday than usual. Ask me again after a few weeks. I am forgetful or I would say I will let you know. I think it will be better though. It cost more than my old car is worth but I use the lawn mower more. I go to town only to visit mom and dr. visits. Maybe jim could try some out to see which suits his back better. I got a Hustler Sport with a Honda engine. Sounds like a motorcycle running. I hope it last 15 to 20 years for the money we spent. But it is made of very heavy stuff. I will check on Eva May.
have a goodevening everyone, love and Prayers, scraps
Hey, excellent idea. That will settle it. All I have to do is offer to mow someone’s lawn that has a ZT mower. I could get a real test drive and they could get their lawn mowed without any effort on their part. If I can be trusted to pilot a jet, I think I should be able to convince someone to trust me with their new lawn mower. I’ll just have to figure out where the auto-pilot and altitude settings are on ZTs. Lol.
Kay is moving some Shampoo gingers to a new location. We have to finish moving them before we can finish the w/c ramp. She is trading some for caladiums to go in my garden. (Such a considerate wife. I think I’ll keep her.) Plants with interesting foliage are more MY thing. Shampoo ginger is a good shade plant, Scraps. But, you are about at its northern limit. Have you ever seen it growing in that area?
Well, it is the 15th, Carrie. Did you make it?
I’m going to assume the best, Vickie. That you are having too much fun with your DD to post. (Jim)
Jim, Wrong time to assume the best. However it was'nt the worst either.I have been a sick puppy, or so i thought. High BP brings about nausia, dizzy etc. In other words was like the drunk sailor, but did'nt get to injoy the rum.Thats ok, I put the rum in cakes anyway.
DD next door and i are going to start a Hatfield and McCoy feud. Did anyone ever win that feud? I plan on winning this one.
Yesterday, I discovered i'd left 2 Christmas snowflakes on a silk vine. This is a record for me. Did'nt get all my Christmas decos down till the middle of April.
Night all,
Vickie
Hello everyone, Hope you are all doing well.
Jim, I would not let anyone try mine for awhile yet. I can't wait for the grass to grow so I can use it again. It was the most fun I have had in awhile. You know your life is not interesting when that is the most fun thing you do. But I want a motorcycle and the hubs is scared of them. I trust in God to take care of me. I think he will take me when it is my turn regardless of what I am driving. I would even take a 3 wheeled one if I could change his mind. If I had one I would come see you guys, all of you. They are cheaper on gas. I would need to practice awhile first it has been over 20 years since I have been on one. My soninlaw just got one but I doubt if I get to try it out because of the hubs. Jim, I have never heard of shampoo ginger, I will have to look it up in PF.
Goodnight all, Love and Prayers, scraps
YES, I got the taxes in at the P.O. on the 15th, YES I got DD;s filed too (she has ADD and an idiot boyfriend right now), YES, I got FAFSA filed for her and for DH, YES, I got the she-devil music director's music all ready printed for Sunday. Gasp. No, I don't want her to buy me a gift-certificate to go out to dinner; I'd rather if she were just nicer to me. This last few days she was my new best friend. See how long that lasts. This Sunday's service is about music and so I've been asked to give a reflection - it had to wait to the last minute because I was doing her music all day yesterday and this morning! We'll see. I did it as A Good Deed. But they say "no good deed goes unpunished".
And yes, Jim, I would love to try some oxalis. Thank you! You want any rocks?
Hey Carrie, What kind of rocks?
Jim if you want any rocks, I've got a mountain full of them. Even brought a few in from Okla.Virginia,MO,Colo.and TX.Ore,and Ariz.
Carrie, I hear the good deeds to someone you don't like, gives you a special prize.
No! No! No! Don't offer rocks! Kay might hear you! She has this THING about rocks. Whenever we go somewhere, she brings rocks back from that place. (Don't tell me you are one of THOSE people too, Vickie. I would have thought with all your exposure to rocky enviroments,you would be in my camp. lol.) I always tthought Kay's rock fascination came from growing up on the Gulf Coast where there aren't really any rocks. Not much more than pebbles. ( What the locals call soapstone, is really just a slippery, greenish-gray clay that you often find lining stream and river beds. It will crumble when dry.) For Kay, large rocks are something unusual and interesting. Those of us who grew up on farms in PA , have very different feelings about rocks. Where I came from, rocks meant hard labor. My brothers and I routinely had to remove them from cultivated areas. Thinking about rocks makes my back hurt!
When Mike died and we sould some of the property to cover funeral cost. Kay insisted on keeping her rock collection. All of her collection that was on the property to be sold had to be moved to the property we were keeping. There are little stories that go with almost every rock. Kay could give an entirely new definition to that phrase "the touchstones of memory." When V. wants me to tell him a story, he brings me one of his books. When he wants Kay to tell him a story, he brings her a rock. LOL. He likes the rock from a lake near Oneida, New York and its accompanying story. (It is about Kay's first encounter with a pike. A fisherman at the lake decided to have some fun with the southern lady and told Kay all these wild stories about how vicious pike were. He had Kay believing they were like fresh water sharks. lol.) Kay calls that one her "gullible stone."
Carrie, ijust leave your address in mine or Kay's D-mail and I will send you some Fairy Bells. But, only if you promise, NO ROCKS. (Jim)
I was kidding, Jim, where I live they cleared all the rocks 300 years ago. And the topsoil, and most of the good dirt too.
Jim, Kay, do they have sugar cane growing down there?
Kay! Do i have some rocks for YOU!!! i Have some white crystal rocks,flat rocks to put flowerpots on. An Oregon lava egg rock.flint,all kinds of river rock.We will have a ball. When did you say you'll be here? Yes Jim, I'm one of those people.I'm always moving my rocks around.
My DH had a story about those northern pike. He fished for up there once and they were spawning and would'nt bite, so he knocked them in the head.
Carrie, they grow sugar cane in the middle of Arkansas near Little Rock.Rice too.
Wow, Vickie! Do they harvest the sugar from it?
Ah-h-h, that’s okay, Carrie. The car is usually full of rocks from Vermont when I come through Massachusetts anyway. They are very generous with their rocks in Vermont. Although, I think there must be some mineral in Vermont stones that interacts with pharmaceutical drugs. Because Vermont land owners always ask Jim what drug I am taking when I ask if I can have one of their rocks. :-)
You can remember when pet rocks were THE thing, can’t you, Vickie? I recalled it as a 70’s fad, but Jim says he doesn’t remember pet rocks. Maybe, it was a 60’s thing. Jim was around in the 60’s but that was his Bugs Bunny and Hot Wheels period.
Quite a few varieties of sugar cane grow here. The Thirteen Oaks Farm and Sugar Mill is close by. There are photos of most of the locally grown canes on their website. Ribbon cane is probably the most popular because it is so cool looking in addition to useful.
http://www.sugarcanemills.com/Varieties.htm
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Nearby Landmark Park has tried to preserve an 1890’s period farm. Teaching kids how sugar cane was processed on Florida and south Alabama farms back then is one of their events. Complete with mule powered crushing mill. I want to write a post on sugar cane for Amargia’s blog, but I am waiting until I can include some photos of the old fashion milling process. Sugar cane is one of those plants with a lot of stories to tell. It has a rich and often bloody history. We were debating the other day whether the old southern phrase is properly “raising Cain” A reference to the Biblical figure. Or, “raising cane.” A reference to the alleged difficult nature of “sugar people”. LOL. Kay*
P.S.: I'll make sure we drive the truck so there is plenty of room for new rocks, Vickie. I don't have any Arkansas rocks. LOL.
I'm sure there are mills in central Arkansas. I'll see if i can find out.
Kay when you see all the Arkansas rocks,you will want a dump truck.Tell me what kind of rock you think is superior and i'll try to find it. Or even better plan on staying awhile and we'll go rock hunting. I can't wait for you to see how many rocks are in Arkansas. They are all over in the western half.
I do remeber the pet rock craze. and really was disgusted cause i did'nt think of it first and sold a bunch. It had to have been the late 60,s or early 70,s cause we were in Texas than.
Pet rocks were so stupid - I remember. I was born in 61 and was pretty opinionated by the late 60s or early 70s!
I agree about stupid pet rocks. About as stupid as our time,Seeing how many people could fit into a phone booth or volkswagon.We'll be thinking about you when you go AWOL on us. Are you going to plant any annuals?
Remember the Streaker phaze. I just missed one at Kilgore college. LOL
I was wrong about sugar mills in Arkansas. Could'nt find a one.I am very positive about the rocks tho.
Vickie
A.rkies have always struck me as a self reliant bunch. I bet they processed it themselves or grew the type of cane that isn't usually processed down into mill white (crystalized sugar).
Even here most of what you see growing is "chewing cane." Delicious, but not easy to process into mill white. Usually people just turn it into juice or syrup. No mills necessary for that.
You remember pet rocks, Carrie? It must be true that girls mature faster than boys. Or, were you the kind of kid who expressed such opinions WHILE you were playing with your Barbie dolls. lol. I've met kids like that. I guess if someone will buy it, someone else will sell it. A friend out west told me about people selling tumbleweeds to the Japanese. Western decor is popular there. They decorate their houses with it. Wish I had thought of that while I was living in New Mexico. lol. (Jim)
I did find out on google that we do grow alot of sugar cane and we make molasses with it. Whoda thunk!
I found a site with a history of Ark. Foods, I'll link it later.
Vickie
Hello everyone, I hope life is treating you good. I have been busy as a bee in my yard planting and moving flowers from the old house while the hubs is getting land cleared and level to put our storage building. he has it on the property but not in place. I am kindof excited about getting it up here as I can clean out the spare room. But that will mean alot of work. I do not like work.LOL. Unless it is working with flowers hehehe. Anyway, I cut grass again yesterday with my new mower and I love it even more. I was done in no time and it looks great. I was absolutely covered from head to toe with dust because it was so dry. But the rain finally got here today and things got rinsed off real well. It looks so pretty and green after a rain. I think we are in for some storms tomorrow though. Maybe we will not get hit too hard.
About rocks, I would love to have some big ole rocks in my landscape but the hubs is grouchy when I ask for them. So I have one rock a little larger than a good iron skillet maybe and then gravel in my driveway.LOL If I get a rock it has to be one I can tote and I like big rocks. I had some at an old house but no way to move them they were huge and my ex FIL moved them with a forklift. They were white but I do not know what kind. They looked great with flowers around them. Well, I better check the other forums and see what you guys are up to today. Love and Prayers, scraps
Scraps i've got to hear about this big white rock. What kind of white rock. Was it sparkly? I'm sorry my family problems got your flowers delayed but i'll take care of them tomorrow.Am tired so will keep this short.
Vickie
Hi, All. Haven’t been on the computer in a few days. Have bandages on three of my fingertips and I am a touch typist. LOL. Tried to clear some blackberry brambles myself. Blackberries and dewberries are weeds here. I must start trying to be very nice to people to be ready for blackberry and dewberry picking time. LOL. I love to eat them, but they are a nightmare for blind people to pick. I have to sweet talk someone into harvesting some for me. In fact, I have to start early being very nice to Jim. A DGer wanted some dewberry bushes. Think I can be nice enough to Jim to get him to package them for me? LOL
One of my sisters tells me I am “a walking encyclopedia of totally useless knowledge.” Here is a fun flora fact. Jim mentioned tumbleweed which epitomizes the American West in most people’s minds. But, tumblers were introduced to the west from Russia in the early 1800’s. Hence, their other common name, Russian thistle. They must have been the American West version of kudzu evidently since they became synonymous with the west by the late 1800’s. LOL.
I would love to have some really big rocks for the fire pit area in the w/c garden. Something for people who didn’t bring their own seats to lounge on. I guess I will have to settle for free-form concrete pours because Jim sort of growled when I mentioned it. LOL.
The roses are beginning to bloom. The mystery rustled rose bush (A showy form of Rosa glauca?) is covered in unopened buds. When I combine that fact with the fact I’ve gotten my first sunburn of the year, it must mean summer is here. There are tons of tiny peaches, plums and blueberries as well. It looks like it may be a bumper crop year for many plants.
Stella and I are still arguing over landscaping design. She decided she didn’t like where I put an angel trumpet yesterday. (Gr-r-r) She loves people and, is so sweet natured, they love her too. She is especially good with small children. She will be an ideal dog for Amargia, if I can break her of this latest habit. Maybe, if I pen her while I plant? Maybe, if she doesn’t actually see me plant them? They say cats will obsess with catnip to the point they destroy it if you put the plants in, but all but ignore it if it grows in place from seed. I will try to apply that principle to dogs and see if it works. Kay*
Good idea, Kay - makes sense, I bet it would work with husbands ( at least mine).
Carrie, I hope the idea of Kay's you like is the one about being super sweet to your DH to get him to do what you want. I trust you aren't planning to lock Ray up in the backyard so he won't see what you are doing in the front yard. LOL.
Vickie,I think I'll let you two rock hounds go to the Grand Canyon together. I could just hang back in the cool mountains of AR to make sure the bear behaves. Have you done the Grand Canyon? I flew through the northern end on a combat training mission, but Kay tells me that doesn't count as seeing the Grand Canyon. She is determined to drag me to look at that big hole in the ground. LOL. (Jim)
I'm ashamed to say i've been by the Grand Canyon and did'nt stop to see it.I saw a mini one in Texas. Does that count. I would love to see it from a plane too.I think Kay would be happy with the rocks here. We have lots of ones that would make good seats but i don;t know how anyone would move them to anyplace else. They are also heavy.
I had a dog named Bear that loved pecans. I decided to plant some i brought back from Texas. Bear went along behind me and ate all of them. That was the end of my pecan orchard.He also picked his own blackberrys.That was a sight to see him gingerly put a blackberry between his teeth.Our berrys are blooming now. Looks like we got a good crop of pears too.
Hello everyone, I had no idea it had been 5 days since I have been on here. Sorry but I have been very busy trying to get my new yarden growing. I have been moving stuff out of the woods and from the old house place. I found what I think is Jack in the pulpit. Or somebody in the pulpit? I have always wanted one. I have been watching this one for years thinking it looked like the leaves in pictures I saw in a book. Well, it finally put on the little flower that looks a little bit like a calla lilly. So next week I will walk my property and see if I have more. I will have to tote a bucket to sit on so will need the hubs to tote one with plants in it. He is out working today for a little dough/ money that we need badly. Afriend with a chore to do. Anyway that is what is going on in my world, work. I have lots of blackberries blooming also. They scratched my legs going by on the mower too. I trimmed around them so I will not get red bugs on me hopefully.
Vickie, how are you? My white rock was some type of clay stuff that is all over Neshoba county where I lived during first marriage a county or two over. It may not be completely white but I remember it was white looking. My fatherinlaw moved several with a forklift. They were 3 to 4 foot across and a foot and a half or more tall. I have begged my hubs to take me up there and get some off of a back road where I use to see them alot. Of course, I could not get one that big but he avoids the issue. I will take you there when you come see me in the fall. We will just tell him he has been overruled. hehehe.
Kay,OUCH, on the blackberry scratches. You make us aware of alot of challenges for the blind that we probably never thought of. It will make us more compassionate to others with vision impairments. I vote that JIM should definitely do the blackberry picking and packaging. That is a job he can do with no problems since he is such a big strong manly man, a handsome one if I remember correctly from a picture you posted of him blowing a horn.
Sorry but I have to go get my DD from college and time has slipped up on me but I will be back later. scraps
scraps, You mean you have redbugs(chiggars?)They truely love me. And come running from all over when i go by. you better be careful about being gone so long. We'll talk about you and plot some mischief up for you.
DD and DH and i went to the very peak of our mountain to see the firetower.We poked around and found what was probably an old housesite up there. No treasures tho.but we could see forever. I found some good seasoned cedar for my campfire.The road is almost non-existant but he had a 4wheel drive. We've been having a campfire everynight.
Vickie
There is an old oak tree draped with Spanish moss in the woods. Nadine liked to play under it when she was little. I would always tell her to avoid that tree because of the chiggers in the Spanish moss on the ground. One day she came running into the house and jumped in the bathtub screaming that there were "redbugs" everywhere in the woods. She could SEE them! They looked like bright red ticks. They were horrible! We finally realized her "redbugs" were the red seeds dropped by all the magnolia trees there.. LOL.
I think AR will be as far west as we go this trip. There really isn't a good way for a mobility impaired person to see "that big hole in the ground" anyway. I wonder if they have LiveCams positioned in the Grand Canyon? Kay*
Scraps, you need to get with Kay and coach her on sweet talking husbands into doing things. You are ovviously quite talented. LOL. Yeah. Yeah. I'll pack up the dewberries. I will do some sweet-talking of my own to get the blackberries picked.
I think we will have to resort to herbacides to get rid of the seacane (Arundo donax) Kay has developed a mild contact allergy to it. (Doctor said you can develop allergies as you get older. I didn't know that. I didn't realize that was a part of aging.). Seacane is extremely invasive and pushes out useful natives so I can do it with a clear conscience. It is California'sversion of kudzu I've been told. But, at least, it doesn't spread by seed. Kay has already tried all the subtler methods like vinegar and boiling water on the roots. No success. She has started digging it out. But, one missed piece of root or a buried piece of cane with a node and it will be back in no time. The battle is on!
I'm putting a 200 lbs. limit on Kay's Arkansas rock gathering, Vickie. Don't be tempting her! She can only take photos of the really big ones. She brought so many back from TN she was able to build a planter with them. She made it look like an old well, It is a focal point in my foliage garden and kind of cool. But, I'm on to her tricks now. 200 lbs. max!!! (Jim)
That isn't fair. I can't see pictures. I can "see" rocks. Oh well, he didn't put any limits on my seed and plant collecting! ( Kay*
Hey you guys this is one very tired scraps checking in on you. Hope you are all doing better than me at this point in the day. I got up early and cut grass before the rain set in. I cut all kinds of poison ivy too. I may look a mess next week. But if you do not go into the edge of the woods and mow it down it will creep into the yard. I then raked and picked up sticks in an area where we did not rake any this past winter or spring so far. It was so thick I could barely push the rake through it the first time. I could have filled up his toyota truck easily. I now have a new compost pile. I had robbed all my good compost this year putting out all my flowers that I moved from the old house.
Vickie, I noticed you are getting some thundershowers up your way on the weather tonight. We got a light rain here but have rain coming all weekend. I hope it does not get too bad there.I do not have redbugs but my DD got them last year standing in the tall grass around some blackberries. So I mowed around them closer this year. It looks like we will have a bunch of them if we get rain on them. There are alot of blooms anyway. I think I found a fringe tree today and moved it. It looks like one I discover a few years ago out back. I hope it survives being moved so late. I did not want the men to kill it when cutting trees. I love them because my grandmother had one that my grandfather brought her from the fields near the creek. She loved that tree so much because he took time to bring it to her. She said he had never done anything like that before.
You said you had a campfire every night so does that mean you are still camping out? It sounds like fun. I have never really camped out before and never really had interest in it but as I have gotten older I think I would enjoy it. Just doing something different. I hope you are having fun.
Kay, I love the redbugs story about Nadine. It is too cute.
Jim, I am getting better in my old age about bribery more than sweet talking but whatever works. I have ask for way more help than I have received but every little bit helps. I get what I want if it does not require too much energy on his part. I have learned that if I say we will go fishing when done it helps. I thought that if we went fishing together we could do chores together but that did not fly. But he cooks alot so I will work if he cooks and be happy. I would rather cut grass and rake a truckload of leaves than cook because it is easier to sit on a stool and rake than cook because of the height of the stove and cabinets. If and when he goes back to work then I will have to go back to cooking supper every night. Until then I will work for food. LOL.
You guys all have a great night and good day tomorrow. Love and Prayers, scraps
Yes, Kay, you can absolutely develop allergies as you get older (or have minor ones become major). The classic example is the bee sting - the first time your immune system encounters the allergen (bee venom, or whatever) it might cause a one-alarm fire. But the memory of the venom builds up in your body - and each time you are stung you get closer to triggering the 5-alarm fire. Finally one day you get stung for the umpteenth time and your body freaks out and says "I can't handle it any more!" You're allergic.
Thats ok Kay, I've got a lot of little rocks that feel good.I'm one of those feely people and have several stones i have just for feeling.Ilove flint specially it feels like silk.Some quarz feels good.usually a smooth geometric feel.
You may injoy visiting one of our caves or caverns.When they turn out the light everyone can feel what you experience.
About 3 years ago. I bought this outdoor table with a metal well in the middle for a small fire. I use it alot in the summer when i don't feel i can have a fire going safely as it gets dry and with my woods and leaves. i don't take chances.
I got it half price at walmarts.One of my better buys. I love to camp out DH and the kids and i went every chance we got and i still do but this was the first time i went by myself and i loved it. Will be going every chance i get.
You can also build up nonresistance to poison ivy. I did.
Steph, You will have to get a stool with wheels for your kitchen.Were it me on the stool i'd always fall off.LOL
Is a fringe tree what we call old mans beard? a small tree with white tiny stringy like flowers. They are rare but there are a few around.
Vickie
Lucky find, Scraps! That one is on the VI's want list because of its fragrance. (Jim)
I will get some packages in the mail, then I will be battling the elephants the remainder of the day. Of all the common names for Arundo donax, I like elephant grass the best. Besides, if I say I'm chopping and burning seacane it could be misunderstood here. I'll keep "seacanepain". I'm not allergic to him YET. Although, I do find him a bit irritating at times. LOL.
I love the silky feel of flint too, Vickie. I can remember my brothers and I would always search feilds after they were plowed looking for flint arrowheads. Way back when the lower "Lost Sea" portion of the Ruby Falls Caverns (TN) was still open to tourist, I took a tour. They had different colored lights playing across a quartz wall for dramatic effect. Someone in the group commented that they would like to see the wall in its natural color so the tour guide turned off ALL the lights and said "There you go. Now, you've seen it in its totally natural state." ROFL.
Fringe trees in the wild are a great find, Scraps. Seeds are hard to come by because you need a male and female tree to get the fruit. Like holly. . I don't know how to tell the difference. Do you still call them Old Man's Beard if it's a fewmale tree? Old Woman's Beard? Inquiring minds want to know. Kay*
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Hey guys, Yes the fringetree is also called "old man's beard" or " Graysons gray beard" I think.There may be several more nearby but they are not blooming so you would have to guess by the leaves etc. I did not know about needing both female and male so it may not bloom if it survives this past weekends weather that is. We had awful heavy rains here. But Thankfully no real heavy wind. We did however, have baseball size hail yesterday and that was freaky. I was outside on the back porch and heard it pounding a neighbors trailor house. I thought it was a tornado throwing trees on it from the sound and ran to the backdoor just as the hail hit. The poor dog thought I was throwing it at him and looked at me with fear in his poor eyes and ran off. he still will not come to me this morning. Poor guy he is not real bright anyway. I have alot of chores that need to be done. I had a sinus headache all weekend long and did not do anything and neither did anyone else. Have a goodday you guys. scraps
scraps, plants are on the way.
I want to play in the flowers tomorrow but i have group therapy and guess i need it now, Think i'll make some pink salad before i go to bed.
Scraps glad you survived the hailstorm ok.
Do you hear anything about the oil slick thats suppose to come ashore? Know you are a little back from the gulf but probably hear local news about it.
Scraps, I think your tree will still flower even if there is only one. It just may not produce seed. If it survived that is! That was some serious hail! Heavy rains here yesterday, but nothing like that. Poor Oreo!
Vickie, the ladies make something to serve at church gatherings I just call pink fluffy stuff with strawberries and whipped cream and pineapple (I think?). Is that what you're making? I love that stuff. They make it to top angel food cake, but I like to eat it straight.
Kay's battle with the elephant grass got rained out yesterday. Probably, a good thing. It gives her a chance to heal before exposing herself to the allergy trigger again. I think I will see how much a landscape company would charge to clear that bank. If Kay tries it herself I'll probably end up with doctor bills anyway so it might be the most economical way to go. (Jim)