Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - Daffy Time

My friend & I decided we were going to smoke a cigerette, first we had to get one. I stole it from my Mothers pack when she went out to hang some clothes. Stuck it in my bra, walked outside and announced I was going for a walk up to the school. Once up tp the school I realized it was too open and someone might see us, so off to the back off the school and into the field we went. But standing up....someone might still see us, better sit down. Oh yeah, sat in Poison Ivy AND Poison Summac which I found out I am highly alergic to, more so than Ivy alone. Had 3 trips to the Doctors, many shots in the arm, and as*, and 3 different sets of pills before the summer was over. Punishment?? Oh that was punishment enough I think cause I had that stuff from the waist on down, to between my toes!!!!!!!

I guess when you see someone with bad poison ivy there is a high probablility that they've been sneakin' around!

Yup, I was bad and paid the price...an entire summer.

They say that the 1st time you are exposed to PI it might not have much of an effect - but the next time it will..!

I remember when the new boss came to the historic house where I worked I had been weeding away the poison ivy from the boxwood.

He held out his hand for me to shake. In retrospect I wish I had not declined.

heehee Gloria!

LOL. I thank my lucky stars that I have never had the misfortune. My awful ex used to work for the zoo doing lawn mowing, cutting brush, etc. He's a big pourer of sweat so he always worked with a bandanna or better yet, a dishtowel in his pocket to wipe his forehead, face, arms, back of neck, hands, whatever part felt sweaty. One day he was assigned to cut down a swath of brush "and be careful of the poison ivy." He was even offered the option of going home to change, but no, shorts were fine. Of course being the type who never learns, he waded right into the P.I. and didn't know it. He wiped his forehead, face, arms, back of neck, hands, and every other exposed part with the sweaty bandanna. He went into the men's room not to wash but to spread the poison to previously unaffected regions. (he he) I don't know if I had already decided, but just grrrr. well, that's over. I feel better now. And it's easy for me to say he should have been more careful because i wasn't there and I have thankfully never had poison ivy.

xx, Carrie

When I was a boy, I was never affected by the poison sumac that my buddies lived in fear of. It was like I had a super power. Sometimes I would tease them and chase after them carrying some PS (never actually touching them)
Anyway, my legendary status grew. One day, to show off my powers, I squeezed the sap out of some PS and rubbed it all over my face. They were impressed. The next day I was a mess, the sumac spread into my mouth and everywhere.
Ever since, I've been very allergic and I get it once or twice a year.

OUCH! As I say, I think I'm not allergic, but I don't push it. xx, Carrie

oh Dave! That sounds awful.

It was definitely a lesson of pride going before the fall!

Isn't it true that people can develop allergies at any time? I mean, one year, you aren't allergic to P I ~ the next year you are allergic.

While I don't know how it works with allergies I do know I was allergic to strawberries and tomatoes the same year but that ended and, thankfully, never returned.

FYI nothing to do with allergies .
Just recieved the book I bought my grandson who lives in a suite at college.
They do their own cooking. Figured it would be a Life Book when he is in an apartment.
"A Man A Can A Plan"

Yes, you can develop allergies at any time. My dad got hay fever (now called seasonal allergies) in his 30's. I started as a teen. I've been miserable today with all the trees opening.

I don't have any allergies. I occasionally sneeze when the pollen dust builds up, but no allergies. No arthritis. No osteoporosis. Im near sighted so I can thread a needle and string beads.

And I have all of my own teeth except 2 impacted wisdoms pulled at age 18.

:))

No. No. No. Don't have it.

Don't want it either.

I believe my teeth, as well as all other body parts, are my own...

My parts are all original.

Just a bit rusty?

No. just enlarged.

Dave - LOL....(snickering)

Prostate?

Enzyte Bob? You know the guy watering his grass in the commercial.

Speaking of enlarged.... ehem.....check out this newly opened caladium from the caladium co-op....this guy is HUGE! I can't believe how nice and large the bulbs are that Bill sent me. The various colors are also really nice! You can see all the new leaves unfurling. Too bad I'll miss the glorious fullness of the bed. BUT - I am bringing some of them back with me to put in the barrels on our front porch. Can't wait to see them mixed with some coleus!

I like that. Is it related to elephant ears?

My sister was telling me about a documentary. It has to do with a special corn they grow in the midwest. It has a chalky or sawdust taste. They grow the corn, harvest it and then start adding a bunch of chemicals to it. It gets fed to the cows, pigs and chickens. The animals body does not digest it. It stays in the body and gets passed down. It is fructose. My sister said try to find a food that is sold in the store, that is preped that don't have fructose in it.

The cow eats the corn.
The cow is milked.
Buy a biscuit in the store with milk.
You ate CORN.

WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF THE CORN. Unless your a vegatarian.......

We are all children of the genetically modified corn, which is even more frightening.

pam

Soon we'll be clones of the genetically modified corn.

I eat corn, the kind that comes on a cob and I am vegetarian.

Fructose in preserved food can make you very sick if you are diabetic.

it doesn't act like regular glucose. There is just too much food that is not real food that is foisted on the public who does not realize how drastically they are getting cheated.

I noticed driving the other day and listening to "Science Friday" on National Public Radio that there is a lot of criticism of the strategy to use corn fuel to replace gasoline. The price goes up and the people starve.

yes. we are all children of corn (and hopefully other whole grains) even if you are vegetarian.

Oh the whole biofuels thing has been a disaster. Rushed into. Not thought out. Consequences not considered. Now, Chinese restaurants are even selling their used oil to people with engines that use it. I read on one of the threads that farmers are having a tough time getting sawdust for bedding because of pellet stoves (I have one). You can't win!

NPR had a story about our bodies and the results of corn and corn oil in food. When the human fingernail is analyzed the result is we humans are 40% corn.

If people would just fix their fats the Nation would be a lot healther.

Fried corn oil is not one of the healthy one's.

Howard Hughes was 40% fingernails...

As is Barbra Streisand!

So, if we are 40% corn, and 70% water, .....
hmmmmmmm

Cornbread when we get hot?

110%?

Some of us!

I knew that it wouldn't add up to a correct 100%. It just seemed silly, though, to think 40% corn and 70% water. Aren't we 70% water?

corn clones?

I'm 100% corn. Yup, that's me.

Jo Ann, my favorite beginner cookbook (aside from the big classics) is "The Healthy College Cookbook" by Nimetz, Stanley & Starr. It covers all the greats like grilled cheese! It got me back into cooking when I just couldn't do anything that required thought.