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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: A nonny mouse
Date: May 30, 2015, 12:32 am
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--- Quote from: bradley link ---
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> You eat rhubarb stalks, the leaves are poisonous. ;D You
been feeling okay Kerry?
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Eating the leaves may have effects that some consider to be
poisonous but in reality the effect may simply be to open up
hidden wisdom (or hallucinations) about elementals and elemental
forces.
Take no notice..... just my twisted sense of humour. ;)
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 30, 2015, 6:34 am
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--- Quote from: A Trusting Deist link ---
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> Eating the leaves may have effects that some consider to be
poisonous but in reality the effect may simply be to open up
hidden wisdom (or hallucinations) about elementals and elemental
forces.
>
> Take no notice..... just my twisted sense of humour. ;)
>
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Did your mother neglect you as a child?
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: A nonny mouse
Date: May 30, 2015, 8:59 am
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--- Quote from: Kerry link ---
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> Did your mother neglect you as a child?
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On the contrary.
We were not allowed to touch Rhubarb and I wasn't allowed to
have a PC until well after I married and left home in 1958.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 30, 2015, 5:42 pm
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--- Quote from: A Trusting Deist link ---
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> On the contrary.
> We were not allowed to touch Rhubarb and I wasn't allowed to
have a PC until well after I married and left home in 1958.
>
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Telling children not to touch rhubarb is a form of neglect since
it is a failure to instruct. I was the youngest of four
children, and it was often my job to fetch the rhubarb. My
Mother said because I like to eat it so much, it was right that
I go get it. What kind of child were you that your own mother
couldn't trust you to cut the rhubarb, discard the leaves and
bring back the stalks? Or did your mother follow the
Eve-method of child rearing, "Thou shalt not touch"?
I was also not talking about rhubarb but about being instructed
in manners. Were you sent to your room when respectable
people visited? That too can be a form of neglect.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Poppy
Date: May 30, 2015, 7:16 pm
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My mother used to send me out into the garden to pick the mint
for mint sauce. Then I would pick the leaves off, wash it and
chop it. If we had had rhubarb I would have enjoyed picking
that too. I like that pretty pinky-white bit at the bottom when
it's new.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 30, 2015, 8:00 pm
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--- Quote from: Poppy link ---
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> My mother used to send me out into the garden to pick the mint
for mint sauce. Then I would pick the leaves off, wash it and
chop it. If we had had rhubarb I would have enjoyed picking
that too. I like that pretty pinky-white bit at the bottom when
it's new.
>
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I think doing such things can be a way of teaching children
about life, preparing them for future life.
That is a lovely color combination at the bottom, isn't it? My
Mother was strict about rhubarb. I wasn't supposed to pick it
unless it had turned red, and I was supposed to discard any
green parts at the top along with the leaves. I learned later
some varieties now don't turn red that much but it's still safe
to eat. I hope the kind I have now is mostly red. I know it's
safe to eat green rhubarb, but I'd still rather have it red the
way my Mother told me it should be.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: bradley
Date: May 30, 2015, 8:29 pm
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I think its sweeter red, but I dont know that, but red rhubarb
is all I ever see at the market. I also usually wait till its
red before I pick it. I got 3 mounds of it, so far all too
small to harvest, just recently planted so I may not get much
this year.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Kerry
Date: May 30, 2015, 9:11 pm
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--- Quote from: bradley link ---
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> I think its sweeter red, but I dont know that, but red rhubarb
is all I ever see at the market. I also usually wait till its
red before I pick it. I got 3 mounds of it, so far all too
small to harvest, just recently planted so I may not get much
this year.
>
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You should be able to get a few stalks or so. Whatever you do
though, don't let it go to seed. You know that, right? My
Mother must have made sure it never went to seed -- I never knew
that as a kid. Later as an adult, I killed some rhubarb by
letting it go to seed, thinking it was interesting.
What I see in stores around here is mostly green. There are
different varieties; but one website I saw said tossing the
leaves back around plant can make red rhubarb green because it
makes the soil acidic. They advised using wood ashes to get it
to be red. I don't know if any of that is true, but I'll try it
and see. I don't have any wood ashes. Maybe my sister has some,
or maybe I can burn a few dry branches without the government
catching me. I won't put the leaves back around the plant
though -- and I was doing that in the past.
I could put the leaves around some plants that like acid. I'll
look into what plants prefer acid.
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: Piper
Date: June 1, 2015, 2:14 am
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Kevin took a fall tonight. Lost his footing stepping over
blankets, feet slid out from under him on the wood floor, and he
went over backwards, smacking his ribs on a metal protrusion
where the foot-board once was on the bed and then cracking his
head against a bookshelf. I was downstairs, heard the crash.
He hurt so badly, he could not stop moaning, and I nearly called
911, but he finally caught a breath. I checked for broken ribs
where the skin was bruised and abraded, didn't feel anything
obvious, but I find it hard to believe he didn't at least crack
one. Lump on head.
Helped get him up, into bed with an ice pack and pain killers.
He may feel worse tomorrow. Worse. Sheeze.
Please pray for him, although the damage . . . is already done.
Pray for fast healing or no cracked ribs or . . . whatever.
I've no idea.
This is just not right.
Oh . . . and today is our 36th anniversary. :-\
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Re: Member's Chat
DIR By: bradley
Date: June 1, 2015, 5:22 am
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Glad to pray!
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