Posted on 02/03/2015 6:27:08 AM PST by MasterMason
I just re-joined FR and I would like to post to my local NC state board but I am not able to. How do I get the ability to do that?
As long as you don’t attract the attention of the IRS!
She s a hoot.
She also makes a specific sound at me.
“Preet”.
It is a short clipped trilling call.
Must mean me as when she does it, her brother will immediately look at me.
The computer makes that almost impossible
LOL!
For the first time ever, I’ve had to take Benedryl in the daytime to minimize the allergy symptoms. Mulberry trees are BRUTAL!
My car is covered with yellow-green pollen.
I guess if I were King of Henderson, I would like taxes, too. *sigh* At least I don’t have to pay the IRS for ripping me off in the first place.
Take heart. Now it’s IRS 2.0. Not only do they rip you off, they deny your right to political engagement at the same time.
Today the pollen.
Tomorrow the purple birdplops...
Tomorrow of course in the sense of 'some time in the future'. Unless you have REALLY fast producing trees.. ;-)
I don’t park under a tree for one thing, and for another, these mulberry trees don’t produce fruit. So it’s just the pollen, and that’s enough to make me miserable.
Well that’s a bummer..
What good is a mulberry tree if it only produces mulpollen and no -berry?
My Grandmother had two mulberry trees. We kids loved them because of the tasty purple thingies that they produced. Grandma was not necessarily so thrilled because the birds would gift her lawn chairs with purple also.
She and Grandpa also had blueberries, a grape arbor with four types of grapes, red and black raspberries, an orchard with apricot, plum, peach, pear, black cherry, bing cherry, some really tart cherry she used in pies - we kids left them alone because they were SOUR, three - at least - different apples (Grandpa had a cider press), English walnut, black walnut, and butternut trees. Also a well established asparagus patch bounded on one side by rhubarb whose leaves make excellent kid umbrellas, and ground cherries that I have not been able to grow here (the plants grow, flower, and produce what should be fruit, but the fruit doesn’t fully develop in the husk so all I get are husks with a thing inside that is almost but not entirely quite unlike...) And I probably left some things out.
Looking at the property now on gargoyle earth it would appear that all of that is now gone.
I’m confused. I live in NYC. Very few trees but plenty of birdplops.
Whoa! How fun was your early life???
We didn’t have mulberry trees. We had a HUGH vegetable garden, maybe half an acre, but we had a plum grove (about 10 trees in a circle) two bing cherry trees, two peach trees, strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries and lots of melons.
In the neighborhood were apple orchards (Delicious) an apricot tree, blackberries and wild asparagus along the ditch bank. There was a black walnut tree down the street and a lot of horse chestnut trees in the hood as well as blackberries at the neighbor’s.
Your grandmother made pies from the sour cherries because that’s what they are called: Pie cherries. They hold up better during cooking and canning than other cherries do.
We also had rhubarb, but that was in Alaska.
I live in Nevada...Trees R Us...at higher elevations! LOL!
To increase the city experience you must convince Warren Wilhelm Jr. to plant mulberry...
He could promote it as an artistic campaign to improve the perception of bird effluent by promoting a new, more colorful end product..
Well we have a 1,000 trees campaign or some-such but there’s been a marked decline in interest after Sandy caused so many of the trees to cause property damage. Love of flora only goes so far, dontchaknow.
And, with that, I must be off.
Did I just hear someone say, “Whaddya mean ‘with that?’”
Just what are you implying, anyway?
I have sneezes.
I would wager that none of the trees causing damage were fruit trees. Someone should give that campaign another look, with an emphasis to the benefits the whole community would have to replanting with fruit trees.
Then at the appropriate seasons, community efforts could produce cherry pies, apple whatevers and all kinds of other things.
Well worth doing, in my opinion.
We just happened to live next door to Grandma and Grandpa... Looking back it's easy to see just how much we really did have back then. It's something that my grandchildren will not experience. The subject came up in church yesterday (well, after church) about how we once could hop on our bikes and disappear for the day as long as we were home when the streetlights came on. And even if we were on the other side of town we couldn't get away with anything because everyone knew whose kid you were and if you messed up the phone call to your parents beat you home..
On top of having the orchard stuff, we did have a garden and between grandparents and our gardens we had lots of fresh stuff when in season. Sweet corn that you go out, grab, husk, and throw in the boiling water is way better than whateveritis they call sweet corn at the local supermarket that was removed from the plant who knows when..
One of the blessings of having all that stuff in the garden was that the abundance of the garden would last over winter due to hot water baths, mason jars, zinc lids with a glass insert, and red rubber rings (later supplanted by brass rings and lids that were domed but if the dome disappeared it was a good thing and if it didn't it got used for supper that night..) Mom and Grandma or Mom and her sisters would have a get together and spend the day stuffing things into mason jars and boiling them for ever.. If memory serves, everyone brought their big black-enameled canning pot and if you arranged them just so on the range you could use four at once.. Don't remember how many jars each held - six?
With all the adults fiddling around in the kitchen we got shooed outdoors except for the occasional call to carry a bucket of stems, leaves, pits, skins, whatever didn't get stuffed in the mason jar out to the 'compost pile'..
Come to think of it, even a 'compost pile' was easier back then. You picked a spot and dumped all your food trash there.. Now if I tried that here the town would be busting down the door for 'creating a nuisance' because it would allegedly attract ratsmicevermin. (You must have it enclosed, screened, and properly drained so as not to produce runoff that will befoul the creek..)
They would rather we load up the landfill..
You know, black walnuts make excellent slingshot ammo...
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