Re: Growing medicinal foods and cold prevention

In article <snowshoe-BBFB87.00582802072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Jan Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > Might be fun to try one of the elephant varieties if I can 
> > get them to grow.
> > 
> Nichols in Oregon is a great source of elephant garlic. They're really 
> neat people. Google them and get on their mailing list.

Danke!

> > It's expensive to ****p anything to Alaska. Are you greenhousing up
there?
> > What about growing indoors?
> 
> 'Maters, squash, cukes, everything tender goes in the greenhouses. 
> Broccoli, cabbage, kale, peas all grow outside. BUT this year, we're 
> still having killing frosts. It's never happened before this late, 
> according to my SO who was born here in 1955. We had a killing frost 
> last night. Ice on the wind****eld that he had to scrape. I told him that

> he gets up too early. If he'd sleep later, he wouldn't notice the ice. 
> We're having the coldest spring/summer ever up here. We normally get 
> 90-100 days growing season. These frosts are tra****ng everyone's
gardens.
> And I'm worried as hell about the price of fuel tra****ng the national 
> food distribution system. Alaska has two days worth of food on our 
> grocery store shelves.

Stock up on canned goods. :-(
Climate change seems to be causing a cooling trend. 
We could use more rain here tho' in the South.
The mid west is getting it all.

> > Thou shalt wash thy hands every time you come home from shopping! It's

> > not paranoid to keep a container of hand disinfectant in the car and 
> > clean the steering wheel from time to time... Doorknobs and telephones

> > at work get cleaned nightly.
> 
> I wash my hands so often that people think I have OCD. My mom was an RN.
> I can't afford the downtime to be sick.

Ditto.

> 
> It never occurred to me to clean the steering wheel on my car. Thanks! 

Welcome. :-)

> I 
> do the phone, computer keyboards, doorknobs, coffee pot, light switches,

> etc. all the time.

It really does help.
Dirty hands are the #1 cause of disease. They stress that at work 
constantly.

> 
> I mostly stay at home on the ranch. The SO has to go to town every day 
> to sit at the Old Timers Coffee Table and talk **** with the other old 
> farts. He brings the germs home with him. Pisses me off.

Tell him to wash his hands and don't rub his eyes. <g>

> 
> When I fly down to our state capitol or to DC to talk to legislators, 
> many of them have hand sanitizers on their desks or in their offices 
> now. You can tell in Juneau, Alaska who the RN's are in the Lege. They 
> all have sanitizers handy, because they have to shake hands with germy 
> people all day long. (A staffer in Juneau told me that the Capital 
> Building is just one big Petri dish -- everyone has the Capital Crud by 
> mid-session every year. It's true.)
> 
>    Jan

I think the banks should all (literally) do money laundering. <g>
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Peace! Om

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until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein