In article <snowshoe-BBFB87.00582802072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jan Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <ompomelet-A4A7D6.02500830062008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article <snowshoe-5D3BF8.23224229062008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Jan Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > >
> > > Okay, now go read the stuff on Filaree, figure out which "types"
will
> > > thrive in your climate, then go hit the Seed Savers site and see if
they
> > > sell what you want. They're way cheaper than Filaree. (Not to diss
> > > Filaree, but in this economy, we have to be frugal if we aren't
rich.)
> >
> > Absolootly. 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.
>
> > > Seed Savers won't tell you if they're hardnecks, softnecks, etc., so
get
> > > variety names from Filaree and look for them by name at Seed Savers.
> > >
> > > ****pping from Filaree to you guys down there in the small states may
be
> > > cheap(er). It's expensive as hell to get them to ****p to me in
Alaska,
> > > but I've done it and their stock is first rate.
> >
> > 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.
>
> [...]
> > >
> > > PS: If you eat a lot of garlic all winter long, you won't get sick,
> > > because people with germs/colds/the flu won't get close enough to
breath
> > > on you and share their germs. Works for me!
> >
> > I work nights. That helps me avoid a lot of it since there are not
> > nearly as many people. Good handwa****ng practices will remove a LOT of
> > exposure to the cold virus. Did you know that the majority of flu' and
> > cold viruses are passed hand to eye? I learned that in our annual
> > infection control inservice. I work in health care. :-)
> >
> > 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.
>
> It never occurred to me to clean the steering wheel on my car. Thanks! I
> do the phone, computer keyboards, doorknobs, coffee pot, light switches,
> etc. all the time.
>
> 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.
Born 1955 = 53 years old, "other old farts"? Your SO isn't even out of
testosterone madness yet, and you call him an old fart? Dumb, stupid,
inconsiderate maybe, old?, no way. He's still a freakin' kid.
>He brings the germs home with him. Pisses me off.
>
> 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
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