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[George Shirley]

We have rainbow trout here too, every year the state stocks a few ponds nearby with rainbow and let folks catch them. I don't go, it's sort of like Okay! here's a cow, shoot it.

They're not that bad, if you catch a few you can train them to pull your kid's wagon.

Which branch of military were you in and during what year? We're renting the roaches out to the airplane companies now.

A lot more asses have shown up, mostly from the states that have gone so liberal REAL people can't stand it anymore and they seem to think they're better than the natives. Most of them run for public office as quick as they can.

Folks in SE Texas call Bexar as Bayer.

Only in Bexar, the rest of us talk a wee bit faster, particularly if you're married. That's the only way to get a word in. Some of us even talk in several languages. We used to have a Russian couple next door, they got homesick and went back to the frozen tundra. Have about ten or more nationalities in this subdivision alone, maybe more. Why the hell are all these strangers coming to my home state. The possibilities of living a free life and getting a decent job most likely. Some of them are nice people but some a-holes followed them.

We've been in this house nearly four years now and I saw a roach on the driveway once and it looked bewildered. I don't know what the previous owners sprayed around here but it doesn't kill silverfish.

[T]

Air Force. 74-80. Staff Sergeant. AF Commendation medal. No it wasn't for my c*ck roach fighting skills. :-)

[George Shirley]

Navy, 57 - 60 active, recalled to active reserves in December 62 for Cuban Missile Crisis, stayed in until discharged in June 63. I was what the Navy called a "Titless Typist" Yeoman Second Class (E5). Three years later the Vietnam GI bill came out and I instantly became a Vietnam Veteran due to serving six months reserve duty in '63. Went to college on the VVB starting in '71, graduated in '76. Meantime raising two kids, working swing shift in a chemical plant, served with the Texas State Guard from '63 to '76, got out as a Captain in MP outfit. I know Texas still has a State Guard but not sure about the few other states from my time in it. Nowadays the Texas State Guard has planes, choppers, all kinds of stuff handed off to them by the Feds. We used to go help in hurricanes and tried to keep riots, in the mid-sixties, down to a march.

Out of three cousins and an uncle in my age group. Only one cousin and I got honorable discharges. I've always thought that was funny for some reason. That other cousin and I are the only ones of the four that's still alive. So far I've lived longer than my Dad, gone at 71, Grandad at 55, Great grandad at 25. As a teen my Dad told me, "Marry young and breed early if you want a family." I always thought that was funny until I started doing the family tree. Wow!

Here I sit, will be 77 in September and still kicking. Well, can't kick much, heart disease, diabetic, barely can walk from multiple strokes, etc. It beats the alternative in my opinion.

Beautiful day today, current temp is 76F, no rain in sight for a change, and the dewberries are ripe.

[T]

Hi George,

Wow!

It is about to rain again. Right now is is very dark outside.

I am a T2 Diabetic and am drug free for 2-1/2 years now. It is really easy to do. Ping me if you want to know how.

I had to figure out how to get drug free the hard way, as the information was withheld from me by the medicals I saw -- didn't make them any money. They make a lot of money off Diabetes.

Speaking of making money off the sick. The major cause of stroke and heart disease is homocysteine, not serum cholesterol which doesn't show any coloration to arteriosclerosis in autopsy studies. (Yup. You guessed it. Serum cholesterol and arteriosclerosis is medical fraud.)

Homocysteine is treated with really cheap vitamins, so that information is also withheld. (The guy who discovered it had to go to court just to get a job as a coroner because of the backlash from big med.)

A homocysteine test costs about ~$80 and you don't have to go through a doctor. Just show up at a test facility with cash in hand (call first). The test results will show you safe ranges. (And you paid the doctor how much to read the same exact thing you can read yourself? Yikes.)

If you are high, just ping me and I will tell you the vitamins to take for it.

I think I heard the weeds starting to sing. Probably just the wind. :'(

-T

Had a customer with a heart attack: skinny, low cholesterol, exercised at lot. The couldn't find out why. Eventually declared is hereditary. Charged her out the nose.

Another friend and I keep hassling her to get a homocysteine test. Her expensive heart doctors refused. Gee Wiz, no self interest there!

When she finally broke down and got the test herself, OH MY GOD, she was about 5 times higher than safe. It was a wonder she was even alive! She now had a different doctor, taking vitamins, and has recovered nicely.

The state of medicine in the country takes my breath away. It is all about "treating", not "healing".

[songbird]

T wrote: ...

i don't grow them. :) if you have a hot climate and no wind break then they will likely do better down lower. if your soil is rock hard and has no water holding capacity and i don't know how deep your soil is that you're planting into... well, it's not something i can say much for sure.

if it is all sand, add some clay and organic materials. you don't need much clay for it to help.

we usually get our plants in the middle of May and plant shortly after that. so sounds ok as long as you remember to bring them in if there is danger of cold overnight.

songbird

[songbird]

T wrote: ...

powdered sulfur sprinkled on any organic materials will help, but organic materials alone should also moderate alkalinity as long as you have a decent water source.

songbird

[T]

Thank you.

You do realize the poor dears have made slaves out of us!

[George Shirley]

Ours was planted in mid-march, green tomatoes on the bushes about the size of a baby's fist, sweet chillies about six inches long, baby cukes on the vines, figs are the size of the end of my little finger and the pears are about three quarters of an inch in diameter. Move south.

George

[songbird]

T wrote: ...

you do understand that without plants we'd not be here right? we are dependent upon them, along with the bacteria, virii, fungi, etc.

songbird

[T]

True. We are going to have a rude awakening when we try to farm in space or other planets/moons. We should have a functioning moon colony before we ever try colonizing Mars. Our dependence on the above is overwhelming and mostly out of our current understanding.

So, in the mean time, "Water me! Prune! Too Much Sun! I am too cold! Pick those bugs off me!" And we will all continue saying "yes master".