How cool! Thanks for sharing!

Hear here!!!

I have a book about square-foot gardening, and I'd like to try it. Does anyone have any suggestions about "little" gardening that may not be in the book?

I only have a .22 pistol, a 12ga single shotgun, and an air-pellet rifle. But I'd LIKE to have a 357, a 9mm, a 270, a 12ga pump, a 45-70, (I think that's what it's called. Dad just got one of those that I shot last week for the first time. FUN!), and a "Judge". That one would make a good rattle-snake gun in the badlands.


And gun ownership is kind of a neccessity if you like to target shoot, like I do. And if you think that the most natural life-style is hunter-gatherer. I'll be the hunter!

Ahhh! I'll have to look that one up. Thanks.

Here in the upper midwest, I've heard people say that you should plant your potatoes on Good Friday. There are also Lunar guidelines that dictate when you should plant what. What other gardening tips and myths are out there?

I can see using melted chocolate chips so that it is just like a real candy bar. YUMM.

I found the original post to be quite humorous, and totally appropriately placed in the jokes and funny stories. It didn't become truly political, needing to be moved to politics, until people started critiqueing it.

I recently got hold of a copy of The Master Book of Herbalism by Paul Beyrl. It's out of print, but there are still a few new and like-new copies out there. My local librarian was kind enough to order it for me from Barnes&Noble.com. This is a very informative book, and one of the better herbalism books that I've seen. It doesn't go into the medicinal uses, sonce Mr. Beyrl says that there are many books out there that already go into those details, but he does a better than fair job of detailing the magickal uses. He admits (I believe in the preface) that he doesn't know all of the magickal uses, and that even after he finished writing the book he learned enough info to constitute writing a second, expanded edition. However, I don't believe that he ever wrote an updated version. If he did, and anyone knows about it, please let me know.

OMG, that's HI-LARIOUS!!!

Wow! Jalapeno Poppers from Hell!!! I may have to try this!

I try to do something for the main 8, but I also do Christmas with my family, and I do Hannukah. I find that there are parallels that are too obvious to over-look. I also find that when I start the December holidays as early as possible, usually with the start of Hannukah, and do almost all of them, it helps me to get through the winter without getting that down feeling that comes with the lesser daylight. I also burn a lot of candles from Christmas through March. That helps, too.

As far as Christianity being immoral, a lot of people have been helped in their personal lives by Christianity. I, myself, do not neccessarily agree with everything that modern Christianity teaches, but I won't presume to pass judgement about the morality of an entire religious system that has proven to help so many based on an interpretation of their own religious writings.

Actually, I for one would imagine that discussions like this one are exactly why the moderators have us all "segregated" by religion...so that nobody is discriminated against and attacked for having a discussion. At the same time, we all have access to the general religion threads, so that we can interact. Unfortunately, too many people strive to look for the differences in religions, and arguing over semantics, instead of finding the common ground. Maybe when we all start to see that pure love for fellow mankind (I think the ancient Greeks called it AGAPE. Wiccans word it as "perfect love and perfect trust.) knows no religious boundaries or semantics, there won't be any need for cyber-segregation on the basis of religion. Until then, this is one place where a small amount of segregation is a blessing.

As far as the context of dating, try to be patient. You'll find HIM, the one who you are (mutually) meant for, and I would imagine that he will be chivalrous, by any good definition.

Actually, chivalry isn't just how men treat women. It's also about how men treat each other, how women treat men and other women, how younger folks treat their elders, etc. In a nutshell, it's more about how we all act toward each other, beyond the very barest, most basic manners. It's having ethics in our interpersonal dealings with those around us, and going just a bit further than just plain manners. It's about all of us acting like we are nobility, even though we aren't, and treating each other like nobility, too.

Don't they make medicated shampoo and body wash for the cooties these days?!?

When I had to have my dog put down, I was so heart-broken that the vet's wife, who is also his assistant, bought me a tack-pin of a dog with halo and wings. I cried all over again.

My sis lives in Pittsburgh, and she said that they got a foot and a half one night this last weekend. I guess the kids are loving it, but the oldest one wanted to go somewhere, and he's old enough, at 12, to shovel if he wants to get out. So he was shovelling.

Builds character, I say!!!

It seems to me that if someone is teaching their children about the REAL facts of life, and where babies come from and what life (and death) are really about, then it shouldn't be traumatic for them. And it builds the respect factor, too. Respect for life. Respect for Mom. Respect for women in general.