Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 02:54 AM
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Goodbye, cruel world! I've done my DUty for the day . . . |
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and now I'm going into the woods to pick blackberries! (Really! It's a beautiful morning and the first blackberries of the season are ripe for pickin'!)
Pie report tomorrow . . .
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Wetzelbill
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Sat Jul-23-05 02:55 AM
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I need to move back out into the country. :)
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Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 02:56 AM
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2. My raspberries this year were just great . . . |
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despite the fact that they were a special thornless variety when I bought and planted them. Then, our next door neighbors built a granite wall along the property line, and hacked down my beautiful thornless raspberries. When the bushes came back, they had thorns!
:hi:
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Sat Jul-23-05 02:59 AM
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3. we used to go up to a park |
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along the Rocky Mountains and pick huckleberries and chokecherries. Oh, heaven.
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Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:01 AM
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4. Blackberries have a special place in my heart. |
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When I was a kid, I used to go stay with my grandparents in northeastern Oklahoma for a while every summer. My granny would give me a gallon bucket, spray me with "OFF" and send me into the woods to gather berries for pie, cobbler and jelly. I'd come home all scratched up, sunburned and covered with chiggers (which apparently are immune to off) and help her in the kitchen. Good times.
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:02 AM
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Edited on Sat Jul-23-05 03:02 AM by XemaSab
I cannot fathom using "chiggers" and "good times" in any proximity to one another.
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Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:03 AM
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6. Chiggers sometimes are the price of pie. |
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Edited on Sat Jul-23-05 03:04 AM by Heidi
Fortunately, we don't have chiggers in southern Switzerland . . . just blackberries as big as the end of your thumb. YUM!
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Wetzelbill
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:06 AM
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7. oh that sounds so good |
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I may have to come visit in that case. :)
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Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:07 AM
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8. You'll never find me, though. |
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Because I'm hiding in the "hugs from Heidi" thread. :rofl:
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:12 AM
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9. oh I see somebody is a comedian |
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I take it my hiding place wasn't the best spot. :) I admit that now.
(man, I just got zinged, that was a good one) :)
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Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:13 AM
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Really. I didn't mean to zing you. :pals:
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:17 AM
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12. it's ok I walked right into it |
XemaSab
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:15 AM
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I will forgo the pie...
I have 2 scars from south carolina and 1 scar from texas, and one of the scars STILL ITCHES 4 years later.
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Heidi
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:17 AM
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13. Have you ever been bitten by sand fleas? |
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Edited on Sat Jul-23-05 03:17 AM by Heidi
That's the longest-lasting itch I've ever had. (Thank you, Florida, land of the damned.) Lasted about six months. :cry:
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Sat Jul-23-05 03:37 AM
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When are they active? And are there LOTS????
At one time I counted 180 chigger bites. That was itchy.
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