The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

My grandmother quilted by hand. No machine stitching on any of her quilts. Growing up, I watched her make many quilts. Yes, I know the time, and effort that goes into it. When I was young, my mother made a lot of my clothes. It's not that I wasn't taught how. I simply hate doing it. I do appreciate those that are talented that way, and their creations.

Most of mine are hand quilted. I enjoy doing it while watching tv.

 

[Beer can]

Before Dh built my coop, I asked him to paint the wood. That fell on deaf ears. Now that it's built, and time is taking it's toll on the appearance of the wood, I suggested mineral oil, like on a cutting board. I think he's leaning a bit more towards painting it. Has anyone had experience with the mineral oil?

Guy I work with used old motor oil on his barn, swears by it,
Add to that, my father painted/soaked his coop in creosote 30yrs ago and it still looks good.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Guy I work with used old motor oil on his barn, swears by it,
Add to that, my father painted/soaked his coop in creosote 30yrs ago and it still looks good.

Ugh, creosote is nasty and toxic. Some people still put motor oil on pets to kill fleas. Yuck.

 

[chickadoodles]

Hot here too...
Oldest DD and her BF went to a huge apple orchard his family is friends with and brought us back three bushels of apples for free. Said it's so unseasonably warm it's causing the apples to fall off the trees as you pick them, pick one eight fall. Nice apples anyway though.

That's awesome! Enjoy!

 

[chickadoodles]

The doctors office does not have their flu shots yet!

I got mine and still got the flu.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I got mine and still got the flu.

I read about what they contain and how ineffective they are. I am passing on flu shots this year.

 

[ronott1]

The house that I consider my childhood home was full of fruit trees. Pears, peaches, apple, cherry. My mother had a huge strawberry and asparagus bed. One of the pear trees was a winter keiffer and the second was a bartlet. They both never had an 'off' season. My parents sold it in 83 and recently I went on line on google earth to look it up to see what had happened to it. It was gone. Evidently the cemetery next door had bought it and bull dozed it all. All the trees were gone, the fruit trees, the Katalbas, everything my parents at times with my help had planted and nurtured for years just gone. It was like 25 years of my life never happened. It made me think of the song 'Dust in the Wind' and the line that says, 'nothing lasts forever except the moon and the stars'.

All too true.

You really can't go home again!

“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

 

[ronott1]

My sister also quilts - so she does know the work that goes into it.

We just have different styles.

She's into modern and improv quilting. Her kids have plenty of handmade things.

It'll find a home.


Go get a flu shot, y'all.

I got mine of Friday! Last years shot was fairly effective. We need to watch out for mis information about inoculations. Did you read about what happened to immigrants from Somalia last year? Anti vaccers convinced them not to get inoculations and a bunch of children came down with Measles. One in 1000 die from measles and it causes permanent damage in some because of low natural immunity to stuff like measles with them.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/health/minnesota-measles-outbreak-bn/index.html

 

[CapricornFarm]

I just don't want mercury, and studies were done showing low effectiveness of the vaccine in prevention. Besides i am not exposed to many people and no kids in school. I have enough exposure to toxic chemicals.

 

[microchick]

Thanks @ronott1 I really liked that quote.

The Amish are the same way about vaccinations. They do not do them. It is not uncommon to have a whooping cough outbreak in the area. Of course that means that everyone, Amish and non Amish are exposed to it with little effort. Same with measles and strep.

I saw one of their anti vaccinating posters once in an Amish store. It basically said, when you get a vaccine they are pumping pus into your body.....it went down hill from there.

I guess ignorance IS bliss after all.

I've heard of vaccines being given in multiple small doses. Surprised they are not doing that with the Somalis.