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[Amberjem]

That's the biggest post I have ever made! Good lord I'm tired now!!

you did great

hi goosegirl

 

[Peep_Show]

@ChickenCanoe
Long story shortened on the apple thief: I was working on the coop and espied out in the orchard a man stripping my (not streetside) apple tree into a 45-gallon sack. Turns out he was the handyman from up the hill. In court he was a no-show. Neighborhood not too happy about it all as this guy drives past our homes LOTS. Who knows what else he has coveted?

For those of us that spend the time planning and nurturing our growing things, crop theft is akin to cattle rustling and not to be taken lightly. Corrales prides itself on its agricultural heritage, past and present.

Anyway, the last of the crop came off the tree today. Haven't decided if they're cider or apple butter yet...possibly neither as DH is supplying his coworkers with them. (Many requests for them, it seems. They're Cortland apples, a sweet dessert relative of the McIntosh, whose claim to fame is they don't brown after cutting... Silly that I have to put dibs on my own fruit!)



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Wasn't absinthe illegal for awhile? Probably a stronger formulation, but I seem to recall the term "rots the brain" being bandied about as a reason for its prohibition. Edgar Allen Poe was an imbiber of it, I believe.

 

[Alaskan]

Many years back, I wanted to cook a traditional goose for the German festival of St. Martin's day.

Well, the traditional recipe asks for a bunch of wormwood stuck into the cavity of the goose. Used in this way, it imparts some flavor, but does NOT act as hallucinagin.


Anyway..... Spouse was doing the shopping, gave my spouse the list of what I needed, wormwood was on it. Spouse went to the local healthfood store that stocked all kinds of herbs and asked for wormwood. The clerk ran off and got the owner, the owner explained "uh, thats an illegal substance" probably with a wink wink, since this is Homer, Alaska......

Anyway, spouse was peeved, and I did NOT get to cook with wormwood, so I have NEVER had a proper, traditional German St. Martin's day goose!!!

 

[hennible]

That's the biggest post I have ever made! Good lord I'm tired now!!

That wasn't to long... It was a nice length.

Many years back, I wanted to cook a traditional goose for the German festival of St. Martin's day.

Well, the traditional recipe asks for a bunch of wormwood stuck into the cavity of the goose. Used in this way, it imparts some flavor, but does NOT act as hallucinagin.


Anyway..... Spouse was doing the shopping, gave my spouse the list of what I needed, wormwood was on it. Spouse went to the local healthfood store that stocked all kinds of herbs and asked for wormwood. The clerk ran off and got the owner, the owner explained "uh, thats an illegal substance" probably with a wink wink, since this is Homer, Alaska......

Anyway, spouse was peeved, and I did NOT get to cook with wormwood, so I have NEVER had a proper, traditional German St. Martin's day goose!!!

Abstinence is a illegal here but not in Europe ( I think )but for some reason you can buy wormwood in the health store...
Maybe I could mail it to you.

 

[ozexpat]

@alaskan

You may have to go to Germany

 

[perchie.girl]

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At the feed store we in the US can get a wide variety of drugs.... Vaccines for dogs and cats and horses. Even for tetanus I believe. And most horse vets will sell you prescription stuff for your animals.... Wound medicine, Banmine for horses.... , Butazolatin... bute...

I almost went into my spiel about unnecessary antibiotic use, but I think I've done it too many times already. I'll just say "Yay for the Canadian way".

Here you can get antibiotics for cattle and horses... at the feed store. As well as other livestock.


But If you go to an Aquarium store... you can get Tetracycline and penicilin... for your aquairum.... when I worked at a large Aquarium store street people would come in to get meds for infections or colds. saying it was for their aquarium fish.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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I was using it as a ten percent feed additive ... nine scoops of feed and one scoop of catfish... it was getting hard to do so I just switched to putting it free choice in a smaller tub.... I wasnt aiming for a percentage of protien i was aiming for enrichment and to add in the occasional Hi pro bite like they would get out foraging.

no particular brand just what ever the feed store had. It was pretty cheap too... Around 10+- for a fifty pound bag. I was only interested in a pellet size that was the same as the Pelleted feed I was already feeding.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Abstinence is a illegal here but not in Europe ( I think )but for some reason you can buy wormwood in the health store...
Maybe I could mail it to you.

 

[perchie.girl]

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I just found Absinthe at BevMO...

deb

 

[ozexpat]

If abstinence was illegal, I could be in jail with bamadude

Hang on, it was my birthday this week....

I bet that was a phone correcting Absynth