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[LaughingFeather]

Ok, time to exercise your minds; What was the very first song you learned to sing as a child?
Mine was "Pistol Packin' Momma". I was 4 years old and sang it so much my parents friends threatened to gag me.

(1944)

The first one I can remember is "Mary had a little lamb".
"Farajaka" is another one I remember young and Shake, Rattle And Roll . I wasn't a cute as you I guess.

(1950)

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

gawd almighty does this rain ever stop for 3 or 4 days during this time of the year?
I normally (oxymoron there) don't get exercised by the weather but goodcoogamooga folks, it's getting rediculous. Some old guy knocked on my door, said his name was Noah and wanted to know if he could use my back yard to build a boat?

Ok, time to exercise your minds; What was the very first song you learned to sing as a child?
Mine was "Pistol Packin' Momma". I was 4 years old and sang it so much my parents friends threatened to gag me.

(1944)

I had to look that one up. Who taught you that song?
I can't remember mine.

 

[Hinotori]

Quote:
Silkie eggs are light brown. For a while there, that's all I had to eat on eggs since I was giving all the large eggs to customers. The ratio of yolk to white seems to be higher in the little silkie eggs. They taste the same, though.

It tastes like chicken. Chicken noodle soup just has a different color when made from them. We're eating broccoli chicken alfredo from a half silkie tonight. This meat isn't as dark as silkie, halfway there.

 

[Hinotori]

gawd almighty does this rain ever stop for 3 or 4 days during this time of the year?
I normally (oxymoron there) don't get exercised by the weather but goodcoogamooga folks, it's getting rediculous. Some old guy knocked on my door, said his name was Noah and wanted to know if he could use my back yard to build a boat?

Ok, time to exercise your minds; What was the very first song you learned to sing as a child?
Mine was "Pistol Packin' Momma". I was 4 years old and sang it so much my parents friends threatened to gag me.

(1944)

Forever Autumn, the Justin Hayward version from 1978. I was 3 at the time. My aunt had the record and taught it to me.

 

[RaZ]

"You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Heard" Roger Miller - 1964

 

[Farmin Momma]

Hi every body!
Just thought I would share this with ya'll while I am trying to catch up with every ones chit chat here!


ONIONS! I had never heard this!!!
PLEASE READ TO THE END: IMPORTANT

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu...
Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser. She said that several years ago, many of her employees were coming down with the flu, and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions:

Thanks for the reminder. I don't know about the farmer's story...but, I do know that I contacted pneumonia, and, needless to say, I was very ill... I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put it into an empty jar, and place the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs...sure enough it happened just like that...the onion was a mess and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

This is the other note. Lots of times when we have stomach problems we don't know what to blame. Maybe it's the onions that are to blame. Onions absorb bacteria is the reason they are so good at preventing us from getting colds and flu and is the very reason we shouldn't eat an onion that has been sitting for a time after it has been cut open.

LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, Makers of mayonnaise. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist.

Ed, who was our tour guide, is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed's answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe.

"It doesn't even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it's not really necessary." He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the summer picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table, and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that, when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the 'victim' last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it's not the mayonnaise (as long as it's not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It's probably the ONIONS, and if not the onions, it's the POTATOES.

He explained onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion.. He says it's not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It's already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!). Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you'll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your sandwich, you're asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut an onion and try to use it to cook the next day, it becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

Please pass this on to all you love and care about.
— with Adonain Danny Rivera.

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[Slinglings]

Interesting. I save cut onions all the time. Hm.

 

[Hinotori]

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/cutonions.asp

 

[CarolynF]

Only got 4 eggs out of 5 hens today. My old RIR didn't lay. Still better than your guys average. Is it because my hens are under a year? or is it because I am giving round the clock light.

I think it must be their youth. If I recall correctly from your other posts, the light you have is a red heat lamp, right? If that's true, you aren't giving them supplemental light because it's red. The light that's used to supplement daylight has to be in the visible spectrum, like what we use indoors for reading. I use either a std. 40 watt, or clf equivalent, in my coop to extend their "day"light hours to about 15 hours per day. Obviously you don't need it this winter!

 

[CarolynF]

Ok, I just gotta vent to some of my fellow washingtonians. Is it just me or did the sun NEVER come up today???? I swear it was dusk all day! I couldn't figure out why my chickens wanted to go out so badly when all I wanted to do was hibernate. Its tough to homeschool your kids from a coma! I am desperately praying for an early summer. I am so jealous of people in warmer areas or with bigger barns who are hatching already. I want me some peeps! And I need the sunshine for that so come on spring. Let's get on with it!!!!

(yes I do realize that I live in the Seattle area and spring won't actually be here for another 5 months but seriously, today was ugly!)

Thank you for letting me vent. I feel better now.

That's what we're here for!

Hang in there!