As always I loved reading your letter....You can't write to often to suit me ! Wish we lived closes together so we could be buds....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:23:26 -0400 "Carol Hall" <lola5341@setel.com> writes: > Paulett, > some folks really think you crazy when you tell them and old remedy... ____________________________________________________________ Great rates on vacations. Book now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nJgyoUnvrg8TorhLSFIeudRKUfzwaNm7KbSLlHwItlS0dI4/

Lee, thats alright ! Wish I had thought of that... Grandpa always used that ole crude oil and sulpher for mange on a dog.. Make you dog a bed of black walnut bark, leaves etc and fleas will leave... Love Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <lcbjr2@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Cc: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chiggers...and Snakes and coal oil > > Hi Carol > Hay I remember that coal Oil , That and Crude oil we used it on > our heads too, My Dad was a Driller & ToolDresser So we got it free, > Crude Stunk To beat all git out , We wold tell all the Kids in School We > used it on our Flap Jacks ,, ,, lee > ____________________________________________________________ > Sweepstakes!!! > Enter for your chance to WIN one of hundreds of daily prizes. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/JKFkuJNzuLiMAIuE12pgqlplvUwuR7HswSAdqV1UlmuzrDJi7eIugE/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 080612-0, 06/12/2008 Tested on: 6/12/2008 9:21:51 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

You go girl ! Have heard that taking soap out of the wrapper makes it shrink somewhat, and when you use it will last longer...I put bars between the towels, in drawers, spare suitcases, etc....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:52:01 -0500 busmar1852@webtv.net (Stella Roper) writes: > OK...whoever said their 'cubourd runneth over" well...my > apartment > 'runneth over" I am gonna have to divide with a couple o my > daughters. > ~~gr~~ ____________________________________________________________ Click to shop and compare great deals on trucks. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3l1wbgBvxe69epFORtja0obd13Teqzk206LZxs2mQoTeUU8E/

Oddly enough, our lives got 'better' after Daddy died and we kids started drawing welfare of some sort...We had a greater variety of food.....Thank God Mama didn't have to raise the 9 kids on her own...She had 8 kids and was 2 months pregnant when Daddy died with Leukemia at age 34......I miss him still....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:17 -0500 busmar1852@webtv.net (Stella Roper) writes: > Bobby...I do recall the years I grew up as the good ole days. I > can't > recall not having bumper crops of food. I know we worried in later > years > about Daddy dying so young.... ____________________________________________________________ Take a break - you deserve it. Click here to find a great vacation. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nJgyArxoW1jImVvCm2wCzQZiKSNkhqj7y0kuNKAOeXZD29G/

I cooked purple beans, Rattlesnake pole beans and Mountain half runner beans tonight and when they were done you couldn't tell which was which...but all tasted great...First of the season.....Squash needs picking bad but my blood pressure is acting up a bit and I didn't want to take a header into those prickly plants.....Will roll slices in cornmeal and fry it, probably.....A neighbor called this afternoon and gave me three more large heavy wire cages, so I may share the squash with them...Can no longer garden...We have cukes growing in the 3 cages he gave us earlier.....Too many, but then Buzz helped Papa plant them and I guess they were cucumber hungry...Just a few cukes so far, but very crisp and tasty....Jeannie T, feeling blessed to have a garden.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:21:41 -0700 "Peace Roses" <Roses4831@msn.com> writes: > I think that is so coool that Granny can work miracles for Buzz. I > bet he will always associate the beans turning green with you. > I was just about the same way when I bought some purple blotched > beans to cook and when I cooked them they turned a grayish all-over > color. I wanted them to stay the blotchy color. <grin> > Emma ____________________________________________________________ Find what you want and get it for less with an online auction. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3n7VgmzThkujY0lprYXXJ5Mgutvj4SybLF6fltQeK53qYCWg/

Paulett, some folks really think you crazy when you tell them and old remedy... Years ago a family got the 7 year itch and spent a lot of money on the medicine.... I was setting at there table reading the ingredience and I told this woman this is the same thing as mange medicine-she got so mad at me.. I said if you want to spend fifteen cents on coal oil you can get rid of the itch, lice, mange about any thing in one hour... First time I came home from school with the lice my step mom opened the lamp and got enough coal oil and soaked my head, wrapped a ragg around my head so the air was cut off from the lice, it also kills the nets to... After about an hour she gave me a bar of lye soap and said go to the creek and wash you hair several times to get rid of the smell of coal oil-I loved that because I love to lay in the creek and catch crawdads or Grampuse`s or what ever was available... Love Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smoochie Newton" <smoochieangelpie@gmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chiggers...and Snakes > Oh Carol...... now that preacher was just being evil, fer shure. One > day while standing in checkout at WallyWorld, the cashier (a man from the > Caribbean) was telling another customer to rub kerosene on her kids > to > keep the No-See-Ums and skeeters off. Caribbean man said that's how they > keep themselves from being eaten alive by skeeters and such down in the > islands. This woman looked at the man as if he has lost every bit of his > mind. I just snickered to myself cuz I had heard ggrandpa and grandpa > tell similar. Maybe it's a matter of location and do what ya have to > do > ...... > > paulette in sw fla usa > some of them skeeters in the islands are as big as blackbirds - or so it > seemed > it's a good day to be alive > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Carol Hall <lola5341@setel.com> wrote: > >> When I first moved beck from Michigan, I had a neighbor who told me about >> buggs... >> He said you see that mint growing by the creek-take it and twist till >> juice >> comes out and rub all over you before going to your garden.. >> I did just that and every bugg in the country just about eat me >> alive-they >> liked mint... >> And this man was a preacher to... >> I bet he was setting over at his house watching me slap every thing in >> sight...never did get evern with him... >> I agree with Bobby on the karosene and turpintine... >> Some one told me Avon Skin So Sofe was good to rubb on before going out >> side-but who wants to spend that much money on a jar.. >> If you get a chiggger just dab the spot with fingernail polish, it can`t >> get >> any air and dies.. >> Love Carol >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bobby Hatfield" <bobhat2@gmail.com> >> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:47 AM >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chiggers... >> >> >> > Hey Stella, I seem to remember something about a coal-oil soaked rag >> > tied >> > around our ankles and one around each wrist outside >> > the shirtsleeve cuff when we went blackberry pickin when I was a kid. >> > Anybody else from the south remember anything like that ? I >> > know coal-oil and turpinetine was used for lots of things that don't >> sound >> > reasonable now. Blackberry cobbler was worth a lot back then, a few >> > chiggers >> > didn't hold us back from some good eatin. Bobby >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Stella Roper <busmar1852@webtv.net> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Paulette...Now...I have a ?????? What is dormant oil? >> >> The best thing for them, after you get them...is to scrub with a bit >> >> of >> >> clorox in the water...and put a lot of baby oil before goin out in the >> >> woods or grass. Back when my kids were small and we were going >> >> fishing, >> >> at a creek, close by) I put baby oil just like a moisterizer before >> >> we >> >> went. They hated it but like in their little navels, and under >> >> arms...and when we got home...clothes off and into washer, and into >> >> tub >> >> of clorox water. Just don't splash eyes...if kids ever do that, they >> >> won't again! 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Good for you, Stella. We should all be as well prepared. We have a good sized pantry,, as well as cabinets and the large refrigerator/freezer. Another refrigerator/freezer in the garage as well as some shelves. My daughter does all the shopping, usually brings back something eatra each trip. We are a short distance frrom Wal-Mart and Albertson's, not too far fraom Sam's club and Costco. Belle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stella Roper" <busmar1852@webtv.net> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:52 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Stock-Piling Food > OK...whoever said their 'cubourd runneth over" well...my apartment > 'runneth over" I am gonna have to divide with a couple o my daughters. > ~~gr~~ I found the larges size of multi-grain cherrios on sale > today...two for 4.00. I got FOUR! hav no place to put them. Is that > foolish, or what? The doctor told me yesterday that my LDL cholesterol > is 137...should be 70. Total chelesterol was 240. This has been going on > for months. He flat said "you are gonna have a heart attack" I also got > two boxes of quick cook oatmeal,thought i'd eat it every morning and see > if it helps. I also found the good brand (Del-Monte) peaches on sale. > Because the fresh ones are in. The code was good on them...so I got six. > I also stocked up on my vitamins and supplements for a year, and the 81 > mg. asperin that I take every day. Then on leaving out...I saw in > toiletries..the large four bar pack of Olay bath soap, unscented, for > sensitive skin.I know it has been discontinued...for the liquid body > wash) so, I got 4 packs of it. But at 3.30 for four large bars. I like > soap. I also use some body wash, or body splash but I still like soap! > So I checked out at 65.32 and thought that was good for all I got. I > have 12 rolls of charmin TT...now my bathroom holds about four. So, here > comes you a laugh...I emptied two of my dresser drawers of > sweaters.Managed to get the sweaters in two plastic bags, to crowd my > closets even more. Do any of you have the first blonde finished, French > provincial bedroom suite that was made? Solid oak under that > finish...and the drawers are very big, and deep.now mine holds food!!! > I am in walking distance, (f I had to walk) to Walmart and a dollar > store plus other things. I don't think I will get anything else because > I have no place to put it. My kitchen has all the food stuffs I am > using. Stella > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

OK...whoever said their 'cubourd runneth over" well...my apartment 'runneth over" I am gonna have to divide with a couple o my daughters. ~~gr~~ I found the larges size of multi-grain cherrios on sale today...two for 4.00. I got FOUR! hav no place to put them. Is that foolish, or what? The doctor told me yesterday that my LDL cholesterol is 137...should be 70. Total chelesterol was 240. This has been going on for months. He flat said "you are gonna have a heart attack" I also got two boxes of quick cook oatmeal,thought i'd eat it every morning and see if it helps. I also found the good brand (Del-Monte) peaches on sale. Because the fresh ones are in. The code was good on them...so I got six. I also stocked up on my vitamins and supplements for a year, and the 81 mg. asperin that I take every day. Then on leaving out...I saw in toiletries..the large four bar pack of Olay bath soap, unscented, for sensitive skin.I know it has been discontinued...for the liquid body wash) so, I got 4 packs of it. But at 3.30 for four large bars. I like soap. I also use some body wash, or body splash but I still like soap! So I checked out at 65.32 and thought that was good for all I got. I have 12 rolls of charmin TT...now my bathroom holds about four. So, here comes you a laugh...I emptied two of my dresser drawers of sweaters.Managed to get the sweaters in two plastic bags, to crowd my closets even more. Do any of you have the first blonde finished, French provincial bedroom suite that was made? Solid oak under that finish...and the drawers are very big, and deep.now mine holds food!!! I am in walking distance, (f I had to walk) to Walmart and a dollar store plus other things. I don't think I will get anything else because I have no place to put it. My kitchen has all the food stuffs I am using. Stella

You sound like me before I moved into my apt. When I lived in my mobile home I would stock up on good sales. When I was living in central Oregon and was getting my house ready to sell, John's nephew re-did my bathroom cabinets for me. Whenever I would find toilet paper on sale I would buy one or two packages so I had several packages in my cupboard. When Kenny came to work on that cabinet he saw all my toilet paper and asked me about it. This was after my husband died so here was all this tp and just me living there. I told him I bought it so I wouldn't run out and have to pay full price for some. Here, I don't have room to store any extra so I just buy one large package at a time. When the year 2000 and Y2 was coming close and all the talk of possible food shortages being real, I bought up cans of soup, and meat. I stored everything in that 3rd bedroom. Then when nothing happened, I had a lot of food to be eaten up. Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: Stella Roper<mailto:busmar1852@webtv.net> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:52 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Stock-Piling Food OK...whoever said their 'cubourd runneth over" well...my apartment 'runneth over" I am gonna have to divide with a couple o my daughters. ~~gr~~ I found the larges size of multi-grain cherrios on sale today...two for 4.00. I got FOUR! hav no place to put them. Is that foolish, or what? The doctor told me yesterday that my LDL cholesterol is 137...should be 70. Total chelesterol was 240. This has been going on for months. He flat said "you are gonna have a heart attack" I also got two boxes of quick cook oatmeal,thought i'd eat it every morning and see if it helps. I also found the good brand (Del-Monte) peaches on sale. Because the fresh ones are in. The code was good on them...so I got six. I also stocked up on my vitamins and supplements for a year, and the 81 mg. asperin that I take every day. Then on leaving out...I saw in toiletries..the large four bar pack of Olay bath soap, unscented, for sensitive skin.I know it has been discontinued...for the liquid body wash) so, I got 4 packs of it. But at 3.30 for four large bars. I like soap. I also use some body wash, or body splash but I still like soap! So I checked out at 65.32 and thought that was good for all I got. I have 12 rolls of charmin TT...now my bathroom holds about four. So, here comes you a laugh...I emptied two of my dresser drawers of sweaters.Managed to get the sweaters in two plastic bags, to crowd my closets even more. Do any of you have the first blonde finished, French provincial bedroom suite that was made? Solid oak under that finish...and the drawers are very big, and deep.now mine holds food!!! I am in walking distance, (f I had to walk) to Walmart and a dollar store plus other things. I don't think I will get anything else because I have no place to put it. My kitchen has all the food stuffs I am using. Stella

Bobby...I do recall the years I grew up as the good ole days. I can't recall not having bumper crops of food. I know we worried in later years about Daddy dying so young....and Mama said he always put out cotton poison, and some kind of dust on the crops. I do remember all of us lined up to go down the same row (one after the othr)picking worms off the cabbage. We maybe didn't have a bad drought, up until most of our farming ended about 1942. We had a creek that ran all across the property...don't know if that helped.I just can't remember bad timesI. Tha is until Daddy died...then we had it rough. Stella

I was just reminded how we mowed the grass back when I was a kid, we used a goose-neck hoe that we chopped cotton with to scrape the yard of all grass and weeds. Threw what weeds and grass we scraped off into the chicken pen (calf lot, the chickens shared with the calf, we fattened up for this winters slaughter for canning beef in tallow in Mason jars). The eggs were really golden yellow when the chickens had lots of grass and corn to eat. Bobby

I doubt a mosquito ever was run off by rag smoke, mostly just choked humans. Can still recall the stench of the burning rags some 60 years ago. Drainage projects and DDT did the most to eliminate skeeters and flys along with hot dry summers that made bumble-bee cotton, (six-inch tall stalks with one bole at the top) because it was so dry. Hard times on a farmer, no grass for hay, corn was dried out about two foot high with a cob in the husk, no corn on the cob. Hard on the animals too, just pump them water to let them fill up on before giving them what little hay and grain you had. Them were the good ole days. Anybody else believe that ? Bobby On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Stella Roper <busmar1852@webtv.net> wrote: > Yes, Bobby, I remember that too...and the rags soaked in kerosene, and > put in the bottom of a rin can, or old bucket...and old scraps of worn > out over-alls put on top to smother out any flames...it just > smoked...away the mosquitoes. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Bobby, I still have the old kerosene lamp that we were using when I was about 5 years old... and probably before that... I just can't remember. I also have the Aladdin lamp that used to sit in the middle of our round dining room table so that we could study our school lessons. I don't know when we got that one but I do know that we were using it when my sister died and I was 9 at that time. We were always very careful with that one because of the mantle and the globe. The light that came from that lamp was just about as bright as one of our modern day light bulbs. I wouldn't part with that lamp for anything!! MaryClyde ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobby Hatfield" <bobhat2@gmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chiggers... > Yeah MaryClyde, I guess I was 10 before I knew it was Kerosene, I still > have family's two coal-oil lamps, not sure how old, don't remember one > ever > breaking so they must be 1936 models. Bobby > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mary R Mungo <MRMungo@comporium.net> > wrote: > >> Hey Bobby, >> Is coal oil what we now call kerosene??? >> MaryClyde >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bobby Hatfield" <bobhat2@gmail.com> >> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:47 AM >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chiggers... >> >> >> > Hey Stella, I seem to remember something about a coal-oil soaked rag >> > tied >> > around our ankles and one around each wrist outside >> > the shirtsleeve cuff when we went blackberry pickin when I was a kid. >> > Anybody else from the south remember anything like that ? I >> > know coal-oil and turpinetine was used for lots of things that don't >> sound >> > reasonable now. Blackberry cobbler was worth a lot back then, a few >> > chiggers >> > didn't hold us back from some good eatin. Bobby >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Stella Roper <busmar1852@webtv.net> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Paulette...Now...I have a ?????? What is dormant oil? >> >> The best thing for them, after you get them...is to scrub with a bit >> >> of >> >> clorox in the water...and put a lot of baby oil before goin out in the >> >> woods or grass. Back when my kids were small and we were going >> >> fishing, >> >> at a creek, close by) I put baby oil just like a moisterizer before >> >> we >> >> went. They hated it but like in their little navels, and under >> >> arms...and when we got home...clothes off and into washer, and into >> >> tub >> >> of clorox water. Just don't splash eyes...if kids ever do that, they >> >> won't again! Stella >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> >> the >> >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > --- >> > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. >> > Virus Database (VPS): 080531-1, 05/31/2008 >> > Tested on: 6/11/2008 6:14:56 PM >> > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. >> > http://www.avast.com >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 080531-1, 05/31/2008 > Tested on: 6/12/2008 10:28:05 AM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > >

I think that is so coool that Granny can work miracles for Buzz. I bet he will always associate the beans turning green with you. I was just about the same way when I bought some purple blotched beans to cook and when I cooked them they turned a grayish all-over color. I wanted them to stay the blotchy color. <grin> Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com<mailto:askgranny@juno.com> To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:11 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Buzz has magic beans ! .....Eleven days after the first beautiful purple flowers appeared the beans are ready to pick....He didn't believe me when I told him they were magic beans and that I could make them turn green by saying the magic words......I heated some water and poured it over a bean pod in a soup bowl ..gave him a fork to stir it around ..Soon the bean started turning green....! Holy shoot ! Granny is SO cool ! Jeannie T

The cheapest I've found corn out here (in Oregon) is 42 cents a can. I've started buying a few extra each time I go to Winco. That's a discount store. I can buy tomatoes at about 42 cents a can also. Safeway is always too high priced on their canned vegetables. Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com<mailto:askgranny@juno.com> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> ; askgranny@juno.com<mailto:askgranny@juno.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] HAPPY JUNE!Garden time.. I don't know about y'all, but my cupboard runneth over ! When I saw Green Giant canned corn for $1.15 or more a can and Kroger brand on sale 3 for a buck or whatever I instantly bought a few cans...then noticed other sales and really stocked up.....Lets face it...it aint gonna go down any ..ever, I figure....We have all sorts of veggies in the garden, but not enough to freeze or can....

Fellers,,,,,, if you did that now the EPA would have you locked up in a NewYorkMinute !!! paulette in sw fla usa Eat More Bugs On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Stella Roper <busmar1852@webtv.net> wrote: > Yes, Bobby, I remember that too...and the rags soaked in kerosene, and > put in the bottom of a rin can, or old bucket...and old scraps of worn > out over-alls put on top to smother out any flames...it just > smoked...away the mosquitoes. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Oh Carol...... now that preacher was just being evil, fer shure. One day while standing in checkout at WallyWorld, the cashier (a man from the Caribbean) was telling another customer to rub kerosene on her kids to keep the No-See-Ums and skeeters off. Caribbean man said that's how they keep themselves from being eaten alive by skeeters and such down in the islands. This woman looked at the man as if he has lost every bit of his mind. I just snickered to myself cuz I had heard ggrandpa and grandpa tell similar. Maybe it's a matter of location and do what ya have to do ...... paulette in sw fla usa some of them skeeters in the islands are as big as blackbirds - or so it seemed it's a good day to be alive On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Carol Hall <lola5341@setel.com> wrote: > When I first moved beck from Michigan, I had a neighbor who told me about > buggs... > He said you see that mint growing by the creek-take it and twist till juice > comes out and rub all over you before going to your garden.. > I did just that and every bugg in the country just about eat me alive-they > liked mint... > And this man was a preacher to... > I bet he was setting over at his house watching me slap every thing in > sight...never did get evern with him... > I agree with Bobby on the karosene and turpintine... > Some one told me Avon Skin So Sofe was good to rubb on before going out > side-but who wants to spend that much money on a jar.. > If you get a chiggger just dab the spot with fingernail polish, it can`t > get > any air and dies.. > Love Carol > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bobby Hatfield" <bobhat2@gmail.com> > To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:47 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chiggers... > > > > Hey Stella, I seem to remember something about a coal-oil soaked rag tied > > around our ankles and one around each wrist outside > > the shirtsleeve cuff when we went blackberry pickin when I was a kid. > > Anybody else from the south remember anything like that ? I > > know coal-oil and turpinetine was used for lots of things that don't > sound > > reasonable now. Blackberry cobbler was worth a lot back then, a few > > chiggers > > didn't hold us back from some good eatin. Bobby > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Stella Roper <busmar1852@webtv.net> > > wrote: > > > >> Paulette...Now...I have a ?????? What is dormant oil? > >> The best thing for them, after you get them...is to scrub with a bit of > >> clorox in the water...and put a lot of baby oil before goin out in the > >> woods or grass. Back when my kids were small and we were going fishing, > >> at a creek, close by) I put baby oil just like a moisterizer before we > >> went. They hated it but like in their little navels, and under > >> arms...and when we got home...clothes off and into washer, and into tub > >> of clorox water. Just don't splash eyes...if kids ever do that, they > >> won't again! Stella > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > >> the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 080611-0, 06/11/2008 > Tested on: 6/11/2008 6:43:41 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Yes, Bobby, I remember that too...and the rags soaked in kerosene, and put in the bottom of a rin can, or old bucket...and old scraps of worn out over-alls put on top to smother out any flames...it just smoked...away the mosquitoes.

Yes, that little dynamo is visiting us again, and once again we are moving faster at times than old folks oughta have to move.....When he was here in early Spring we planted him a wide row of veggies that he's partial to...carrots, sugar peas, and purple podded snap beans...and red potatoes......Eleven days after the first beautiful purple flowers appeared the beans are ready to pick....He didn't believe me when I told him they were magic beans and that I could make them turn green by saying the magic words......I heated some water and poured it over a bean pod in a soup bowl ..gave him a fork to stir it around ..Soon the bean started turning green....! Holy shoot ! Granny is SO cool ! Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Summer Spa Sweepstakes Enter for your chance to WIN a Summer Spa Vacation! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7UbexOqhRo6EB4BAFAAAxUfQr7gwFyx1lBfUO4rySRWKCTY/

I don't know about y'all, but my cupboard runneth over ! When I saw Green Giant canned corn for $1.15 or more a can and Kroger brand on sale 3 for a buck or whatever I instantly bought a few cans...then noticed other sales and really stocked up.....Lets face it...it aint gonna go down any ..ever, I figure....We have all sorts of veggies in the garden, but not enough to freeze or can.... Our green beans were ready to pick exactly 11 days after blooming, as my dear late friend Eva Grace told me....Theres beets ready to cook and the yellow crook neck squash need picking...They aren't being pollinated right, so I pick them soon after blooming...Cukes were all falling off because all flowers were female,but now they're doing better and hubby picked several today....{ My suggestion that hubby get a little paintbrush and hand pollinate the squash met with a disbelieving glare....he reminded me he didn't even like squash in the first place.....} Multiplying onions are looking pale and leaves beginning to fall over, so they'll be harvested soon and something else planted there......Sugar snaps and snow peas have been very hard hit by the 90+ weather we've been having, but the Asparagus pole beans planted behind the fence are twining up the pea vines and onto the fence....Couple of the cornstalks are beginning to tassel....eggplants finally beginning to grow...purple kohlrabi beginning to bulb up just a little , and the red okra is growing healthy looking.....Red raspberries are ripening on the arbor we made from apple tree trimmings , and asparagus is still being picked a few spears at a time... Peanuts didn't sprout for ever so long and suddenly theres good sized plants there ! We planted some pinto beans behind the Rattlesnake pole bean fence and they are reaching for the sky ! Told hubby I thought Id snip all the lower leaves off the rattlesnake beans so the pintos could get some sun...Some of the leaves are yellowing anyway....I figure pinto's are bush beans, but either will be fine...just wanted to grow a few...Potatoes are thigh high, and blooming ......Before Buzz leaves Sunday I'll scrabble under the first planted potatoes and cook some with green beans....We don't have a BIG garden, just a little bit of a lot of different things..... Bedtime up here on the ridge..We all had naps this afternoon so I bet bedtime is gonna be a hassle....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ Gotta get off here On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:56:40 -0500 busmar1852@webtv.net (Stella Roper) writes: > Good Morning everybody, and happy June to you. How many of you are eating fresh veggies today, like me.? . Stella > > ____________________________________________________________ Rapid results for many ailments. Click here for hypnosis solutions. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mNOhCLYN5LZk8EVDc7hsCeugfYH3qrrjgEcQgRgqzgKMqle/