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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

When I saw bev's original post I thought of
Bracnychiton populneus ( commen name: bottle tree )
When Phoenix prepared to build a park in an area where
"winos" congregate the joke was that bottle trees
would be an appropriate species for that application.
Van Dell

--- rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:

> BottleTree?   Please explain, as I have absolutely
> no idea what you are talking about.
>  
> Ray 
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>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erthnsky AT bellsouth.net
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:32 PM
> Subject: [Homestead] Projects
> 
> 
> Today, I am boiling rabbits....have boiled 7 so far,
> and have 4 to go.
> I like to boil rabbit as I don't eat much fried
> food, and I can boil and
> debone, repackage, and have ready cooked packages of
> meat to add to
> whatever I am cooking during the week.  I also
> freeze the broth for
> later use.  As usual on rabbit boiling day, I will
> be having rabbit and
> dumplings for dinner.  I'm babysitting tonight, so
> we will see how well
> the rabbit goes over with the kids who happen to be
> teenagers and into
> hunting.  Their mentality is limited to venison as
> food, so we will see
> if I can expand their horizons a bit.  I hate the
> smell of boiling
> rabbit and chicken, so I have all the windows and
> doors open to air out
> the place.  I am in between batches of pears at
> present, hoping that I
> will be able to get the last batch into the
> dehydrator before I start
> deboning the rabbits.  The house smells like a weird
> cross between
> rabbits, onion, pears, and cinnamon.  Yup, now you
> see why the doors are
> open!
> Outside, I finished re-erecting my bottle tree in
> the garden.  I had it
> in another area, but a storm sent it crashing down
> and broke half of my
> bottles.   I got a new post, drilled the holes
> yesterday, and erected
> the tree today.  There's something about a bunch of
> glass bottles in the
> winter that looks really cool when everything else
> is dead and brown.
> The next project I want to start is to take those
> old tires I have
> accumulated and make a curved border edging from the
> treads to define a
> new herb/perennial bed inside the garden fence.  It
> shouldn't be that
> hard to do, but our sawzall is busted and you have
> to hold it a certain
> way to make it work, so it will be tough on the old
> arms to cut those
> tires up.
> I still haven't finished the chicken coop or the
> chicken moat either.
> I'm constantly distracted by other things that are
> having to take
> priority.  I haven't been able to mow in a week or
> so either, so the
> grass is getting tall.  I am procrastinating in
> hopes that I'll only
> have to do it one more time.  I'll use the bagger
> and bag up the leaves
> and grass for the compost.  It'll be a 3 day+ chore,
> and it is supposed
> to rain either today or tomorrow. I just can't seem
> to get motivated to
> do it.  I want to do garden planning, not mowing.
> While I was out in the garden this morning, I was
> showered by a leaf
> rain.  The wind was blowing at a good clip, and it
> was simply beautiful.
>   I just stood there and took it in for a moment. 
> Where has 2006 gone?
> Ron and I have been working on trimming out the
> canoe.  We have a
> timeshare over in Helen, GA and our week is coming
> up on the 3rd.  We
> hope to have the canoe ready to launch by then so we
> can practice all
> the new strokes and techniques we have learned.  The
> lake water will be
> cold, but as I see it, that's just motivation not to
> screw up!
> The canoe is looking good, we have finished the
> seats and are cutting
> and installing the outerwales and scupperplates
> tonight.  After that, we
> install the center thwart and the fore and aft decks
> and slam some
> varnish on it.  We named it "EarthNSky", and even
> put the name on our
> paddles.  It definitely should grab some attention
> at the lake.  I have
> pictures of the canoe and the process of building
> it, if anyone is
> interested.  Ron has also posted pics in the photo
> album of a yahoo
> group called "woodstripcanoes", I think.  Since we
> will be on flatwater
> this time, hopefully there will be no more mishaps. 
> I *still* have a
> hematoma on my arm from the May trip when I got that
> hairline fracture.
> 
> Well, that's all for now..it's time to pull rabbit
> meat off the bone.
> 
> Bev
> -- 
> BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 34.498N 85.076W    Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky         
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> 
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