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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Hi Rebecca; I know nothing about crabapples; but I'm sure one of the goup 
will eventually notice and anwer your question.  How did the man save your 
401K?  ...............bobford


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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] and now for something completely different: 
> CRABAPPLES!!!
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:09 AM
> hi all, 
> haven't posted anything here since last spring when I
> was trying to put in a raised garden bed using strawbales. 
> Spouse was being excessively obstructive so I gave up for
> this year.  I'm still plotting on getting that raised
> bed in before next spring though, and I'm subversively
> getting my neighbors on board for getting their own gardens
> in for next year (I do believe we will all be needing them,
> as the current economic crisis steamrolls along**).
>  
> Thought I'd introduce something other than politics, so
> here goes.
>  
> I made like a bee last spring and handpollinated a lot of
> our fruit trees, since our local bees were few in number and
> pretty sluggish (I'm hoping my newly-installed mason
> bees will take over next year).  Since no good deed goes
> unpunished, I was rewarded with a bumper crop of all sorts
> of fruit, which I either canned or took to the local food
> bank.  One of the trees turned out to be a crabapple which
> is now rewarding me with a few boxes of fruit.  I'm
> trying out making crabapple liquer with some of them and I
> pickled a bunch, but I still have dozens of pounds of fruit
> left.
>  
> WHAT DO YOU DO WITH CRABAPPLES???
>  
> I need ideas!  Points for silliness, in addition to
> usefulness.
>  
> off to start another batch of crabapple likker...
>  
> -Rebecca in the great NorthWet (we're expecting a
> deluge tonight on top of all the rain we've had this
> week)
> **speaking of the economic crisis, I highly recommend a
> daily visit to George Ure's website, UrbanSurvival. 
> I've been following him for two years now and his advice
> is spot-on.  He's in cahoots with some guys in Olympia,
> WA, who devised a "predictive linguistics"
> software program.  It sounds like voodoo, but they get
> pretty good information out of it, and it helps to have a
> headsup.  It saved our 401K...
>  
>  
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