permaculture

["Ava Devenport" <essenheal@iname.com>]

Dear Lamb-Vines:

I'm sorry, I did not mean to make light of the wonderful diversity of 
prickly pear cactus, I actually love the plant and all of it's many 
wonderful virtues.  We had just been discussing previously uses, 
cultivation and 'safe handling', which can be quite tricky and very 
painful.

The observation of scorching them to create a safety net between the human 
body and the small red spines, just hadn't been discussed.  You'd have to 
go back to the previous posts regarding what happened to my mother.  By the 
time we finally got all the little spines out of her (months), I think she 
may have wanted to scorch ME and my car.

As I can be quite visual sometimes, the whole scenario flashed through my 
minds eye and believe me, it was humerous at this end.  And finally, 15 
years later, Mom can laugh about it too, as long as we don't get into too 
much detail regarding some of the embarrassing situations the little devils 
created for her.  Our family physician had to bite his tongue so many times 
to keep the laughter from rolling out.  You just would've had to been 
there!

Blessings,
Ava