-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Ruth Haffly on 06-25-19  01:52 <=-

 ML>> By the time you've pulled your phone out and taken
 ML>> a picture, it's likely too late. Better to know
 ML>> beforehand what poison ivy looks like - back in my
 ML>> youth, most 5-year-olds knew it already.
 RH>> Leaves of three, let it be. I've never gotten into it--don't think
 RH>> there was any around the property where I grew up. We also had the run
 RH>> of neighbor's land and the NYS owned mountain across the street but
 RH>> still never encountered the stuff.
 DS> 
 DS> We do have some around us, mostly in those woods behind the house.
 DS> There was one vine that had grown up a tree with the main "trunk"
 DS> about the size of my fore arm.  When we had some tree work done, they
 DS> cut it at two places so that it would die out.

I suspect Ruth was just lucky not to be particularly sensitive to it.   
When I was growing up, we had some in our backyard, in two separate
homes... when we were in Crawfordsville IN, there were some bushes
growing up around a big old stump in the back yard... As a kindergardner
I remember jumping off that stump into the bushes... all lots of fun,
until I got the rash.... there was poison ivy all through those
bushes... So I learned what to look out for ever after... That rash kept
me out of school for a week at least... A couple of moves later, we had
poison ivy growing on our back fence near the opening we went through to
cross the field behind our house to get to the schoolbus stop at the
church parking lot on the other side of the field... 

 DS> We have a fair amount of five leaf vines also, plus some English ivy
 DS> that keeps spreading out and trying to climb a tree.  I pull it down
 DS> from time to time.

My sister Lydia discovered that one can have an allergic reaction to the
English ivy, too... she had a lot in her backyard when they had a house
in town, and she pulled a lot of it.... and got quite the rash from
it... 

ttyl        neb

... Are cranberries healthy?  I've never heard one complain.

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