Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> than mine, but one considers that poison ivy has
 ML> >  ML> dofferent morphologies, some of which are less than
 ML> >  ML> classic.
 ML> > But does it resemble a maple leaf? They're pretty distinctive.

 ML> No, that's the problem: beware!

To me, maple leaves are quite distinctive. OTOH, poison ivy, especially
if it takes various forms, may be less so but I've not seen any that
look like maple leaves.



 ML>  Western poison ivy is more bush or shrub-like. It
 ML>  also displays clusters of three shiny leaves that
 ML>  may turn colors in the fall.


Maple leaves aren't shiny and generally don't grow in clusters of 3.


 ML>  Both varieties small have flowers in green or
 ML>  yellow during the spring and summer. The flowers
 ML>  grow on stalks in clusters of five. They become
 ML>  grayish, amber, yellow or green berries in the
 ML>  fall. Over 50 types of birds eat these berries.

 ML>  Leaf shapes may vary from one type of plant to
 ML>  another. Some look rather like a maple leaf,
 ML>  while others are tear-drop or oval shaped.
 ML>  -- plantcaretoday.com

OK, the latter is the type of poison ivy I'm more familiar with.

 ML> > somewhere, I'm back to eating a small breakfast. Helps to
 keep the blood sugar from crashing after a night of not
 eating.

ML> >  ML> Never having been pregnant or yet raising children,
 ML> >  ML> I've not had the necessity.

 ML> > No, but it's good for the blood sugar stability. Today's
 breakfast was a small cup of blueberry Greek yogurt, a whole wheat
 English muffin with a bit of butter blend and strawberry-rhubarb jam &
 a mug of British Blend tea. That's about my normal breakfast most days,
 or close to it.

 ML> I'd have a difficult time living with that kind
 ML> of routine.

Because of your life style. Ours is different, lending itself to more of
the traditional eating patterns.

 ML> >  ML> > generational thing--if I said "fizzies", the younger
 ML> generation >  ML> would > not know what I was referring to. You would
 ML> porbably recognise >  ML> the
 ML> >  ML> > tablet that was dropped into a glass of water, coloring it a
 ML> garish >  ML> > color and making it fizz with some sort of artificial
 ML> flavoring. >  ML> Part of it is no doubt generational, especially
 ML> >  ML> with regard to our relation to sounds/music. But a
 ML> >  ML> lot of it too is that our memories, both individual
 ML> >  ML> and collective, now gets hauled around in people's
 ML> >  ML> back pockets.
 ML> > Not all of mine; I've yet to sign into the electronic "social media"
 ML> > platforms other than e-mail. Fido is as close as I get to it.

 ML> I avoid that kind of behavior, and FIDO is in fact as close
 ML> as I generally get as well.

Not even the "anti social" one known as fb?

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> Ugh. Though they probably mostly don't know
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> what they're missing.
 ML> >  ML> > Probably a good number of them don't really care either.
 ML> >  ML> I don't care about the ones who don't care; it's the
 ML> >  ML> ones who feel a loss that I'd be concerned about.
 ML> > You can sympathise with those but if they can't have certain things
 ML> for > their own good, then sympathy is the best you can offer.

 ML> Well, yeah, exactly.

 ML> >  ML> Kirkland products tend to be pretty high quality.
 ML> >  ML> Some consumer agency did an audit of olive oils,
 ML> >  ML> and all the big brands turned out to be adulterated,
 ML> >  ML> and the only widely available oil that was actually
 ML> >  ML> pure was the Costco brand.
 ML> > Interesting as that is one of the brands we'll buy.

 ML> Many of friends keep getting Flip Flop Berio despite
 ML> my warnings.

I used to buy that, when it was the only choice. Beat having no olive
oil, but not by much.

 ML> >  ML> > It's good in small amounts but have to be careful even then
 ML> not to >  ML> send > the blood sugar to stratospheric heights.
 ML> >  ML> Just a bit of fiber would fix that. So somebody
 ML> >  ML> bought Trop50 for the cottage, and it was just
 ML> >  ML> nasty - no fiber, so they made up for that by
 ML> >  ML> adulterating it and adding stevia for sweetness
 ML> >  ML> and various artificial things including all the
 ML> >  ML> vitamins you'd want and then some.
 ML> > Going from bad to worse!

 ML> Speaking of routines, did you hear about the
 ML> poet who found his daily routine difficult,
 ML> because he kept going from bed to verse?

I thought that was the organist who slept late one week and didn't have
time to do anything but make a mad dash to the church.


 ML> >  ML> > We've not noticed it with this jar.
 ML> >  ML> Commercial refrigerated will have little stench
 ML> >  ML> - noticeable but not notable.
 ML> > This is home made, refridgerated.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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