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I grew up in the South/south-central MS during the 30s, but the sewing of boys into their long undergarments is a story I've never heard before. I'll have to check that out with some cousins who are older than me, some in their 90s already, but whose minds are "sharp as tacks." Emily

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Emily Bengston
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Dress shields are still available at some fabric stores for people who do not want perspiration stains to possibly stain their clothing, whether suits or evening gowns. Emily

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Emily Bengston

Oh, the story of sewing youngsters into nether garments was common in Britain in early days. They were also rubbed with goose fat first and some wore an onion on a string round their neck too.

I didn't, but I had to wear red flannel. No idea why it had to be red, or flannel, but that was the lore.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Ahhhh, memories. She used those 2 sayings too.

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FarmI

That is rip snorter of a description Mary. It's the sort of thing my sister would say at just the right moment to crack me up.

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FarmI

I have a friend who is a school teacher who did her practical training in some really foul School in the UK before migrating here. There on playground duty she overheard one of the schoolgirls describe another of the schoolgirls thus: "She's roolly, roolly dumb, D-U-M, dumb!"

That expression has now made it's way across the world to our small rural village in Australia. I'd hate to hear what people would think if they overheard some of our converstions, but now we say that X (person or situation) is "Dumb, D_U_M, dumb".

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FarmI

That's funny.

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Pogonip

Yebbut she didn't mean 'tart' either :-)

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Ah but what kind of pigeon?

Mary

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Mary Fisher

In my defence I was young and I had them bought for me. And they were purple....

Lizzy

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Lizzy Taylor

:-)

You know what the worst thing about yiour description is?

The word 'polyester'!

Mary

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Mary Fisher

I make my suet in a 12 quart soup kettle. I melt 2# of lard on low heat and add a small jar of crunchy peanut butter and 1 cup raisins while it's still melting so that they blend well. That is really important because birds can choke on straight peanut butter. Then I also add the following in *approximate* amounts:

1 small box of old fashioned oats 2-3 cups corn meal 2-3 quarts of cardinal or other millet-free seed mix 1 hand full of unsweetened coconut 1/2-1 cup grits (optional) 1 cup raw peanuts (from the feed store) 1 cup hulled sunflower seed (for the smaller birds) 1/4 cup each of other bird goodies (ie pumpkin seeds) if I have them

Mixing all that will give you good muscles. The consistency should be like a really stiff oatmeal cookie dough. After breaking two wood spoons, I now use a big heavy metal spoon. Then I pack it into plastic or waxed cardboard trays and refrigerate it. An ice chest in the cold garage works well too. The trays I like best are from those thai kitchen rice noodle entrees but I also use the ones from frozen entrees. It all depends what will fit into your suet feeder. The larger sized ones will hold lots of different trays.

My recipe makes 10-15 trays so it can be cut in half if need be. I usually have to make suet once each 1.5 to 2 weeks in the winter. I also add other things depending on what I might have. I've ground up bits of fruit like leftover pineapple or fruit past its prime. I've added stale tree nuts, too-old flour and little *cooked* brown rice. I imagine chopped up stale bread could be added as well. I can tell you that they do not like cranberries. Let me know if I left anything out.

Birds that regularly attend the suet in the winter include: titmice, chickadees, cardinals, nuthatches, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, downies, pileateds, hairies, bluebirds, flickers, red-wing blackbirds, and starlings which I generally chase when I see them. The bluebirds are the only bird that feed on the suet in bunches. Three or four will huddle together at a time. Amazing.

Phae

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

Ooops, sorry--- rock doves--- columba livea. I almost said mourning doves but the flickers are much fatter than mourning doves.

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Phaedrine Stonebridge

I wouldn't have known what you meant by mourning doves :-) Our biggest pigeons are wood pigeons - Columba palumbus - magnificent birds but they've learned that there's easy pickings in our garden in the form of our hens' grain :-(

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Mary Fisher

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I intended saying that but decided to let someone else have the pleasure :-)

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Mourning dove:

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one of the stupidest birds left on earth.

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Pogonip

Why?

It looks rather pretty and I like its call.

It can't be all that stupid if it's so abundant despite beiing game :-)

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Pogonip

Maybe because it's so determined to turn out as many clutches of eggs a year as possible, in any place at all. A friend's mother had a pair who built a nest in the wreath on her front door. She knocked it out. They rebuilt it. She knocked it out. They rebuilt it. She took the wreath down.

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Pogonip

but only two t a time.

I mean, what else do you do with the rest of the year :-)

Oh that's a shame, I'd have welcome them. We have a pair of dunnocks who live under the woodpile, we have to be very careful when removing wood but we don't want to distrub them, we love them :-)

Mary

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Mary Fisher

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