Re: [gardeners] Still no frost!
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:59:25 -0700
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>I still remember when Ma Shirley, my Dad's Mom, used to dose all of us
>kids in the spring with some castor oil and then a week later with cod
>liver oil. Don't know which tasted worse as both were nasty and did
>about the same job on my intestinal tract. Never did know why the old
>people did that. She dosed the adults too if they would hold still long
>enough.
>
>George
Those days I didn't want to go to school and pleaded sickness, I was told
that I'd get a dose of castor oil for my sickness. I improved
immediately. Even 10 seconds of that crap wasn't worth a day's
freedom. Wasn't it cod liver oil that smelled like vitamin B1 that was the
rage a few years ago for transplanting plants? Ewwwwww. Margaret L