QAL, Queen Ann's Lace, Daucus carota - wild carrots! My legs are badly swollen... the blooms are a strong diuretic and will flush the water from my calves and ankles.
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I usually have tons of that growing around here. Haven't been paying attention to it yet. Is it worth harvesting after blooming? How do you make you tinqure?
Sorry @Bacpacker Tonight I'm to exhausted to teach a mini class on QAL. I make mistakes when I'm tired and don't want to put out bad info.\
However, there are dozens of websites that will tell you everything you want to know about QAL and a few things you probably don't...
No worries Peanut. Sorry your feeling so rough. Prayers going up that you feel better soon.
That stuff was a real pain in my butt a few years back. My whole yard was torn up and it took hold. The grass never got going good on the south facing slope and the QAL took over. I figured if I kept mowing it off it would die but the mower just stripped the leaves off and left those tough stems standing. In 8 years I never did get it all killed off...
@Terri9630 this is a picture of a french oven and I think they are also known as dutch oven or you can call them casserole pots too, confusing I know.
The traditional dutch ovens had a raw cast iron on the inside although most of the new ones both the french and dutch ones are made with an enamelled coating on the inside now as in the picture.
The traditional dutch ovens had a raw cast iron on the inside although most of the new ones both the french and dutch ones are made with an enamelled coating on the inside now as in the picture.
Today was a tidy up the back shed day which took us 3 hours.
We rolled up rolls of heavy duty chicken wire into tighter bundles and put it on shelves in the shed to neaten it up. Next was moving the rest of the 10 - 14' ironbark posts to the side of the shed under the eaves so they are out of the weather and yes one landed on part of my hand and I am sporting a bit of a bruise. This cleaned out the whole of the lean-to shed so we can stock lots more firewood in there.
There was two trailer loads of ironbark we cut a while ago and we wanted to try out the log splitter and split 3/4's of it. The log splitter is faulty and spurting out hydraulic fluid out the side of it so I got onto the people we purchased it off new on eBay and sent them photos. Hopefully they will just return it and give us one that works. We have dealt with this company for a number of years and their service is always good so I am not seeing any problems in rectifying this hopefully.
We rolled up rolls of heavy duty chicken wire into tighter bundles and put it on shelves in the shed to neaten it up. Next was moving the rest of the 10 - 14' ironbark posts to the side of the shed under the eaves so they are out of the weather and yes one landed on part of my hand and I am sporting a bit of a bruise. This cleaned out the whole of the lean-to shed so we can stock lots more firewood in there.
There was two trailer loads of ironbark we cut a while ago and we wanted to try out the log splitter and split 3/4's of it. The log splitter is faulty and spurting out hydraulic fluid out the side of it so I got onto the people we purchased it off new on eBay and sent them photos. Hopefully they will just return it and give us one that works. We have dealt with this company for a number of years and their service is always good so I am not seeing any problems in rectifying this hopefully.
@MoBookworm1957 Glad you are back with us. Sorry to hear about the trouble with the MRI. Hopefully, the next one will go smoother.
@Peanut Hope it helps. We've had it growing around too. It never fails, when we don't need it there's tons. When we need it...@Sewingcreations15 I was going to ask the same thing but @Terri9630 hopped to it. Mine is a Dutch oven as it's just cast and not enameled. At some point I will find one with the flat lid for true cooking rather than the domed lid. @hiwall we have a griddle. If you get one, make sure it's a smooth surface. Some of the less expensive ones have a pretty rough face and food is more inclined to stick.
@Amish Heart Woohoo! Yeehaw! And whatever other happy word you can think of. Last day- enjoy. Also, enjoy your time at the farm
@Peanut Hope it helps. We've had it growing around too. It never fails, when we don't need it there's tons. When we need it...@Sewingcreations15 I was going to ask the same thing but @Terri9630 hopped to it. Mine is a Dutch oven as it's just cast and not enameled. At some point I will find one with the flat lid for true cooking rather than the domed lid. @hiwall we have a griddle. If you get one, make sure it's a smooth surface. Some of the less expensive ones have a pretty rough face and food is more inclined to stick.
@Amish Heart Woohoo! Yeehaw! And whatever other happy word you can think of. Last day- enjoy. Also, enjoy your time at the farm
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I have one of those, a gift from my daughter. She has quite a collection of them of various sizes and shapes.
It's suppose to be another scorcher today.
We still got flooding to deal with too.
Missouri River is still above flood stage.
People up North are releasing water today.
My new words of the week are Iced Water!
Under Excessive Heat Advisory until 2000 hours tonight.
But that may be extended into next week too.
Got a fresh batch of tea steeping on the stove.
Refilled all the ice trays I could find about 4 is all I have found so far.
Got to dust out the floors, white tile floors are cool to the feet.
Grand daughter found out about gravity yesterday.
Granny doesn't have carpet anymore, so the coffee table moves now.
She climbed up on coffee table, it moved, she lost her balance fell off hit concrete floor.
Split her lip, she bled all over Granny, Strawberry. She could have just as easily cracked her little hard head open.
Nope her head landed in her soft fox chair, her behind in the toy basket.
Granny held her while she sucked on ice cube wrapped in washcloth.
We rocked and cried together in the recliner/rocker.
Today I am going clothes shopping for her.
Friend of mine is cleaning out her youngest grand daughter's clothes getting ready for back to school shopping.
Don't have much to spend, but will do what I can to clothe that little girl.
Everybody have a nice day.
Sewing sorry about your log splitter having problems already.
Grand daughter got over 60 matching outfits, 15 extra pairs of jeans, 25 extra long sleeved, mid sleeved and short sleeved shirts, socks, 10 pairs of shoes, training pants, big girl panties new in package, all for $25.
We still got flooding to deal with too.
Missouri River is still above flood stage.
People up North are releasing water today.
My new words of the week are Iced Water!
Under Excessive Heat Advisory until 2000 hours tonight.
But that may be extended into next week too.
Got a fresh batch of tea steeping on the stove.
Refilled all the ice trays I could find about 4 is all I have found so far.
Got to dust out the floors, white tile floors are cool to the feet.
Grand daughter found out about gravity yesterday.
Granny doesn't have carpet anymore, so the coffee table moves now.
She climbed up on coffee table, it moved, she lost her balance fell off hit concrete floor.
Split her lip, she bled all over Granny, Strawberry. She could have just as easily cracked her little hard head open.
Nope her head landed in her soft fox chair, her behind in the toy basket.
Granny held her while she sucked on ice cube wrapped in washcloth.
We rocked and cried together in the recliner/rocker.
Today I am going clothes shopping for her.
Friend of mine is cleaning out her youngest grand daughter's clothes getting ready for back to school shopping.
Don't have much to spend, but will do what I can to clothe that little girl.
Everybody have a nice day.
Sewing sorry about your log splitter having problems already.
Grand daughter got over 60 matching outfits, 15 extra pairs of jeans, 25 extra long sleeved, mid sleeved and short sleeved shirts, socks, 10 pairs of shoes, training pants, big girl panties new in package, all for $25.
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My grandfather had extreme swelling in one of his legs. I believe they thought it was caused from him mowing ditches and having some exposure to DDT. It would turn a dark read. His foot looked like a loaf of bread during these spells.
Would yours be called edema? I had a ggg grandfather whose cause of death, according to the records, was edema. I would think that would be a little different, because edema would involve fluid around the organs.
QAL--when we plant carrots and let them grow another year, is that the same as QAL that grows wild?
Also, there is another plant that is very dangerous that looks very similar to QAL. I do remember that QAL had one small flower that is dark in the center.
Yep, we call them Dutch ovens. Raw cast iron or coated. I actually prefer the enameled ones, I find it difficult to keep the plain iron ones seasoned right.
@Spikedriver you had a cash cow in your yard… 1 oz brown medicine bottles are a few cents apiece when you buy by the hundred, Quart mason jars and lids… $25, can be reused each year. 100proof vodka… local. Labels/printing $200.
Profit on 1 oz of QAL bloom tincture… about $12. Profit on 15 Quarts of tincture… $5700.
If you had a huge number of plants and blooms for several years… probably 10 to 15 Quarts per year… Ooops!
It doesn’t take that many blooms to fill a quart jar.
If you let carrots in your garden go wild they will revert back to their wild state in 2 or 3 years... especially heirloom seeds.
Conium maculatum, the hemlock or poison hemlock, is a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae.
Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace, is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.
They are closely related cousins along with parsley and a few other edibles. Apiaceae family is sort of strange in the plant world. A. the plant is yummy! B. the plant will kill you. C. the plant will make you wish you were dead. There isn't a whole lot of family members in between those extremes.
QAL and hemlock are remarkably similar, identical at a casual glance to the average Joe. To me, I can tell the difference from 10ft away.
Everyone now!!! Repeat it 3 times! Queen Ann has hairy legs! Queen Ann has hairy legs! Queen Ann has hairy legs!
The stems of QAL are covered in fine white hairs... The stems of Poison hemlock are a smooth as a baby's bottom. One more time! Queen Ann has hairy legs!!!!!
If you learn this difference you will never mistake the 2 plants.
QAL with hairy stems...
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Thank you!@Spikedriver you had a cash cow in your yard… 1 oz brown medicine bottles are a few cents apiece when you buy by the hundred, Quart mason jars and lids… $25, can be reused each year. 100proof vodka… local. Labels/printing $200.
Profit on 1 oz of QAL bloom tincture… about $12. Profit on 15 Quarts of tincture… $5700.
If you had a huge number of plants and blooms for several years… probably 10 to 15 Quarts per year… Ooops!
It doesn’t take that many blooms to fill a quart jar.
If you let carrots in your garden go wild they will revert back to their wild state in 2 or 3 years... especially heirloom seeds.
Conium maculatum, the hemlock or poison hemlock, is a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae.
Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace, is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.
They are closely related cousins along with parsley and a few other edibles. Apiaceae family is sort of strange in the plant world. A. the plant is yummy! B. the plant will kill you. C. the plant will make you wish you were dead. There isn't a whole lot of family members in between those extremes.
QAL and hemlock are remarkably similar, identical at a casual glance to the average Joe. To me, I can tell the difference from 10ft away.
Everyone now!!! Repeat it 3 times! Queen Ann has hairy legs! Queen Ann has hairy legs! Queen Ann has hairy legs!
The stems of QAL are covered in fine white hairs... The stems of Poison hemlock are a smooth as a baby's bottom. One more time! Queen Ann has hairy legs!!!!!
If you learn this difference you will never mistake the 2 plants.
QAL with hairy stems...
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Here is a pic of the stem of poison hemlock... don't look at the plants over all... just look at the stems... PHemlock can be 6ft tall and slender, just not in this pic... This particular plant happened to be short and squabby...
My daughter and I drove up to my old hometown where I grew up yesterday, to visit my parents. This morning the town had a parade and a little carnival in the park. I'm not sure if this is common everywhere, but in my neck of the woods everyone in the parade throws candy to the kids along the parade route. So I now have a grocery sack full of candy that daughter collected from the parade. Great, just what this old diabetic guy needed.
Thank you @MoBookworm1957 hopefully the log splitter will be replaced. Hope the weather gets cooler for you and give your granddaughter an extra big hug better from me. So good you got so many clothes for that price for her, you did well.
@Terri9630 and @LadyLocust I had to look up what the difference between the french and dutch ovens too so it was a learning curve for me too. I have only seen mostly the french ovens here although the camping stores sell the traditional dutch ovens.
@Terri9630 and @LadyLocust I had to look up what the difference between the french and dutch ovens too so it was a learning curve for me too. I have only seen mostly the french ovens here although the camping stores sell the traditional dutch ovens.
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Today being Sunday we started off the morning with reading one lesson from our scriptures.
Then we did our usual Sunday cooking and made a double batch of coconut, choc chip queen biscuits and made a double batch of honey, almond, oat and sultana granola with a dash of vanilla extract. The kitchen as usual looked like a bomb had hit it so DH washed the benches and dishes and I wiped them and put them away. I then gave the kitchen a sweep and DH wiped a few messy spots off the floor vinyl with our floor cloth. It is all clean and shiny again.
Sitting down relaxing with the fireplace on and dinner for me was an avocado and Vegemite roll with a sliced apple for dessert.
Then we did our usual Sunday cooking and made a double batch of coconut, choc chip queen biscuits and made a double batch of honey, almond, oat and sultana granola with a dash of vanilla extract. The kitchen as usual looked like a bomb had hit it so DH washed the benches and dishes and I wiped them and put them away. I then gave the kitchen a sweep and DH wiped a few messy spots off the floor vinyl with our floor cloth. It is all clean and shiny again.
Sitting down relaxing with the fireplace on and dinner for me was an avocado and Vegemite roll with a sliced apple for dessert.
Thanks for the pic, I also wondered. I suspected they might be what we call a Dutch oven. I’d really like to get my hands on an old school cast Dutch oven with the little legs and the flat lid for piling coals on top of it like the one in the picture
Had company and their pups for 2 days. Sorry they had to go but...work calls. Went thrift shopping and visited. Had a blast! Out to lunch twice.
Made low carb egg muffins and then went to Sunday School this morning and came home so I could say goodbye. Will go to Church tonight.
Made low carb egg muffins and then went to Sunday School this morning and came home so I could say goodbye. Will go to Church tonight.
Well welcome back Meer
Peanut, thanks for the lesson on QAL. I'm gonna wonder around the back of my property this week and see if I can't find some. It may be a little early yet. We shall see.
Peanut, thanks for the lesson on QAL. I'm gonna wonder around the back of my property this week and see if I can't find some. It may be a little early yet. We shall see.
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My daughter and I drove up to my old hometown where I grew up yesterday, to visit my parents. This morning the town had a parade and a little carnival in the park. I'm not sure if this is common everywhere, but in my neck of the woods everyone in the parade throws candy to the kids along the parade route. So I now have a grocery sack full of candy that daughter collected from the parade. Great, just what this old diabetic guy needed.
Sounds like a great time Spike.
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e have a few that needs to be seasoned again. I hardly use them now that corn meal that taste good is hard to find. I have very old corn stick pans I need to redo.But don't have a Dutch Oven one and wish we did.
I like pure enamel or pure cast iron the best. But do have a couple enameled pans.
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Yep, that's the kind that is on my watch list! I have a dome lidded one, I got for $10. I'm too cheap to go buy one new and question the quality by comparison to the old ones.
We went up the mountain today to work on the place. I mowed and turned the sprinklers on. It wasn't long hubby and I were both out there to see why they weren't very strong, shut the pump and investigated. The screen on the end of the pipe was slightly damaged this past winter- evidently just enough to allow a crawdad to get sucked up into the pump. The pump was pretty hot and now it trips the breaker if we try to turn it on. It's not seized so may have melted a wire inside. Hubby and FIL (retired electrician) are going up tomorrow to see if they can figure it out. Really don't want to have to buy a new pump when we are trying to sell the place.
Also @Peanut. Thought of you - QAL all over the place up there right now. I actually pulled a few that were right by the patio making it look shaggy.
Glad you are back. Hope your spirits have lifted
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I love cooking dutch oven. Even have two dutch oven cooking tables that hold two each. Easier on the back.
Mom kept forgetting we were coming, so it seemed like a surprise to her today when we showed up. But we had to wait over an hour for her to get dressed and brush her teeth. Were going to take her out to lunch and shopping, but our truck's battery died at the Menno Manor, so had to get a jump start and a new battery. Took her to Aldi's and unloaded her groceries, took her back to our place and then went to my cousins for dinner...ton of people there and had a great time.
Mom kept forgetting we were coming, so it seemed like a surprise to her today when we showed up. But we had to wait over an hour for her to get dressed and brush her teeth. Were going to take her out to lunch and shopping, but our truck's battery died at the Menno Manor, so had to get a jump start and a new battery. Took her to Aldi's and unloaded her groceries, took her back to our place and then went to my cousins for dinner...ton of people there and had a great time.
My daughter and I drove up to my old hometown where I grew up yesterday, to visit my parents. This morning the town had a parade and a little carnival in the park. I'm not sure if this is common everywhere, but in my neck of the woods everyone in the parade throws candy to the kids along the parade route. So I now have a grocery sack full of candy that daughter collected from the parade. Great, just what this old diabetic guy needed.
They aren't allowed to throw candy in our parades anymore. The fun police decided people are to fat and don't need it.
