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[Selkie]

My mother breastfed us - while she smoked a cigarette! She drank an Iron City beer before to relax her!! This was the early 60s.

I don't have kids. However, I agree this is a highly personal decision.

[NbyNW]

She drank an Iron City beer before to relax her!!

Good ol' Arn!

[OakLeaf]

My mother breastfed us - while she smoked a cigarette! She drank an Iron City beer before to relax her!! This was the early 60s.

I don't have kids. However, I agree this is a highly personal decision.

Ha, I don't remember what my mom's beer of choice was, but her OB told her that beer would increase her milk production for my baby sister. (She never had any trouble making enough milk for me or my middle sister. ) But anyway, she drank the beer, and my baby sister was the only one of us who could stand the taste of beer when we'd ask for a taste as children.

My sister wound up alcoholic (real strong in recovery now) but I don't really think the breast-beer had anything to do with that.


And, my birthday is Nov. 5

[Tuckervill]

My son and one of my best friend's daughters are both born on Nov 5. Guess what their names are?

Will & Grace.

Karen

[Crankin]

I don't think i've ever known of so many other Scorpios!
I am being lazy today and feel just a little guilty. Went out to brunch with son #1 and his gf and had all intentions of going on a short ride when we got back. I just feel tired, like drugged tired. Then the weather keeps saying it's going to rain/thunder. It will be dark for awhile, then the sun comes out. So after an hour or so of thinking we decided not to ride. Went to the nursery, but couldn't find the flowers i wanted, so now I am drinking coffee and going to start preparing for dinner guests.
I am going on a 40-50 mile ride tomorrow, so I don't feel *too* bad.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I've been putting in my little vegetable garden yesterday and today, and thinking good positive thoughts about our sweet kitty Lydia who is now a kitty spirit beaming her goodness all around the atmosphere.

I got the garden all set and planted for the year!:
http://strumelia.blogspot.com/2009/05/gardens-in.html
(well except for needing to continue planting a few new leaf lettuce and cilantro seeds every couple of weeks.)

My back 'should be' killing me right now after two days of weeding, hoeing, fertilizing, and planting...but strangely it seems to be ok, just a little sore that's all. Lucky me. Must be a benefit of bike riding and fitness walking.

Now that I've been tending to my worm composting bin with my special composting breed of worms (eisenia foetida), I now have a new appreciation of the wild worms in my garden. Before, all earthworms looked alike to me. Now I see distinct differences between the different species- it's cool! I saw some small quick maroon ones and also some big long blue tinged ones. I was happy to find some interesting worms in my garden, and I hope to attract more with the all-organic fertilizer I'm using this year.

[OakLeaf]

It's been too wet to work my soil. I did get home just in time to do the initial tilling before the rain set in.

The next few days are supposed to be dry and windy, so hopefully I'll get my beds dug and some seeds planted pretty soon. My seed order came today. Once again I'll have to buy tomato and pepper plants, but I'm actually going to direct seed a few tomatoes for a fall crop. The last couple of years I've let some volunteer tomatoes grow, and I've had a reasonable yield from them after the "adopted" plants were spent.

Two stems of my red kale survived the winter and were sending out new leaves when I got home. I had no idea it was a perennial! They looked so delicious I couldn't bear to till them in, so I just tilled around that bed and the adjacent one that had all kinds of volunteer cilantro and mustard greens going (never did get around to harvesting those coriander seeds last fall ). It was a PITA maneuvering the big tiller around a small space like that, but greens are so worth it.

[Pax]

I tried to plant my herb garden today but the soil was mostly clumps of mud. I hope the three more dry days we're supposed to have actually happen, maybe the soil will dry enough give it a go.