I was just reading the string down below on Muslims(yes, I'm still behind...), and saw where Ralph suggested that we should just convert them to nudism, therefor giving the radicals no place to hide bombs... Okay, it reminded me of a joke. Goes something like this...
Since it's a sin for an Islamic man to see a naked woman other than his wife, we should have all the women walk around their neighborhoods naked, which would require any muslim that sees them to kill themselves. To prove that we are not muslim ourselves, we would then sit on our lawn chairs, drinking beer, and watch the women as they walked...
What if we join them in walking our streets naked? Isn't that what we'd all like to do?
Then if they all walked down to the end of the road where my house is and saw me working naked along my driveway, they wouldn't have anything to say about it.
Don't need any "case" for such a request. You can come any time. Sure would have been nice to have help today. It was HOT. Supposed to be even more so tomorrow.
Gotta get down there and pick some green beans and okra before they get too big. Think I can hold off on the squash and digging more potatoes and carrots for a couple days. Got enough squash and potatoes to take to church Wednesday night. They about cleaned me out again on Sunday.
Ralph,
I'm envious. I LOVE fresh vegetables.
I had dinner with one of the deacons and his
family last week. We had cornbread with
black-eyed peas and yellow squash. All
fresh out of the garden. It was wonderful.
I would enjoy helping out in the garden.
In fact, one of the Episcopal churches here
tend a vegetable and flower garden each
year. The produce is given to the food bank
to distribute to the needy. I think that is
pretty neat.
Perhaps one of these days I can get up to
your part of the country again. I love VA.
I had a volunteer (think it was) Spanish yellow squash come up before everything else. It's now turning all my squash yellow. Even the zucchini are yellow! You can tell the spaghetti squash. It has that speckling. Zucchini is long and skinny.
We had an incidence of toxic zucchini at the hort helpdesk last week. They brought the sample in the next day. That crew sent it down to Blacksburg (VT lab). The lab came back and said "insufficient sample", mainly because the sample turned to mush on the hot trip down.
We couldn't find ANYONE who knew ANYTHING about toxic squash, including poison control, a hort expert, another lab, etc. I finally googled it with "toxic zucchini" and came up with a report citing 8 or 9 cases in Christchurch, NZ (I was there twice; first time the queen was in town there). Printed that up and sent it to the client after calling them. The report says they get it but that it's bred out of them but still occasionally shows up. Zucchini will have a bad smell and taste sour. That's exactly what the client described. Husband got violenting ill, as he drank 8 oz with carrot juice from a blender.
Ralph,
I've never heard of toxic zuchini, but I guess that makes sense. There are vegetables I've had before that do taste sour and "funny." I would guess something like that would happen to any vegetable. It's interesting that your zuchini is turning yellow. Your bees have done a wonderful job at cross-pollenation. You'll have to send me a picture of your yellow zuchini. Sure wish I was in your area to have yellow zuchini or green beans or any of your fresh vegetables. Nothing like good fresh vegetables, especially in the summer.
Spaghetti squash is also good. I had it at a music festival one year. I actually rented a room from a member of a Lutheran church in Dallas one summer as it was cheaper to do that than stay in the dorms, and she fixed spaghetti squash one evening with sauce. It was quite good. My family didn't think so later that summer when I suggested it for dinner in replace of our regular pasta. Oh well, I tried.
I thought of you this morning when they announced that the temperature at 8:30 AM was 58 degrees! It is supposed to be about 78 degrees for a high today!! Can you believe it? Luboock, TX, 78 degrees on July 27!! Last week at this time we were at the century mark and I was trying to vacuum up water from an overflow of a window AC unit. The kids from the church youth group who were here helping me pack last week thought I was going to faint from the heat, the smell of the stuff that washed in with the water, and the smell of the cleaner I was using on the carpet to stop any mold from forming. By the way, isn't that neat that teenagers would come over five days in a row and help me pack, clean and arrange all day. I'm going to make a donation to the church youth group for future scholarships for camp or something. It's the least I can do. I did take them to lunch and dinner each day and of course bottled water was free-flowing. It's funny. Those kids got wind from one of their parents a while back that I used to be a music and college-age minister at a church in San Antonio, and have been a youth counselor and Bible class leader for teens and college-age young adults, and thye began flocking to me. We all get along so well. I have a huge respect for teens and college students and feel they need to really be ministered to in a special way. In the Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopal, and other denominations we confirm kids at 13 or 14 and I believe the kids feel like they learned it all, but it's only the beginning of their faith walk. And adults don't help in a lot of cases in those denominations because they get more caught up in the Sunday School material for little kids. Or other older kids accept Christ and are baptized and all of a sudden they may not be around church a lot. That age group is a mission field that is so important. We must continue to minister to them and provide opportunities or they drift away from the church. I've seen too many college students, some being friends of mine, who get caught up in what is essentially a sect or cult because mainstream denominations aren't as strong on a campus as they should be.
Sorry, I got on a soapbox. I feel very strongly about that ministry though. College students really need to know that a church cares, and that their home church still cares. I mention it anywhere I a sermon pops out.
It also reminded me of a testimony of a CT girl that fell in love with a muslem man. After they were married he pressured her to wear the hajab when she went out, later she has to wear it in the house while he was home. Till in the end the only time she could take the hijab off was while she was in the bathroom. She finally couldn't take it any more and left him.
So it seems some Muslim men don't even want to see their
wife naked.
The female of our species is a work of art (the ultimmate example of the work of the Great Artist, if you ask me), and to not welcome the gift that God has given us in our wives, is nearly unthinkable.
God made us- our bodies are nothing to be ashamed of, especially between a husband and wife. As long as their relationship is God-based and not somehow askew, seeing each other non-sexually naked should only reinforce the magnificance of the bodies that God has made for us.
The human body is the ultimate machine, and if anyone who believes in evolution were just to honestly look at the marvelous complexity of it, they would see that there is NO WAY that we're just the result of a series of genetic mistakes.
The human body is a thing of nearly infinate beauty, and if people would concentrate more on the positives aspects of our phisicality, instead of being so warped and hung up solely on the sexuality of it, we would have alot more nudists running around.
You know Kevin, you mentioned several threads down ( I think it was when
you told us were back once and the thread evolved to a beer discussion.)
that it had really stayed on topic. Now I realize that this one certainly hasn't,
and I'm beginning to think that I've instigated both major evolutions.
So, we'll turn to Boyd. May I use my ADHD as an excuse for changing
lanes in the midst of the thread so fast?
Sorry Kevin. Then again, this joke did need to be forgotten quickly.
Of the six of us at the shop where I work, only two of us are Christian, and even the other Christian isn't above telling some, -ahem- "colorful" jokes. You wouldn't believe some of the things that I've heard.
Of course, I'm not perfect either, and honestly my tongue is one of the worst parts of me. Sometmes I really need to clean that sucker up...
...because I've probably said a few things myself or heard them, too.
We brass players tend to be a little rude and crude at times. And
inuendos fly around a brass section faster than the space shuttle.
I'm going to have to watch myself when I get home because I can
be pretty quick with one-liners and inuendos. And if my parents get
them (and they've gotten a few in the past) I'm not going to hear
the end of it.
Let me know how you "clean" your tongue up, please? I may need
to do that soon. Part of my problem is that I'll still be around a bunch
of musicians since I'll be teaching.
