2016.03.27 13:00 - Straw not hay

The Guardian for this meeting was Aphrodite Macbain. The comments are by Aphrodite Macbain.

Santoshima Resident: anybody home?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya San
Santoshima Resident: the bunny gifts keep on coming
Santoshima Resident: hiya!
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: How are you this fine day?
Santoshima Resident: pretty well, thanks ~
Santoshima Resident: how about you?
Santoshima Resident: thanks for the bunny ears
Santoshima Resident: where are the pabsters?
Santoshima Resident: they don't know what they are missing!
Aphrodite Macbain: fine- thanks. I have been on an Easter egg hunt in Sorrentina and found 5 eggs so far :-)
Santoshima Resident: well done
Aphrodite Macbain: :-) they all probably have better things to do
Santoshima Resident: i like these ears a lot :)
Aphrodite Macbain: you are very beautiful!
Santoshima Resident: oh ... i blush
Aphrodite Macbain: they add height to your bearing...
Santoshima Resident: much needed
Santoshima Resident: what's new in your springtime world?
Aphrodite Macbain: not much
Santoshima Resident: garden?
Aphrodite Macbain: I went to the Van Dusen garden yesterday
Aphrodite Macbain: bought some red anemones
Santoshima Resident: roots?
Santoshima Resident: or cut flowers
Aphrodite Macbain: that I'll plant in my little plot
Santoshima Resident: nice!
Aphrodite Macbain: bulbs
Santoshima Resident: it think, tubers
Santoshima Resident: thanks for the pic
Santoshima Resident: anemones are lovely
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- they always seem to have vibrant colours
Santoshima Resident: or maybe it's corms
Aphrodite Macbain: mine are red
Santoshima Resident: dang
Aphrodite Macbain: It doesn't say on the package
Santoshima Resident: not a corm
Aphrodite Macbain: ding dang dong?
Riddle Sideways: hi All

Santoshima Resident: greetings Riddle
Aphrodite Macbain: Called St Brigid
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Riddle
Aphrodite Macbain: happy spring
Riddle Sideways: but, liked winter
Riddle Sideways: that is a big egg
Aphrodite Macbain: Yes
Santoshima Resident: dinosaur ... bearing gifts
Aphrodite Macbain: rofl
Aphrodite Macbain: Friends for dinner tomorrow
Aphrodite Macbain: am trying to come up with a menu
Riddle Sideways: eat your friends?
Santoshima Resident: omlette!
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe spaghetti with truffles
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: and chicken
Aphrodite Macbain: and something chocolate
Riddle Sideways: or bunny that laid that egg
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: you should see the chicken
Riddle Sideways: how did it come to be that rabbits laid Easter chocolate eggs
Riddle Sideways: that hatch into Peeps chicks?
Aphrodite Macbain: It's just one of those mysteries Riddle
Santoshima Resident: do they?
Aphrodite Macbain: It's in the same category with flying reindeer
Santoshima Resident: it's marketing
Santoshima Resident: simple
Santoshima Resident: profit-driven myths
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Riddle Sideways: holiday marketing by committee
Aphrodite Macbain: It's just mixing up all the myths into one
Aphrodite Macbain: not sure why chocolate has anything to do with Easter but it sweetens the message: buy
Riddle Sideways: and those marshmello Peeps help too
Aphrodite Macbain: yuk
Aphrodite Macbain: never understood marshmallow
Santoshima Resident: marshmallow?
Santoshima Resident: the root
Riddle Sideways: did you say yuk when you were young?
Santoshima Resident: you could grow it in your garden, Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: the flavour
Aphrodite Macbain: what would I do with it?
Santoshima Resident: well
Santoshima Resident: uhm a sec
Santoshima Resident: i'll find you something
Aphrodite Macbain: other than whip it into egg whites and sugar
Santoshima Resident: see my dictionary doesn't even list the plant
Santoshima Resident: only the confection
Santoshima Resident: a sec
Riddle Sideways: /waits
Aphrodite Macbain: you planning to make marshmallows Riddle?
Riddle Sideways: nope
Riddle Sideways: just talk about peeps
Santoshima Resident: here you go: a beautiful plant, with medicinal qualities: http://www.saltspringseeds.com/search?q=marshmallow
Aphrodite Macbain: peeps as in baby chicks or peeps as in people?
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks San :-)
Santoshima Resident: yw
Aphrodite Macbain: reads: soothing inflammation of the skin, throat, eyes, lungs and urinary tract.
Aphrodite Macbain: hmm
Santoshima Resident: sure
Santoshima Resident: and more
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder how it is transformed into something you eat
Santoshima Resident: we must investigate
Santoshima Resident: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Anything new in your garden yet San?
Riddle Sideways: back! got lost in webs
Aphrodite Macbain: omg
Aphrodite Macbain: I hate that
Santoshima Resident: in the garden?
Santoshima Resident: yes!
Santoshima Resident: green curly kale and hot mustard greens
Santoshima Resident: rhubarb
Santoshima Resident: all of that is new :)
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
Santoshima Resident: it's a new garden
Riddle Sideways: oooo love rhubarb
Aphrodite Macbain: love rhubarb
Santoshima Resident: yes, me too
Aphrodite Macbain: it may not really thrive until next year
Santoshima Resident: true
Aphrodite Macbain: but it will keep coming back
Aphrodite Macbain: It's tough!
Aphrodite Macbain: even in cold winters
Santoshima Resident: chives
Santoshima Resident: herbs
Santoshima Resident: lavender
Aphrodite Macbain: I had rhubarb in my Edmonton garden - survived freezing winters
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Santoshima Resident: can you plant some here?
Santoshima Resident: (where you are)
Aphrodite Macbain: I want to figure out how to plant potatoes
Santoshima Resident: :)
Riddle Sideways: yep, had 2 plants/bushes when growing up
Santoshima Resident: in the ground or in a barrels
Aphrodite Macbain: Rhubarb tends to get very big
Santoshima Resident: ^ potatoes
Santoshima Resident: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: barrels?
Aphrodite Macbain: ah
Santoshima Resident: a sec
Santoshima Resident: i will send you what i have about growing potatoes
Aphrodite Macbain: All those old potatoes I have...
Riddle Sideways: neighbor planted potatoes in a hay (or straw) bale
Santoshima Resident: make sure to chit them (is that a verb?) before planting
Santoshima Resident: that is what' i'm doing as well
Aphrodite Macbain: not even in earth?
Santoshima Resident: hay bale
Santoshima Resident: sorry, straw
Riddle Sideways: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: oh!
Riddle Sideways: Wollie
Santoshima Resident: not hay!
Wol Euler: evening all
Aphrodite Macbain: how does it feed itself?
Riddle Sideways: shhh, bell
Santoshima Resident: i will send you some infor, a sec
Aphrodite Macbain waves silently at Wol
Santoshima Resident: / san does ditto
Santoshima Resident: https://www.facebook.com/learntogrowastrawbalegarden/
Santoshima Resident: opps
Santoshima Resident: oo
Riddle Sideways: http://strawbalegardens.com/
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks!
Santoshima Resident: same guy, on a mission
Aphrodite Macbain wonders where she could find straw in downtown Vancouver
Santoshima Resident: straw
Santoshima Resident: i have a source Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: !
Santoshima Resident: will let you know in a message
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: How are you Wol?
Santoshima Resident: greetings Wol :)
Riddle Sideways: the downtown cow feed store
Aphrodite Macbain: Has spring hit Germany yet?
Wol Euler: weeks ago
Wol Euler: we didn't really have a winter this year
Wol Euler: magnolias are already in bloom here
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you have a garden?
Riddle Sideways: thanks, think that US got your winter
Aphrodite Macbain: nice- star magnolias?
Wol Euler: dunno, pinky flowering tree things
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Santoshima Resident: sounds nice
Riddle Sideways: sitting under the Magnolia tree sipping mint juleps
Aphrodite Macbain: those sound like magnolia grandiflora
Aphrodite Macbain: the star magnolias are only white
Wol Euler: well, if you really want to know, more purpleish than pink, with white, blotchy
Wol Euler: they last about four days then drop and start to rot on the pavement
Aphrodite Macbain: I walked through our VanDusen gardens yesterday and they were all in bloom.
Santoshima Resident: hmm
Santoshima Resident: not nice
Santoshima Resident: camellias?
Aphrodite Macbain: Cherry blossoms were almost over!
Aphrodite Macbain: yes lovely pink and red camellias
Aphrodite Macbain: everything is SO early
Aphrodite Macbain: How does Germany celebrate Easter Wol?
Riddle Sideways: have to go to neighbor's and feed the chicks
Santoshima Resident: bye riddle
Wol Euler: bye riddle, take care
Aphrodite Macbain: seriously?
Santoshima Resident: you did mean peeps!
Aphrodite Macbain: awww  little yellow peeps
Riddle Sideways: 6 teenage chickens
Riddle Sideways: past the cute stage
Aphrodite Macbain: scrawny stage?
Riddle Sideways: yep
Aphrodite Macbain: still
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
Wol Euler: instead of hiding single eggs, people make fairly large "birds' nests", one per person, and all that person's goodies from all sources are put in it, and the nest is hidden
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
Riddle Sideways: enjoy YouTube Peeps videos
Santoshima Resident: cheerio
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks Riddle. Byee
Aphrodite Macbain: Did you make one Wol?
Wol Euler: no

Aphrodite Macbain notices Wol has a carrot in her garter
Wol Euler grins.
Aphrodite Macbain wonders whether she saves it in case of an onslaught of hunger or in case she meets a rabbit

Wol Euler: it wasn't worth the bother of making a nest for myself, where would I hide it?
Aphrodite Macbain: umm
Santoshima Resident: and who would you hide it from?
Wol Euler: I usually spend eastern with boss's extended family, and in that case yes I do Aphrodite Macbain work colleagues?
Wol Euler: but not this year: your solo with books and tea and chocolate (yes) and the internets
Aphrodite Macbain: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: solo at Easter
Santoshima Resident: you both have chocolate?
Aphrodite Macbain: I ate mine this morning with my cappuccino
Santoshima Resident: mine from the corner liquor store ... was getting herring ... theirs are liquor filled
Santoshima Resident: good to see you both ~ please excuse me ~ am needing to go pull Broom while the light permits ~
Aphrodite Macbain: Pull that broom!
Wol Euler: take care, San, happy pulling
Santoshima Resident: that's scotch broom
Wol Euler: most people push brooms, how odd :)
Aphrodite Macbain: see you both later. Easter bunny hugs
Wol Euler smiles.
Santoshima Resident: tenacious and almost ready to bloom
Santoshima Resident: byebye
Aphrodite Macbain: byee
Wol Euler: bye, take care

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