Re: herbal tip for Fran

Fran - black cohosh - great stuff. It's helping me through the
perimenopausal stage. Been in that for 5 years. Wish it would just quit
already but I'm only 46. Brother.




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "fm4re" <fm4re@swbell.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 9 Aug 2003 08:40:29 -0500

>Thanks Kitty, you're right.  Sometimes I can't get to read my emails until
>the weekend - they pile up in a folder devoted to this group.  Then I wonder
>if I'm too late to respond - or respond and feel foolish when the answer has
>already been given.
>
>I was just too sensitive because several other questions I asked had gone
>unanswered and I think I'm having one of those post-pms weeks (I'm starting
>The Change - there has got to be some herbs I can eat and make into tea to
>help this process.).  On top of that I've been out to one of our big prisons
>(936 inmates at high medium security - life without parole types) to do some
>training.  It was such a dismal sight!  Several of our prison are landscaped
>beautifully by the inmates.  This place is in western Oklahoma and doesn't
>even have the sculptural beauty of tumbleweeds on the yard!
>
>I swear that we have less trouble at the "pretty prisons" than at these
>places.  Instead of finishing my annual TB screening study, I'll do a study
>to compare the number of nature related inmate programs (gardening, wild
>horses, dogs, etc.) with the number of assaults and serious incidents.
>
>So leaving that place left me in a foul mood for awhile.  Isn't it amazing
>how environment can get the best of you sometimes?  No wonder hanging out at
>the barn where I keep my horse and puttering in the yard helps!  Later, Fran
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] which list is which
>
>
>Fran,
>Sorry about that.  If I'd known the answer, I would have replied, but I've
>never grown fennel.  Sometimes it takes waiting for someone who reads only
>the digest to pick up on your question and the answer comes a week later.
>I've had several of my questions go unanswered.  If I still can't find out,
>I ask again.  Hopefully someone who knows will jump on this one.
>
>Kitty
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "fm4re" <fm4re@swbell.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] which list is which
>
>
>> Well, I semi-participate and semi-lurk.  My last question about bronze
>> fennel went unanswered.  And I'm not sure how sensitive I should be about
>> getting no response when we have such usually vocal and helpful folks on
>> board?  So it just reinforces not participating when one is not one of the
>> "regulars"  Maybe it's my liking for variegated foliage and yet not liking
>> bright colors for flowers???  So I can understand why other lurkers may
>want
>> to keep lurking.  Oh well, Fran, OKC
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <kmrsy@comcast.net>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:15 AM
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] which list is which
>>
>>
>> Lynda & others,
>> I suppose I should explain.  Things are sporadic at work lately and when
>> it's
>> slow I like to check for messages.  Meanwhile at home, I can't get out to
>do
>> much in the garden, though I'd like to, cuz everything is so darned wet
>and
>> the
>> place is full of mosquitoes.  I guess I should realize it's not that way
>> everywhere and that folks get busy or go on vacation.
>>
>> I didn't mean to sound like I was chastising lurkers for not contributing.
>> Lurkers are quite welcome to lurk but it's also fun to hear from them once
>> in
>> awhile.
>>
>> Kitty
>> > Kitty - this is the most active of the lists I'm on.  The others seem to
>> > be almost nonexistent.
>> >
>> > Lynda
>> > Zone 7 - West TN
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> > Behalf Of kmrsy@comcast.net
>> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:26 PM
>> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> > Subject: [CHAT] which list is which
>> >
>> >
>> > since our list has been so quiet, I just took a look at the perennials
>> > list.
>> > they aren't talking about perennials at all!  The big topic is
>> > viburnums!  and
>> > then peat beds and voles.
>> > I preferred the idea of gardenchat so we could discuss many gardening
>> > topics. I
>> > thought if you brought up shrubs on the perennials list, they'd direct
>> > you to
>> > the woodies list.
>> > Those of you on other lists.....is it slow there this time of year too?
>> > Or is
>> > it just CHAT with its diminishing membership. Only 30 last month.
>> >
>> > Kitty
>> >
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