Re: Prickly Pear Question

["Lamb-Vines" <lambvines@odsy.net>]

Ava,

Thanks for that explanation.  I too got a chuckle out of that.

Lamb-Vines
----- Original Message -----
From: Ava Devenport <essenheal@iname.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: Prickly Pear Question


> Dear Lamb-Vines:
>
> I'm sorry, I did not mean to make light of the wonderful diversity of
> prickly pear cactus, I actually love the plant and all of it's many
> wonderful virtues.  We had just been discussing previously uses,
> cultivation and 'safe handling', which can be quite tricky and very
> painful.
>
> The observation of scorching them to create a safety net between the human
> body and the small red spines, just hadn't been discussed.  You'd have to
> go back to the previous posts regarding what happened to my mother.  By
the
> time we finally got all the little spines out of her (months), I think she
> may have wanted to scorch ME and my car.
>
> As I can be quite visual sometimes, the whole scenario flashed through my
> minds eye and believe me, it was humerous at this end.  And finally, 15
> years later, Mom can laugh about it too, as long as we don't get into too
> much detail regarding some of the embarrassing situations the little
devils
> created for her.  Our family physician had to bite his tongue so many
times
> to keep the laughter from rolling out.  You just would've had to been
> there!
>
> Blessings,
> Ava
>
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