For the guys that have brought over a lady

[Lynn]

... in response to But are there ozone water treatments in ..., posted by John K on Apr 26, 2003

[This message has been edited by Lynn]

What section of that site did you see the reference to the North pole?

To answer your question, ozone is often used by municipal water treatment plants as a first step in purification as it is 2000 times more effective than chlorine.

To ozanate your drinking water it is as simple as the unit on this site;  http://www.aqua-ozone.com/purify.html

And this is just one of many, just the first one I saw. One of my friends uses a ozanator on his hot tub instead of chemicals.

The medical profession will only allow it to be used as therapy for "research". Do a little more reading, just a little more wool that has been pulled over the public eye.

[wsbill]

... in response to Re: But are there ozone water treatments..., posted by Lynn on Apr 26, 2003

The water taste great straight out of well.  Even though you gotta go outside and use the water pump to pump it out of the ground.

Make no mistake about it... it taste great, even if the outhouse right next to the pump ../

[svanos1]

... in response to For the guys that have brought over a la..., posted by wsbill on Apr 25, 2003

My wife is pretty picky about food also.  If it isn't still 'warm' she calls it 'synthetic'.  I'm exaggerating, of course.  But my step-son loves his school here (so far), but was shocked at what they offer kids to eat!  He referred to the 'potator rounds' as 'plastic potatoes'.  My wife generally thinks that anything packaged in a box and ready to cook is 'synthetic'.  What she is referring to is mostly 'preservatives'.  She thinks that just because it isn't listed in the ingredients doesn't mean it isn't there.

I will say that one thing the Ukraine has all over us here is their excellent choice of 100% fruit juice.  I love the peach, cherry, and multi.  I had her bring as much as she could when she came.

Also, I'm planting a garden now and she brought her own seeds for everything.

A little joke where I work... when I was visiting her the first time back in November, I asked her for some margerine.  She said 'oozhass!' (which means 'horrors!') and told me I must eat butter.  She then told me that when she comes to me she will make me fresh butter every week.  I started laughing and asked her 'where are you going to get the cream?'.  She answered, like it was obvious, 'Stevie!  From cow of course!'.  I cracked up laughing.  I told my friends at work about this, so now they ask me every week 'Steve, have you bought your wife a milk cow yet?'  This is hillarious to me!

[wsbill]

... in response to Re: For the guys that have brought over ..., posted by svanos1 on Apr 25, 2003

and call it your pet... put it a rope around it's neck and tie it off in the middle of your yard and wal-la..instant lawn mower and milk producer.

[104gummiand]

... in response to For the guys that have brought over a la..., posted by wsbill on Apr 25, 2003

Hi

Have not yet got me loved one over, but I know in my country many ladies from Russia, etc. tends to buy ecological foods. (only natural fertilizer, no pesticides, no preservative and no GMO stuff).

[Lynn]

... in response to Ecological food, posted by 104gummiand on Apr 25, 2003


Ain't nothin like love an home grown tomatos.....or so the song goes.

Actually there is a very thriving private commerce in raising and selling range grown livestock and foul in some areas. But most Americans do not realize where their foodstuff comes from or how it gets to the table. To them, it just appears on the shelf at the grocery store.

Preservatives are a good thing, at least for the funeral parlors, less embalming fluid

[Pordzhik]

... in response to Ecological food, posted by 104gummiand on Apr 25, 2003

My wifes mum buys it in the general store in the village near the dacha.

There's really not a market for artifial fertilizer or pesticides as they cannot afford them when growing their own produce at the dacha.

My wife told me that as a little girl she was sent into the vegetable garden to collect the colarado beetles from the potatoes.

[wsbill]

... in response to Chicken sh!te, posted by Pordzhik on Apr 25, 2003

Are you saying they'd use these little critters as fertizler?  You do know lady bugs are a good bug to have on your plants say like tomatos because they eat little micro bugs...so you don't want to be killing them.

I'll have to check on that Colorado Beetle, and what it's use for.

[Pordzhik]

... in response to Re: Colarado Beetles..., posted by wsbill on Apr 26, 2003

Stop 'em eating the tatties!

[Lynn]

... in response to Re: Colarado Beetles..., posted by wsbill on Apr 26, 2003

I thought that you were "the" gardener here. She was collecting the beetles to kill them so they wouldn't eat all the leaves off the potato plants, thus killing or at least stunting production. Those wonderful poisons that we ingest here also take care of these beetles----isn't that comforting.

[wsbill]

... in response to Re: Re: Colarado Beetles..., posted by Lynn on Apr 26, 2003

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2204.html

[wsbill]

... in response to Re: Re: Colarado Beetles..., posted by Lynn on Apr 26, 2003

Get some dishwashing soap and put it in spray bottle (1-2 tea spoons) and the rest water.

Soak the leaves with this spray....bugs do not like the taste of soap.

Works great... pesticide free.

[Deckard]

... in response to Re: Here tell her to do this, posted by wsbill on Apr 26, 2003

WOOT !!!

Thanks for the tip wsbill!

I'm going to bring a spray bottle and give Luda's family this tip for their garden at the dacha, which was infested with colorado beetles when I visited them in 2001. I spent an afternoon in the hot August sun, helping them pick off these little pesty beetles.

I'm going to be a hero when I show them how to remove the beetles with your method !!!

-Deckard

[wsbill]

... in response to cool!, posted by Deckard on Apr 26, 2003

Just it is a pesticide that you sprinkle on the leaves, but bugs don't like it either.  You might double bag it in your suitcase.

From what I'm reading these beetles are some really tough critters..

So tell your family to check to make sure it will do the job, these bugs my just ignore the soapy taste.

Somewhere I have read 'stink bugs' which put off a stinking smell for the bugs are a pretty good inhibitor to these beetles as well.

[Lynn]

... in response to Re: Take some stuff called SevinDust as ..., posted by wsbill on Apr 27, 2003

Try planting marigolds in the garden----bugs nor wabbits like them.