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The word conifer comes from Latin - conus (cone) and ferre (to bear). All conifers bear cones, but the size, shape, color, and texture of the cone varies greatly.
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Conifers are important because they're a major source of soft wood, and they produce resins and turpentine.
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I remember when I was in third grade, one of our homework assignments was to find and bring in one or two pine cones. What we didn't know is that it was for an art project. Squirrels like pine cones too, because the seeds are a great source of calories, fiber, and vitamins and minerals to help them get through the winter.
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Awww, James runs a nursery.
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I thought it was something the guys accused of sexual assault should have been saying or thinking.
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Prawns and shrimp are similar, but they're not the same thing. Prawns are generally larger than shrimp and often taste sweeter. And even though both have ten legs, prawns have pinchers on three pairs of legs, where shrimp only have pinchers on one pair of legs.
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I don't know about others, but I certainly remember Black September. It had me second guessing if I wanted to make a trip to the UK the following year, but I eventually decided to go anyway. After all, only the good die young, so I didn't have to worry.
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The word 'prawn' didn't come into use until late Middle English, so weren't prawns eaten before then or didn't they have a word for them - ugh, we eat, don't care what...
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My first experience with prawn was when I spent time in the UK back in '73. Thinking of all the different things eaten around the world, it makes you wonder what made the first person to try them to take the chance that they were edible and wasn't poisonous and wouldn't kill them in the first place.
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Yes, it's sad but true. Men make treaties to temporarily end a problem, but later situations/circumstances fchange and one side or the other finds a reason to break the treaty. Flor example, the US ceded the Black Hills, their ancestral home and sacred lands, to the Sioux by treaty, but then gold was discovered in the Black Hills and the treaty was broken. In other cases, it's just that one side doesn't see the other side as human, and therefore doesn't feel it's necessary to honor the treaty. There are all kinds of reasons, all of them sad and none of them valid, so I'm glad the Maori and New Zealanders are better than that.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all GA members, my second family, whether you live in the US or somewhere else!
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The term gobble came about to describe the loud, rapid gurgling sound that is made by the male turkey, hence the turkey became a gobbler.
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Actually, that is a myth. https://www.fi.edu/en/science-and-education/benjamin-franklin/national-bird
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I'm amazed at how you come up with all this stuff. Did you check out that link? When a tarantula makes a sperm web is kind of sad. It's the males last chance to get off before its final moult and it dies of old age.
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The most famous quilt may be the 1863 Jane Stickle Quilt, which is in the Bennington Museum. It is only shown for a short time each year, from Labor Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, due the the fragility of the fabric.
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A quilt may also be called a duvet in the UK.
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The word quilt is derived from the Latin word culcita (meaning cushion, which then became the Old French word cuilte, and to the Old English word quyite, and then became the Middle English word quilt.
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I remember seeing the AIDS memorial quilt. It was huge.
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Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter, Terry. Yes, Devin's mom is overprotective, but she lives in a cabin in the woods with her husband and doesn't see many people in the summer, so she clings to her son and husband. And it was good that she let Pa help with finding Jack, and it was a good thing that Mac is able to keep her calm. I think everyone had trouble with those parents, but they couldn't very well take the kids from them. They just recued Jack and gave them a little advice about parenting. Thanks for responding.
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Yes, that was a great way to use their skills, drs. And eating gamey meat is something it takes time to get used to, unless prepared correctly. And thank you for that link and suggestion. I'll be sure to check it out if I edver get to Denver.
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I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter, Danilo, and Devin's family is careful about money because they don't know for sure how long they'll live, but it will be a long time, and who knows what will happy to the economy in the future. Yes, venison can have a gamey taste, so if you're not used to eating it, then marinating it first helps.
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You guys got ahead of me while I was working on a short story. Anyway, I'll reply to your comments. Animals are know to do all kinds of things to help humans in distress, and the story about the man and the wolves is just one of them. Mac didn't tell them the dogs were his, because he was afraid if they tried to find them in the future for helping to find their son, they'd probably want to thank the dogs again, and that might create a problem, especially if Devin and Pa were there with the at the time. I think I stated in the story that Mac said the dogs were probably abandoned, so that would mean they were once domesticated but then left to fend for themselves. And yes, it looks as if that old joke was true.
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That's one way to put it. Another would be that I've got Alzheimer's.
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I think Jack might have been ok with with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger rescuing him, since he was so young, but I'm sure it would have freaked out the adults.
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Thanks, Al. Another good deed for Devin.
