WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 50 DECEMBER 13, 2013

Free Republic | 12/13/2013 | greeneyes

[Nepeta]

I chuckle each winter when the snow begins to fly and freezing rain hits. The reporters act as if each year is the first for this to happen. Each year people are without electricity, and according to the reporters and reporerettes it is TERRIBLE. They all bundle up in pretty snow outfits, stand in the deepest snow they can find along a busy road and tell us how terrible the weather is.

Yes, it is so predictable and so silly. I find the views of enormous salt piles the most absurd; they don't do much and the obligatory scenes of salt being loaded into trucks (!!! O the Excitement!!!)is hardly scintillating.

[TEXOKIE]

OMG! LOL! Gotta tell Darlin about this, as nasal drops/sprays is D’s preferred treatment. Can’t tell you the number of times Darlin has chased me around trying to persuade me to put drops in my nose! Every time I give in, I am reminded of why I don’t like them! Can’t imagine putting hot peppers up my nose! OUCH!!!!

[sockmonkey]

Can’t tell you the number of times Darlin has chased me around trying to persuade me to put drops in my nose!

My old preferred method was sticking an aspirator up ny nose, and sucking stuff out...or as my daughter used to scream when she was little, "accchhh, you're sucking my brains out, are you trying to kill me?"

One of the things that was always anathema to me..snotty nose kids with green crust around their nose holes.. or raw pink skin above their lip from nasal drips. She never had that problem thanks to my torture/aspirator method.

And yes, since I did it to myself, too..it did feel sometimes like it was sucking my brains out, all the way to the top of my forehead.

[TEXOKIE]

Hmmm. I have not tried that one. Maybe I’ll do that in the future in case my astragalus fails me.

[tillacum]

Mom did that to us. Our colds didn’t last long, up went the aspirator, followed by “soothing” warm Vicks and a pad of warm Vicks on the chest and back.