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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I was messing around with my digital camera today and got the following shot. I think it is cool, because it captured, unintentionally, two of the loves in my life.

AnnieLee

[Foothills Drifter]

I was messing around with my digital camera today and got the following shot. I think it is cool, because it captured, unintentionally, two of the loves in my life.

AnnieLee

Howdy......
I would say plants and reloading 

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Micheal Fortune]

Plants, reloading equipment, I think I see an Elk behind the third plant from the left, and a cat on the right hand side behind the press!   

[Delmonico]

Annie I think the weeds are takin' over yer loadin' room.

(Delmonico was told that most common houseplants are weeds in their native lands.)

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Yep, weeds and reloading.

The weeds are orchids.

Here's an orchid I don't yet have, but I want, for its beauty as well as its common name. It is a phaius tankervillae, also known as a Swamp Lily, and was discovered around 1852, so it is period correct: 



And it is also known as...

The Nun's Orchid.



AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

I'll be derned, they is orchids, didn't notice.   Ya should grow somes a dem orchids thats the make vannila out of and make us a bunch a vannila extract.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I've thought about that, Del, but those kinds of orchids don't do well in my area.

Also thought about growing castor beans. Bunnies and other small critters don't like castor plants so I could border the garden with them. But, a bulk purchase of castor plants would cause some Federal eyebrows to rise, and not just because of the purging effect of castor oil. Can you guess why?

AnnieLee

[Lou Graham]

It looks like an "Ammo Garden" to me, Annie! 

[J.W.Neely]

I can't see no cat or elk?

[J.W.Neely]

Her ex is under the plant!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

<Laughing> Yep, it's an ammo garden, Lou, great way of putting it!

Great idea, JW, but the ex is still around and walking.


AnnieLee

[Delmonico]

Well the seeds themselves are posionous.  I believe it is cyanide that they contain.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Well the seeds themselves are posionous.  I believe it is cyanide that they contain.

BONK!!

Castor extract is the primary ingredient of ricin. That's bad news stuff. That's the stuff that was used in the Japanese subway.

Good try, though!



AnnieLee

[Singing Bear]

Anthrax.

[J.W.Neely]

Yous guys are scaring me!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

<Pats JW to calm him down>

It's okie, JW, there were no cats or elks in the picture and none of us are growing that bad stuff. It's just a garden of ammo.



AnnieLee

[J.W.Neely]

Ok, if-in you say so.

[Lou Graham]

Annie's Ammo Garden and Showgun Training Resort

[Delmonico]

I fergot that castor "beans" ain't really a legume,  it is of the spurge family.   The seeds of legumes contain cyanide, not enough in most to harm you though, or at least the varieties that we commonly eat.   However eatin' to many legumes can harm those around you.   But it is not cyanide, it's methane that is the problem.   

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Quick!  Pull my finger!

Brazos