Bug Spray & Other Things

Now this article below is one that almost verifies what I have been trying to tell folks for years, concerning the things that they spray and rub on their skin. I for one along with all my family, have never put it on our skin and never will.  It is just common sense that these chemicals are not good for you.  Never ceases to amaze me though, of how easily folks are fooled in toady’s world.  They just take for granted that what ever the Powers That Be tell them is the truth.  Thing is folks, you are the only ones that can look after your own body.  You are the one at the helm and the quicker you can take back the reins the better off you will be .  Also, take the blinders off and do the research on pretty well everything today.  Even from my Blog.  I am not pretending to be no expert or no- it- all by no means.  All that I  am asking of folks, is to sit back, take a look around and keep an open mind, and remember: “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”   My Opinion Only

Now take a look, fresh off the press:

The active ingredient in many insect repellents, deet, has been found to be toxic to the central nervous system. Researchers say that more investigations are urgently needed to confirm or dismiss any potential neurotoxicity to humans, especially when deet-based repellents are used in combination with other neurotoxic insecticides.

Vincent Corbel from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Montpellier, and Bruno Lapied from the University of Angers, France, led a team of researchers who investigated the mode of action and toxicity of deet (N,N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide). Corbel said, “We’ve found that deet is not simply a behavior-modifying chemical but also inhibits the activity of a key central nervous system enzyme, acetycholinesterase, in both insects and mammals”.

Discovered in 1953, deet is still the most common ingredient in insect repellent preparations. It is effective against a broad spectrum of medically important pests, including mosquitoes. Despite its widespread use, controversies remain concerning both the identification of its target sites at the molecular level and its mechanism of action in insects. In a series of experiments, Corbel and his colleagues found that deet inhibits the acetylcholinesterase enzyme – the same mode of action used by organophosphate and carbamate insecticides.

These insecticides are often used in combination with deet, and the researchers also found that deet interacts with carbamate insecticides to increase their toxicity. Corbel concludes, “These findings question the safety of deet, particularly in combination with other chemicals, and they highlight the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to the development of safer insect repellents for use in public health”

Now, if you keep putting these things on your skin, well … plain and simple, you are not thinking clearly and why is that?  Simple, you have been putting to many chemicals on and into your body, it’s effecting your mind.

Summer Health Tips

The more raw vegetables you can eat the better, and this is the time to do that as the markets are full of home grown produce.  My favourite is home grown tomato sandwiches on home made bread, with home grown broccoli and dip.  Pretty tasty and so good for ya.  Eat them now and build up your immunity to fight diseases all winter long.  Better than any flu shot.

One Great Plant: Mullein

Now here is a wild plant that I have used to make medicine from for years now. It is real easy to grow, first year just leaves, then the tall stalk starts on the second year along with yellow flowers.  It is called Mullein. The leaves and yellow flowers are what I use the most.  For ear aches there is nothing better using the flower petals.  One has to remember though, to make sure your ear drum isn’t perforated, if so don’t use it.  Also, best to have a doc take a look just to make sure.  But if the doc says it isn’t perforated and you want to go natural, well this is the fix. The leaves are great for sore joints and also good for cold sores.

Mullein leaves, stems, and most of the floral parts are covered with short thin bristles that are extreme irritants to the human respiratory tract and conjunctiva. Trying to eat the leaves is really unpleasant ( some insects and perhaps slugs can manage to deal with the little bristles) but they aren’t  good for us humans. For teas and things, these hairs are best strained or filtered. For  therapeutic use, mullein leaves (and stems) should be dried to crispness which I do by laying them out on the picnic table for two days in the sun. I then bring them inside crushing them up and putting them into a masonry jar.  I then cover with extra virgin olive oil and let sit on the counter for two weeks, stirring every other day. Then strain and use externally.  Thing one has to remember though, is to try a small spot on say your wrist and if you don’t get itchy or red you’re in business.  With all herbal medicine remember, don’t use for more than six weeks in a row.  At least that is what I found to be the safest way of dealing with wild plants. Do the research and enjoy! Nothing is better than Mother Nature for curing what ails ya.

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No Excuse For Ignorance When It Comes To Natural Medicine

Words That Kind Of Makes A Fellow Or Gal Think.

If you stay informed, you will stay alive!

The biggest killer of people in the next great crisis will be, without question, ignorance of natural medicine. Those who don’t know about these natural cures will literally die of ignorance,  those who understand the incredible healing power of Mother Nature’s Medicine will be far better off.

It’s not only about surviving though it‘s also about being self efficient. When you use Mother Natures medicine to boost your immune system and your body, you then no longer depend on doctors, hospitals and conventional medicine to provide you with medicine. In other words you can do it yourself with the help of natural medicine, simple as that.  What better way for you to have on hand what Mother Nature has to offer sitting in your cupboard.  Bottom line is, you remain independent and self-reliant.

It is this self-reliance that scares the powers that be, who run our world. The last thing they want is us folks taking charge of our own health and refusing to function as slaves to big corporations. My Opinion Only

Beauty Of A Day Here In Port Loring Ontario

Well real beauty of a day here this Sunday. Customers are rolling in, so been quite busy, which is a good thing.   Our Native American Flutes have been selling real well this year, had to actually get to making some more, as sold over half of them and we still got half the summer to go yet.  Also my books are a hot item for us this year and sold more than I can count.  So ya, things are rolling along here today.  Might be as some call it a recession out there, but for us here at our home and small store you would never know it.  Seems folks are drawn to our place, and I believe it’s the old earth that we have to thank for that.  Nature is what it is all about up in this neck of the wood, but then again that is what us  humans are, just some have had their minds swayed into other beliefs and things.  Well guess go and enjoy a coffee, talk soon.

Weather Tip

Thought I would put up a chart that takes a look at our temperature here in Port Loring Ontario.  The reason for doing this, is so that folks that enjoy the outdoors, will be able to tell what the lows will be at night.  What you do is, look at the chart.  The Green Line shows the Dew Point Temperature. So if you look at that Line the green one, and see what it says for around noon, well… that is what the low will be for the night.  Easy way for you to predict the weather and know when an upcoming frost will be arriving, but lets hope we don’t see that for awhile. But it will let you know if you can turn off that air conditioner that is costing you your hard earned dollars.  Also for more on our weather just scroll down and on the left hand side you will see a Link that will take you to my weather station here in Port Loring.  No Charge. Thought I would share.  With this chart it shows the lows tonight will be around 50 or so.   Take a look.

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Wild Raspberry Cake

Now is the time to pick them too and so good for ya.


1 3/4 c Flour
1/2 ts Salt
1 c White sugar
1 c Raspberries
1 ts Baking soda (dissolved in 1/2 cup milk)
2 Eggs, slightly beaten
3/4 c Shortening
1 ts Cinnamon  (Optional)

Sift together, flour, salt sugar, cinnamon. Cut in shortening. Then mix in soda, eggs, and raspberries. Pour into a greased pan and bake at 325F. for 1 hour.

A Few Pictures Of Some Plants Around Our Home Here In Port Loring Ontario

Just Click On Any Picture To Enlarge Them. So Lets Go For A Walk!!

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Fresh Cut Broccoli Right Out Of Our Garden. Hmm....Good.
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Same, Good Old Broccoli
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Wild Black-Eyed Susan Pretty Rare
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Black-Eyed Susan Along Side A Mullein Plant Which Is Very Good Medicine Plant
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One Of My Veggie Gardens With Zucchini Out Front Showing Off
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Very Rare Lilly Crossed With Tiger Lilly This Year, Thought It Was Really Pretty
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Same As Above
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Miniature Hollyhocks Beside Our Back Door. Humming Birds Love Them & Me To
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Really Rare Ornamental Lillies I Just Love Them
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Same As Above Just Had To Take Two Pictures
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Candulla Also Is A Good Medicine Plant
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Same As Above
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Comfrey At Its Peak, Or Some Call It "Knitbone", One Of The Best Healing Plants That This Earth Has To Offer
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Comfrey Same As Above Whole Plant
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Comfrey Leaf Up Close So You Know What To Look For
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Blue Sage Another Humming Bird Special & Very Nice To Look At
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Snowball Hydrangea, My Wife Likes Them, Me, Well..............

Update On What’s Happening In My Gardens.

Well just a quick hello to let folks know that I am still kickin’ . So much rain here the past few days it is sure taking its toll on my gardens especially my tomatoes.  Thing is once we get so much rain and no sunshine the plants all get to growing tops and no bottoms, or vegetables. I have had a good crop of broccoli so far this year and got about a bushel in the freezer. More is still coming in smaller amounts and they are for eating right now.  Nothing better than freshly picked broccoli dipped in some nice home made garlic dip on a  summers day.  And so…………………..good for ya too.  Carrots are coming along also but same there, need some sunshine and less rain to bring them up to size.  Tomatoes are starting but I had to do a lot of trimming on them so the sun can get down to the bottom of them but they are coming and they look promising now, which is a good thing as I sure love my tomatoes.  Well guess I will go and get some lunch while we can as we have also been very busy here in our small store.  Talk Soon.

Weather Watches & Warnings: Port Loring, Ontario

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH: North Bay – West Nipissing Issued at 11:59 AM EDT TUESDAY 28 JULY 2009

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS AN ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.

WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THESE REGIONS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE INTENSE LIGHTNING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THIS THREAT WILL REMAIN INTO THE EARLY EVENING.
Didn’t amount to anything which is a good thing.

A Few Words & Picures Of Our Weekend At “Books By The Bay” In Callander July 17/2009 Thought I Would Share

Well, Books By The Bay event is over for another year, and I have to say it sure was a pleasure being asked to be their first feature speaker of the year.  It was a great three days and my wife and I enjoyed it immensely, looking forward to next year.  I would also like to take a minute here and thank all those that took part and all those that dropped by and said hello to the wife and I.  Had to be well over a 100 people there at my talk on Friday night.  Also would like to say a special thanks to Suzanne, Owner of Gulliver’s in North Bay for all her help and asking us to be a part of the weekend.  Meant a lot to us.  Also on Saturday night the supper was fantastic, think I gained a few pounds too, no reason for anyone going home hungry, that’s for sure.  Everyone out did themselves that’s for sure.   Pictures below were done up by Jean and Carrie.  Got to say they did a fine job in taking them too.

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My Lovely Wife & I At Books By The Bay July 17/2009
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Up There Speaking About My Two Books "Join Me In The Garden" & "One More Story" At Books By The Bay, July 17/2009. Great Day.

A Few Words On The Earth, Enviroment,Pesticides,Farming,Trash Well, Take A Look.

You know, for over forty years I have dedicated myself to informing folks about different items that comes to mind.  Especially prescription drugs, banks, powers that be and our environment. One thing that I bet most folks don’t realize, is that our environment has really out gotten out of hand.  For example, right now each and every day millions of pounds of pesticides are being dumped right onto your soil.  It’s needed to stop insects and things from taking over our food chain they say.  Well I say that is hog wash.  There is literally hundreds of different things one can do to combat insects from being a problem.  Top on the list is using other insects, as usually where there is one insect, there is another not to far behind him, that is thinking of having him for lunch.  I myself farmed over a 100 acres of fresh fruit and vegetables in my day, and for a good number of years I never sprayed one drop on my crops.  What happened? Well nothing, that’s what happened. Oh sure, I might have lost a few bushels here and there, but bottom line , I ended up with more fruit and veggies than those that used pesticides.  Why do they use them then? Well, simple, the pharmaceutical companies make the pesticides, or most of them, and, well, unfortunately the new minds of today think they are right. What ever they say folks take it as Gospel.    Also the Government should have stayed out of the farming business here in Canada, as they were the main down fall of it all.  Just to many things to name here, but they were, at least through the eyes of this old farmer.   Some day I will explain to ya exactly what the governments or powers that be did to the small time farmer. Thing is folks, the soil is our only source that we can grow our crops and if they keep it up, well  simply put, we are going to starve to death. Also today landfills are filled to the brim and millions of tons are being shipped to third world countries. What do they do with it? Well a lot of it goes directly in the ocean.  Can you believe that. Not bad enough that they are poisoning our farm land, now they have to poison our oceans.  Right now they say there is a  lump of trash that is floating in the water near the North Pole, twice the size of France; it`s about 33 feet deep.  Most folks say, hey, not bothering me any, so why worry.  Well……… I say, there is plenty to worry about. But that is the mentality of a lot of folks today.  What to do? Well there is lots and I shouldn’t have to be the one to tell you either.  But here are a few; do the research, open your eyes, don’t believe everything  that the Powers That Be is telling you, become more self efficient and take the blinders off.  The earth is all we got, we as  humans are earth and I believe we came from it, and we will return to it.  Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do, and people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination which is why we have the problems we do today. My Opinion Only

Prescription Drugs Are Being Pumped Into Folks More Than Gasoline

This article below is supposed to make me feel good? I don’t think so.  All that it tells me is that us Canadians are being prescribed more drugs than ever, when in reality we should be pulling away from them.  In my eyes all this is doing is making folks sicker and sicker and sicker.  Here is a piece of the article,  take a look.

Shoppers Drug Mart (SC.TO), Canada’s biggest pharmacy chain, reported a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday that matched expectations, helped by stronger sales of prescription drugs. $1.11 billion, to be exact in drugs alone.

Thing is, most folks today think this is a good thing. Hmm.                     My Opinion Only As Usual.

ALKALINE VEGETABLES, Better Than Any Trip To The Doctors Office

Here is a few veggies from the garden that I would recommend we all get to eating this summer. At least one portion of one of the below, a day if at all possible.  The ones with the star are * Excellent for preventing and combating cancer. Thought I would share and remember there is nothing better than tomatoes mixed with broccoli, and when ever possible eat raw, or with very  little cooking.

ALKALINE FOODS
VEGETABLES

Green Beans
Beets*
Broccoli*
Brussel sprouts
Cabbage
Carrot*
Cauliflower*
Celery
Cucumber
Dandelions
Edible Flowers
Eggplant
Fermented Veggies
Garlic*
Greens – Beet, Chard, Collard, Mustard, Wild
Kale
Kohlrabi
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Onions
Parsnips
Peas
Peppers
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Radishes
Rutabaga
Spinach*
Sprouts
Squashes
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes*
Watercress

What The Powers That Be, Want You To Belive, And What Is The Truth, Are Two Different Things.

Myself,  I figure that the cures for all diseases, are right there in front of us in plants. I also figure that if our health system really cared for folks, instead of raking in huge profits, our doctors then could do what most of them really want to do.  If we brought our  minds back to the right way of thinking, we would then see that the Earth, is us, and what we do to the earth, we do to ourselves. Today though, folks minds have been swayed by religion, politicians, drug companies, banks, well…………… to many to name, and through my eyes they are the cause of all our problems.  It will get worse too, unless we start changing our ways.  But there is some hope as there is a growing movement here in Canada, portraying my way of thinking along with a few others, and I am hoping it keeps on progressing.  Folks are slowly taking off the blinders and opening their eyes.  They are slowly seeing, that all that has been pushed on them by these so called Powers That Be, isn’t the truth. They are slowly seeing, that the earth is all we have and all to look forward to.  They are slowly starting to see, that we have to be self efficient.  They are slowly starting to see that fear is our biggest problem, that our minds have been swayed into worrying about things that will never happen. They are slowly realizing, that you can have a good spiritual life without religion.  They are slowly seeing that fear has to be wiped from our minds. Oh……………… I guess you are getting my meaning, as I could go on here for hours.  All that I am trying to do, is to let folks know, that we have minds of our own, that we don’t be needing to do what ever the Powers That Be tell us all the time. We don’t have to believe in things that you don’t want to believe in.  Once you open your eyes to what  this earth has to offer, it by itself, well then all things will be made  possible. The Creator handed us this way of life, it is still there, it’s just that most folks have abandoned it.  My heaven, as some call it, is right here in front of me and I enjoy it each day to the fullest and my mind is clear.  My Opinion Only

Food For Thought, Item

Had a feller the other day, 90 years old drop by, as he just loves my column and blog.  We got to talking about the education system.  The way he figures it, is that the Powers That Be today isn’t really interested in the education system at all  Well, should say they are, but only in certain ways.  He figures, they want you to learn, so you can get a job and pay tax, that’s a definite.  But they don’t want you to think, as if that happened, you would then know what is going on in this world of ours as most folks have blinders on.  You know, after giving that some thought, I am inclined to agree with him.  Food For Thought, you might say.

Reminder Of Up Coming Event, Books By The Bay July 17/18/19, Next Weekend.

Just thought I would keep you folks informed of the upcoming event, Books By The Bay.  It will be held in Callander July 17 – 19.   My lovely wife and myself will be speaking for a half hour or so on July 17th, at 7:30 PM.  Hope to see you all there and make sure you say hello.  Looking forward to it.  Here is the link, it will take you to a place where everything is explained.    Run your mouse over the Books By The Bay Below, click on it and wolla!!!

Books By The Bay

Welcome to my little corner of the countryside, where storytelling meets the everyday joys of woodworking, farming, and gardening. I’m GW, a writer and published author with over thirty years of experience.