On 14/10/2010 12:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:

>> A few years ago my wife bought some Swiss Chard. I had never had it
>> before, checked out how it was best cooked tried it.... did not like
>> it at all. I thought it was horrible. Maybe I should have tried to
>> take it back. ;-)
>
> (laugh) I really should have found out if they got a refund.

I doubt it. You can take things back to a store if it is defective. You
can't take things back to a fruit stand because you didn't like it.


>> $5 is a lot to pay for a gourd.
>
> It's a decorative thing, all those things are pricey this time of the year.
> Like some evergreen fronds with a ribbon shouldn't cost so much but
> in December, they do.

My wife does the Thanksgiving fall decoration thing and uses gourds.
They are usually no more than $1 each around here.


> Speaking of decorations, driving around this morning I was surprised
> to see many people are going all out with the fall/Halloween displays
> this year. Maybe Christmas will be brighter, literally ... a couple of
> years now it's been subdued.

Maybe it depends on where you live. I am in a rural area and a lot of
people do things with corn stalks, bales of straw and pumpkins. I am
surprised that they actually sell bundles of corn stalks. I just go back
to my neighbour's corn field and cut a bunch of stalks that the cobs
have already been removed from. I don't know if he used a harvester that
doesn't damage the stalks or of the deer and raccoons got them all, but
it's no lose to him.