<p>Howdy, Folks…nice of you to see me again! Thanks for stopping by! Thumbs up to ya!</p>
<p>Pokeweed. Most folks hate it, or maybe they just dislike it. </p>
<p>Some folks feel it has no place on their property. After all, it can end up in every place on their property.</p>
<p>Me? I kinda like it, and the reasons are various! Heck, I’ve even eaten it, with some side meat added to the pot, of course. *yummm....</p>
<p><em>(Safety disclaimer/notice:</em></p>
<p><em> I don’t recommend eating pokeweed, there are many other better tasting herbs/greens. Should you choose to do so eat only the young, newly emerged leaves. Why? Toxins build up within the plant as it ages and ingesting older leaves will either make you very nauseous (very soon!) or you’ll unwillingly be inducted into the “Hall of Shame”, causing you to be a member of The Trotskys, The Doubled-Overs, The Squirt Guns, The…The… well you get the picture. In other words, you’ll be visiting your porcelain stool or outhouse more times the next day than you have in the past week.)</em></p>
<p>But what about all the virtues of pokeweed! This has my head a'thinkin...</p>
<p>It’s actually a pretty plant. Beautiful red stems, petioles, nice green leaves that seem to look back at ya.</p>
<p>It’s easy to grow. Very low maintenance, eh? You pretty much let it do its own thing.</p>
<p>It provides food for birds, which for some reason aren’t inducted into the above mentioned clubs. Hmmmm, or are they? </p>
<p>Good ol’ pokeweed. What would we do without it!?</p>
<p>Why, just think!</p>
<p>No poke salet in the spring. (Yummy!)</p>
<p>No singing the song "Poke Salad Annie". ♫ ♫</p>
<p>No berries, food for the birds? Tsk tsk tsk....</p>
<p>No red-purple stains on fresh-washed bed sheets as they flap in the breeze on the Monday wash-line?</p>
<p>No young boys hiding up in the branches of trees shooting poke berries from their slingshots at passers-by and their cute perfectly white fresh-coiffed foo foo poodles (not that I would ever do such a thing)!</p>
<p>And don't forget, what would our forefathers have written the Declaration of Independence with had they not chosen poke ink?</p>
<p>But alas, don't get me started. </p>
<p>I think I'll go do my duty, Folks.</p>
<p>I’ll continue to pull pokeweed from my garden beds, just to keep it in "control".</p>
<p>I’ll scatter some pokeberries in the woods for the birds, cus I like to share.</p>
<p>I’ll get the wash off the line, just for safety’s sake.</p>
<p>Maybe later I’ll find my slingshot, cus I’m easily amused, ya see!</p>
<p>Or better yet, maybe I'll visit my poultry pen and get a quill feather like our ancestors wrote with! And if so, I promise to pen something more important than these words and will do so in poke ink!</p>
<p>Enjoy the day! Enjoy what’s around ya! After all, one man’s pokeberry is another man’s pokeberry. (Er, sumpin’ like that.) </p>
<p>Share it!</p>
<p>Friend Shoe.</p>
<p><strong>Thought For The Day:</strong></p>
<p>"May your ears and nose always support your glasses so you never miss out on seeing Life". ;>) </p>
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