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Apr 10, 2014 8:52 PM CST
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Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
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Yuck!!!!!! Crying
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Apr 15, 2014 9:15 AM CST
Name: Patty
Washington State (Zone 8b)
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I just saw a tv show on the percent of the world that eats insects/grubs. We are in the minority. Bev's Bites International?
Patty 🌺
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Apr 15, 2014 10:37 AM CST
Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)
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If you blended them up in a smoothie, nobody would know!
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Apr 15, 2014 11:57 AM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Container Gardener Foliage Fan Sempervivums Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Garden Ideas: Master Level
This is so funny: I had my green smoothie sitting right next to me when I read your post, Critter! Hilarious!
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Apr 15, 2014 12:11 PM CST
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YUM!
Hilarious!
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Apr 15, 2014 12:24 PM CST
Name: Kate
S Wales UK (Zone 9a)
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Eewwww!!! Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing
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Apr 15, 2014 1:31 PM CST
Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
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Yuck, yuck, yuck. nodding green for you know...
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Apr 15, 2014 3:26 PM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Container Gardener Foliage Fan Sempervivums Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Garden Ideas: Master Level
...the spinach I put in...?
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Apr 15, 2014 4:30 PM CST
Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
Garden today. Clean next week.
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NOOOOO green around the gills.
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Apr 15, 2014 5:55 PM CST
Name: Greg Colucci
Seattle WA (Zone 8b)
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I think even if I didn't know, it would have to be roasted or grilled or something, smoothied...yuck!
Also, I am grateful that I live in a place and time where I don't have to eat bugs for my nutrition, and I'm aware that I am in the minority in this way!! I tip my hat to you. Group hug
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Apr 15, 2014 9:33 PM CST
Name: Bev
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Container Gardener Foliage Fan Sempervivums Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Garden Ideas: Master Level
gee, I had to google "what it means "green around the gills"... Confused FYI, the smoothie was great with the spinach! The cutworms went death by drowning, their bodies intact into the "green" trash... Green Grin!
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Apr 15, 2014 9:33 PM CST
Moderator
Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages I helped plan and beta test the plant database. I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Plant Database Moderator
Forum moderator I helped beta test the first seed swap Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Plant and/or Seed Trader Garden Ideas: Master Level
I feel unwell after reading the last few posts. Crying

I'm going to eat some ice cream, think that will settle my stomach.
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Apr 15, 2014 9:44 PM CST
Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
Garden today. Clean next week.
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Enjoys or suffers cold winters Sempervivums Annuals Foliage Fan Herbs Garden Ideas: Level 2
OOOOh Bev, I am a lot older than you...... if you don't know that saying.

Lynn a bit of ice cream should help. I refuse to think about those ........ anymore.

I did have to google it to be sure I was using the correct idiom
"The flesh under or about the human chin or jaws is often called the gills (nearly always in the plural). Sometimes the word stands alone, but far more frequent is its use in a cluster of well-known figurative phrases.

Since at least the 1600s, the word has been used with various color names to indicate a person's physical health or state of mind. Beginning in the Middle Ages, English folklore ascribed certain colors to certain physical or mental conditions: blue for depressed or affected with anxiety, green for sickly (as in the pale green color indicating nausea), red for angry (as if the face were flushed with blood), rosy for healthy (as in "rosy cheeks"), white for pale from fear or illness, and yellow for diseased (as in the hue of jaundice).

The resulting gill expressions included to be blue/white/yellow about the gills, meaning to look dejected or in ill health; to be rosy about the gills, meaning to look in good health; and to turn red in the gills, meaning to show anger or indignation. Today the most common version of this pattern is to be green about (or in) the gills, meaning to be ill, especially with nausea. In the United States, the expression is usually to be green around the gills."

http://voices.yahoo.com/green-...

Hope I don't dream about this stuff tonight
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Apr 15, 2014 10:06 PM CST
Moderator
Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)
Charter ATP Member Garden Sages I helped plan and beta test the plant database. I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Plant Database Moderator
Forum moderator I helped beta test the first seed swap Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Plant and/or Seed Trader Garden Ideas: Master Level
Going to look at my gills to see how I'm doing.
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Apr 16, 2014 1:12 AM CST
Name: Kate
S Wales UK (Zone 9a)
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Lol! 'Green around the gills' is still a common saying here Smiling
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Apr 16, 2014 4:32 AM CST
Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)
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Gosh y'all.
Really affected by that joke, weren't you?

Well ONWARD AND UPWARD!
Most of my semps survived the long winter just fine.
Only a random individual or two left me.
Maybe, MAYBE, I'll get my semp tree built this year.
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Apr 16, 2014 5:09 AM CST
Name: Kate
S Wales UK (Zone 9a)
Butterflies Cactus and Succulents Cat Lover Container Gardener Region: Europe Region: Wales
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crittergarden said:Maybe, MAYBE, I'll get my semp tree built this year.



OOo that sounds interesting! What are you planning?
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Apr 16, 2014 5:46 AM CST
Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)
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I was more excited about it until I saw on Pinterest that someone else had already beat me to it......

I have 2 very conical evergreens inherited from the previous homeowners. They are getting too big to be planted as close to the front of the house as they are. SO I'm going to cut them down, replace the one by the door with something fragrant and the one on the corner with a conical tower of soil filled chickenwire/landscape cloth, stuffed with semps and sedums.
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Apr 16, 2014 12:46 PM CST
Name: Kate
S Wales UK (Zone 9a)
Butterflies Cactus and Succulents Cat Lover Container Gardener Region: Europe Region: Wales
Roses Sempervivums Region: United Kingdom
Sounds amazing! Be sure to post pics as you go along!
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Apr 16, 2014 4:04 PM CST
Surprisingly GREEN Pittsburgh (Zone 6a)
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Oh I'm so slow and so clumsy at getting things done that I don't usually share pics - but I do take a lot of documentary pics for myself - hoping that someday they will coalesce into something worth viewing....

SO <shy grin> check back in many years and see........

But seriously, if it does turn out well I will post pics.
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