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Currant status: sorta unclean.

Posting overtaken by currant event

I can’t believe you didn’t use currant events as the title.

Well, fine.

Freezer?!?!?! Six pounds of currants means five pounds of hooch.

I did a bit of study on pain management in chickens, and you can put 5 5-grain aspirin tablets in a gallon of water and use it for her drinking water. There’s also things you can get from a vet, but the aspirin works well I hear.

How much would your vet soak you for a lateral x-ray?

I forgot to mention that aspirin brings down swelling and inflammation as well.

Hmm we seem to have touched a nerve here – let’s put currants in the past and talk chickens perhaps? How is hour poor little legless baby doing? Are you still carrying her about? If she’s not getting better, you might consider a little two-wheeled wagon for her so you can pull around chicken ala cart so to speak.

Gotta run!

Clean and sort six pounds of currents without benefit of alcohol?!?!

Yer not doin’ it right.

Well I was going to ask if you were going to bake a batch of spotted dick, but maybe another day.

Some Veg: “chicken ala cart” LOLOLOL! (also *groan*)

Are the white ones, not being ripe, less sweet?

I’m with Some Veg: How’s poor little Maggie doing?

Peaches are in here in Georgia. I’ll be looking to can and freeze a bushel or two.

So what are you working on currantly?

Geddit?

Maybe a litle emergency weekend Maggie update for the ol’ M-F weblog?

*bats eyelashes*

Well, colour me impressed. I planted a red currant bush in a pot two years ago. Last summer? Meh. This summer? Greenery everywhere. I suspect next summer to have a handful of berries like you’re a’showin. Same with a 3 yo Blueberry plant–I got 43 berries this summer, lol! But the thing has turned into a proper bush. Next year? Enough to make a pie. Well done, Weasels! I envy you your hedges and hedge knowledge!

I had never eaten a currant until a few years ago when I was served red currants in a bowl with sweetened vanillaed heavy cream. I thought I’d died and gone to currant heaven.

White currants are…less intensely flavored. They are fully ripe. Green currants are unripe, and we throw them away.

Bob and I have been exchanging emails about Maggie, Some Veg. Hence the slightly disjointed messages.

She’s very slightly improved. And she’s still got her appetite, so I’m sticking with her.

Some veg:

After that pun, I need pain control!

Maggie prob’ly just has some form of hysterical paralysis. Send her to the rapist. Uh, I mean a therapist.

For a few thousand dollars (or £896.34) you can have a healthy, well-adjusted chicken who can proudly cluck, “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”

Yemenii Terrorist ‘Al Keyda’ Currants!

Hey. Aren’t you suppose to be making elderberry wine.
You’re English now. Can’t think of the name of that BBC show in the 70s. Couple of suburbanites ‘homesteading’ their back yard. They always had homemade elderberry and pea wine, but otherwise, the show was terrible.