Herbs are one thing I can grow. ;~)

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Birch Tree, Leaf Salad..? Are Birch Leaves Edible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFyZV9EuppI
Funny. I didn't know that birch was growing in the US.
Here around the Baltic Sea we have a lot of them.
We drink birch sap, when in famines the stuff between the bark and the wood is mixed in bread.
However eating the leaves... Normally only used to whip yourself when having a sauna...
But why not:)

I planted a white paper birch in the front yard a couple years ago, and it is doing very nicely.

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Yes. I have seen the pic of theme from your garden.
It looks like you actually planted 3 birches.
Looks to me that they are planted to close to another.
But you need to give them water. A LOT of water.
Here we don't need to plant birches:)

That is how the nursery sells them. I kind of assumed it was one tree with three trunks, but you may be right.

Yes, I was told birches are thirsty. Luckily, we've had a lot of rain this year, and I haven't had to water them manually.

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Ollie's Trolley

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On Monday afternoon, the long-awaited message was that it was once again allowed to BBQ on your own backyard. Marcus was quick to get dressed up for the occasion and dressed in tuxedo. The evening's menu consisted of, among other things, beef steak, entrecote and sausage, along with champagne.
"Now we will celebrate," he told SVT News Blekinge.

I didn't know there was a ban on backyard bbq'ing in Sweden!

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I didn't know there was a ban on backyard bbq'ing in Sweden!

Neither did I, but here in smogangeles they have put a ban in on starter fluid, have to use a chimney starter or an electric.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-19/business/fi-263_1_southern-california

I always use a chimney starter. It gets the coals going more evenly.

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Does Matchlight brickets work or are they to banned?

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Does Matchlight brickets work or are they to banned?

I'm not sure. I think I've still seen them for sale, but I'm not looking for those.

I didn't know there was a ban on backyard bbq'ing in Sweden!

The reason for the ban was because the very unusal drought this summer and lot of wildfires. And several of the fires were started by people using disposable barbecues.
Now everything is back to normal:)

I love apple cider. I've been going up to this orchard for years. It was kind of expensive($7.99), but a friend pointed out all the work that goes into it:

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I should note that there's no alcohol in that cider. A friend of mine in England automatically associates cider with an alcoholic beverage, but in the U.S., cider like that is designated as "hard". This is just good old-fashioned unfiltered unadulterated juice pressed from apples. The term "apple juice", however, is different from apple cider in the sense that all the particles of the apple other than the actual juice have been filtered out, so it is more transparent than cider, and doesn't have the zippy tang.

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I should note that there's no alcohol in that cider. A friend of mine in England automatically associates cider with an alcoholic beverage, but in the U.S., cider like that is designated as "hard". This is just good old-fashioned unfiltered unadulterated juice pressed from apples. The term "apple juice", however, is different from apple cider in the sense that all the particles of the apple other than the actual juice have been filtered out, so it is more transparent than cider, and doesn't have the zippy tang.

Looks to me like another case of the US misusing words.
The word to describe a good old-fashioned unfiltered unadulterated juice pressed from apples sometimes called cider would be scumpy.

Cider and scumpy are alcoholic drinks, using those words to describe a non-alcoholic apple based drink fails the UK's Trades description act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider

scumpy

Lol, well, I learned a new word today, anyway.

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At last:)

Scrumpy is dangerous.....

A brewed drink that in the wost (best?) case will support a flame it's so strong.
Either chew on the bits like a man or wimp out.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?