Yeast taste/smell in filtered wine

[Maui Joe]

We had "Hail" here the other day...what's going on these days?

 

[Hippie]

I don't know. San Francisco had a tornado yesterday. Thangs are gettin a little weird this spring.

 

[MedPretzel]

Oh, it will get better.





Last summer was odd for Ohio. Lots of rain. Nothing grew because it rotted away.

 

[Hippie]

We had lots of rain last summer and the temp never got hotter than 90. We normally have alot of 110-115 in july and august and hardly any rain.

 

[MedPretzel]

We can't boast with temps like you, but the same goes for Ohio. We get in the mid-90's in the summer, but we barely broke 80 last year. And rain. and rain. and more rain. What a bummer.

 

[Hippie]

80 would be so nice of a summer! I remember my Momma speaking of all the rain.

 

[Maui Joe]

Your hot days, like 80's+ is that like a "very humid-sticky hot" or more like a dry hot?"

 

[MedPretzel]

humid-sticky, but I am sure Glenvall would say it's nuttin' compared to Arkansas.

 

[greenbean]

You can steam vegtables here in Arkansas after the rare August rain. If

you work outside you have to keep lots of water with you.



Chris

 

[Maui Joe]

It sounds very uncomfortable...

 

[Hippie]

Not too uncomfortable if you are near a swimming hole, but working out in the woods in the summer is pure misery. You can't drink enough water.

 

[greenbean]

For all the folks that don't know what a seed tick is I will be happy to put a few thousand of them in a envelope and send them to you

. They are really fun when the little buggers get on your nether regions

. Also the mosquito is our state bird

.





Chris

 

[Maui Joe]

Greenbean, I'll trade you, one seed tick, for one bag of Poi

 

[greenbean]

Isn't poi somthing like mashed potatoes, only purple. You might like the ticks but I think the rest of your island might beat you to death.





Chris

 

[Maui Joe]

Yes you are right on "both counts"...I don't know anything about seed ticks, just the word tickis bad...I really do not want any thank you!

You are right about Poi. (It starts out like mashed potatoes, and it ends up like purple glue) A Hawaiian stable food source. Poi has saved many a young child and babies around the world when no other food was accepted. Really a "miracle food source!"

 

[Hippie]

Is it a vegetable?


Chris, the skeeters ain't too bad up here.

 

[Maui Joe]

Yes CW, Poi is the "end result" of the plant called Taro. Two types, many varieties from Micronesia, Polynesia, etc. The dryland type is planted in good soil, and the wet-land type, is planted in clear running water same as how they grow rice. It is a vegetable, related to the Potatoe. It is a source of starch with many minerals and vitamins unmatched by any other source of food known. (Much more info via Google w/ pics, etc.)

 

[Hippie]

Yes, I know Taro. One variety is a well known tropicallandscape plantcalled Elephant Ears here. We dig them up in the fall and store the bulbs or tubers in perlite, and plant them again after danger of frost is over, about May 1st. They get a bloom sometimes that looks like a Peace Lily bloom.

 

[greenbean]

CW I live in the Saline River bottoms and we have plenty. They have been so bad that we have to spray poison around the door to keep them from coming in with us. Also every once and awhile you will see a really big type. They get so big you can see purple and red colors on them, and bite good gravy they hurt.


Chris

 

[Maui Joe]

You have to be careful if thinking about eating Taro. The landscape type are not, although some have tried and learned the hard way.