"Billy" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
Well I'm just taking my chances with cancer which keeps trying to get me
but
so far I've survived all four types. I'm fairly sanguine about crossing
the
bar.
My Sweety has dodged it three times. Who knows what it can be, some 20
year old chemical insult to the body, or just eating too many croissants
(highly processed carbohydrates)?

I'm blaming my cancers on exposure to Agent Orange :-))

Years ago, when the Vietnam War was still going on (or the American War as
the Vietnamese call it), I was watching the news with my father one day when
there was some mention of Agent Orange. I asked Dad what it was and he said
"Blackberry Spray".

I had instant recall of the smell and feel of it from my childhood.

Blackberries are a noxious weed in Oz and local authorities used to come
around in big trucks with tankers of the trayback and spray the blackberries
in mid summer. Being country kids with no swimming pool anywhere around us,
a big pack of kids used to follow the truck as it spayed and we'd try to
outcompete each other to stand in the spray drift. It was nice and cool on
a hot summer's day.

Neither of us is in great health, but
what can you do? We just try to enjoy what each day brings (and eat as
much as possible from our garden).

Yep. It's a case of jt keep on keeping on and never give in.

Seems like birth control would be a better idea.

It would indeed, but everyone thinks it should apply to someone else
rather
than themselves.

Tax breaks (or cash)
for the childless and draconian surcharges for the prolific. Of course
that would probably lead to many more males being born, as in China,
which may lead to wives with multiple husbands. Oops, I hope that
wasn't
too shocking of an idea for you ;O) Maybe we could encourage gay
marriages ;O)

I don't find either of those things shocking.

Neither do I, but I suspect those who want to feel free to have a half
dozen kids would.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html