Been having some serious allergy stuff going on so I thought I'd flood the ole system with water like you sugested for stiff necks. Son-of-a-gun it seems to help!! Dang your smart Wildman! Hey I even use the (flo thru) to put out my campfires at nite!!!.....Kirk

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

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Whiskey works for my stiff necks. Be careful not to let that water rust your pipes:>) It is true though that renal flushing benifites many ailments. I consume one to two gallons of water daily to combat renal infections.

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

One to two gallons...wow!! That's alot of water. Where do you "put" it all, Jay :-)!! I'm lucky if I can drink two quarts a day! Drinking lots of water is the best thing you can do for your body, though!!

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

"..even use the flo-thru to put out my campfires..." ACK!! ROFLMAO... what an excellent and most efficient way to conserve water! Another use for flo thru is to save it and dilute with water to irrigate out door plants..lotsa nitrogen!

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

I take Nettle for my allergies. Seems to help. If I drank that much water, I would be constantly in the bathroom. And I mean constantly:)

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

Kirk,

One of my Grandad's favorite lines was "Piss on the fire and call the dawgs, this hunts over" when something was finished.

Marcia,

"where do I put it?" Through my kidneys. Its also why I pursue self employment and self sufficiency ( I hate leg bags :>)

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

Alison are you saying I should be peeing on my plants? Hee Hee! One nice thing of living alone in the woods is I can be discusting as I want!

Jay I like your Grandpa!.....Kirk

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2002

Have you read Captain Corelli's Mandolin? The girls father pee's on the herbs to make them grow better and it drives the daughter nuts...LOL Actually i really read that urine tip in a garden book, Kirk..the ammonia in the urine is high in nitrogen! Straight, its rather too strong but diluted in water its a good fertiliser! Really!! Some people save all their pee in a bucket rather than flush it and dilute for use in the garden. As for disgusting, Kirk, you can't beat my boy. He yanks down his drawers and lets fly right in the front yard as cars go by!! He's only 5 though. You might get arrested if ya try that!

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2002

Hey Alison I looked at where my septic leach field is and sure enough things grow like a son-of-a-gun there! by golly you must be right! As for the peeing on the side of the road instead of getting arrested more then likely they'ed just laugh!.....Kirk

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2002

Kirk, ol' boy. I must apologize for taking so long to answer but things have been a little hectic around here for the last week or so. It's been hectic around here for quite a while but more so for the last few days. No time for playing. Anyway, the water tip wasn't an original idea of mine, wish I was that smart, but just something I read and learned through experience. The older you get the more experience you get but then you have to move out other information in the brain to compensate for it so I'm not sure I'm ever getting ahead. I notice a big difference when I don't drink five to six quarts or more of water daily. For those that think Jay's two gallons are excessive, I'll assure you that they aren't. If you drink coffee or cokes or even if you don't, you'll notice a big difference if you keep it up for a month or two. Once you do, you'll continue forever. It also helps make those little squishy things between the hard things in the back, more squishy and helps in numerous other ways. You do plan so that your trips are short though. We stop at all of the Wal-Marts which makes my wife happy.

No thread drift here but I bought Celtic Sea Salt the other day and had to pay almost twelve dollars for half a pound. Does anyone know what the difference between Celtic sea salt and regular sea salt are? And where I can get it cheaper?

Wildman, (clearing the memory)

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2002

Hey, Wildman, I use "RealSalt" -- it has all the trace minerals and tastes yummy, far better than regular table salt. Julie can get it at the food co-op in northern Wisconsin for cheap, by the multi-pound. I just had her get me a couple of pounds. You can also buy it in a similar dispenser to Celtic Sea Salt for a similar price, but why?

If she doesn't get on here and comment soon, I'll start bugging her. She's been pretty busy lately. I, myself, am still in Hawaii, but I'll be home Tuesday afternoon.

-- Anonymous, April 13, 2002

Wull, my sister dutifully bugged me, so here I am, brain all fuzzy and what not. Fortunately, I can actually find my copy of Goldmine today, with all their various sea salts listed.

I would start by guessing that any salt that you get by condensing sea water is technically sea salt. The Japanese have a huge regard for various types of salts, down to ones that are only collected in certain waters on a full moon tide that they say add a superior flavour to any others. Oooookay.

Anyway, what it says in Goldmine is that Celtic light grey sea salt is concentrated in shallow ponds and the grey colour comes from the clay in those pond beds -- natural trace minerals. It is also sun- dried, if that makes a difference over boiling it down --? Goldmine sells it via www.goldminenaturalfood.com in coarse and fine, 0604- 3901 coarse 1 lb for 9.95 and 0605-3901 fine 1 lb for 17.95. For the price difference, I think I'd buy coarse and throw it in the blender for a spin. I've made regular table salt into superfine popcorn salt that way, heck of a lot cheaper.

They also have Eden Sea Salt from Portugal(white salt) $3.29 a lb, Eden Sea Salt from Brittany (another grey salt & moist) 3.99 for 14 oz, Izu-oshima Sea Salt from Japan $6.39 for 8 oz, Great Pacific "Balanced Minerals' Sea Salt (formerly Muramoto) which is a boiled down product 5.99/1 lb or 27.95/5 lbs, Lima Grench Atlantic Sea Salt(another damp grey w/trace minerals) touted as being a pollution free area salt at 3.99 for 7 oz, and Lima Fleur de Sel Sea Salt at 9.39 for 7 oz, and Fleur de Sel(The Flower of the Ocean) which occurs naturally floating on top of the water and is raked off and sun dried, touted as the caviar of salts $18.95 for 8 oz.

I would suggest maybe a Google search on RealSalt would yield up someone selling it by mail. The stuff I get here is $1.88/lb for it. It's a mineral rock salt, but all those old salt deposits are from sea salt anyway, so I guess you could call it antique sea salt. You can see little mineral specks in it and it is an off-white colour. They don't add any stuff to make it non-caking, or free-flowing, or whatever ("When it rains, it doesn't Pour unless you Whack it"), but once you've started using this and taste regular Morton's salt, you notice a sharp, off-flavour to the Morton's or other common table salt that I find very unpleasant now. The label says trace amounts of calcium, potassium, sulphur, magnesium,iron, phosporus,iodine, manganese, copper,and zinc.

RealSalt comes from Utah, and is almost a pink-y colour. Here is a informational site on it -- http://www.realsalt.com/-- and they also sell it in bulk. On another site, I saw that they sell it in hunks for animal use too!! However, they have a 27 lb box for $48, but no mention of the salt hunks for animal use I saw on the New Zealand site. That hardly seems fair -- they ship it in lumps to Oz sheep and cattle, but not in the US? They have smaller quantities too.

-- Anonymous, April 15, 2002

There is a web site for celtic salt

http://www.celtic-seasalt.com I don't know how to make it lite up.

Namaste,

Judy

PS I just got back home to New Orleans, been in the wild, wild west for almost six months. Amazingly beautiful, but there is no place like home. Won't be here for very long though, maybe a few weeks, my husband had knee surgery and we came home for him to convalesce, pretty hard to keep your leg elivated in an 8x22' RV with another adult (me) and three cats. Not sure where we will go next, maybe Maryland.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2002

Thanks for the information about the salt folks. I'll check it out. Hopefully things will be back to normal after Sunday and I'll be able to irritate ya'll more often.

Wildman, (coming back soon)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2002

Welcome back, Judy. I was thinking about you and wondering if you'd resurface soon! :-)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2002