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What drives me Really crazy with excitement is fresh dates. So unbelievably good. The street sellers here even get excited by how excited I get when I see them.

Fruit is the best good really. Or cheese. Or meat. Food is great, really.

It seems like I have fresh dates next door, in all varieties, so I actually need someone to go through the trees and teach me.
 
What are they made of?

Damn good question.

Materials are a real problem when it comes to bicycle tights intended for use in cold weather. So-called "wicking" fabrics such as polyester almost, by definition, don't have insulating properties. In fact, polyester sometimes seems to actually enhance the cold. The conflicting requirements and properties present a problem for manufacturers and users.

My heaviest and warmest bicycle tights are made of 85% nylon, 15% elastan (whatever the hell that is). That sharply contrasts with most athletic textiles these days which tend to be 100% polyester.


 
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Oh, lucky you.

Teach? Eat them! Consider that while they taste less sweet than dried dates they are still really sugary, don't over indulge. :kiss:

I'm not a date fan, but theres purple(black), green, and whatever isnt quite ripe yet.

What do you pick, why and when?

Be knowing that I wont actually use em, but can store em.
 
Whilst mowing, just now, the smell of the lilacs made the extra effort of pushing over soft ground much more palatable.
 
"You're darn tootin' we like Fig Newtons!" :D

No fresh ones here in The Frozen North. :(


How far North are you?

We have a fig tree that bears plump, delicious fruit.

Friends of ours that live by Georgian Bay have a couple trees as well.
 
How far North are you?

We have a fig tree that bears plump, delicious fruit.

Friends of ours that live by Georgian Bay have a couple trees as well.

REALLY? I'm way south of there... One climatic growth zone. Technically "Carolinian Forest" I believe.

So they produce fruit? NEVER heard of figs in Ontario, at all. And I grew up in wine/tender fruits country. :confused:
 
"You're darn tootin' we like Fig Newtons!" :D

No fresh ones here in The Frozen North. :(
fig newtons? those gross things that have a fig centre wrapped around with what tastes and feels like old biscuit that's gotten soft through exposure to moisture? those fig newtons? blech. H adores them. I cannot abide the texture.

can't wait to taste the fresh ones we grow here!

Whilst mowing, just now, the smell of the lilacs made the extra effort of pushing over soft ground much more palatable.
now that's beautiful :heart:

there're lilacs here though they're done flowering, but the night-deep perfume of all the honeysuckle decorating the hedges/blackberry bushes and more, makes for a heady olfactory experience. like snorting wine - not that i ever have :eek:
 
fig newtons? those gross things that have a fig centre wrapped around with what tastes and feels like old biscuit that's gotten soft through exposure to moisture? those fig newtons? blech. H adores them. I cannot abide the texture.

can't wait to taste the fresh ones we grow here!

now that's beautiful :heart:

there're lilacs here though they're done flowering, but the night-deep perfume of all the honeysuckle decorating the hedges/blackberry bushes and more, makes for a heady olfactory experience. like snorting wine - not that i ever have :eek:

H will tell you, that that was an ancient ear-worm advert here and in the States.
...and they're no worse than the bloody Brit "Fly Cemeteries" :D

Thanks! If we were FB's you'd see a pic, I posted. ;)
 
H will tell you, that that was an ancient ear-worm advert here and in the States.
...and they're no worse than the bloody Brit "Fly Cemeteries" :D

Thanks! If we were FB's you'd see a pic, I posted. ;)
oh! i know which ones you mean - name escapes me for now but i never liked those, either... dammit, what were they called? fata and sean will remember if you don't

send me a pm with your deets and i'll add you sometime today. don't go on there often :)
 
Love Fig Newtons. I would carry loads of them in my cycling jersey pocket. Good biking fuel washed down with blue Gatorade.
 
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