"Two of the three "champions" have spoken. Truth means nothing to them so they make up their own stories." No one has made up any stories. "Of course, none of this matters to a "champion". They have their lies to keep them busy. I do not have any daylilies anymore." Well said, and now that you no longer have any Daylilys, you probably don't have much to contribute here, maybe you could find a philosophy or negativity forum somewhere. I'm sure you'll be a hit there. I guess you'll never win a Stout now either. Wade, you have some serious issues, please do yourself a favor and try and get some help. Read this carefully.... "To be different, or a non-conformist, we have to sacrifice. You can't walk the fence and have any integrity. You can't pursue your own agendas. You have to basically lose everything. You have to take on the monster we have become. "Champions" pop up at every corner to protect the status quo because that is where the personal investments are. The common person expends their energy protecting the illusions they live in. I decided a while back that there just isn't anything important enough for me to play the selfish game anymore. Money means nothing to me. It is just the vehicle that takes us to the next day. Erosion is a word that describes the quality of life. Lies are the most valuable items we use each day." You really need to stop elevating yourself and quit looking down on other people just because they don't share your negative views and opinions of everything. Excuse me now my coffee cup is half full, I think I'll go top it off.

I've never done it that way, so I don't have an answer, but here is an article NCHFP Freezing Okra. It appears after blanching you would not need the egg and milk to get the cornmeal to stick. The harvest forum had many threads on okra, and there are others here on the Oklahoma forum. Alot of people "blanch" in the oven. I cooked some that way last year, breaded and baked, since I'm not much of a fry person. Here's Dawns instructions from another thread which I think answers your question: posted by: okiedawn on 07.29.2010 at 03:59 pm in Oklahoma Gardening Forum Keith, I like to oven blanch it first. TO OVEN BLANCH: Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Wash the okra, remove the caps and bottom ends and slice crosswise into 1/2" thick slices. Lay in a single layer on cookie sheets and blanch for 5 to 10 minutes. I think 5 is fine but sometimes I leave it for a bit longer, not necessarily intentionally, but since I'm usually doing several things simultaneously as I 'put up' the harvest, I sometimes lose track of the time, esp. if I forgot to set the oven timer. Remove the cookie sheets from the oven and let okra pieces cool. Once cook, pack into freezer bags or plastic freezer containers, seal and label. Do not decide to nibble just one piece after it comes out of the oven, or you'll end up munching on all of it and will have nothing left to go into the freezer. Big fat okra chips are every bit as good as potato chips, esp. if you sprinkle them with salt or your favorite spice mix. [Note: It is not my fault if you consume all your newly-blanched okra in this manner.] TO BLANCH IN BOILING WATER: If you prefer to blanch in boiling water, use 1 gallon of water for every pound of okra you have to blanch. Divide pods by size into two groups--those 3" or smaller and those larger than 3" and blanch the smaller ones for 3 minutes and the larger ones for 5 minutes. After they cool, you can pack them into bags or containers whole, or can slice them into 1/2" pieces. Seal, label, freeze. You can freeze it plain and bread it after removing it from the freezer. Just bread it without thawing it, and then cook it immediately. Or, you can bread it before freezing it. TO BREAD: After using the blanching method of your choice, you can bread the okra any way you wish, using your favorite breading recipe, and then freeze it in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Once the individual pieces are frozen, remove from cookie sheet and place in freezer bags or containers, label and seal. When you're ready to cook it, remove it from the freezer and allow it to thaw a tiny bit as the oil heat up, then cook as usual. When breading, you can keep it simple by just dredging it through cornmeal, or flour if you don't use cornmeal, or a combination of flour and cornmeal. You can dip the okra in milk or egg before dipping it into the breading mix....just fix it like you were going to fry it immediately. You can sprinkle it with salt and pepper if you want, or mix in salt and pepper with your breading material. FREEZE IT: At this point, some people freeze it in single layers as is on the cookie sheets, then move it to containers to place in the freezer. OR PARTIALLY FRY IT: Some people like to fry it a little bit, just until the breading shows the first hint of golden brown color, then freeze it on a cookie sheet and then place in freezer containers.

Hello again.. :-) Elly...thanks for your input. Yes, I am sure there is no way to completely avoid ticks or the need for checks each time you are outdoors. Some things that are pretty scary are: when you hear of people getting bitten and not even knowing it for weeks until they start getting symptoms. How did these people miss having a tick on them? That as many as 40% don't get the bullseye rash and go to the doctor with symptoms and without the rash, some doctors don't even prescribe antibiotics in time to keep it from becoming chronic. That some ticks are the size of a period. How do you see that when you are checking? Does showering after exposure assure that you will get rid of them? What about on your back where you can't check? Don't the ticks attach themselves to you and couldn't you shower and still not dislodge it? Isn't it only later when the tick gets engorged with blood that you notice it? I can't see how Lyme titres would help since you have to catch the tick during the first 36 hours after being bitten to keep it from escalating to a chronic condition, correct? By the time you show positive for a Lyme titre there is a possibility you are already past the window of being able to treat it and keep it from becoming chronic. Lyme titres are not 100% dependable. Yes, I am sure there are DEET repellents but I wouldn't want to use them. lycopus...I am not sure if I am following you here. We have a yard, as the rest of you do, we garden in it, use it. We have been pulling out weeds and pruning bushes and mowing lawn etc. and in one week, we found 5 ticks on us. So I don't understand your suggestion not to walk through it on a regular basis. I don't know how you can be certain where exactly in your yard a tick is. If you are maintaining a yard, you are going to be exposed to them. You suggest that you have been exposed often to ticks without contracting Lyme. Is that to say you do not get ticks on you? Or you find them and get them off right away? So what is it that you do that avoids coming in contact with them? Are there specifics of your technique of checking for ticks? You suggest vaccines, but I have never heard of them. Have you had a vaccine? If there is an effective vaccine, why aren't doctors recommending it for everyone? Sam....thanks for that link to the Lyme Disease Foundation. I will get over there and look it over. I am so sorry that you have this condition and thank you for sharing your experiences so the rest of us can understand how serious the risk is and take all the precautions that we can. I hope that you can find some treatment that can improve your condition and help you feel stronger. Thanks for all the input.. Adam

Thank you, IloveRed, to the link of Forbes article. Here's an excerpt from that Forbes link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/04/04/americas-gardasil-problem-how-politics-poisons-public-health/3/#4978b3012389 "They looked specifically at the ­terrible neurological disease called Guillain-Barré Syndrome, because it’s known that a swine flu shot given in the 1970s caused it. The rate of GBS reported for Gardasil was half what it was for other vaccines. In the U.S. the number of cases of cervical cancer is controlled by the fact that women get regular Pap smears. Among the most effective cancer screening tests ever invented, they catch precancerous growths before they turn into tumors. " THANK YOU, anele_gw, for the CBS news link, see excerpt https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ "A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found while the overall risk of side effects appears to be comparable to other vaccines, Gardasil has a higher incidence of blood clots reported. Merck also says it's looking into cases of ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, reported after vaccination. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Merck is also monitoring the number of deaths reported after Gardasil: at least 32. The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. Dr. Harper says the side effects reported so far call for more complete disclosure to patients. She says they should be told that protection from the vaccination might not last long enough to provide a cancer protection benefit, and that its risks - "small but real" - could occur more often than the cervical cancer itself would. Parents and women must know that deaths occurred. Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in Dr. Slade's work, one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/ From StrawChicago: I am a victim of horrible-suffering with the flu-shot in Dec. 2015. The pain was many times worse than childbirth, I had vertigo & bleeding nose & ears and could not drive for 2 months, in addition to pneumonia & paid near $800 from my own-pocket (after insurance paid thousands). My neighbor died of Lou Gehrig's Disease, I witnessed her going from a vibrant mid-30's woman to being paralyzed in a wheel-chair .. then a vegetative state in a nursing home for 6 months. She could not talk and answered questions by blinking her eyes. She died after 1 1/2 years of immense suffering and financial cost. Google Gardasil and you'll see the below: INFORMATION ABOUT GARDASIL 9GARDASIL®9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant)helps protect girls and women ages 9 to 26 against cervical, vaginal, vulvar, and anal cancers and genital warts caused by 9 types of HPV. GARDASIL 9 helps protect boys and men ages 9 to 26 against anal cancer and genital warts caused by those same HPV types. GARDASIL 9 may not fully protect everyone, nor will it protect against diseases caused by OTHER HPV types or against diseases not caused by HPV. GARDASIL 9 does not prevent all types of cervical cancer, so it’s important for women to continue routine cervical cancer screenings. GARDASIL 9 is a shot that is usually given in the arm muscle. GARDASIL 9 may be given as 2 or 3 shots.