June 2020, Week 3
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Comments (62)Larry, I am so sorry about your garden and about Madge's pots. Most of your plants should recover. In our worst ever hailstorm we've had here in OK, my tomato plants were between knee-high and waist-high and loaded with fruit when hail that was about the size of ping pong balls busted everything down to the ground. It probably was very late May when this happened. I literally had to cut every plant off an inch or two above the ground and start over, just hoping that at least the broad-leaf plants would come back from their roots. I raked up endless busted fruit and demolished plants and my garden was pretty bare by the time I got all the destroyed stuff out. The compost pile got fed huge, endless amounts of plant matter that week. Cutting back the plants to remove all the damaged parts clinging by a thread worked for tomatoes and peppers, and most of the flowering plants. It did not, of course, work for onions and corn and much of anything else that has a central growing point. I salvaged the onions, though, harvesting all of them early and only half-sized, but chopped and froze them because the bulbs were bruised from the hail and likely would have spoiled quickly. Our tomato and pepper plants made a full recovery and we had a great harvest that year, albeit a late one. I replanted all I could so we'd have more than just tomatoes and peppers. I was so grateful for the garden's recovery. Still, if you had looked at our garden in May with all that damage, you'd never have dreamed how good it would look maybe 4-6 weeks later. This was very early in our years here in OK, maybe around 2004 or 2005. We've never had such bad hail since, for which I've been exceedingly grateful. We had experienced baseball to softball sized hail in Fort Worth a couple of times and, needless to say, garden plants just did not recover from that but, honestly, we had so much damage to the house and vehicles that the garden was the least of our worries. I'm always so impressed with Loren's skills and her willingness to tackle whatever job must be done. She is learning to be so self-sufficient and such a great handywoman, and she is learning that from you! You should be proud, and you should brag. Your daughter was so lucky to have you and Lauren then repairing whatever you could. I hope her house is going to be alright. You know what, I am glad you hugged your daughter. We did all the proper social distancing for 5 or 6 weeks, but once the kids started bringing the grandkids over again, we all started hugging again and it just felt so right. I have noticed that our neighbor (stage 4 pancreatic cancer) has been surrounded by his kids and grandkids, and now nieces and nephews and their kids, this past week....and why not? If they cannot be with him now and hug him now, then when? While everyone is praying so hard for a miracle for him, the unspoken thought in my mind in his case is that sometimes God doesn't give us the answer to our prayers that we were hoping for. Our preacher used to say "sometimes the answer from God when you pray is no or not now" when I was a kid and I've never forgotten that, so why can't our friend's family just be with him now while he still is here? Who knows how long he has, especially since complicating factors have prevented them from starting chemo as planned. None of us are guaranteed tomorrow on this earth. Sometimes families may have to choose love and togetherness over social distancing and I believe that is okay. We cannot let this pandemic turn us into robots who stay six feet away from everybody we love forever. The government asked us all to be careful and to self-quarantine in order to slow the spread of the virus and we all did that, but even they do not expect us all to self-isolate forever. We slowed the spread. So far our hospital systems have not been overwhelmed, but we also have to go on living. I can tell you from going shopping on Thursday that most people up here in OK are completely over social distancing, and few are wearing masks. People down in Texas don't seem to be doing much social distancing, at least not when we were in the DFW metro last week, but they were much more likely to be wearing masks. And, of course, they should be taking it very seriously down there because just the DFW metro area has well over 15,000 cases and that case load alone makes me think they'll keep wearing masks down there for the foreseeable future. I think everyone is trying to do what they can, within reason, while getting on with living their lives. It seems to be a rather delicate balancing act. Nancy, I want to dig out my annual veggie raised beds next year in the off-season and fill the bottoms of them with hügelkultur materials and then pile the dirt back on top. Of course, heavy rainfall could ruin those plans too, but we have tons of wood to use if only we can do that. We don't need more beds, but we need to feed the beds we have and I want to feed them with hügelkultur materials that will keep them happy for years. Ever since we moved here, I have focused on improving the soil first and foremost. Maybe no one but me ever will understand how much it has improved, but at least I will know that I left the soil here much better than I found it. We also have tried to heal the land. Our property is essentially 14.4 acres of creek hollow, with three creeks and numerous ponds and a swamp. It was so badly eroded when we moved here because almost every bit of it slopes downhill. Only the part where we have our house and detached garage is flat and fairly level. So, for years, we have healed eroded gullies by filling them with hügelkultur materials and letting all those materials sit and decompose in place. It is amazing how such a simple thing pays off. The gullies stopped eroding and the native plants returned to them, filling in the bare denuded soil and covering it with grasses and forbs that have reclaimed those eroded places. Because so much of our hügelkultur material was tree limbs and such, the wildlife flocked to the gullies to nest in the piles of brush we placed there. It was a win-win situation. We'll always have sloped land. We'll always have heavy rainfall flowing downhill from surrounding places that are on higher ground than ours. We'll always have some erosion, but that doesn't mean we can't work to minimize the erosion, to fix the land and to control the flow of water and to improve the soil. We just do what we can. All we really have to do is stop the erosion and keep the soil from washing away, and the native plants come back on their own and take over. To me, that's a huge improvement we can see that pays off in terms of the native floral and fauna. It rained overnight and again this morning, so we remain lakefront property at this point. What can you do? God is sending us rain and we shall have rain. Tim, being type A and OCD was going to lose his mind yesterday over (a) the HVAC not working and (b) our HVAC guy being on vacation. So, he spent his whole day (and my whole day) obsessed with fixing it himself. He couldn't even think of anything else. Couldn't talk about anything else. Didn't want to do anything else. Guess what? All the parts places are closed on the holiday weekend too. He went everywhere, he called everywhere, he was relentless. He finally found a guy in Muenster, TX, who had the two parts he thought he needed to fix the HVAC, so off we went to Muenster to this very nice man's house, because he runs his HVAC repair business out of his shop building on his property. He was such an angel because, you know, it is his holiday weekend too, and he found the parts, pulled them and had them waiting for us when we arrived. Once we were home, Tim fixed the AC, with a little telephone guidance from the gentleman in Muenster. Now, I want to be a fly on the wall when Tim explains to our usual HVAC repair guy that, um, never mind and forget the discussion we had on Saturday morning---I fixed it myself. lol. Most of those guys aren't overjoyed if you tell them you need them and then turn around and tell them "never mind". It isn't even that hot this weekend, only the mid to upper 80s, but my husband acted like we were going to die if he didn't get the AC working this weekend. On the other hand, it was too muddy to do any of the other 99 things on his To Do list, so at least he had something to work on. Amy, I'm glad you got your goulash! Did you find the refrigerator? Jennifer, Fire ants are not the same as red ants. If you have red ants, those probably are very beneficial in the garden. We have giant harvester ant mounds outside our garden and those ants have worn pathways through the grass and into the garden. I see them in there all the time, carrying out whatever food they find (seems like they like seeds a lot, and the bodies of dead insects) and working quite diligently. I like them. Most all ants are beneficial in the garden, but fire ants are not, and the damaged they do just to the gardener is bad enough to make you work hard to keep them out of your garden. Red imported fire ants are tiny compared to harvester ants, except for the queens which are much larger than the rest of the fire ants, and they sting like crazy. I will tolerate all ants in the garden, except for fire ants. Here's some info on Red Imported Fire Ants. I think they probably were what you were seeing in 2015 because all that rain was hard on them. Red imported fire ants Congrats on being able to enjoy a strawberry pie from your own strawberries and I hope your lunch with your friend was nice. Larry, My sweet sister recently was hanging a new shower curtain, and she was standing on the edge of the tub to hang it on the rod when she slipped, fell, and broke her foot. It is impossible to get up out of a slippery tub with a broken foot. Thankfully someone was home when she fell. I cannot imagine what it would have been like if she'd had to lie there for hours waiting for someone to come home and find her. I hope Madge heals speedily. I always take my cell phone into the bathroom with me so I can call someone to come rescue me if I fall in the tub. Tim's gone to work for so many hours per day and I'm usually home alone, so I have to be super careful. My friend, Jo (Fred's wife), fell once at the mailbox at the end of their driveway and broke her pelvis and couldn't get up. She didn't have her cell phone with her, and their private road, with just their house and one neighbor's house, gets very low traffic when everyone is gone to work, so she laid out there for several hours waiting for someone to come driving along and find her. I learned from her ordeal and had made a habit ever since of taking my phone with me everywhere, even if I am just going to the garage, garden, chicken coop or whatever, just because I want to be able to summon help for me if I've fallen and can't get up. Heck, if you fall here, the fire ants right now are going to come over and start building a mound right on top of you. I haven't been having to use the water hose, and the fire ants have built numerous mounds right on top of it. One of our friends was thrown off a horse last year and laid on the ground with a broken hip for several hours. By the time someone found her, she had fire ants all over her, just adding insult to injury. I had started making aging adjustments at a fairly young age---around 54 or 55. When Jo fell and laid out there on the hot ground in the sun for so long, it made me more serious about carrying my phone if I am home, or letting people know where I am going if I am not at home, because I realized what happened to her could happen to any of us at any age. I'd rather be smart and proactive and face the fact that every year my body finds it a little harder to do all the things I used to do, than to live in denial, like the man I'm married to, and pretend I am not getting older. There is nothing wrong with getting older---it is, indeed, a blessing, but we have to be smarter as we age and we have to have a plan in place to help ourselves if we fall or otherwise get injured in some way. So very many of our older friends here remained in excellent health well into their 70s and 80s (and some of them, their 90s) and drove their adult kids insane by always being out on the tractor, on the horse, etc., until they fell off the tractor or the horse and laid on the ground for hours waiting to be found. I've tried to learn from them (and all of them did have to learn to always have that phone on their person just in case). I also learned that a stubborn person who is insistent that they will heal and return to the tractor and/or horse tends to do so. For all of them, a broken hip, tail bone or pelvis was just a temporary impediment to living their life normally. One injury does not keep a good person down, and for many of them, the motivation to do all the physical rehab after breaking bones was that they wanted to get back on the tractor or back on the horse. I guess for me it would be that I wanted to get back into the garden since I don't have a tractor or a horse. If this rain keeps up, my whole garden is going to drown again, and all I'll have left is what is in the containers. I'm so grateful for the container plants because there's a ton of rain in our 10-day forecast. Dawn...See MoreJuly 2020, Week 3
Comments (45)Marleigh, Any and every garlic variety I've ever planted has performed about the same, so I am not convinced the variety matters other than each of us just picking one that appeals to our individual taste buds. I have grown a lot of the varieties available from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and from Peaceful Valley Farm Supply, including Inchelium Red (which we really liked when I grew it), German Red, Italian Purple, Chesnok Red, and German Extra Hardy. I've even grown the plain old California White type varieties from grocery store garlic. If you want specific varieties, the time to order is now before they sell out, and they'll be shipped to you in the fall. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange has some great mixed packs and samplers (their choice of varieties) that allows you to try more varieties at a lower price. Garlic stores a long time if properly cured, but I say that from the vantage point of someone who usually grows in drought and dry years and I do always grow it in raised beds, so our garlic never is that wet at harvest time. It might not cure well and store as long in those years with persistent rainfall carrying into the summer months. You don't have to store it all fresh. You can chop it and dry it or freeze it for use in cooking later. I do that a lot with onions and garlic, just because it streamlines cooking later on when I can reach into the freezer and pull out pre-chopped frozen onions and garlic. Freeze the garlic in the snack-sized ziplock bags in portions that correlate well to how much you use when cooking and put a ton of those little ziplocks inside a gallon freezer ziplock. I didn't plant any garlic last year because garlic-planting time fell in that time frame after Mom died when we were cleaning out her house and putting it on the market, etc., and I was preoccupied with family matters. Last year is just a blur now..... Be careful working out in the heat, even early in the day. We still have all that dreadful humidity hanging around. My morning work consists of feeding the animals and watering the containers, and I'm usually back indoors before the heat index hits 90 degrees....if I hurry. Jennifer, I had one rule when I was canning and I always stuck to it---I didn't go to bed until every dish was washed and the kitchen was clean. It just made a difference (in a bad way) if I had to wake up to dirty dishes and a dirty kitchen. I was not as obsessive as one of my sisters-in-law who always mopped her kitchen floor every single night before bedtime. Nope. Not that obsessed with a clean floor. Sometimes it seems like I barely fell into bed (lol, but with a clean kitchen) before Tim's alarm was going off to wake him up. One thing I don't miss about growing less and getting off the constant canning treadmill is wiping tomato spatters off the backsplash and countertops. I don't miss that at all. I didn't have a job outside our home though, so staying up late and doing dishes and cleaning was, in that sense, my job and I could stay up half the night if I needed to. It must be so much harder to try to cram all the canning and cleaning into each day when you have to leave home to go to your job too. Sometimes this summer I find myself with too much time on my hands and contemplate thawing out some of the tomatoes in the freezer and making salsa and canning it, and then I stop myself. We still have salsa in jars, so I don't need to make more yet. I can only fit so much food into the pantry and I've been keeping it full of long-term storage goods so I can avoid the stores whenever Covid-19 flares up too much locally. Rebecca, I'm glad you are conserving your energy (as if you have much of a choice) while you await your test results. There's no sense in pushing too hard to do other things when your body needs to have the energy to recover. There is nothing new here. Hot and humid, hot and humid, hot and humid. It doesn't rain here, no matter what we hear from other areas or see on the radar---the storms fall apart before they reach us. Yesterday, just to be clear, our local TV met said several times that there is no rain in the 7-day forecast. I guess he really wanted to drive home that point! lol Now, that is our typical summer forecast so not at all surprising, but also disheartening as a gardener to know that Mother Nature is not sending any relief in the form of rainfall. Dawn...See MoreAugust 2020, Week 3
Comments (51)Amy, We've always had various brown stink bugs in Texas going back as far as my memory goes, and the brown marmorated ones are a relatively new invasive species. I am sure Oklahoma has some of the same native ones we had in Texas. I see various brown ones here all the time, and not necessarily brown marmorated ones although I sometimes see one of them here and there. I think one reason that all the talk of the brown marmorated stink bug (and they truly are huge home invaders in the northeastern USA so I understand the concern) arriving in OK a decade or so didn't bother me because we've always had to deal with brown stink bugs...so, eh, what's one more? If a person already has worked (via caulking and such) to keep out the invasive Asian lady bugs, which we have had to deal with ever since moving to OK in 1999, then their efforts will keep out the stink bugs too. There's a great webpage of Texas' Brown Stink Bugs, and though I looked, I could not find anything similar for OK. Here it is...look at all of them. Some are common, some are rare, but they have to have been seen and documented in Texas to make it onto the webpage: Texas: Brown Stink Bugs I'm pretty sure the big box stores here don't get the brassicas until sometime in September, and perhaps not until October. I'll start watching for them and let you know when I see them. They almost arrive too late here. I really think they should be in the stores right now for proper timing of planting them to beat the cold, but they usually aren't. I believe the wholesale growers and retailers might be afraid no one will buy them in the typically vicious August heat, but that is when they need to be planted. If the cats were pretty big, maybe they've just moved on to the next step in the process. Wasps will get a lot of them though, and so will birds. I've never interfered in the process because I don't want to disrupt the food web, but butterflies are incredibly plentiful here in our rural area so it is likely we have enough to go around. In a more city-like setting where there's fewer cats, I understand why people might feel the need to protect them. Rebecca, I agree with you on fall tomatoes needing a pretty early start. I like to have them growing by mid-June. They won't necessarily set a lot of fruit in summer, but they'll be big and flowering when the August cool-down arrives. Coleus is very slow from seed. Takes them forever to sprout and forever to grow. Just press the seeds lightly into a fine, sterile, seed-starting growing medium and do not cover them up---they need light to germinate. If you're sprouting them at 70-75 degrees, they should sprout in 7-14 days. Larry, I am glad you and Madge are getting out a little bit. I actually think right now is a pretty good time to get out---the numbers of cases from the big July resurgence are falling and the fall/winter cold/flu/Covid-19 season is not upon us yet. Tim and I went to the Olive Garden about a month ago when we were in Sherman to shop at Sam's Club. It was wonderful! We hadn't been in an Olive Garden in years and enjoyed it so much, but it definitely felt odd with all the mask-wearing, social distancing, etc. About once a month we try to go to some sort of restaurant to sit and eat a meal as if things are normal, which they aren't. Back in June we went to Red Lobster, and that was enjoyable too. Honestly, as empty as these restaurants have been when we have been in them, I don't know how they are doing enough business to survive. We do try to be there at 11 a.m. when they open up, figuring that's the healthiest, safest time to get in early and eat and beat the crowd. Maybe they are more crowded later in the day. At the present time I feel safer in a relatively uncrowded restaurant than in a crowded grocery store. Nancy, I have made sweetened condensed milk from scratch using artificial sweeteners so it is not as intensely sweet as the version made with sugar. Enjoy all those potatoes. There are so many different ways to fix potatoes, so at least there's a lot of possibilities with them. Amy, I don't specifically take B-12, but do take a B-Complex vitamin that contains it. A couple of years ago, someone on the Oklahoma Gardening FB page said that after they started talking a B-complex vitamin daily, the mosquitoes started leaving them alone. I was skeptical, but figured for the cost of a bottle of B-Complex vitamins, I could find out for myself. Tim and I have been taking the B-Complex vitamins for a couple of years now and the mosquitoes leave us alone 98-99% of the time. It is as close to a miracle solution for mosquitoes as I've ever seen. At one point, late last summer, we ran out of the B-Complex tablets and thought we'd just wait and buy a new bottle the following Spring. Ha! Within days, mosquitoes were all over us and biting us, so when we were at Costco I bought their huge bottle of B-complex vitamins and we've been taking it ever since. Mosquitoes will buzz around us but 99% of the time they won't even attempt to land on us. I don't know if it works for all people, but it works for us, and I've been a huge skeeter magnet all my life...until now. As long as it continues working, we'll continue taking it. Was a vitamin B deficiency the reason mosquitoes always have flocked to us? Who knows? However, having plenty of vitamin B in our bodies seems to repel them from us now. Jennifer, Yes, the ones with the blue-black horns are the actual tomato hornworms. They are much more rare in OK than the similar tobacco hornworms with red horns which feed on all the same plants that they do. Hu, Getting a fall garden started in July and/or August always is the hardest part, isn't it? The heat and the grasshoppers both hang on forever some years and make it virtually impossible. I've started skipping gardening in August for the most part, but that's because it is rattlesnake season. A friend of mine here killed a huge rattler in his yard yesterday, a nice reminder to me to keep my eyes on the ground and to watch carefully for them. Larry, I'm sorry you are not feeling well. Getting older is hard---the body wears out and hurts more, and seems less cooperative. The energy level changes as well. I sure am learning to pace myself better as I get older. Those glorious days of working in the garden from sunrise to sunset when I was in my 40s and early 50s...yep, those are so far gone that I can scarcely remember them now. All the news from here, y'all, is not really good news. I am laughing at myself though because yesterday felt like Monday instead of Thursday since the girls had been here for a couple of days mid-week and we took them home on Wednesday afternoon, making it feel like Sunday. So, it felt like Monday all day and then I discovered it was Thursday when the weekly newspaper arrived in the mail, and thus I was overjoyed to discover it was almost the weekend already. (grin) All these August days just run together. Jana had a very tough day on Thursday, in what was already a very stressful week as her senior year of nursing school resumed this week and there's tons and tons of clinicals scheduled, some of them left over from the spring semester because Covid-19 interrupted that semester. The kids started back to school. They already were having a crazy week, and then it got even crazier. Somewhere around mid-day, Chris called to tell me that his father-in-law had passed away unexpectedly. I don't know his exact age, but think he was a bit younger than Tim and I. We had met him a handful of times and I really liked him but we did have the advantage of meeting him when he was sober (which he usually was not). Chris and Jana were up in the air all day trying to figure out who was going to travel to claim his body, make his final arrangements, etc. and neither Jana nor her siblings had any clue about his finances, whether he had life insurance, a will, etc. so they didn't even really know where to start. He was up in OKC visiting a relative, so that relative headed south last night to bring down the house keys so Jana and her siblings could search his home for paperwork to lead them in whatever direction for planning his funeral. Clearly this is a topic they'd never discussed with their father. Then, about 4 or 5 hours later, Chris called again, this time to tell me that Jana's great-aunt on her father's side had just passed away due to complications from Covid-19. This means that since December, Jana has lost her grandmother (her father's mom) to whom she was incredibly close, then her father's sister a couple of weeks later, and now her dad and her grandmother's sister on the same day. Every time Chris called me yesterday (a month's worth of phone calls in one day, I think) , the plan had changed and the grandkids were coming here to stay while he and Jana drove to OKC, then they weren't, then they were, etc. I just told him "whenever, whatever, however" to emphasize that they could drop off the kids here anytime 24/7 when and if they needed to and we'd take care of things here on this end. Oddly, just the other night at dinner on Tuesday, Aurora was talking about how great-grandma (my mom) died last August and she misses her, and then she mentioned that Great-Grandma Ruth (Jana's mom) had died last Christmas and she misses her too. She also reminded me that she hasn't seen all her Texas cousins (my sister's grandkids) in a long time and she misses them, and I reminded here that it is because of Covid-19 and we just have to be patient and wait for the virus situation to get better. We spent a substantial amount of time at dinner that night discussing how we keep them both alive in our hearts, souls and memories and I was impressed at how well an almost-six-year-old understands death. We never could have imagined she'd be losing her grandfather a couple of days after we had that discussion. The cool nights and early mornings here have been heavenly and it is nice the HVAC system has been getting a bit of a break. The heat was forecast to start cranking back up yesterday, but it really didn't do it. There's no rain in our forecast this week, so I need to keep watering everything, but there's two Tropical Depressions headed for the Gulf Coast and expected to make landfall early next week, and one of them ought to send rain up across Texas towards Oklahoma after it makes landfall, probably near Houston, as a hurricane. I'll be watching for that. It seems we always spend part of August down here hoping for a hurricane because it might bring us rain, though we certainly are hoping for a minor hurricane that doesn't damage coastal areas too much as it makes landfall. I am awake in the middle of the night. I went to bed too early because I was so worn out after a couple of really fun days with the girls, but then apparently my body decided it had had enough sleep and awakened, feeling refreshed, at 3 a.m. There is not much you can do at 3 a.m. except try to be quiet and not wake up your spouse and the dogs. I'd like to think I could maybe fall back asleep for a while, and I think I'll try that now, but the odds are that about the time I fall asleep, Tim's alarm clock will go off to wake him up...and it always wakes me up too. That makes falling back asleep seem pointless. I'm sitting here looking at the thermometer and it shows it is 68 degrees outside---a huge change from earlier in the month when we would awaken to overnight lows around 78-80. Have a great Friday everybody! Dawn...See MoreAugust 2020, Week 5-September 2020, Week 1
Comments (63)Yay for the violets, Nancy! And...you still have summer squash? The bugs killed ours long ago. Even the C. Moschata. I am pooped. So tired. We shopped today and I don't have to tell anyone that shopping is very unpleasant right now. However, Dillards allows you to try on clothes and I found a dress. It's not exactly the bohemian/fairy princess dress that I wanted. But it fits nicely and its a forest green color...and it's Robin Hoodish (not really), so I bought it. Paid more than what I wanted to pay, but it's done. DONE! Came home around 3 and sliced, breaded and froze okra. Then figured out how to use my pressure canner as a water bath canner and pickled some okra. On my own. The lids sealed so hopefully we're good. My house is getting to the point that I am very unhappy. I know a clean house isn't the most important thing in the world....but I enjoy a clean home. It just feels nice to me. However, a clean house isn't anywhere in my near future. I am hoping the robot vacuums are cheap this Christmas. That will at least help. We are celebrating Mason's BD tomorrow and that will be fun. It's at a very good restaurant that I haven't been to in a long time. Then grocery shopping and then maybe starting more lettuce seed. In between all of those things is animal care. Lots of animal care. There's always one of them doing something they shouldn't be doing or somewhere they shouldn't be hanging out. One of the fat buff orpingtons has figured out how to get out of the chicken yard. And she isn't swift. She is dumb--beautiful but dumb and wanders over by the dogs. So, I'm constantly leaving whatever task I'm working on to catch her or entice her back to the yard. And everyone is always hungry all the time. The 3 young pullets mingled with the main flock today. It went very well. Having a good rooster helps with that. They're roosting in their own coop, though. It will be a gradual thing as always. Momma Blossom will be tired of her chicks soon and those two chicks will need to move to the pullet coop at that time. Although, at least one of those chicks is a cockerel. Tom may or may not start doing meat birds and these two could be the start of it. They won't be THE meat birds, but they might be the parents of. I've named the one I think is a girl. Her name is Gwendolyn, which is sorta funny because Gwendolyn (actually related to Jennifer/Guinevere.) means white ...and Gwendolyn is a dark cornish. I'm simply rambling now....See Moreluvncannin
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