{Tips for Beautiful Legs}

Just like to share these great tips from Braun Silk épil 9 SkinSpa

Even with summer ending soon, we still need to keep our legs in mind!

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Select your pants wisely: long pants work lengthening and slimming!

¾ pants or Capri pants, on the other hand make legs appear shorter.

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{Lepiota rhacoides - the Shaggy Parasol}

These Lepiota rhacoides - Shaggy Parasol mushrooms did grow in our garden after some rain in July and early August.

When the Lepiota species are growing, its scales on the cap are the result of its cap expansion causing the surface tissue to crack.

As Pieter always used to say if he got questioned about a certain species being edible or not:

'You can eat them ALL - some of them only once...'

Therefore we never take the risk as they often look alike and they can easily be mistaken for the wrong ones. Annually there are quite a number of death because of this.

Our advice is to buy them and only eat the commercially grown varieties.

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{2004 Hurricane Francis - Our Garden Before and After}

• On September 7 of 2004, Hurricane Francis did 'visit' us briefly... and things never looked the same in our garden. 
• Our triple stem River Birch got severely damaged and had to be cut down. Sad to see them go down that way by brutal force!

• This photo is taken from our balcony, before Francis did strike us...
• The sky looks 'pregnant' (zwangere lucht) and the water is about to break.

• There goes our 13 year old river birch with its unusual triple stem.

• Deadly wounded so Pieter had to put it out of its misery...
• What a green grass we had then! Now it is all dead, like in winter time.

Related link:
{Our Damage from Tornado spin off of Hurricane Earl, 2003} | previous post by me