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Moozillion

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Just found something you almost never see over here: FRESH figs in the grocery store! I LOOOOOVE fresh figs, but they are so fragile once they're ripe that NO grocery stores carry them. I have 2 fig trees, but they haven't had a lot this year, and the birds are up and at them early!
Hubby and I stopped at a local grocery- truly local, not just a local extension of a national chain, and THERE THEY WERE: FRESH FIGS in those little green mesh baskets! for only $2.99!!!! :):):) I got one and have almost finished it off! A real treat! :) I would assume that figs grow well in Morocco?
 

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Just found something you almost never see over here: FRESH figs in the grocery store! I LOOOOOVE fresh figs, but they are so fragile once they're ripe that NO grocery stores carry them. I have 2 fig trees, but they haven't had a lot this year, and the birds are up and at them early!
Hubby and I stopped at a local grocery- truly local, not just a local extension of a national chain, and THERE THEY WERE: FRESH FIGS in those little green mesh baskets! for only $2.99!!!! :):):) I got one and have almost finished it off! A real treat! :) I would assume that figs grow well in Morocco?
Hi, Bea.
Yes, they grow well here and we have several fig trees in the area that produce the most gorgeous figs.
We dry them for the winter too.
One of the traditional Ramadan foods here.
wifey loves 'em.
 

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Surely it's Mt. Everest?
Wa wa - 10 pts.
it's actually Mauna Loa (pronounced 'lower' ha, ha a volcano in Hawaii.
It's 4,170 m above sea level, 5,000m below sea level and a further 8,000 metres under the sea bed.
So that's almost 55,000 ft, compared to Everest's puny 29,000 feet.
But also Mount Kilimanjaro is higher on two counts, firstly it rises straight out of the plain, whereas Everest is one of many pointy bits on the high Himalayan plateau and also Kilimanjaro is on the equator, which means, the earth being an oblate spheroid, that it bulges out at this point making Kilimanjaro substantially further away from the centre of the earth.
Everest is not the highest mountain in the world, but only the highest peak above sea level.
 

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Wa wa - 10 pts.
it's actually Mauna Loa (pronounced 'lower' ha, ha a volcano in Hawaii.
It's 4,170 m above sea level, 5,000m below sea level and a further 8,000 metres under the sea bed.
So that's almost 55,000 ft, compared to Everest's puny 29,000 feet.
But also Mount Kilimanjaro is higher on two counts, firstly it rises straight out of the plain, whereas Everest is one of many pointy bits on the high Himalayan plateau and also Kilimanjaro is on the equator, which means, the earth being an oblate spheroid, that it bulges out at this point making Kilimanjaro substantially further away from the centre of the earth.
Everest is not the highest mountain in the world, but only the highest peak above sea level.
You know, I read an article on Mauna Loa. Isn't bigger than the volcano on Mars? The one with an O?
 

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Mocking? Who?

I like to think what I do is a little more refined than that.
Cheese fountains and cheese aerosols refined ?
Anyway I was speaking primarily of Cowboy and Mike suggesting I was creeping about feeling people in the dark.
If I was, it was entirely accidental.
 

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