OT: Back on the Net - In Tennessee & Smiling

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> Hey y'all,

> Howdy to old friends and to those who don't know me yet. > ...

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>> Gotta go cut some logs now. Good to be back in the US of A and with

> the Natural Perfumery Group again.

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> Y'all have a gud'un .. and keep smiling. :-)

> Butch .. http://www.AV-AT.com

Merhaba, Butch!

I just read your fabulous and inspiring post...WOW...thanks for

sharing.

I just got married and am going to Turkey on honeymoon in September

(my husband is Turkish.)

Anyway, it's nice to meet you.

Welcome Back!

All the Best,

Keri

(an aspiring natural perfumer from NYC)

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Howdy Janita,

> Hi Butch

>

> Welcome back..... so good to hear from you.

Thank you ma'am .. appreciated it is. :-)

> Wonderful reading all your news and your place in Tennessee sounds

> perfect. I was in Tennessee /Nashville last year and I just loved

> that State. It was my first visit there and was taken with the

> charm, politeness and low key approach these folks have. It was

> winter so I have no idea what the humidity is like.... but saw the

> state red bird which is a fantastic colour. Some of the

> Architecture is quite lovely.... Your porch on your house sounds

> great for those sultry hot evenings sipping cool lemonade with the

> family.

Suthran charm is alive and well in Tennessee .. and folks are laid

back for sure. Both the feller who came out to hook up my cable TV

and I-Net and the one who came out to hook up the telephone took time

to chew the fat about the area .. we sat on the patio and had iced

tea. Sweet tea of course .. hardly anyone here drinks unsweetened

tea. ;-)

Humidity is high year around and its much higher here around Paris as

we are in lake country .. its something fairly easy to get used to ..

outside work is normally performed mornings and afternoons though I've

been going at it all day .. towel around the neck .. sweat band on the

forehead and a baseball cap fer'shur .. gotta drink lots of water and

sweet ice tea. ;-)

The red bird was the Cardinal .. pretty birds and lots of them here

but its actually the state bird of Kentucky and a few other states ..

http://www.50states.com/bird/cardinal.htm .. Tennessee state bird is

the Mocking Bird .. a noisy one but there are some nice lyrics when

they are happy. :-P http://www.50states.com/bird/mock.htm

The architecture of old Nashville is very nice .. especially nice is

the Parthenon out at Centennial Park .. built to proper scale after

the one in Athens, Greece .. Nashville is called the " Athens of the

South. " :-) Lots of old mansions still around most of the cities of

the South .. to include here in Paris.

We enjoy the patio for sure .. and the property. Just walking around

the boundary of our land is about as much exercise as I normally got

daily for the last few years .. had no real exercise program while in

Turkey. I'm working like a youngster now and finding muscles I had

forgotten about .. each morning they remind me they are there. ;-)

> I am using your fabulous Turkish Rose absolute at the moment for a

> client and the quality and aroma is first class. There is no doubt

> that I shall be ordering again. The great service you gave when I

> first ordered from you is a testimony of your hands on approach.

I'm happy to hear that you are pleased with the Rose Absolute .. its a

quality product for sure and I thank you for the testimonial and the

kind words. :-)

> I look forward to hearing your views on the organic wild crafted

> and free range issues.

I'll put something out next week .. gonna be tied up with company this

weekend and lots going down today. Actually, I'm not going to comment

on free ranging or the ethics of harvest methods .. primarily I will

address the problems with certification and some misinformation on the

use of Absolutes .. and present another view of the harvesting of

Mysore Sandalwood and Brazilian Rosewood. I'm on a new PC now .. my

old hard drive is still in one of the unpacked boxes so I'll be

digging into the archives of Oils & Herbs to find the old posts I made.

Might also provide some info on the EU regulations .. both Tony

Burfield and Watt are British and they have a good handle on

just how ineffective and nonsensical many of them are. The regs don't

all fix problems .. some of them create problems .. and there is no

effective way to enforce them in any case. In many situations its

like a bunch of unqualified amateurs sitting back and gloating over

rules they have made that do no more than disrupt the industry and

stroke the egos of those who made the rules. :-(

Attempts to create a Utopia necessarily dictate a need to control the

minds and actions of the public .. and standardization is not always a

good thing as it stomps on the individuality and creativeness of many

who are far more qualified and ethical than are those who are making

the rules. Finally, it can become obsessive behavior .. the rule

makers often go to extremes and create cloned copies of systems .. and

of people. :-(

Those who like to study history know the dangers inherent in too much

state control.

> With every good wish Butch to you and family, Janita

> pufumero

> http://www.hayspace.co.uk

Thank you ma'am for the kind words and for taking the time to make

this nice post.

Y'all have a gud'un .. and keep smiling. :-)

Butch http://ww.AV-AT.com