The City Council will see a full agenda for tomorrow evening’s regular meeting in City Hall at 7:30.

Scheduled under new business are two public hearings for proposed annexation which include property located at 1313 W. Macon and property located at 1912 Wilson Road.

Contracts for several activities concerning the July 4th celebration will also be in first reading. Contracts with The Fun Company Inc. for equipment, with Victorian Carthage for managing vendors, and a proposal from Chandler Audio & Video productions to supply the group SasaFras will be considered.

Also in first reading will be council bills to accept a final plat of Phelps 7th addition, located at Fulton and George E. Phelps Boulevard, and a final plat of Sunrise Meadows located at 13th and Buena Vista Avenue.

In final reading is Council bill 00-25 which authorizes the Mayor to execute an agreement with APAC-Missouri for paving.

The agenda includes a notice of a closed session to discuss leasing, purchase or sale of property.

I was informed last year that my strawberries aren’t supposed ta be ready for pickin’ until the fourth of July. Now I’ve got some plants that fit that description, but I’ve also put in some a those early bird strawberries. That apparently means the birds are aware that they come on in late spring.

I’ve already spotted a couple of little beaks eyein’ my strawberry patch. I’m seein’ some good leafs and a few little blooms that not doubt have also been spotted by the neighboring feathered friends.

With all the grippin’ I did last year about the birds gettin’ my strawberries, I never had anyone give me advice of how to stop ‘em. I will continue the battle this year, but so far I’ve only tasted a handful of fruit in two years. Sure are pretty though.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Workman's Loan

May day is traditional for planting flowers and herbs. It is the "safest" day to start planting herbs as they are so sensitive to cold and transplanting. My comfrey is blooming at this time standing tall and pretty. Don’t know what happened, but my white flowering comfrey did not come back this year. I have not had as good of luck with the slick leaved comfrey either.

Although comfrey has been the subject of controversy in past years as to weather one should take it internally or not, I still consider it one of my most favorite and important herbs. My Dad used to throw a handful or two a day to his animals and the vet always said they had good strong bones. I use it on any open wound or cut just like the Native Americans may have. After cleaning the area, I wet the root powder and apply it with some water or TT oil. It doesn’t look pretty, but it works well for healing the wound and taking away the soreness. In the old days, one could make a tea of the comfrey leaves to soothe an unruly stomach and even calm an ulcer.

The search for health is directly tied to the search for longevity. In a useful hint from Beer’s Almanac 1800, it is noted that "the difference between rising every morning at six and at eight, in course of forty years (supposing a man to go to bed at the same time he otherwise would) amounts to 20,000 hours, or three years, 121 days and 16 hours, which will afford eight hours a day for exactly ten years; so that it is the same as if ten years of life were added, in which we could commend eight hours every day for the cultivation of our minds, and the dispatch of our beliefs." So, maybe the answer isn’t in a bottle of pills, but in the sands of time!!