Thanking Orflo ( Frank)

[canadamike]

I would like to thank you and Els, Frank, for the wonderfully warm welcome. I loved every minute of it. Your place is like a magical garden, many sceptics would try to find the elves in it.

But your warmth will always be my most beautiful memory, this ability you both have to make somebody feel at home, and this incredibly genuine and almost purely childish kindness, in the most beautifully playful and life embracing sense of the word.

Oups, I was going to forget this ability to build a place outside of time and space, a surreal oasis of pure beauty.

I love you my friend, thanks for everything, and please kiss Els for me.

My house is yours....I think you know that.

Michel

[orflo]

Thank you, Sir Lachaume!!! We did have a good time, didn't we? You did drink tooo much........milk ;D ;D.
Folks, if you ever have the occasion of meeting Michel, don't hesitate, he's a nice, warm , gentle person with the heart on the right place. Just make sure you have some good milk at home...Over here in Europe most milk is sterilised, and the taste is just bland. I recently read only 1 % of the milk sold in Belgium is not sterilised, which is a shame....

[canadamike]

Yeah, right!! Forget going to Europe to drink wine folks, we have the same ones at home, only more expensive ( way more: table wine is cheaper than bottled water or a Coke over there).

But when it comes to milk, they are piss drinker. I can understand why they don't drink any, my own little body cleaning/body fluids overflow system is throwing away liters of much better stuff in the toilet everyday

I can live without booze, wine beer and all, although I kind of like it, but I can't live without milk.

Frank had milk, REAL MILK. Oh man!! And we went to the organic food store AND THE LADY HAD SOME LEFT, USUALLY YOU HAVE TO ORDER IT. THERE IS A GOD FOR CANADIAN MILK DRINKERS GIVING CONFERENCES IN EUROPE.

And by the way, you little devil, I just saw the picture of me playing silly with my pants. The solanum michellachaumus bit needing reselection for straighter stems had me almost piss in my pants. I was on skype with my friend Nick Vintila, a man you should all have the privilege to know, you good folks, trying to locate the pictures I posted from the trip, so we were talking while looking at the forum together, when suddenly I heared a big laugh....he had stumbled on that picture, I did not know it was there...

I had to go to the John....

Here is a picture of me with my belgian girlfriend Rachelle, the name I gave to the milk quart. What we did together after the picture, the extasy I felt is none of your business , but when I left her she felt a lot of void and emptiness...





To be quite frank, Rachelle, in my mind, just looked like this:



I guess I needed milk

[PatrickW]

I don't think raw milk is legal in Holland. It's interesting it's available in Belgium. Cheese made from raw milk is no problem and very common, but not milk...

[canadamike]

It is not raw, Patrick, it is pasteurized, like in North America. The milk I drank in Belgium was from the Netherlands.

In North America, we even have filtered milk, NOT HEATED AT ALL, totally natural, containing 99 times less bacterias than pasteurized milk.

It is, roughly, milked passed through a tube made of TYVEK, the membrane used around the world on new houses to let the air in but the water out. The pores of Tyvek are too small for bacterias to go through, one micron I think ( but not sure). Mind you, they may have some with smaller pores.

I had an underground watering system using that technology once, I only needed 5 psi of pressure, and the owner of the business selling it ( don't think they exist anymore) told me studies had been conducted in Africa to use it as a cheap alternative to clean water from bacterias and impurities..

BTW Patrick, thanks for the fantastic job you did with Tom...

[PatrickW]

Oct 30, 2009 17:34:52 GMT -5 canadamike said:

BTW Patrick, thanks for the fantastic job you did with Tom...

You too Michel! Without you, Tom wouldn't have been able to do most of his trip.

Also I like your idea of filtering milk, rather than pasteurizing it.