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 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:04 pm
dragon_of_emry @Pirhan: So glad that she is ok. Hope she feels much better soon. @Stostina: I bought a bunch of seeds to start, too! While I was at the store, I heard someone holler my name. I turned around to see my best friend. She saw what I had in the basket and told me she bought a bunch of seeds this morning, too! She hasn't planted hers yet, so we might split some of our packages in half and trade. Awesome! What kind did you buy? That's pretty lucky to have a friend who is willing to trade with you. It's always fun to share with friends! =D
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:19 pm
@Stostina and Sunset: I got mostly Texas natives: bluebonnets, gaillardia (Indian blanket), black-eyed Susan (rudbeckia), and verbena. I also go some proven heat-tolerant plants (I am in zone 9 in the middle of a drought, afterall) including Shasta daisy, African daisy, cosmos, lupine (Russell's mix), celosia (c**k's comb), and portulaca (moss rose). I also couldn't resist some watermelons. Whatever I don't use here or trade with my best bud will go up to my place and either make it into a pot in my mini-yard (I had put yardlet, but I decided not to confuse folks with my made-up words). If there is anything left after that, I am going guerilla gardening! ninja (I think I first saw that in a thread here!)
Today I put in an application for what just may be my dream job. I'm not sure how good my chances are. Wish me tons and tons of luck!
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:38 pm
Home again! It was great to hike all over campus, see some old places, go shopping with my son! When we were topping up the gastank, I looked across the lot and saw a guy I went to high school with---! I stared at the back of his head for 4 years in school (alphabetical seating), and had only seen him on Facebook since then---1971. What a surprise! Neither of us lives in that town, and he's several states away. It was just a trip full of good surprises. I'm still trying to get all the weimaraner kisses off my glasses. The trip home had me driving in everything except snow, including hail that piled up like snowdrifts----it was pretty exciting at 75 mph.
There's no place like home.
Walked in the house, smelled a fresh pot of coffee and saw my husband slide supper into the stove to finish cooking. Attacked by cats and dogs both, even the birds knew someone was here.....it was a good dinner, then, full and more tired than I thought, it was good to s l e e p in my own bed.
@ Dragon: That's going to be a wonderful garden! I hope the lupines grow for you, I've never had any luck with them here, I think it's too humid.....I should try them again. My grandparents were great ones to dig things up from the side of the road and take them home, just to see if they would grow. They were great gardeners! Anyway, they brought home a small clump of bluebonnets one year, and in five years the whole yard was full of them! We thought they were the most beautiful flowers we had ever seen.
Good luck with that dream job!
Today I made nothing, bought nothing, did nothing, learned nothing.
It was great.
I'm not spending tomorrow like this, though!
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:08 am
@sunset: Sounds like fun driving weather lol. Cool that you had a nice road trip though.
After a rigorous 10 day course of antibiotics i ran out on sunday morning, and this morning my ear is leaking fluid and is super swollen and painful again so its back to the doctors to find out whats up with my messed up ear. Oh i got called back to work though so i guess that's a good thing...well its income but after being laid off and brought back 4 times in 2 years I just don't care about the place anymore.
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:23 am
WOOOHOOOO! Our raised beds are in! heart
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:36 am
@ Teh-Plague: OMGosh! That ear! I really hope they find something that works SOON. You've been fighting that infection for months, and I know what that's like. Great about work, though---maybe you can get feeling better, and some money in your pocket will help, too. Yeah, the drive was not as exciting as narrowly missing the tornado a few years ago, but that is excitement I will never wish for. It was crazy enough!
@ Esiris--Hooray for you! I have to do that. What did you plant?
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:09 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:27 pm
@ Teh_plague: Ugh! I hope that gets it worked out soon. Ask your doctor if hydrogen peroxide will do any good. --- I did it! I shaved my head. whee onetwothreefourfivesixseven
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:56 pm
OMGosh, Pirhan! Profiles, please!
Hope it's warm there. I bet that's a little breezy!
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:08 pm
Faux Trees made from recycled plastic bottles and convert CO2 to O2
Its rather aesthetically pleasing at night, providing light at night. The day time its a bit bold. Solar and Kinetically powered, it sounds like something out of a scifi movie. I wonder about durability of it, and what they do with the carbon afterward, I doubt its sugar that its converted into.
Though many people would say "PLANT MORE TREES!" planting trees is more practical, it would be more natural, but sadly the life span of a tree is greatly reduced in an urban setting, due to soil, water, sun, nutrient and depth and width it can grow its branches and roots. All these are limitations.
Then we get all that ugly hastily done pruning during the seasons. And all the terrible abuse it gets during (coughblizzardseasonwithsnowplows) we often see these, scraggly, sickly, unhappy, hoisted and propped up juvenile trees, that probably get complaints about it once the fall comes or when it starts cracking the pavement.
Going Natural vs Artificial is a running and bold move. However, if you're going to talk about capturing energy, you can probably add these trees to the whole 'other energy resources' such as hydro power, solar and wind power, this one is actually a bit pleasing to look at in the dark from the images they provided, it is a very 'City-esque' structure. Versus the complaint of "these wind turbines are disrupting the mountain-valley scenery"
But don't get me wrong supplementing it with actual trees would be a good idea, because you can't go wrong with going with something that's worked for millions of years.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-faux-trees-co2-o2.html
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/16/need-more-air-artificial-trees-to-convert-carbon-dioxide-to-oxy/
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:45 pm
@sunset: Yeah its been going on for too long so now i've been referred to a specialist to get this taken care of because they've decided that they can't handle it because of the severity of the situation (ear won't heal because of the blockage caused by the leaking fluid and whatnot and they can't irrigate and remove the blockage because the eardrum was punctured) So its a catch 22 i guess. I see the specialist next week so hopefully in another week i'll have some good news about it.
@pirhan: thanks, i hope it gets taken care of as well lol. I am not allowed any kind of eardrops or anything because of the ruptured eardrum so i have to be very careful to not get any water or debris in my ear until it heals. I'm just hoping this doesn't result in getting ear tubes or losing my hearing permanently.
Btw pirhan your hair is about as long as mine now lol.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:20 pm
*blink* *blink* O.O
Wow... I have never seen any of my threads take off like this! 35 pages!? LOL! Nice work guys!
Anyways.
I am back! Sorry I have not been around much. I mostly have been off Gaia for a long time now as I have been working with in the Homesteader and Prepper circles. And I have been teaching myself some new skills, like making fresh home made bread and storing other foods. I also have been keeping up my blog. Also I have been meeting homesteaders in real life too learning even more skills. I finally got the idea in my head that it is best to completely turn off the T.V. and do something productive. Besides listening to 'We're Alive: A Zombie Survival Story' podcast is a lot more entertaining when doing projects. It gets the imagination going.
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:57 pm
I went to my first job fair today, just to peek around and get the feel for it. ._. I need to work on my social and nerves I'm dead nervous and not confident.
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:35 am
INTERNATIONAL GUERRILLA SUNFLOWER GARDENING DAY
MAY 1st
arrow Toss some sunflower seeds in an dreary sunny place, and cross your fingers. arrow If you want to be fancy pack the seed(s) in some mashed paper, soil or peat and toss. arrow If you want to be SUPER fancy. Use mixed seeds. exclaim Its as easy as dropping your soda cup after your finish drinking it or letting the bubblegum wrapper go after you unwrapped it. But this time you're doing GOOD instead of littering.
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