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flowerbug
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Momma has been really busy and then the past 15 years i've been helping out too.
though i think it's been more like 19 years or ...
the little wild kingdom
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Momma has been really busy and then the past 15 years i've been helping out too.
though i think it's been more like 19 years or ...
Sammster
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I'm happy to have found this thread. Thank you for this. There seems to be a glitch, and I'm unable to register onto TEGaka flowerbug's chaos, methods and whatever bits that stick along the journey...
i'm not going to duplicate all of my posts here from my thread at TEG or my website so you have your homework set for you if you really want to follow closely. oh, also my thread on the permaculture site which is broken a bit at the moment until i fix it (again! grr!)...
first of all:
TEG: https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/stubbed-toes-and-mud-pies.21224/
Website: http://www.anthive.com/
Permies: https://permaculturenews.org/forums/index.php?threads/songbirds-roost.12530/
if that isn't enough i have plenty of other links that will take you a long time to work through
all those resources and reading suggestions...
http://www.anthive.com/project/notes/
https://www.weforest.org/page/newsroom
https://www.soilsforlife.org.au/home/index.html
https://soilandhealth.org/
http://columbiabasinpermaculture.com/
http://landresources.montana.edu/nm/
http://www.talkingfish.org/
these last two show only a few of the projects i have followed for years to show what is possible in even some of the worst conditions.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sadhana+Forest+Haiti/@18.0427155,-71.7635496,3530m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8eba2e27874a6ba5:0xd4977f2fd2cfd39b!8m2!3d18.0468326!4d-71.762317?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.8720385,35.6311368,145m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
frustratedearthmother
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Change like that sure doesn't happen overnight!Momma has been really busy and then the past 15 years i've been helping out too.
Mini Horses
Sustainability Master
That's a massive amount of change! And I'm happy to just see barns and fence in my arials. 
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flowerbug
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they have a Contact Us form on the bottom of the page that should help, be patient.
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flowerbug
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especially when you have to do it a wheelbarrow or bucket at a time. everything out back was moved there after the house was put into place and we could not have easy access from either side direction the way things are set up. so... haul it, dump it in piles out front, then move it out back. how many tons of crushed rinsed limestone i moved and dirt and pea gravel and rocks. Mom moved a lot of rocks herself, she had a place that would let her wander through the piles and pick out the ones she wanted and she'd load them into the trunk of her car and pay them $5 each time. and one time she did have someone dump an entire dump truck load in the front ditch that she moved. i was not here when she did that or several other things. probably better that ways. lol
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flowerbug
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back to more bean container labeling and refreshing some older ones with newer ones, etc. it's coming along but taking time. i'm glad i started when i did.
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flowerbug
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it had been a bit too snowy to check mouse traps last week and i wasn't going to dig through the snow to see if there were mice trapped or not. it melted off pretty well the past several days and then this morning Mom asked me if i was going out to check the "Graveyard" because from looking out her patio door you could see three mice in the traps and then when i did go out to check all of them there was another mouse trapped behind the AC. the warm spell brought them out of their nests for sure.
since these mice are trapped and not poisoned i take them and put them out on the grass along the south where the crows can find them. if i'm trapping regularly the mice are gone within a day. when the ground is thawed out and i'm able to work in the gardens i bury them.
it is a good thing that mice are not very smart.
since these mice are trapped and not poisoned i take them and put them out on the grass along the south where the crows can find them. if i'm trapping regularly the mice are gone within a day. when the ground is thawed out and i'm able to work in the gardens i bury them.
it is a good thing that mice are not very smart.
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flowerbug
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normally i would not feed the birdies outside but someone gave us a box of cereal that was opened and we both would not eat it as it had too much perfume smell in it. i also had a quart container mostly full of melon seeds so i sprinkled half of those out there too as i was spreading out the cereal.
not much bird action out there all day until towards dusk when the cardinals were nosing around the area. a pair of the bright red male and the more blendy in female.
that's about it for news. cold at night, sunny during the day, warm days for a few then chances of snow and back to colder (which i'm ok with since it shouldn't be this warm anyways). the mini daffodils are already a few inches tall. nope, they shouldn't be coming out for another month or two.
other projects going along ok. progress is all i can ask for.
getting ready for seed swap is going ok too. i got a lot done last week so i can relax a little now. busy days today and tomorrow though.
not much bird action out there all day until towards dusk when the cardinals were nosing around the area. a pair of the bright red male and the more blendy in female.
that's about it for news. cold at night, sunny during the day, warm days for a few then chances of snow and back to colder (which i'm ok with since it shouldn't be this warm anyways). the mini daffodils are already a few inches tall. nope, they shouldn't be coming out for another month or two.
other projects going along ok. progress is all i can ask for.
getting ready for seed swap is going ok too. i got a lot done last week so i can relax a little now.
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flowerbug
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as i just wrote in another post on TEG that i'm a happy little turnip here.
this afternoon is garden club meeting. not sure who will be there, but i'll be there and bring projects to work on as i can always get samples ready for the seed swap (how many times have i typed that as "seed swamp"? enough, but not too many that it isn't still amusing )
the project is moving along and i'm happy with how it is going. i spent three weeks trying to wade through obscure code that was too fragmented for what i wanted to do. the past three days i wrote another version myself and it is working much better for my purposes. simple and direct, but also will be useful for another round of conversions that have to happen some future moments.
this afternoon is garden club meeting. not sure who will be there, but i'll be there and bring projects to work on as i can always get samples ready for the seed swap (how many times have i typed that as "seed swamp"? enough, but not too many that it isn't still amusing
)the project is moving along and i'm happy with how it is going. i spent three weeks trying to wade through obscure code that was too fragmented for what i wanted to do. the past three days i wrote another version myself and it is working much better for my purposes. simple and direct, but also will be useful for another round of conversions that have to happen some future moments.
