Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Carla Burke wrote:Megan, those are gorgeous!! I've never seen one like that.


Yeah, hers look like roses! Mine look like mums or daisies.
2 hours ago
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r ranson wrote:Wow!  Beautiful!

What kind of tree makes cones like that?  We have mostly Douglas fir and I don't think it would work.

What time of year do you find the cones?


Fall and winter is when you find cones. As to what type, something that grows in my sister's yard in Colorado Springs.
Might be Ponderosa Pine.
4 hours ago
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The first of the decor pumpkin displays are out in my area! Go see if they are in yours too!

:D
2 days ago
A) Would you be able to live on 25k a year less? What is price of living in Anchorage? Can you afford to be there? Can you get another job there doing something if that falls through?
B) What does your son think? Is he attached to things there or happy to move?
C) Is there a way you can lease out your place for a year and see if you really want to be in Alaska? I've heard the long darks really affect some people hard, including people who didn't think it would. A test run might be wise.
D) If you do sell and have to come back for some reason, do you have a plan B?

Other than those thoughts, I am also 62 and I made sure I have been the places I wanted to go, saw what I wanted to see, did what I wanted to, and have no unfulfilled dreams like that now.  I'm glad I did when I could, I ended up with health issues that make it very hard to do now. I vote, if Questions A-D are accounted for in your head, DO IT so you don't wish you had. Even if it only lasts 3 months and things go weird and you come back, it'll be off your mind or you'll know better what you are doing when you go back again :D

Having "I wish I had...." in your head for years doesn't look fun when I see others with it. I'm glad I don't have those.
2 days ago

Randy Verburg wrote:how may i get a straight line from this pipe sticking out of the ground and across my driveway so i know where to dig, to fine the other end of the pipe which is buried under my driveway


Piece of string works well to trace a straight line
4 days ago
Late notice! Coronal hole stream impact was a few hours ago. The charts are lit up! Go look!!!

5 days ago

Rick Valley wrote: I want to see you massively infected by the rockhound bug!


You are about 50 years too late. I have been a rock person all my life. My parents and grandparents too.
This was in Southwest Missouri, left behind when a pile of dirt dug from about 5 feet down was removed. It looks very much like the rest of the rocks I like, except for the purple stuff.
The local rocks are sediment off a dried up sea floor that compressed and turned to rock.
Scale on  that pic is... from the two farthest apart points it's 7 inches across.
5 days ago
Did you know there was a Roman emperor that didn't age after 19?
It was Emperor Constant Teen
5 days ago
Hey Matt, do we get to design the 6 foot high beds before we vote? :D
This is permies. "It depends!!"   :D
6 days ago
TLDR: Oil. I used coconut oil.

I have a door screen that holds to the edges with velcro, which adheres to the screen and the wall. It didn't adhere to the screen at all, came loose on the screen side, held on the wall.
A cute little blue tailed skink got stuck on a piece of the velcro that was stuck to the wall, in the glue meant to hold the screen.
Oh NO!!

I tried moistening it with water, that took down the sticky but not enough. I finally tried itty bitty bits of coconut oil on his toes, it worked! He got a foot loose! So I oiled very very carefully where he was stuck, and got him loose.
He seems to be ok, was rowdy and hard to catch in the sink when I tried to take him out. Looked a bit shellshocked for a sec when he was put in a flowerbed, got over it and ran away.

Use OIL to release critters stuck to adhesive!!
Not a lot, I can't image coconut oil is particularly good for lizards, but dying stuck to velcro was a much worse option.

Not the exact skink who was stuck to the wall
1 week ago