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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Recent posts by Pearl Sutton

They ride the bike in their basement "gym." It's HARD to stay in shape when you are non-corporeal! They were upset that you took their workout equipment away!
Beware the wrath of the wraiths!
6 days ago
When does a bad joke turn into a dad joke?

When it becomes apparent.
1 week ago
I have this drafty rental's windows covered with blankets in winter, I keep them in place over the summer  too, pull them on scalding hot days. Anything that blocks the cold coming in the windows blocks the heat coming in them too.
We also have quilts hung "decoratively" in this place, yeah, that's it, just decorative. No... it keeps the cold walls warmer.

R Ransom: Time to weave a classic tapestry! That's WHY they made them. Castle walls are COLD.
1 week ago

Christopher Weeks wrote:If I'm understanding the kind of product you're talking about, we pulled a ton of that out of this house six years ago. We bundled it up and set it aside to maybe use as a shed-floor or something but eventually we wanted it gone. It was *very easy* to find someone who wanted it pretty cheap on Craigslist or FB Marketplace or something.

This is one of the batches:


Yup. Same stuff.
Going into a big dumpster across the street. It was only installed 5 years ago.
I HATE WASTE.
1 week ago
My neighbor is replacing the flooring, dumpster being filled with that fake wood laminate plank stuff.  I don't need any right now or I'd be snagging a bunch.
If you take 3 or 4 pieces of it, laminate them together by running screws through the stack from both top and bottom, it makes excellent shelving boards. I have a lot of them in use in my pantry, from last time a house near me got theirs pulled out :D  
Highly recommend trying this, and I'm sad that I don't want to get any, but I just don't.

The stuff also would probably make a good interior for a shed, I've used it for smothering weeds in the yard, and with my hatred of waste, I HATE seeing the stuff tossed when it's just not as pretty as it was. I haven't seen any tossed for serious damage, maybe one or two bad spots, so they clear the whole floor and replace it. It's very reusable.
1 week ago
Why don't we pronounce the "meow" in homeowner?
1 week ago
A pizza is basically a real-time pie chart of how much pizza is left.
1 week ago

M Ljin wrote:Hard necked garlic would have given you scapes by now. Soft necked would still be leafy without a defined stem.


The green parts were beaten to death by hail. They didn't bounce back, I thought they would.
2 weeks ago

Megan Palmer wrote:The green is due to exposure to the sun.


THERE we go! THAT is what I was forgetting. Thank you!
I knew I had dealt with this before....
:D
2 weeks ago