Ra Kenworth

Assuming this question is not limited to certain members of the plant kingdom, I am choosing air layering. Not because I am good at it, but rather I think it's so ingenious and also challenging. I have had moderate success. It's fun!

Berry hedges: my experience with black raspberries is that the canes don't die back (although red raspberries and blackberries do)

I think I will try a willow hedge that deer do like to eat: my son's place has a resident deer and I have already started collecting red clover heads and am planting them! We will also be building a fenced area.

I'm an early riser so springing forward just feels like winter is that much longer. I love routine, and find it very disorienting and somewhat depressing. Perhaps another reason to find a refuge among old growth in BC if at all possible -- the cessation of daylight saving time.

I stopped thinking of wild plants as weeds as I started eating them, and putting them to good use. I typically transplant everything that needs moving.

My most protected weed is milkweed, and before when I was caring for an adjacent lot, it was orchids. Many of the "weeds" I simply consider vegetables (the stinging nettles I deliberately cultivated) and volunteers like lambs quarters. Or they are medicinals like wild sasparilla, cohosh, heal-all, wild leeks, or pollinators / tea like echinacea, rudbeckia (black eyed Susan's), bee balm etc., or wild carrots to hold up my compost hills.

And edible fruiting bushes are certainly not weeds, even slightly invasive ones -- they can all be managed

Clover in my opinion is certainly not a weed: it is an important part of the ecosystem.

There are no weeds except for poison oak/ivy and invasives, which kind of depends on where one lives.

Emilie McVey wrote: take iron gluconate and 7-8,000 IU of vitamin D.  (Using the drops in water or other liquid is easy and has no taste).   I thought it was worth a shot; certainly nothing else had helped.  My heavens!  This has been the best winter, in terms of S.A.D., of my entire life!!  No exaggeration.
Maybe this suggestion will help someone else, too.

I'm so glad you've gotten your SAD beaten! I know the B's are a big deal, and it's a bit complicated that D needs to go with K2 and also A and taken with dietary fat, but also calcium, magnesium, melatonin for some if having trouble sleeping but not more than 3mg, and now it seems iron (and vitamin C to help process it)

If I ever learned the iron connection I promptly forgot it because I have high iron in my well water, but when I go up north for the winter I'm eating fish so I should keep this in mind! I imagine a multivitamin would do the trick. I also learned the hard way that a few days of my son's zinc supplement put me in a better mood because I finally got rid of some sort of cold that I guessed was actually lung irritation from mold in heated forced air filters.

I had rubber mats made of recycled tires that were 4x8 I was planning to put in my free running gutted motorhome I picked up, but the test chunk revealed that the cold cracks the rubber despite being protected inside, so it got relocated to cover my 60-70 year old cheap 1/4" 4x4 plywood sub flooring that is nailed down and requires regular hammering in the spring and fall (and sock darning)

Being black it's terrible for showing the dirt but I think my place fits in that kitchen so there isn't a lot to keep clean!

I use 8% cleaning vinegar, citric acid, and baking soda, plus a biodegradable dishsoap, which I also use for hand washing clothes, and One+, a biodegradable shampoo/body wash combination. Apart from that, on occasion I take clothes and towels to a laundromat and bring my biodegradable laundry soap, and can't stand dryer sheets. I clean the car with baking soda and vinegar too

I don't know if having used biodegradable shampoo since I was in grade 7 has anything to do with me having almost no gray hair at 60 something

A really ugly picture (to be sacrificed) at a garage sale with a nice wide softwood frame might be worth consideration.

With the 3 underneath it means they are no longer quarter notes
You play 3 of these to make a quarter or beat (of 3 beats)

Think of
Merrily Merrily Merrily
For that set of 3 triplets as they are called

I looked at pricing for Duolingo premium. It's around $80 something Canadian.
Here's another option: ISBN 978-1497440500 it's $17.22 cad on Amazon 50 Christmas Carols with Sheet Music and Fingering for Tin Whistle or you can check the other books this author has written for instance Easy Tin Whistle Tutor Book 979-8312827170 $21.66 -- both include tin whistle fingering, so depending partly on whether you play more by ear and would like to be able to bring along a whistle to Christmas celidhs, etc, or whether you like a very structured approach, I am confident with your existing background in music you would have no problem with any of these books.

They are probably for the key of C but as you may notice, penny whistles are made in various keys. I find it pretty fun to whip out a penny whistle and just start playing along and although you aren't necessarily interested in learning another instrument, it may make learning to read music very easy.

I find when sight reading music, it's easier for me to do so with a flute of some kind rather than trying to do it in my head. Probably because I have a strong ear as you will having used tab.

Just a thought

r ransom wrote:

To my untrained ear, they sound identical.

And then we have 9/8 .

Actually 3/4 and 6/8 can be interchangeable although they aren't supposed to be, and a lot of songs started coming out with 6/8. 6/8 tends to be quicker. There is style as well that will affect how it is sung.

9/8? Occasionally and I used to use Question by The Fixx to demonstrate 7/8 at the time I was teaching this. Money is also another. Rhythm always fascinated me. I was thinking only this morning about all the stuff taught in schools that didn't fascinate me lol and those who were indoctrinated into duck and cover, teaching a generation to ignore everything they were taught 😂