Ellen Lewis

I remember how much less sore my poor nose became when I switched to cloth hankies.
Used to be, when I had kids and was worried about spreading disease, I would take them out of the wash, fold them, spray them with dilute essential oils dissolved in alcohol (cinnamon leaf and eucalyptus was my blend) and store them in a plastic bag. When I took them out to use them the dampness from the alcohol dissipated quickly and the smell of the oils was lovely as well as antiseptic.
OTOH, when my nose is a faucet and I don't have to go anywhere, I use old diapers.

I have a woolen bathmat (not home made). It does not absorb water as well as cotton. I like it anyway. I've never had any issues with it drying.
It's warm underfoot. To the extent that thicker might not be warmer.
I have been happy with one of those holey rubber mats below the slippery rug in my entryway. I'm sure it would work fine under a bath mat without permanent silicone on either your floor or your mat, and the air holes might even help with drying.
This kinda thing: webpage

Old person with postage-stamp food forest needs help maintaining yard. Must have an eye for the treasures among the weeds. Natives, exotics, edibles, medicinals, ornamentals. South Berkeley.
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That's an interesting suggestion, and it brings up the whole question of reseeding.
How do you get desired plants to reseed? Is it primarily a matter of keeping the ground bare? Watered?
I'm not much of a vegetable gardener. I have tried to grow arugua and turnips to no avail, let alone reseeding. I have established dandelions, though they're not spreading fast.
I thought I didn't have any reseeders; a walk through the garden showed me otherwise. But they're not what I want for a border: nasturtium, alexanders, hare barley/foxtails, ripgut and cheatgrass, annual vetch, spurge, poke.
How to encourage desired reseeders while discouraging the problems? I can't keep up with the weeding as it is!

I think I even see a purpose to all those silly garden ornaments; gnomes, painted butterflies on sticks, reflecting balls, etc. I guess I have to collect them. I won't even be too embarrassed...

Part of the difference is the phrasing of the lyrics. To my ear, the Animals sing it in 3/4: there IS a HOUSE in NEW orLEANS they CALL the RIsing SUN.
The Beatles again, You've got to Hide your Love Away: HEY!(two three) you've got to HIDE (2) your (4) love aWAY(23256) Hey.. The words on the ones are more important or more emphasized than the words on the fours.

Think of Silent Night.
The Si.. is a stronger beat than Night. The Ho... is a stronger beat than Night. ALL is more emphasized than Calm and Bright. You can imagine a pendulum swinging back and forth: SIlent NIGHT (rest, rest), HOly NIGHT (rest, rest). That pendulum is your One, two. The threes are inside that main pendulum. That makes it 6/8.
Compare that to, say, Norwegian Wood. I (two, three) Once had a GIRL (two, three) OR should I SAY (two three) SHE once had ME (two three). All the main syllables are at the same level of emphasis. Dip, float float, dip, float float. 3/4.

3/4 is like waltz time. You can feel the three: ONE two three, ONE two three, ONE two three.
6/8 is essentially a two-beat structure, internally divided: ONE and uh TWO and uh, ONE and uh, TWO and uh.
So it's a question of whether the two or the three is the dominant feel of the music.

Oh this is so interesting. Even the answers I have to say No to help me define what it is I am thinking about, and how to observe and interact in this particular context.

I think i can break it down to two sort-of-related issues.
The first question is how to establish the herbaceous perennials and keep them alive from year to year.
I'm unwilling to keep animals, I'm just not that dependable. Cavies or rabbits (which I hadn't thought about) would be a much better choice than the goats I wanted but couldn't figure out how to manage. I had a very traumatic experience once killing a rabbit for meat once, and haven't considered them since. I suppose they could be pets, but I don't even keep pets.
Raised beds or containers are not the answer. I'm trying to establish self-sustaining herbaceous perennials (such as the yarrow that I excavated this morning) under and around my fruit trees and woody perennials, in order to gradually replace the dominant bulbous and rhizomatous and toxic weeds, or at least diversify the herbaceous and ground cover layers.
My favored plants are scattered around the entire yard. I'm working to find out which ones need weeding and which ones will come up through the weeds. Unfortunately, after they go dormant and get covered in sour grass and bermuda grass, I forget they exist. So I have to weed just to find out what is there. And of course, the ones I remember aren't necessarity findable. Nor do they all come up at once.
Part of the answer might be to use more tomato cages.
Part of the answer is simply to weed more. That's what I'm learning how to do. The woody perennials are visible above the weeds, and so they tend to survive neglect after I plant them. But the flowers and herbs that I plant under them get lost and shaded out. I need to learn new habits and strategies now that I have reached the ground level.

The other question is whether it's worthwhile to dig up those nasty arums that pop up by the hundreds. It's so satisfying when I get the rhizome out. And nicely mindless when I need that. But it's tedious and endless. Is it useful? Will it slow down their spread any? Is it hopeless as long as any remain? Could I just break off the tops year after year and that would eventually starve them out? And can they be fed to animals, or are they just as toxic to cuys and rabbits as to humans?

It helps me to find music I know and sing it while looking at the score.