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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I have done it!! I combined the DNA of a crab and the DNA of a cheetah!!!

....things went sideways really fast

2 days ago

meaningless drivel

Northern Lights alert

At 4am central time the sky still was glowing faintly pink

Nancy: yes, that probably was one of the tauroids. I saw a pretty one of them when I was out looking at the full moon. Those are so bright and slow they are really pretty!

6 days ago

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Northern Lights alert

3 hour kp index. Very dramatic.

6 days ago

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Northern Lights alert

I have a pink glow in the sky in Southern Missouri! Not as thrilling as yours but I'm ~1000 miles south of you :)
Kp 9. 30 minute index.

6 days ago

meaningless drivel

Sword Beans - trying them as an annual

I have a report!!
They have a deep tap root and needed to be started in tree pits, 5 inch deep did not make them happy.
Due to life stuff they didn’t get cared for.
The branches break if you try to train them.
Definitely tolerate NO cold.
All that said…
Once they broke tap root shock they grew well. Probably 10 foot of growth.
Although they don’t want to be trained, once they decide they are grabbing something it stays grabbed.
The flowers are pretty!
That nasty cold front hit me the other day. I went out a picked whst was ready…. Total harvest::

So tonight I stir fried the three of them :)
They are good!!
They stay crisp longer than I expected, should’ve tossed them in the pan earlier.
They would probably can up really well.
From what I can tell these are the white beaned type. The slender flat is characteristic of that kind.

So, accounting for the things I listed, I’d say these are awesome canning beans worth trying!!

6 days ago

beans

Northern Lights alert

Complicated solar storm about to hit. Watch the skies for the next few days. Multiple CME's that are piling up, then the behind ones hit on top.
Heads up! Depending on the magnetic field polarity, auroras may be visible pretty far south.

6 days ago

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Help! Cat vs laptop

Looks like a voting place :)
I vote the cat stays off the keyboard!

6 days ago

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Help! Cat vs laptop

Nancy Reading wrote:I heard a while ago that it is possible to get a cat protection software to detect and guard against cat operators on keyboards... pawsense is one, there are probably others. Cats do like to be where you want to be sometimes and keyboards are one of those places.

I'm going to make a cat guard out of cardboard, so she walks around it not across it.

6 days ago

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What is it.... the game! Post unknown objects to ID... and to stump others!

I'm in the upholstery tool camp, and in the interchangeable tips camp.

Reminds me of stuff I saw long ago (mid 1970s) when my uncle had an upholstery shop. I was too young to understand what the tools were for, and I may be wrong, he had things for packing stuffing into things and pulling the strings that were used to contain packing in layers. I'm guessing (and it's ONLY A GUESS!) that it's something in that genera.

If someone has time to research it from that point of view they might find it.

6 days ago

recycling

Help! Cat vs laptop

Christopher Weeks wrote:Poor kitty always getting blamed while entirely 100% innocent!

Kitty DID tap dance across the keyboard right about the time it stopped getting emails.

I had a cat do that once, she stepped on CNTRL I when the mailer was up. That tells it to index all the emails. It locked up my whole computer as it tried valiantly to index over 30,000 emails. THAT took a while to get under control, I was afraid I had to just get a new computer.

6 days ago

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