Dustin Waller

Love this. I made a note to read it later as I'm checking emails with morning coffee on the porch before I get in the greenhouse!
This makes me think of the time my friend Madeline and I did a Crape Myrtle draw down! We were definitely amazed at the result!

Can't wait to have more time on the homestead for art. Ive been thinking about my future pottery barn and sculpting studio waaaaaay to much this spring!

Hope y'all are well.
Dustin

Hey Matt, love this post as I have found myself in this same thought process. A lot of people have told me it's because I am a virgo, but hey to each their own on that. But for me I've been shown more than ever recently how important my childhood memories of holidays and such were all surrounded by family. I love having my own space but sharing the little moments and things in life means a lot to us if that is truly important.

Haha guess that's why we find ourselves on here. For me living alone on a little Island in Florida where the right people don't just walk through the gate, right? But here, where I personally feel I can truly relate and am bound to connect with the most like minded people!

So I'm a straight 37y old male and always had a kind of knowing I would have a daughter and that would "settle me down". My three questions are what I've learned the hard way to ask to allow that person to show me they are a good partner. Otherwise I'm totally fine being alone.

1) It's got to be off the cuff, "What's your relationship like with your Father." Key word is Father, and just listen. Pay attention to body language and be ready to be supportive too.
  You'll see why that's such an important question as soon as you ask it. Definitely never used this online and I'm not on dating apps so this is just an in person thing I love. I may know it's not worth our time and energy right there. Best to not hurt each other and waste each others time.

2) As a child what did you want to be when you grew up/dreams were important? And what stopped that curiosity/passion?
Just listen, it tells me a lot about who they are at their core and kinda what they'd be like long term really. Are they ambitious and not willing to be held back by others telling them it's impossible? Super cool for me because I get to see if they're creative and love art as much as i do. Because artists aren't artists really, it's Art Life and that comes through.


3) If someone asked you to list everything you loved, what number would say Myself? Man.. you know how hard this is because most people we won't even want to ask.
Just listen because you have to love when you get people thinking and they want to talk. 💕

Hope that helps. For me every once in a while I'll have a friend of a friend in the real world I'll meet and hope to get to know but for me they've always had boyfriends. So that's obviously really important. I've had women tell me they wished a guy had told them he liked them when they were with some shitty guy. That I should always just at least tell them. Have to be respectful and leave it alone though. Man dating sucks now days huh? Jeez. Good thing we live the self sufficient lifestyle of creating and riding our own wave. 🤙🏼

Just curious,
Is FL /or FLA understood unanimously? 🙄

I'd like to add an agreement to that post. We experience this quite often this time of year in NE Florida. I'm right on the ocean on an island where for example it is 72° as we speak but is expected 34 in a few days.

What happens is the trees that go truly dormant are deciduous and when the leaves drop the trunk is now exposed to that warm sunlight. The phloem which transports the sugars and organic compounds warms up on the south facing side exposed to that sun. Which then can cause a rapid expansion from frost and the layer between the inner and outer bark splits.

I have a method of whitewash of the old Greek style Lime Wash mixed with about 1/4c white latex paint. Go ahead and stack some functions and add 1tsp of essential oil to help eliminate any of those borers that won't want to penetrate the layer of oil+paint.

Good luck!

Guadagno Attilio-Cesare wrote:i own no motorized vehicle whatsoever, now;

after living nomadically out of a solar electrical powered RV travel trailer towed by a waste vegetable-oil fueled diesel pickup truck, back and forth between the East and West coasts of The United States — North American Continent for several years starting about 15 years ago, with stays on north carolina, florida, georgia, utah, kansas, nevada, and my natural-born-on california, my nomadic sojourning took me across the pond to live on the African and European Continents, for a couple of years, before returning stateside with no vehicle, so i acquired a skateboard and a bicycle to get me to and between bus stops, friend/relative’s homes, and airports;

i, now, feel most free, as i continue to sojourn back and forth between california/mexico and central and south american countries utilizing my bare feet/legs and commercial airlines and/or local public transportation “buses” and/or private “taxi” drivers;  i do my best to avoid UBER and/or LIFT or any incorporated TAXI COMPANY.

¡no problemo! 💪

Wow, I was just thinking of you the other day Attilio, Hey brother! I just happened to get on here and see this in recent posts ...  Glad to see your back in the states you were in Spain last I remember! Let me know if you ever come back through NFla!