Joy to You
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Pearl Sutton wrote:You know you are a permie when...
The thing you learn on a random day cracks you up.
Today I went to check a garden bed I had amended recently with kitchen scraps, I had put them in a nice neat line, under a thick layer of straw.
And the armadillo had come grocery shopping, as expected. My mom has been juicing a lot, there's some stuff in there in quantity. At the top end of the line was a half lemon rind that had been cleaned out by the juicer. It had been chewed up a bit, but not eaten.
All of the rest of the way down the line, there would be a hole in the straw, and any lemon peels had been thrown about 18 inches away.
I visualize the armadillo saying "oh ICK! I don't like this!" then digging for something good, "OH EW! NOT THESE THINGS!" (Fling!!!)
So today I learned that armadillos not only don't like lemon rinds, they can throw them pretty far :D
Still slingin’ Avacado pits
The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!
Pearl Sutton wrote:You know you are a permie when...
The thing you learn on a random day cracks you up.
Today I went to check a garden bed I had amended recently with kitchen scraps, I had put them in a nice neat line, under a thick layer of straw.
And the armadillo had come grocery shopping, as expected. My mom has been juicing a lot, there's some stuff in there in quantity. At the top end of the line was a half lemon rind that had been cleaned out by the juicer. It had been chewed up a bit, but not eaten.
All of the rest of the way down the line, there would be a hole in the straw, and any lemon peels had been thrown about 18 inches away.
I visualize the armadillo saying "oh ICK! I don't like this!" then digging for something good, "OH EW! NOT THESE THINGS!" (Fling!!!)
So today I learned that armadillos not only don't like lemon rinds, they can throw them pretty far :D
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Be the shenanigans
you want to see in the world.
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Blessings,
Alana
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
The best place to pray for a good crop is at the end of a hoe!
Still slingin’ Avacado pits
Carla Burke wrote:When on Tuesday, a local friend asks if you have any goat milk (or replacer) on hand, for the fawn her mom is trying to get to the rescue, half a days drive away; on Wednesday, another local friend is begging you to take another friend's baby goats(but they're NOT the ones you're looking for); on Thursday night, you have an ER visit with the vet, for your sick goat(no - she didn't make it); on Friday morning, you discover 3 newly hatched ducklings; then on Monday, another local friend asks if you can take half a dozen of the 30 pullets she bought 9wks ago, thinking she was getting a straight run (mixed sexes)!!
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
Jenny Wright wrote:When your neighbor, who is moving in a couple weeks, brings over five giant blueberry bushes in his tractor for you because he doesn't know if the new owners will appreciate them as much as he knows you will appreciate them.
(Edited to add- if the new neighbors are the kind of people who don't appreciate blueberry bushes, I'm determined to convert them and I'll give them back some blueberries 😆)
Be the shenanigans
you want to see in the world.
K Eilander wrote:
Jenny Wright wrote:When your neighbor, who is moving in a couple weeks, brings over five giant blueberry bushes in his tractor for you because he doesn't know if the new owners will appreciate them as much as he knows you will appreciate them.
(Edited to add- if the new neighbors are the kind of people who don't appreciate blueberry bushes, I'm determined to convert them and I'll give them back some blueberries 😆)
At first I read this and thought, "Score!"
But then again, along with gaining some berries, there's also the underlying loss of such a great neighbor, too. So that's sad.
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My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "
leigh gates wrote:When the apt maintenance guy has given up on wanting to spray in "my" part of the landscape, which keeps expanding because I infect the neighbors with flowers that support bees. When the whole building now asks what kind of tomatoes this year & they know I have to expand because you rotate crops. When I sweep up the pinecones & pine needles for mulch quick before maintenance guy brings out the noisy gas powered sidewalk cleaner thingy. When I "take out" the recycle daily and the volume in the bin goes down (& I do use it). When the owner offers to pay me for what I'm already doing, Hooray!
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
Carla Burke wrote:When on Tuesday, a local friend asks if you have any goat milk (or replacer) on hand, for the fawn her mom is trying to get to the rescue, half a days drive away; on Wednesday, another local friend is begging you to take another friend's baby goats(but they're NOT the ones you're looking for); on Thursday night, you have an ER visit with the vet, for your sick goat(no - she didn't make it); on Friday morning, you discover 3 newly hatched ducklings; then on Monday, another local friend asks if you can take half a dozen of the 30 pullets she bought 9wks ago, thinking she was getting a straight run (mixed sexes)!!
Jan Lesley wrote:
OMG LOL! "These are not the goats you're looking for" Just throw a couple of Jawas into that and you have a blockbuster film trilogy...
"Fawn Wars" "The Ducklings Strike Back" "The Return of the Veterinarian" I'm dying.....🤣🤣🤣 But I was sorry to hear about the goat.
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
Love, Mimi
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"And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands...
That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing." 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 KJV
Radis.
Living and growing on my small homestead near a project of permaculture school.
"There are no non-radical options left before us" Naomie Klein in This Changes Everything
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The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
Sarah Elizabeth wrote:You know you're a permie when...
You are moving and everything is in boxes in storage except your seeds which you refuse to let out of your sight. When you miss your garden, you get out the seeds and "re-organise" the boxes to make yourself feel better.
Still slingin’ Avacado pits
Nicole Alderman wrote:
I do that any way because I know what-all comes into my house and everyone has to take off shoesMike Lafay wrote:
Yes, so much so! I also have dreams of having such a natural home that when I sweep the floor, it's just actual dirt and food bits, and I can sweep it up and put it straight into the compost.
Still slingin’ Avacado pits
My friend's bored mom, braids our feed bag strings and then I use it for tying together trellises for my garden. There's no way I have time to braid it myself, but "mom" doesn't speak much English and is over on an extended visit, so she braids and I send cute duckling pictures and plants for their tiny garden!randal cranor wrote:"You know you're a permie when you save string from feed bags."
Visit Redhawk's soil series: https://permies.com/wiki/redhawk-soil
How permies.com works: https://permies.com/wiki/34193/permies-works-links-threads
Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Karlijn (making things, planning to make things or thinking about planning to make things)
Blessings,
Alana
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