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Coydon Wallham wrote:I visited a place where the area they hung laundry, as well as much of the surrounding yard, was covered in some sort of oregano. Every time I walked across the lawn my mouth would water from the fragrance.
I went to get some oregano from some friends, but their variety was growing up to a foot tall. This other variety just grew low like white clover. Anyone have ideas on what oregano varieties grow and spread more horizontal than vertically? Unless there is some other ground cover that just smells like oregano, I never actually got down on the ground to have a close look at it...
Zoran Jovanovic wrote:It is not that I have something against watching the videos above. But when I hear movie night I always think about movie Dersu Uzala.
I think it fits well to permies. It is about man who lives alone in the Siberian forests at the beginning of 20th century when he meets bunch of soldiers mapping the area. He lives and travels with them some time.
I've never heard of this but definitely want to watch it! Read some of the comments by others and, well, for sure I would like to watch it. Makes me think of Anastasia from the Ringing Cedars--so far not a movie but only a book series
Thanks for suggesting this! I probably can't watch it on Friday night with everyone.
Mary Cook wrote:Peg, I don't think I have a picture, and we haven't set it up the last couple of years because some of the parts got lost, and we got used to just using the indoor shower (which also involves carrying a bucket of water warmed usually on the gas stove (in summer) or the woodstove in winter, upstairs to dump in a bucket which has a hose leading from the bottom down into a spigot in the shower below, with a valve on the showerhead that can be turned off to conserve water while soaping. But we had three poles, like five inches in diameter at the base and ten feet long. leaning into join at the top, then a system of two pulleys with the rope wound in loops between them was used to run the bucket up and down, a short hose--like a foot--dangled below the bucket with a small showerhead with a valve attached. You can also buy plastic bags, black on one side, with a hole in the upper part for attaching a hook. You fill it in the morning, raise it, and after a few hours in the sun makes a nice shower.
Mary Cook wrote:I don't know much about plumbing, I just want to put in a plug for an outdoor shower, for summer. We've had one for years, in which a black five-gallon bucket hangs from a tripod of poles, with a sort of pulley arrangement so we can lower it to refill with cold water, then hoist it up. A hose leads out of it to a showerhead with a valve so you can turn it off while you're soaping up if you need to conserve water. This was low-tech and less than awesome but there's something pleasurable about showering in the breeze and sun, with chickens running around and birds calling. But--I live in WV where the only problem growing tomatoes is that the ample rain and ample heat bring on disease every year. Our clearing gets up to 11 hours of sun in the summer. It doesn't take that many hours to get pleasantly warm water, though--on a sunny day. If I get hot and sweaty enough (lawn mowing will do it, so I usually save that chore for last) lukewarm water feels pretty good.
