Sherakee O'Riley

I ordered some worms, and here's a recent letter I wrote to the lovely sales lady, Erma.

Howdy Irma, 👋☺️💞
Wanted to give you an update on our lil'red critters.
Those poor lil'suckers got sent from PA, straight into Dante's Inferno. Right off the bat the temps began rising past their boiling point, right after I'd put'em in my handy dandy worm "rotating condo" and they were all set up for the long haul. (An antique metal trash can with the metal lid cinched down, n turned sideways up on my fliped upside down lil plastic 4 wheel yard cart, 🎡😁)
That lasted all of a week, before the temps had me draggin the whole kit'n kaboodle inside for safe keepin. 🤓
Once our wiley wigglers were set up in the middle of the livingroom right in front of the big house swamp cooler with their new indoor adjustment/digs, me - 2 dogs - one cat - and 250 east coast transplants, were all good to survive the summer. 😎
Until the swamp coolers bearing went kaput. 😭💸
I ordered a new one but the old one was too 'welded' to the shaft by age, rust and corrosion to budge. At all.😖
So here we sat. Temperatures inside our home/last hope/safety net passed 110 degrees daily. 🌡😵🔥
(But it's a dry heat 🤣)
This went on for over 3 weeks.
I froze(ish) a couple'o bottles filled with water in my shoebox sized freezer and switched them out of the worm condo twice a day to keep them from being boiled alive. Each time there were many hanger oners clinging desperately and wrapped around or stuck to the bottles and always a puddle of'em underneath, when I would switch them out.
The 1st day after their rescue from the unbearable temps outside - to the unbearable temps inside, my house suddenly filled with gnats, then flies, (which were dealt with by my new handy dandy fly catching machine) leaving only a few gnats behind, but the instant influx of big tan and brown water bugs who've unfortunately remained, freak me out every time I go into my kitchen.🤯 There's no doubt that my shrieks have been heard clear cross the mountain. 😂 I'm steady thinkin on a plan toward roundin those freakishly big, plump suckers up and feed'em to our survivalist worm transplant experts/guests.😏
Dealing with being boiled alive in a trash can was bad enough, but for a week they had some deadly uninvited interlopers, of the fire ant variety. 🤕They were drawn in by the pineapple and other fruit n veggie debris/culinary extravaganzas. I, and no doubt our worm survivalists, were covered head to toe daily and nightly in ant bite blisters, until the fireant poison I sprinkled sparingly at the base of the can, did it's work after about a week, and we were freed from further fiendish fowlplay.

2 days ago a friend sent a small AC, which will help tremendously at trying to keep us all alive until I can get a gear puller after that stubborn bearing. The new indoor temperatures now hover between 95 and 100f.😆😅

Your Wiley Worms are hanging on by the hairs of their chiney chin chins, or the skin on their backs, and have formally filed a protest at being sent away from their happy east coast childhood home to "Unjust Desserts, in the Desert". 🤨
Hopefully you're proud of them, they deserve it, and I am each time I switch out their bottles, and see them collected in masse under each one, gathered at their little survival rally points, waiting patiently for whatever hours devours are next on the menu, and of course, *fall...🥵
😄😅

Hope to hear from you soon, so until our next update,
Much love from Cali💞


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Hope you enjoyed it! 😄

Here's a passel'o free goats.

Thank you John, for all your work. I wanna grow up n be just like you.
Sherry

Ps. As much as I yak, thanks for not bootin me. 😃👍💕

I've tried twice to write a post and it didn't take. My corn-pewter has been out of commission for a few days and I'm trying to make do with a phone, so here's my final go at it.
All of my tomatoes are volunteers, or directly seeded every year. Since after the big ice storms down here I've been granted a hefty hand up in the building of my giant berms (huglekulters) and the advancement of your plot for world domination in the deep DEEP south is moving forward.
I'd like to video as much of the major changes as feasible and adding a few tomatoe seedlings in the mix for comparison may be no problem, if you think that may be what you're looking for. I'm here to serve the cause so just let me know and I'll be the "minion with an opinion" if it fits a need.
Your friend,
Sherakee

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2012/aug/24/martin-luther-king-audio-interview-video

Len Ovens wrote:In my experience "pickiness" goes up with age (young children sleep anywhere, old folks can't seem to sleep on anything).

That's an incredibly good point. Bladder's could be used, (big like a twin blow up mattress) or small (like the wine bladders in boxes) in creating the firmness or even the adjustable firmness of the crazy money diala-beds. For a cheap shortcut and more instant gratification, one of those self inflatable jobs could be inserted into our final product. For a marketable product or for those of us who choose to build completely from our own devices, small hand pumps or any type of ac/dc powered air pump, a check valve or valve's (also called stop vales), some tubing and imagination would do the trick. Die hard survivalists could even have a blow up valve or that could be an added option for extra security for any reason.

I wish I were there with you guys. I am pulling for you and am very proud of everyone.

hahaha "I Beams" not beans... buu I do have a large variety of heritage legumes. hahaha

Welcome Micheal!
Your video is wonderful, great use of the "BLUES".

It's been a big part of my long time plan for my farm to build an underground home. I've saved back I beans, C channel and a great number of large windows, well for that an an enormous greenhouse, but I've always been proactively interested in compact living. I would like to know what your advise would be about developing a compact living situation in an underground housing situation, and I'll be all ears.
Thanks so much and we're SO glad to have you!

Sean Banks wrote:^ just curious how your neighbor found out about your dead horse?

They're like... (omg) always watching me! Jes Joking. There aren't miles between us, here, a couple of acres, maybe.

Hi Sean, All of my neighbors are my friends, yes, even the newish nosy one's. That was a about 5 or 6 years ago or so, now we're much closer.

In addition, my property, the multitude of interesting animals, and the incredible change that came over the property once having been purchased by myself, was quite an attention magnet and I was always ready to share my knowledge and experience with everyone including tours.

Leila Rich wrote:We need a hugelkulturalist who's tried this to show up!

I had a horse hit while being babysat by a good friend, she didn't make it a week. I put her in "the back 40" (which is 1/2 an acre of garden area) and covered her in several feet of wood, wood chips and yard debris. I had a newish nosy neighbor on my backside who called the local animal control and complained about the 'smell', which she had only assumed would be a result. The animal control Boss Guy, a friend of mine now because of this one incident, lol, inspected the area which was almost two weeks into the process, and even laid down on the ground trying to smell something. Anything. Well, anything but rich soil, that is.