Nina Surya

Thanks for sharing, Richard!
My kind of TV

Thank you, dear Pearl, for sharing this with us.
I feel as if I've come to know you and your mother a little bit better. Such wonderful people you both are.
You're both in my thoughts.

After the next big storm, go to the woods and explore.
Wind will be knocking down a lot of dead wood, but sometimes also live branches/trees that broke earlier because of something, so green wood!
Here at my place, the apple tree had a big broken branch high up in the tree due to being heavy of apples in the autumn.
A winter storm brought the branch down, for which I'm very grateful, I was already wondering how I'd get the branch off.
Now I'm wondering if I should give spoon carving a try...

I think it's great you're honing your woodworking skills!
Any craft needs a lot of practicing to get the feel of it. You're doing it, not just thinking about it or talking about it - way to go!
Now find more sticks, try how they fit in your hand, their weight, hardness, surface texture...
Enjoy!

This is a very interesting topic! Maybe, if we learn about how our pre-ancestors "farmed" (did permaculture), we can unlearn the programmed conditioning brought to us by school and society, and tend to nature in the more natural way, according to location (temperate, subtropical, tropical, elevation, marshland etc.).
Unfortunately, I don't have a clue of where to look for archological answers, but maybe my newly found friend, who is an archeologist, does! Going to ask!

One of the most effective methods to get lots of sunlight into the house that I've personally experienced, is to use high gloss paint (cream white is my favourite colour for this) on the window sill and around the interior of the window.
I lived on the thrid floor next to a canal in Amsterdam, and had the sunlight that reflected from the canal glittering in my living room, reflected by the ceiling above the window!

Hi Hardik,
I'm in agreement with Benjamin. Here in France old houses are built with stones fixed together with either lime mortar (lime, sand, water) or clay mortar (clay, sand, water). The finishing on the outside is sometimes lime plaster, sometimes you can see the stones.

To renovate the joints, you can scratch out the old mortar to 1,5 inches deep and then point with new mortar. Please don't use cement, because it will not bond well with the old joint, and it doesn't breathe, locking moisture in places where you don't want moisture to accumulate.

You need to wet the surface you'll be putting the new mortar or plaster on, otherwise it'll just fall off.

What do you mean by stone machinery?

Happy renovation!

Those are hard pastels. And a beautiful drawing/painting!

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Valerian

Nathanael Szobody wrote:

Wow! What a lovely surplus. Ever tried bokashi for the garden? You could probably market the organic fertilizer.

It is, quite a sweet surplus
I haven't tried bokashi, ever - sounds like an excellent idea, I'll look into that, thanks!