Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Jay Angler wrote:I've heard that many areas are short on opossums - that's a valuable upgrade for that vehicle!


Yeah, around here the cheaper vehicles only have mouse nests.

:D
1 day ago
Actually we warmed up then froze again exactly at the time to kill the buds the maple helicopters come out of. There will be zero helicopters this year in this area.
The trees fully leafed out way early due to all this.
1 day ago

M Ljin wrote:They both eat acorns.


It's spring and they were in maples. No oak trees within 500 yards.
?
1 day ago
... when you don't care that your compost pile isn't running hot.
It's full of LIFE!
I went to dump the kitchen scraps and the whole pile was seething.
Good critters. Eat it up! Poop it out! Make more critters! Do it do it do it!! :D
1 day ago
What do Blue Jays have against squirrels?
I just saw three of them ganging up on one very fast squirrel. Why?  
Squirrels don't bother eggs do they? Jays aren't predators are they?
What do they have against it?
1 day ago
I love it when my car smells like dehydrating stuff, onions... mmmmm.....
1 day ago
I also don't know many faces, too many people all look alike. I end up going off context and mannerisms more than anything else.

I am most likely to recognize faces I deal with often, but names are filed in a different part of my brain. I have learned to tell people I work with "In a different context I will know you, but not your name, remind me." so when I see them in the mall I don't feel bad about saying "I know you, wrong context, tell me your name, thank you, hi!!"

My name is an odd one, so I will often "remind" people of my full name, because that makes them tend to say their name, great when I'm with mom as she knows no one's names ever. When someone walks up to her in public and starts chattering I'll say "Hi, I'm Opal's daughter Pearl, I think you are in her tai chi class?" response is something like "I'm in the yoga class, Kathy Williams" Which also tells mom their name :D

My dad was good with faces and names and it amazed me. He could not see someone for 10 years and still know their name, phone number, where they lived, wife's name, basics about kids (oldest is a boy, next three are girls)  I have no clue how he did it....
2 days ago