Tereza Okava

I want to say I've seen a contraption like this for shelling some very hard nut on a youtube channel from someone in the ozarks.... maybe hickory nuts?? they seem to be notoriously difficult to open.

i am ashamed to admit they are good reminders that come when I need them. Knife that needs sharpening hits my fingernail instead of chopping off my fingertip, machete aaaaalmost nails me in the toe, reminding me to pay attention and also use boots. It happens every so often.

With the car, it is always hair-raising. One time I was going too fast on a dirt road, fishtailed, and came THIS CLOSE to hitting a pole (close enough to touch it out my open window). Entirely my fault. Another time, I was stopped at a traffic light in suburban Rhode Island alongside another car, letting traffic come off an interstate highway and cross in front of us to continue in the opposite direction. A car came off the ramp fast and slammed head-on into the car next to me, apparently misjudging where they were supposed to go.

Like See Hes, I grow long beans and winged beans. Even here in Brazil in zone 9b, in a distinctly hotter than usual summer, they take FOREVER to get started. A long time to germinate, a long time to get growing.... and long beans are slow too, but the winged beans are something else.
I plant normal string/pole beans, long beans and winged beans together. The string beans are done by the time the long beans start producing (victims to aphids and also just pooped out). The winged beans don't really even start producing at all until the long beans are about half done. And all this assumes no pest attacks, drought or anything else. The leafcutter ants like the winged bean leaves, and need to be monitored. This is the first year I'm actually getting a decent harvest of winged beans, having started quite early and given them plenty of time, plus hotter than usual temps.

i have moved a lot and ripped my large CD collection to digital (apple's music service at the time, also stored on an ancient Iphone 2 [!!] I use as an Ipod for air travel). in the meantime my husband signed us up to Spotify and i haven't seen my own music in ages (should probably check and make sure it's all still around somewhere).
Even using streaming, I often listen to full albums; last night I was sent a playlist (remakes of Beatles classics) and decided to listen to the full album (Stevie Wonder, Signed Sealed Delivered, which features a great version of We Can Work It Out).
That said, I do like using my 'ipod' with some real rarities like old techno compilations I bought while traveling internationally (and I've hunted for online and been unable to find again). And I also really like Youtube every so often when I want to hear something specific like a Greatful Dead concert (those kind of jams can be great work music when I'm on a really nasty project) or rare things like early Prince and collaborations. I like it all!

where i live 'permaculture' is used only by hippies, nudists and maybe people who eat macrobiotic. it's a term that sets a certain tone and often scares folks away.

anyone who asks what i'm doing is told i'm trying to use less, increase diversity, and leave things better than i found them for everyone around me.

Pearl Sutton wrote: weird smart permie women like old trucks!  :D

Seriously, my photo roll is distributed as follows:
50% dogs
50% old vehicles
They can make whatever algorithm they want, they have no chance with me or the rest of the Permies gang....

oh swoooooon!!! how lovely, thank you especially for the pictures of the dashes and interiors. (is that a wasp nest inside the vent in the 'original AM radio' picture??)
I am so amazed that in Montana these trucks lasted so well. We rehab old cars and (admittedly it is a bit more humid here but still) often cars from the 80s look worse than that. Absolutely gorgeous, thanks so much for sharing.
(now for the rest of the day i'll be remembering the 53 Studebaker pickup I had the privilege of driving for a summer and probably grinning like a fool....)

do you have an outdoor sink setup? i don't have a shed, my space is small and my improvements have to be in the garden itself, but having an in-garden water source (rain barrel with tap) where I can wash veggies or composty hands or whatever is such a lovely luxury, i don't know how I lived without it. when i've got 50kg of daikon or carrots i just pulled it's so nice to be out scrubbing them on the ground instead of hauling hoses or bringing them up to the sink. of course, i have clay like yours, so the runoff needs to be routed elsewhere (also using gravel in my case).
I also have hanging spaces for my best garden tools, and woe to the person who takes a tool and doesn't put it back where it belongs.

For my pumpkins, the first female flowers often fall off. Sometimes I can see a reason (lots of rain, they rot, or more often wind/storms) but sometimes not.
I agree with Nathanael- once they start going, I might get 6 fruit off the same plant (and I don't bother pinching/pruning or anything else, just cutting off the leaves that show mildew).

Rebecca Widds wrote:Used old bathtubs to make raised beds.

Apparently they are "unsightly" and they don't like "looking out over a junkyard".

To me that sounds like a challenge...... if it were me, I'd be out there right now rounding up junked toilets for a toilet garden