1985 Dom Perignon - Too Old?
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Comments (131)Jodik...For some reason, I find spiders on the stairway to the basement. Where it's dark. There's a closet at the bottom where Christmas and Halloween decorations are stored. The spiders love it down there. I'm afraid to remove ornaments for fear a spider will be in a box..lol On the other hand, in our front plant room, where it's bright, spiders make webs behind a large shelf, usually wall corners. I don't know if they're spider webs or or cobwebs..are they the same? Once in a while a baby spider is hidden in the corner walls. It's hard cleaning behind the shelf since there's very little space. The shelf is wide, about 2" from one side of the wall across to the other. Oh God, yes, this old house has many openings. Far too many. If I knew how to fix them I would. My brother lives in a secured Condo..last summer a bat somehow got inside. They believe it snuck in through their exhaust fan. Tropic..your friends are very kind-hearted. They'll be rewarded. We have a couple rescue shelters that take in injured wildlife..This organization nurses wounded animals then releases them in the forest/wooded areas after they're healed. How big was the crocodile? I don't know what feral Cane Toads are. Does Cane Toad look like most other toads? Warty, etc. Do toads bite? Is biting how toads attack turtles and get venom inside their system? The pen you constructed is inside your house? Wow..Cool. lol. Have a picture? LOL, turtle couldn't care less about your landscaping. Do Cane Toads live inside your house, too? If so, how do you keep them from entering the pen? Lol, wildlife allows you to live in 'their' home. lol. I'll have to Google, Butcherbirds. Never heard the type. Why are they called Butcherbirds? A name that includes butcher, well, these birds don't sound very friendly. lol. Millipedes might be harmless in the way of venom, but if a huge 'pede crawled on me I'd pass out. Oh, getting goose bumps thinking about it. lol. Although Carpet Python is colorful, beautiful in fact, I could do without..lol. Spying a CS at the zoo would be fine, but not living in the house. Tropic, what's with the snakes? If you don't mind me asking. Milking spiders..when a spider is going to be milked, espeially after agitating him/her, how does the milker near the spider w/o getting bit? Very dangerous career if you ask me..hope milkers have sufficient health care. Larry..Go to Nam..you'll find two-foot pedes. My dh was in VN..they came across a 2' 'pede. Don't know if it was a millipede or centipede, only that it was huge. Dh said, although the body was 2', its legs were about 4-inches. Where does one keep a 'pede that big? lol. Toni Yuck..the delivery spider truck driver delivers a quart of leggy creatures. lol....See MoreWeekend Trivia: Saturday
Comments (18)I HATE my school computer! Chuck has left for his meeting, so I have taken over his office and the Mac! Okay, here we go. # 1 Annette, you were so close! The soil of the famed Clos de Vougeot (A vineyard in the Burgundy district of France) is considered so precious that vineyard workers are required to scrape it from their shoes before they leave for home each night. #2 * for Nancy and Bobbie The term 'Blanc de Noir' refers to white wine made from red/black grapes. #3 * for Bobbie and Annette Robert Louis Stevenson referred to wine as "bottled poetry" #4 * for Bobbie, Annette, and Nancy Yes, champagne is the answer. I always used to have at least one bottle in the fridge. I imagine Lilly Bollinger had quite a few more since that was the family business. It was Dom Perignon who referred to drinking his first taste of champagne as tasting stars. "The 17th century Benedictine monk, Dom Perignon, is credited with discovering the cork as a means to seal wine and champagne bottles. He is also credited with discovering the process of making champagne. It is said that upon his first taste of champagne he cried, 'Come quickly, I am tasting stars'." One more interesting tidbit I had never heard before: During prohibition, an interesting product called the 'Grape Brick' was sold to thousands of wine-parched households across America. Attached to the 'brick' of dried and pressed winegrape concentrate was a packet of yeast, and the stern warning, "Do not add yeast or fermentation will result." Off to see Nancy's trivia. Have a wonderful, sparkling, champagne-y day all. Cynthia...See MoreHoya soil requirements
Comments (5)That is funny Florajilly about the Dom Perignon. LOL Your are right though, I think we who have many hoyas are up to spending whatever it takes to keep them happy. I have tried different mixes over the years with different combinations of things. Most work unless you get one too heavy that doesn't dry out well quickly. Some of the ones made for tropicals are good, but must be mixed with more perilte or orchid bark, etc to make them drain better as they are too wet too long otherwise. The thing that erks me the most is that most all of the mixes that the stores carry now come with ADDED ingredients for fertilizers and wetting agents. It is hard to find a good basic mix to start with that isn't full of other stuff you DON"T WANT. Since I add my OWN special fertilizers, I don't want a mix that already has some others I don't want (like Miracle Grow added to it). That makes for way too much fertilizer in the pot after I get started with my regime. Also those "wetting agents" (polimers) they put in there now make that soil stay WAY too wet for hoyas. Those may be OK if your planting roses or hibiscus outside in the sun or something, but in the house in a hoya pot, they are a death sentence. Sooooo...you certainly must read the ingredients in the general mix that you plan to start with. I used to always use "Supersoil" (sold at most box stores like Home Depot or Lowes). It is a good basic mix that is loose and doesn't have much added to it. Then I would add some perlite and maybe orchid bark or pumis, etc for added drainage. Lately this spring I have been repotting with some special mixs sold at hyponics stores called Light Warrier and Ocean mix. I mix those two together then I still added some perlite and they are doing GREAT in this mix. It is terribly expensive however (compared to the Supersoil). But ...like you say...if they wanted some champagne...I think I would be pouring it on them. Ha. We do LOVE our hoyas, don't we? Marcy...See MoreWorms like it wetter than I thought...
Comments (19)fisheggs, How about a 5th choice. Flip the first bin into a second bin. The wet will be on top and the dry on the bottom. The worms will now eat the stuff on top and in a bit the bin will be evenly worked over by the worms. rom.calgary.ab, That is so interesting I have never heard the information put quite that way and clearly. He posted "anaerobic bacteria are the ones that create the alcohol and sulphur compounds that tend to smell more. Also, anaerobic bacteria will decompose organic matter at a slower rate than aerobic bacteria". Any thoughts on how this relates to bokashi? I think of bokashi as pickling. Are anaerobic bacteria what make wine and beer? Seeing as how worms can live in aquarium gravel obviously it is not how wet but how much disolved oxygen. Water can hold oxygen. That is how fish breath. I so agree with you about can't be too wet but can be not enough oxygen. shaul, The researcher's best moisture % data may of varried due to how much oxygen was available to the bacteria in the vermicomposting process. sbryce, "Keeping things wet and aerated can be difficult." Yes I think that is the secret or trick to vermicomposting, geting that mix right. All you, my favorite posters, seem to have used similar or different methods to balance the air / mositure mixture. And a lot of the posts are about messing around with ways to do this best. I do this in the undrained bin with false bottoms of egg cartons and such and cardboard tube to the hollow bottom. I love reading about all the new ideas for getting the mix of air and water right that I might also try. joe.jr317, "my bins are more like saturated chamois cloths. Completely saturated without losing water." I like your analogy so much better than a rung out sponge. I will try my bins more towards this way. And just shy of anerobic. As wet as I can get the bins without them going anerobic. I do not know that I would advise it to beginners because even with the goal of a rung out sponge they over feed and get drippy chamois. Maybe the wrung out sponge analagy is good because it shows the airspaces needed in the moist enviornment. And why does nearly everybody add their cardboard wet? The dry cardboard give my vermicast manufacturing process its structure and air pathways. Plus I do not have to tear it. ~dry cardboard proponent...See More- 20 years ago
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