Any other "radiation babies" here (besides me)?
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Comments (13)I've been picking away at the veggie garden over the last week or two. The direct-sown peas haven't sprouted yet - soon, I hope. I've plopped out some of my wintersown Buttercrunch, Romaine, and Red Sails lettuce, as well as some ws German chamomile. I've planted out about 250 onion plants I ordered from Dixondale Farms this year. Now I'm starting in on the potatoes - about 2 pounds planted, about 8 more to go! Have several varieties of hardneck garlic coming up from a November planting, and a big bed of shallots because we love cooking with them. As always, I've rather underestimated the amount of room things are going to need. But that's a great excuse to start making more beds! I've got 2 tiny little two-day-old Stupice tomato sprouts - still waiting on all the other varieties. Lots of ws herbs, flowers, greens, and other goodies still to go out. They're awfully small, but my first couple transplants are very happy, so I'll step up the planting-out phase soon. My resolution this year is to keep a faithful garden journal, so that next year I'll remember what sprouted when, and what I learned from my mistakes (of which there are always plenty). I'm also doing a lot of reading about what to plant to attract specific beneficial insects, and which companion plants help repel certain pests. Dh and kids think my obsessive bug research is a little odd. Oh, well... they're probably right! I wish you well in your veggie garden endeavors. I'll be thinking of you as I putter about in mine! Maybe if you put a bed of your favorite perennials (or annuals or herbs or whatever your favorite is!) in your veggie garden, you'll visit it more often and have more fun while you're there. You'll also have fewer pests, since the flowers will attract beneficial bugs to help control the bad bugs... Nightingale :o)...See MoreAny other Dansko fans here?
Comments (19)Interesting, Rich. I checked them out and they seem to be a cross between MBT's, Danskos and Earth shoes. No? It's funny how shoe styles vary from hospital to hospital. In San Francisco, MBT's are all the rage within the nurse population. It's still Dansko country in our local hospital. I wonder if Alegria's will be next? I'll look for them when I'm out and about. Now I must try a pair on....See Moreany other color besides standard white vinyl railings
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Comments (39)Don't know exactly what a "ghost" is, but I do think (even as a professional scientist) there are things we cannot always understand, of a nature we might call supernatural. . 1) I am a Pagan and a Wiccan. Yes it is NOT contradictory. My parents were out of town for a long weekend and I (while freshly employed was still searching for my first home - mid 1980s). So, I was doing a house cleansing. The only other sentient form of life in the house they had then was our cat, who was sleeping on my bed. (Okay there were mice in the drop ceilings downstairs.. at least at one point.) I went through the house banishing unhappy & unpleasant energies. Now, "feeling" things shift really means nothing when it comes to determine reality or verifiable proof, as I very well understand. I left the laundry region of the house. Suddenly, I heard something crash behind me. To explain the laundry facility. It wasn't something that would fly in ideal GW/H design, but there was a stackable washer/drier, and at least 4 feet away was the cat's litter box. Earlier, I'd put a heavy duty plastic glass atop the dryer part, centered. One of those with a double shell so you can keep beverages cold longer. Shortly later, I came back - that plastic glass was sitting in the litter pan. I checked on the cat - HE hadn't moved. There were no air currents in that room. I was home alone, and I can't picture any resident mice doing this! Four feet? Was glad I was doing the cleansing. 2) Mom passed away on the Ides of March, 2001. Dad was an avowed agnostic seriously verging on atheist. Their anniversary was May 17th, and would have been 51 years of them being married. On May 16th the kitchen clock they'd bought together stopped working. It was electric, no batteries. He showed me on the 17th when I'd come over to be with him on the anniversary. He didn't unplug it. On the 17th, 48 hours after the clock had stopped, it began ticking and keeping time again. I think this kept him being more agnostic than atheist for the next decade. But I am not really sure what he thought as he eventually developed dementia. Not my story, but I believe my friends. M & T lived in an old 40s apartment complex, seriously falling part. This was in the late 60s or maybe 1970. They had little income, and the landlord was trash. The apartment had a doorbell that did not work. The place was heated by gas. One night in the middle of the night, they were wakened by the sound of the (non-workable) doorbell ringing. They awoke and noticed something was wrong. There was a whiff of gas. They got out of there, and raised the alarm for everyone else. Yes, there was a serious gas leak that otherwise might have killed them. Also while they lived there (before and after that happened) they had a cat that kept rubbing itself up against non-existent legs. They did some research on the building, and discovered something to the effect that the original architect had built this complex early in his careet, and had done his best to make it the best place possible. He'd died young. My friends believed that his spirit still hung around and provided their timely escape from deadly poisoning. ^^^^ What do I think about things? I am willing to entertain various explanations, but I don't really think science is quite ready to explain it all. (But what science does, it can do well.)...See MoreUser
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