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How many jugs do you sow? How many seeds?
Comments (10)I keep a list of the seed varieties I'm planning to WS and then estimate the # of containers/jugs of each seed type I think I'll WS. For example, I know after seeing the hummingbird more often this year I want to go heavy on Lobelia cardinalis/cardinal flower. I traded for seed to supplement what I harvested from my WS plants and have enough to WS 6-10 milk jugs. I've still got plenty of room to plant out lots more LC in a few beds so I'll go heavy with those. Last year I WS ten jugs of blackberry lily so I don't need to do those this year. I'll only do 1-2 jugs of Verbascum/mullein because the ones I WS last year will bloom in 2012. I've gotten very low germination from columbine the past two WS seasons and will sow those extra heavy this year. Apple & pear germinated 100% as did dogwood. I have more seeds and will WS them this year since I lost two mature dogwood trees to the October snowstorm. I'll WS as many jugs as I have turtlehead seeds. They were a hit with the bumblebees. I keep WS until I look at my pot ghetto and decide, "That's enough."...See Moreslow... slow food, slow life, slow bicycle... slow
Comments (30)Also older than ... and glad to be above rather than under the ... dirt. Anyone remember 78 mm. ... no, that was r.p.m. ... records? And the needle being on a circular disk that one lifted off of the record and put up, over and back to be held in place above the arm that swung back and forth over the record but didn't move up or down? Our "Party line" phone was a big brown wooden box on the wall with a metal thing like a tulip sticking out of the front into which you talked, and a line with a black tube on the end that hung on a yoke sticking out of the side of the phone, that lifted when you took the receiver off to listen, which connected the phone to the line, by making the contacts with the large batteries inside. If you wanted to call some other person on your line, after listening to see whether the line was busy, you turned a crank on the right side to make the double bells on the front of the phone ring, in a code of short and long rings, which rang in everyone else's phone on the line, and the ones whose code it was answered ... sometimes others did, as well (almost always remaining silent while doing so). If you wanted to call someone on another party line, you pushed a black button on the left side of the phone and turned the aforementioned crank on the right side, which silenced all of the bells on your line and sent a signal to the operator on the central switchboard and she connected you to the other line and pushed a button or turned a crank to ring the code of the person to whom you wanted to talk. ole joyfuelled ... who liked eating at the dining room table ... in the large kitchen...See MoreHow Many Remember Making These?
Comments (29)During the summer, our town in Connecticut had arts-and-crafts tables at most of the elementary schools (mine was just down the street). You paid a small amount of money to make things like the potholders, sew up little leather change purses (this was back when there was a Tandy Crafts that was part of Radio Shack, and those leather goods were popular). You could also make "hot plates" -- you'd get a square of woodlike material and pick up small tiles (like bathroom tiles) in your choice of colors and glue them to the wood. I know -- we were SO talented! A monkey could do them. Oh, and lanyards, too -- the older kids supervising would bring lots of colors of gimp for those. I can actually picture the finishing-up of the potholders -- one loop into the next one on the edges, until you got all around and ended up in the last corner. I think you had to knot the last one into place. I had terrible color sense in those days -- no flair for pattern. No wonder my mom didn't keep anything I made! (She was probably just glad that I was out of the house for a while, doing this and going to summer school for math and creative writing classes!) PS: There might be a video on YouTube for the potholders -- there's pretty much everything else there!...See MoreHow many remember the 'Leaving Christmas Ornaments' angels?
Comments (10)I do this with ornaments but we call them "You found me ornaments". Our card is VERY similar to yours. I believe it was started a number of years ago and even had a website etc. but trolls utlimately destroyed it....although crafters have kept the tradition going. I posted about it last year...so glad to hear about others keeping it going too. This year I have doilie angel ornamants, some bell/bear ones and I am sure I have some others I have made to give out. I like to leave them in the store isles, church etc. I had to get permission to leave them at the stores though....See Morejkayd_il5
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