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Post by canadamike on Oct 8, 2008 22:40:40 GMT -5
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Post by stratcat on Oct 8, 2008 23:12:46 GMT -5
Looking very good, Michel. You're happening! ;D
john et
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Post by canadamike on Oct 9, 2008 0:34:28 GMT -5
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 9, 2008 6:26:46 GMT -5
That looks very nice Mike.  Congrats on your move! |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Oct 9, 2008 8:00:38 GMT -5
Michel, you have a beautiful living room... it looks like the cover of a home magazine! Of course, the squash is pretty. ;D Hope the harvest goes well... have you eaten any of the musquee yet? I hope the flavor lives up to the looks... the one I collected seed from sure did.
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Post by landarc on Oct 9, 2008 12:09:51 GMT -5
Looks pretty fussy to me, white slipcovers, geez. Makes me wonder about you Michel.
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Post by canadamike on Oct 9, 2008 12:31:59 GMT -5
 My wife is a decorator landarc, and we live in what is the model home for a new development, Sales offices and everything are here. So we had to give it a certain look. Vivianne is the one designing the houses ,hiring and negociating the trades and will decorate every unit sold. So I am stuck in a house everybody will visit with a wife asking me to be careful when I breathe, when I walk, when I cook, when I come back from the dirty basement, when I come back from outside, when I do some woodworking, when I have guests, when I sit on the couch and on and on. I feel she'll soon ask me to stick a friggin perfume suppository up my arse when I go to the John... It is very...exciting  And Elizabeth, I am waiting a bit on the squash, although I will soon end up unable to do it anymore, I feel , as I prefer them cured a bit more, they get better after a couple of months usually.
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Post by landarc on Oct 9, 2008 14:46:10 GMT -5
Does your garden look like Martha Stewart's?
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Post by canadamike on Oct 9, 2008 15:47:28 GMT -5
;D Funny how her name turns up once someone talks deco or else, and the lil' hint is not called for. The lady hopped on the deco train, she, by far, did not put it on its tracks. Martha's style is quite busy to my taste and my wife's. We like clean lines and a certain austerity.
There are many pictures of my garden here. I don't think so. Her's would be a garden, mine is more a farm...and I use weeds extensively as free green manure in my clayish soil, I turned a huge patch of future corn plantings 3 times under this year,something our dear Martha would not approve of, not WEEDS of course. There is a poetic word in french for weeds, most people don't know it, I did not until it was given to me by a poet lately :ADVENTICE. I might name my farming project that way.
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Post by stratcat on Oct 9, 2008 20:59:03 GMT -5
Hey, Michel. You're good as gold! |
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Post by canadamike on Oct 9, 2008 23:14:41 GMT -5
I love this adventice name. What it means, really, is that these plants are sent there by nature in advance to start colonize the soil , adding organic matter to the mix, loosening it and filling it with complex carbohydrates to feed the next phase, colonizing trees, aspen, cottonwood, negundo maple ( boxwood elder I think ), crataegus and such. Here, a lot of hairy vetch mixes naturally with it. Weeds will be there forever. Their seeds are already there by tens of billions in any large field, able to survive decades and the supply is constantly refreshed anyway. Why not use this reality instead of fighting it. I sprinkled some extra leguminosae ( lotus corniculatus and hairy vetch) in the weed patch that will grow corn next year to add some nitrogen, and I let everything grow, turning it under 3 times as I said. It will be turned under again next spring. Come fall or the end of the season, I let everything grow wild in all the patches, it looks messy to most, but vibrant to me. And my wallet agrees too. The next year's lettuce patch has been rototilled so many times this year, probably every month. But weeds come back with a vengence, and I thank them for that and seriously count on it. The pure clay is now full of worms, the soil is workable. 3 years ago we could have used it for potery. I mean real potery. The gray clay around here is sold by some to make white potery once cooked. I might have a nice house now, at 50 it is OK ( btw, the 2 tables and the armoire in the pic come from garbage and I fixed them, woodworking has its virtues) but I was poor most of my life, working in the arts, and I ALWAYS relied on weeds to feed my soil. And 40 pounds of maters per plant is proof enough to me that they work. I just don't get the fuss about them. A lot of them are edible anyway, and better tasting than chichiquelite and some other cultivated shit. It is hard to beat their adaptability and resilience. If you can't beat them, join them. |
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 10, 2008 6:01:11 GMT -5
Michel, you have a beautiful living room... it looks like the cover of a home magazine! It does look like the cover of "Better Homes & Gardens". The all-white is very nice, but I couldn't deal with it. lol Do you have a den where you can go hang out? Or has the wife banished you to the basement?  |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Oct 10, 2008 8:27:47 GMT -5
Yeah, with a husband, 2 kids, 2 dogs and a gardening habit of my own, there is no way white furniture would last in our house. In fact, I've been known to veto furniture fabric because it wasn't dirt colored. ;D
I like the brown and blue on the walls, though. I redid out bedroom with those colors, but with a champagne color accent instead of white. (That way, I can spill my gin and tonic or a beer on the bed, and the mark won't show as badly. Yeah... a husband, 2 kids and a dog = I drink!)
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Post by canadamike on Oct 10, 2008 8:58:49 GMT -5
We can bring beer and gin tonic in bed with you  Shit, I should have maried you  She had that white thing in her head, and there is nothing I could do, as if there had ever been.... Vivianne is absolutely great with colors. There is not even 2,000$ of furniture in the whole house. Everything is recycled, or almost. The armoire in the right corner I made of a piece of junk furniture we got for free and that I used in my garage for my saws and sanders. I added 2 cheap damaged doors, built shelves out of cheap lauan plywood leftovers, distressed the doors even more for a century old look, then to hide the different colors in the different woods, I made my own stain out of turpentine and earth pigments, added 30 layers of thin shellac...she finds stuff on the side of the road or in garage sales, I McGyver them if I have to, we use them, then there is usually somebody that makes an offer. We've been living on the same 2,000$ of furniture for 22 years, they are just sold and/or traded or exchanged overtime. |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Oct 10, 2008 10:17:33 GMT -5
We can bring beer and gin tonic in bed with you Shit, I should have maried you |
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NO COMPRENDO ;D
Congrats on your move! 
