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Post by prairiegardens on Apr 22, 2017 1:02:51 GMT -5
I was bemused to learn this last year that we are more bacteria than strictly human cells... Always struggled a bit with the idea of being mostly water,feeling a good deal more substantial. Now with all that bacteria and mitochondria..there seems really very little of distinctively "us" left in the mix. Sort of brings our relationship to the world and earth into a slightly different context somehow. Certainly makes using antibiotics at every opportunity seem more than a little foolish.
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Post by steev on Apr 22, 2017 4:28:41 GMT -5
And then there's the atomic "space versus matter" thing; there's apparently not that much of us "here", however you slice it.
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Post by prairiegardens on Apr 22, 2017 14:21:12 GMT -5
Never had any misconceptions about the significance of humans in terms of space and time, never mind mattter. On the other hand on our own scale I tend to think that whether or not we should mind about matter, minds do matter. Sort of. Sometimes.
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Post by SteveB on Apr 22, 2017 14:24:16 GMT -5
The matter is mind and mind over matter, but att he end does it matter? Or do we just mind?
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Post by steev on Apr 23, 2017 19:12:02 GMT -5
Never mind.
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Post by prairiegardens on Apr 24, 2017 19:06:54 GMT -5
Not exactly junk but was very happy yesterday to be given about 80 bales of hay for the garden. I'd gone to get a couple of bales in case a lamb or two turned up. In general discussion mentioned if not I'd happily use it in the garden. So, he pointed to two small stacks of hay and said if I wanted them I was welcome to have them for nothing, they had some weathering on the outside so he couldn't sell them and would just be burning them come summer anyway. Happy!
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Post by steev on Apr 24, 2017 20:14:14 GMT -5
Good score; always room for mulch in the garden.
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Post by prairiegardens on May 11, 2017 10:50:36 GMT -5
Someone dumped a huge pile of leaves on the edge of the county side road going past my place, spent some time yesterday bagging it up and hauling it to the garden. 5 garden trash bags full of leaves! Yippee! Maybe I need to put up a sign or something, get them delivered for free! Next thing maybe is to mix some forest soil with some topsoil and get some different fungi/bacteria/microbes working in there. Still had no luck trying to make Bokashi.
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Post by mjc on May 11, 2017 11:20:55 GMT -5
Still had no luck trying to make Bokashi. Someone once told me, the trick to making it is not to try making it, but rather try to keep from making it. |
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Post by steev on May 11, 2017 12:56:32 GMT -5
A client gifted me a nearly pristine pedestal sink, which they'd just gotten free, because it had a small rust-stain.
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Post by SteveB on May 11, 2017 13:19:23 GMT -5
Rust stains can sometimes be easily vanquished. I love those gifts.
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Post by steev on May 12, 2017 0:21:08 GMT -5
I'm not sure I even care; the well-water is apparently iron and magnesium rich; will I put in a soft-water system? I don't know why I'd care to; I love the taste of the well water; it's delicious straight from our Great Mother.
I understand the magnesium is good and the iron is helpful, given that I have thin, loose, old-man's skin so that I bleed like a stuck hog at the slightest ding (praise be that I still clot pretty good).
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Post by prairiegardens on May 14, 2017 5:20:11 GMT -5
It's said that almost everyone is deficient in magnesium to some degree. Dunno about iron. But good well water is rare and wonderful. Once lived on a place with iirc correctly 7 wells and none had potable water, it always felt bizarre having to get water trucked in. Where I grew up in BC we had wonderful tasting well water but it ended to get scarce in long dry summers, we had to be a little bit aware of how much we were using or it would quit for a day or two. Winter there was an abundance. Nothing better than cold well water with just the right balance of minerals in it.
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Post by SteveB on May 14, 2017 7:47:35 GMT -5
My mothers well has iron and sulfer... And my grandmothers is so strong in sulfer that every time you use it, the house smells of well aged eggs.... They have never worried too much with them, aside from sitting pitchers of water in the fridge to shed the sulfer
My son strangely has fond memories of playing at his great grandmothers house in the summer and quenching his thirst the sulfer rich water right from the tap.....
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Post by steev on May 15, 2017 13:49:08 GMT -5
Just scored aged but unused 20' lengths of PVC pipe, 160'x3/4" and 140'x1"; these will be very useful.
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