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Post by materman on Jan 17, 2014 0:00:48 GMT -5
Just noticed this thread and must say about all I own is junk or came from the junk. My real username isn't junkman for nothing. But I utilize it all the time for projects. Here is one recreated heap of metal that i fabricated together and still use. Really comes in handy.  |
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Post by steev on Feb 8, 2014 22:02:40 GMT -5
Two weeks back, the squirrels realized that my squirrel-cage is topless, so they got in and ravaged the salad-bar of tender seedlings (I'd have had them planted out much earlier, but the drought had made that un-do-able). Serendipitously, the next day, I went by the pet-store for bunny-bedding bags, to find that they were discarding three aquariums, with screen lids; so I took those and put my seedling pots in them, exactly the tank area for the number of 3" pots I needed to protect. The Stones are correct, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need!".
So far, so good; the tree-rats have been stymied and the seedlings are recovering.
Comes this spell of blessed rain; hooray, hooray! Hmm; I wondered. When a slack-off of the rain came, I went out to check the tanks; the pots were just passing the floating stage! So I took them out, drained the tanks, and put them back. I'm not complaining; it's just a whole new thing to keep an eye on.
In other news, the guy that hooked me up with his fire extinguisher monoammonium phosphate supply passed my number to another extinguisher guy, who phoned; I think my nitrate shortfall is covered. Granted, it's not strictly kosher, organic-certification-wise, I suppose, but I'll never be certified anyway, and as a reformed chemist, I know that this stuff is not a hazard in the way I'll use it. All things considered, it's a win all around: I get plenty of N/P, for which I don't pay, fueling demand; they don't have to pay for disposal; land-fill or whatever doesn't have to deal with it. Luckily, K is no significant limiting factor in my soil conditions. Now, if Jupiter Pluvius will just not be a jerk...
BTW, materman, does that puppy ferris-wheel those flats of transplants? I assume the length of it is to keep the nose from flipping over when getting off the starting line.
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Post by DarJones on Feb 9, 2014 2:46:46 GMT -5
When he passed, my great grandpa gave me his rain rattle. He said to use it with caution, it was serious juju. Just look at a place on a map and rattle the rain rattle and within a week it will start raining and won't stop as long as I look and rattle the rain rattle every day. I rattled it over California last week and look what happened. I made a mistake a few years ago, rattled it over Georgia and they got a 4 inch flood out of a clear blue sky. You have to remember that it is serious stuff, too much rattlin and pretty soon, other places start to dry up. If you want to see the real secret, watch some of the old rain men. The dance is just to fool you. The real juju is when they shake their rain rattle.
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Post by flowerweaver on Feb 9, 2014 9:39:02 GMT -5
@fushionpower OK, please look at southwest Texas and give a long rattle. We don't flood until we've had about 10 inches.
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Post by steev on Feb 9, 2014 10:40:43 GMT -5
Thanks so much; every drop helps.
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Post by DarJones on Feb 9, 2014 14:38:25 GMT -5
Steev, don't pay any attention to those fake rain men. They are nothing but charlatans and con men. You find one of the genuine old rain men who has a real rain rattle and watch what happens when he shakes it. You can hear the vibrations and feel the moisture building. You know you have the real deal when you see him dancing away from lightning bolts. That rain rattle is powerful juju. I shook it over Northern Cali last night and look what is happening today. This thing is dangerous!
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Post by steev on Feb 9, 2014 22:42:53 GMT -5
As pleased as I am to know whom to thank for this rain, I rather wish you hadn't so publicly spilled the beans; I'd hate to find that you've been "disappeared" by some government intent on "weaponizing" your powerful juju.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 23:10:17 GMT -5
If you're the dowsing type, cloudbusting is an interesting topic, online.
People reportedly use contraptions, or just the power of intention.
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Post by steev on Feb 13, 2014 23:26:36 GMT -5
When I was getting wells drilled, one of the guys "dowsed" the area. He being also a sheriff's deputy, I think his real interest was scoping to see whether I was growing dope; nope. The wells came in as I would have expected, given the geology, regardless of "dowsing", which I consider on a par with religious revelation, which is to say perhaps entertaining, socially revealing, and factually irrelevant.
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Post by davida on Feb 14, 2014 1:40:37 GMT -5
When I was getting wells drilled, one of the guys "dowsed" the area. He being also a sheriff's deputy, I think his real interest was scoping to see whether I was growing dope; nope. The wells came in as I would have expected, given the geology, regardless of "dowsing", which I consider on a par with religious revelation, which is to say perhaps entertaining, socially revealing, and factually irrelevant. Allan Savory states in his excellent book, Holistic Management, "Any time we talk about interconnectedness we are implying that boundaries exist between whatever is being connected. To more accurately view the world, one has to accept that in reality there are no boundaries, only wholes within wholes in a variety of patterns. And to understand the world, according to Smuts, we must first seek to understand the greater whole, which has qualities and characteristics not present in the lesser wholes that form it." We are all made up of our experiences. I personally witnessed an interconnectedness of an elderly cementary caretaker, his dowsing rods and the location of graves. When we were picking a grave site for my grandmother, the old caretaker thought that he remembered a person being buried decades ago where we had chosen. He retrieved his rods and showed us that they crossed everytime that he crossed a marked grave. And then at the unmarked grave, they also crossed but they never crossed on bare ground. My Dad, uncle and myself were skeptical. It worked everytime for my Dad, most times for me and never for my uncle. Guess Uncle Herman just was not connected. Whether it works for water or other minerals, I do not know but it sure worked for graves. Likewise, from my experiences, the greatest whole is God and I am thankful for a connectedness with Him. |
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Post by steev on Feb 14, 2014 3:21:02 GMT -5
I certainly agree that it's all One and we reject any part to our peril.
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Post by davida on Feb 14, 2014 10:13:28 GMT -5
I certainly agree that it's all One and we reject any part to our peril. Steev, I thought that you would enjoy that quote. Back on topic of reusing junk, my best was using the old horse trailer for the movable chicken pen. The trailer, a few 5' by 16' panels and a few T posts makes a chicken run wherever I want a garden bed or the pasture fertilized. The chicken hawks have found us now so I have to cover the top with chicken wire. |
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Post by steev on Feb 17, 2014 21:51:10 GMT -5
The fire-extinguisher guy I found passed my number to another, who'll have a load of monoammonium phosphate for me by Friday; it's gonna be green on the farm!
Went by the rockery and scored ~1/4 ton of scrap stone (I've no idea what it is; I must ask), lovely thin (1/2") flakes that will make a beautiful walkway on cement, ala RichardW, in an earth-sheltered greenhouse. I'm slowly building up a stock of various free stone with which I will be able to build ledger-walls, patio, stairs, whatever. Stone is so great: doesn't rot while you figure out how to use it.
A client wants me to get rid of the rhubarb (Victoria) and cobbles I put in for her ~10 years ago; good enough; off to the farm!
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Post by philagardener on Feb 18, 2014 7:04:44 GMT -5
steev Get paid to put those cobbles in, get paid to take them out! That's a full circle job!  |
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Post by steev on Feb 18, 2014 11:22:25 GMT -5
Had I known she'd eventually change her mind, I'd have installed gemstones.
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