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Post by steev on May 31, 2017 1:33:48 GMT -5
Okay; I give up; I'll be posting stuff here, instead of buggering up other threads (so much).
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Post by steev on Jun 2, 2017 0:05:08 GMT -5
So I may be more-or-less out of the woods, labor-wise; if so, I'll be much more up for messing with stuff on the farm; I hope to continue my haphazard investigation of Joseph's Cherry Sweet corn, as well as Steev's Dry Wit melon and Steev's Turkish Sweet cuke.
Given that I can re-up another planting lane, I'm thinking sorghum and more cowpeas; maybe only sorghum, as cowpeas will want more water, and both will really only be for seed-increase.
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Post by templeton on Jun 2, 2017 6:03:45 GMT -5
I'll be trying steev's dry wit again next spring. No luck last year.
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Post by steev on Jun 2, 2017 22:49:18 GMT -5
So I'll fix the damned pump-leak tomorrow (provisionally; my last shot before re-building the whole damned pump plumbing array) and continue re-claiming fallowed areas; prolly plant the lane I tilled last week; I'm thinking Steev's Dry Wit melon would be good there, far enough away from any other melons; I'd not (yet) want to mess with its unknown provenance.
I didn't grow any SDW melons last year, T; this year it's "back on the chain gang", oh-Oh! Sorry, I just love Chrissy Hind's voice; doubtless I'm totally out of touch. We'll see what f2 has to offer; ditto STS cuke; I'm enjoying doing the land-race thing with very geographically widely-separated stock.
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Post by templeton on Jun 3, 2017 5:05:50 GMT -5
... instead of buggering up other threads Steev, I might have asked before - is this an aberrant use of 'bugger' in northAm? Not unusual here, but i didn't think that usage was widespread in US. T |
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Post by steev on Jun 3, 2017 11:22:23 GMT -5
I think not widely used; my vocabulary is broadly infected; land-race language.
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Post by richardw on Jun 4, 2017 14:35:11 GMT -5
A bit of cross hemisphere influence aye, 'buggered' - a word that rose prominence here after the resent earthquakes.
Bugger it steev, you'll have to shout ya self a camera so we can see all your 'land-race thingies'.
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Post by templeton on Jun 4, 2017 18:37:15 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jun 4, 2017 20:39:31 GMT -5
My venerable flip-phone needed a new battery, so I let them talk me into a smart-phone; I think the dirty bastard is smarter than I am; I am totally flummoxed. Bugger.
I've not noted that the Big Sur highway got another huge landslide recently; they think a year to clear; now that's buggered.
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Post by richardw on Jun 4, 2017 22:14:51 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jun 5, 2017 0:01:53 GMT -5
Life would be so much less fun if we all spoke the exact same language, with the same pronunciation, and usage. I think I got my use of "bugger" from a Canuck roomie half a century ago.
I've not yet found any of my SDW melon seed; may have sent it all to others, inadvertently; bugger!
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Post by richardw on Jun 5, 2017 0:05:09 GMT -5
I've not noted that the Big Sur highway got another huge landslide recently; they think a year to clear; now that's buggered. www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/03/is-big-surs-highway-1-worth-saving/Woow, big landslide alright Hope those people that live up on the hill to the south of the slip aren't too buggered up if they need to travel north. |
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Post by steev on Jun 5, 2017 2:16:11 GMT -5
If they do, they're fairly buggered (screwed or fucked, in common American patois); one can hope that they're largely internet-employed, so able to work without commuting; that area is remote enough in the best of times that I would suppose most of them are, except those engaged in the local economy and tourism (which is currently shot to hell). All things considered though, were I to be shut off from mainstream life, I don't think that would be my least preferable place to be isolated. I mean, it's gorgeous, and if you don't have a garden, that's your own damned fault. That highway has always been iffy; anyone who hasn't seen that is an idiot.
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Post by reed on Jun 5, 2017 3:00:22 GMT -5
Ok, now you've done it, forced me to google up the word "bugger" ..... O' roughly synonymous with "covfefe".
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Post by steev on Jun 7, 2017 1:30:31 GMT -5
No; it's really closer to reality and common Anglo-Saxon expression; pretty straightforward, though perhaps a tad "coarse" for the "sensitive" and repressed.
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