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Post by richardw on Oct 29, 2017 3:17:33 GMT -5
Going through my fathers stuff that came out of his shed, couldn't believe how many bolts with stripped threads he kept, even though he was just a boy when the Great Depression hit it was drummed into them how they shouldn't throw anything out.
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Post by reed on Oct 29, 2017 7:01:52 GMT -5
I have five gallon buckets of bolts, screws, hinges, latches .... It has occurred to me many times that I should dump it all out and sort it but I generally find what I need anyway just by digging around when ever the need arises.
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Post by steev on Oct 29, 2017 20:01:52 GMT -5
Driving home, there was an NPR program about "body-brokers" who do the chop-shop thing on cadavers and sell the (non-transplantable) parts to whoever; this may be how I can achieve my post-life desire of having my skull (and jaw with gold crowns) cleaned for display in a glass-fronted enclosure over the door of "Miwitz End" as a deterrent to malign influences that might threaten my family; they cremate the "garage-sale" leftovers, so if I can get my ashes for burial under an olive tree: mission accomplished.
Will I look into this? Oh, hell yes!
Cali law forbids my just being dropped in a hole wherever, even on my own farm; seems a tad retentive, but I suppose it makes sense, though I'm concerned with burying myself, not somebody I've killed; I would never consider letting the State butt in on those! There must be some limits to governmental interference with Private Enterprise!
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Post by stone on Oct 30, 2017 16:40:16 GMT -5
Have you researched "Green Burial" or the "Urban Death Project"?
The laws are changing as more of us express environmental concerns.
And... there have always been hospitals and such to take our remains... not to mention the body farm in Tennessee.
I kinda like the idea of sky burial...
The last roadkill deer I brought in, the vultures completely stripped every bit of meat from the carcass in hours, after I put the legs in the freezer...
I actually thought the cats were gonna get some of that carcass...
If you die alone with your pets... they will be nourished... then it's simply a matter of someone gathering up the bones for the burn pile....
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Post by steev on Oct 30, 2017 16:57:23 GMT -5
That's why I like cats; they can fend for themselves; your dog will just lie there and whine until you get stinky; then it'll roll on you.
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Post by templeton on Nov 1, 2017 17:21:19 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Nov 1, 2017 18:00:33 GMT -5
Plenty of vultures around the farm, so I could maybe use my 4% Native American genes to claim a right to be put up on a platform-buffet; it would have to be high enough to keep off the coyotes and boar.
I think the Parsees in India may practice sky-burial.
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Post by richardw on Nov 2, 2017 14:22:36 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Nov 2, 2017 14:27:38 GMT -5
The closest thing we have to vultures for a sky-burial would be blow flies, but least the hens would get a feed if the hang around under the platform-buffet.
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Post by prairiegardens on Nov 3, 2017 0:19:08 GMT -5
First laugh today, well overdue so very much appreciated, a topic that rarely comes up on gardening forums.  |
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Post by steev on Nov 8, 2017 0:42:02 GMT -5
That's only because people haven't really thought about heugelculture much.
Anyway, I was working a client's yard on Grizzley Peak Blvd in the Berkeley hills, next door there were two bucks, eight and six points, that didn't care about me at all; you can't shoot a deer in 50 miles, it all being urban areas, so they don't give a husky fuck; a mountain lion would be shot on sight by a cop or animal control agent; so we kill the predators and leave the prey to over-populate; as a zoologist, I think this is just ridiculous, but what do I know?
You can shoot in Oakland; three people were shot last week in front of Kaiser Hospital one-and-one-half blocks from where I live; one fatally; I guess if you're gonna be shot, in front of a hospital is good; asking that it happen in the emergency department might be a bit much; two nights ago, somebody blew off a clip of six; heard no reports of effects. Damn, I'd recently noted how long things had been quiet; guess it's my bad.
I so hope there's been decent rain on the farm, although I doubt it; only storms from the north, so far, and the Coast Range splits them to the coast and Central Valley; only the Pineapple Express from the south does me much good; I shut off the riega last week, but more to the point, I need to up-cage my out-lying trees against the elk, which will be a chore in the best of conditions; got to pull the posts, pound them in at a larger circumference, mount the fencing, spread MAP and mulch heavily with acid leaves (the horses will eat anything else, even macerated paper); when the soil is dry it takes more than twenty whacks to set a T-post; I no longer have that sort of stamina, given the number of posts I need to drive and the time I have in which to do it.
I so look forward to the time when I can live on the farm, working daily, rather than being limited to weekends.
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Post by steev on Nov 15, 2017 0:51:19 GMT -5
As to blow-flies, I suspect the Saami make do with their knives, if they aren't good with burial; prolly not so many blow-flies in the sub-Arctic, so perhaps not so much a rush; don't think mosquitoes are much of a problem for the dead.
This may seem a subject a bit grim for some, but really; we're all gonna die; then what? You want to be pickled, canned, and put in a cement cellar/vault, preserved from return to the environment from which you came?
Why wouldn't one want to return to the use of our Great Mother Earth, from whom we were born?
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Post by steev on Nov 16, 2017 3:15:11 GMT -5
Remembered why I couldn't find seed of Steev's Dry Wit melon; I'd planted it; didn't get more than three melons (ground squirrels were very busy): one blah, one decent, and one untried; saved seed from the decent for F3 patch next year.
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Post by richardw on Nov 16, 2017 23:41:11 GMT -5
Ok , so ya saved seed but ya couldn't find it, no, hang on, its the other way around hey?
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Post by steev on Nov 17, 2017 2:11:42 GMT -5
Right; the kid may be losing his grip; in any event, for the moment I'm back on track; we'll see what transpires. One hopes there will be some valuable agricultural results before I totally go off the tracks.
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