Posted on 12/13/2013 12:25:11 PM PST by greeneyes
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Wow. This is why we no longer feed the birds. Cougars? That would scare me more than bears, I think.
I don't have peanuts but I do have large pieces of packing foam since we live in the middle of nowhere and have to have things shipped if they're not locally available. Poking holes in that stuff would work, too, I imagine. However, we have no shortage of rocks, lol!
Yes, I would think that those large pieces/containers made of packing foam would work just as well.
It is not good to get up in the morning, make coffee, get downstairs, turn TV on to channel 59 to watch US Senate vote on cloture for the budget bill and expecting to watch the speeches afterward before the final budget bill is voted up or down, WHAT? The SENATE ISN'T ON THE CHANNEL ANYMORE. House CSPAN is still on 58 but the senate isn't on 59 anymore. I don't believe it and hit 59 several more times to make sure - TNT movie channel every time, my senate is gone.
What had the stupid cable company done? Where was my Senate? I looked at higher channels from there and, what the hell!, I now had MSNBC - Chris Matthews crazy man is now on my TV channel list - did they take off my senate and replace it with MSNBC - I'm getting very upset right about now. The channels just before my old senate channel showed it wasn't on one of those close channels, either.
I frantically hit channel 2, the beginning channel and started up - What? My Senate CSPAN is now on channel 7 instead of 59. And, I now have MSNBC, the Chris Matthews crazy man channel.
I have recovered now as I watch the senate on channel 7. I really thought they had taken the senate channel off and I was thinking what I could do about that - like they give me back my senate or I cover their building which is on my shopping street, with honey and let bees sting them until they give me my senate back. :o)
On to the next problem, the holes in pots that need something between the holes and the potting soil mix so the holes won't plug up with dirt (I don't think that can happen, but everyone else seems to think it can). It is true dirt is coming out of those holes.
I found “Archovations Inc Better Than Rocks” to cut and place on the inside bottom of pots. At two places, it wouldn't get to me until January 3 and it costs a lot of money even for four pieces 12 inches square, from $26-28 plus $14 shipping.
If we started a company making plastic rocks, the right size for pots, in other words, not big rocks, but smaller rocks, that wouldn't turn to compost in a million years, we would make a fortune on this light weight, cheap in price, item.
I cannot find shipping peanuts that last a million years - you can't buy them. Office Depot has the right sized bag for what I need, around $8, but it is biodegradable. The rest they have are enormous amounts of it starting in the $20s and it doesn't say it is bio or not but I bet it is. It appears to me you can't buy million year peanuts anymore.
Solution:
I am gong to use “Marcella's Theory of Physics” to put layers of netting made out of million year plastic, in the bottom of those pots. You will say the net is so easy to mash down, the weight of he dirt will make the net flat and not work. That is where “Marcella's Theory of Physics” can refute your sorry, mean, you must hate me, :o), criticism of my net theory. Here is the well thought out “Marcella's Theory of Physics”:
“Something is something and no matter how hard you mash it, it is still something.”
That is my profound physics truth. Now, take that truth and use enough “something” so the applied pressure can only compress it as far as you want it to. One layer of net has too many holes to let dirt through, but use many layers going different directions and it is difficult for dirt to get through. Those many layers also put more “something” between the dirt pressure and bottom of pot, keeping the “something” thicker. Even one layer is “something” and you can't get rid of that “something” even though it is thin - just add more of that something and it is thicker and always between the dirt and the pot.
I'm using layers of net “something” today in the bottom of the pots and planting those blackberry plants. It won't cost me extra money and I have enough net to cover my whole town (well, maybe not that much), and it won't take a huge amount for those three big containers and there is plenty of net to cover the inside bottoms of all the containers I have in this room which is 25 containers.
Wow! If nothing else, this will be an interesting experiment. :)
Look at this beautifully put together garden in a front yard and the lady had to pull up all the veggies due to dump Florida town.
Her garden layout in spectacular and would be a joy to walk around in there admiring it and she had to pull up veggies. She could grow fruit but not a veggie. Read the article and see she had a lawyer with a group come to her aid so they go to court but she still had to pull up those veggies.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3102673/posts
What a clever idea. Thanks for sharing.
Have you ever tasted muck tuck?
I’m glad I’m out in the county. The only rule here is that you have to have a septic tank.
I put off planting blackberry plants today - got a call from engineer Roy, he was sent to Katy where he now is, where he picks up something, then tomorrow I think, can come by here or stay here, he isn’t sure yet about the staying, to go to Liberty where he needs to fix something they can’t fix and it could take two days to fix it.
When he shows up, he can help me get net and potting soil mix in those three big containers. No point in doing it myself when he can help.
The biodegradable ones are made of starch and other stuff. Will keep looking.
Holy cow. Thank you, Silentgypsy!
“Styrofoam packing peanuts contain toxic chemicals.”
Hmm, does anyone think the toxic chemicals would leach into the soil/plant?
I just found some of Diana’s Beneficial Bug Mix Seeds with some others and I’m not certain that these are exactly what she called for: blue bachelor buttons, marigolds; fennel; cornflowers; cosmos; and, I believe, one of the following: cilantro, dill, parsley, or rosemary. I apologize if I left someone out.
That concern was why I included it. I wonder if that’s an additional reason why it isn’t landfill material. Will look up absorption, routes, etc.
Nooo...My Tribe’s tasdte rum from Solomon Gundy, Creamed Finnan Haddie, SOS, Lobster, and Moose! LOL!
Note: Do NOT try to bring Moose meat back into the USA.
I think dill and cilantro are both included.... have it here some where...hold on...
Found it! Thanks Diana!
Orange Cosmos
Blue Bachelor Buttons
Calendula (yellow or orange)
Dill
Cilantro
Fennel
Borage
Parsley
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Wife and I are both still sick, even worse. I think we are both going to see Dr Kyle S. in the morning. I wanted to loose weight, but not like this. Haven’t eaten very much since last Tuesday, and cant keep anything down. Bet I’ve lost 5lbs. Chest is full of boiling goop. We are both coughing and gagging.
This is not helping any, either:
http://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/mystery-illness-claims-4-lives-in-montgomery-county/
Yes, go to doctor tomorrow for sure. I didn’t know about this illness and the deaths. I need to get some things at Kroger since I think the engineer will be here either Thursday or Friday so have to have more food in the house.
I will rush in and out of Kroger as quickly as possible and wash my hands when I get home. I’m not going anywhere other than there until they figure out what this disease is.
The article says this strange disease seems like flu but the people didn’t test positive for flu so they don’t know what it is.
Let me know how you are these next several days until you get better.
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