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Nad R wrote:

Billy wrote:

How was last years harvest, and what are you planting this year?
Anything new? Any changes to your garden?

Last years harvest was horrible. I neglected my garden and plants because
of my retirement and working extra hours training my replacement. This year
I want to make the yard look better. Nothing extra in terms of plants.
How big is your gardening area? It's all raised beds, right?

I am going to rip up all plastic border materials and toss them into trash.
I will go with natural borders using a half moon spade.
Wow, is that the same as a Crescent Moon Spade? Is this for gardening or
varmints?

I got a book on
making ones own concrete garden ornaments and hypertufas.
Is that "Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden: Making Pots,
Planters, Birdbaths, Sculpture & More by Sherrie Warner Hunter"?
http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Concr...irdbaths/dp/15
79905854/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302546411&sr=1-2

My intentions is
making my own custom made patio blocks for pathways ( this is an experiment
and short lived since money is tight this year ).

Next month Bessy will have her calf and I will learn all about making my
own cheese, yogurt and ice cream. Cheese making equipment is not cheap, I
hope it is not a wallet breaker.
What? Is that because it is stainless steel or porcelain?
What do you do if Bessy's baby is a bull? Any pot roasts in your future?

The way food prices are now with high gas
prices, I may be in good shape for the coming years.

I will continue my personal studies on mathematics and get some books on
computer modeling techniques.
What branch of mathematics?

This is how I am planning my summer.

Don't forget to go swimin', and smell the roses.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

"I guess a good gardener always starts as a good weeder."
- Amos Pettingill, clergyman, 1780 - 1830
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- Billy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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