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A load of s**t
On 04/08/2016 07:25 AM, George Shirley wrote:
On 4/8/2016 6:49 AM, ~misfit~ wrote: Once upon a time on usenet George Shirley wrote: On 3/30/2016 5:55 PM, T wrote: On 03/30/2016 03:34 PM, George Shirley wrote: On 3/30/2016 4:49 PM, T wrote: On 03/29/2016 07:07 AM, Terry Coombs wrote: Arrived in my yard yesterday afternoon ... barn scrapings , from goats , sheep , chickens/ducks/other fowl . Another is coming today , this stuff has been composting in place for who knows how long . This comes from a neighbor I shared seeds and advice with , young fellow that's just getting started in gardening for food . I'm doing what I can to positively affect his experience ... "scat" is polite farmer talk for s**t. :-) Worked for a farm animal pharmacy for a while. They used the word "scat" so much that the 12 year old inside me actually stopped chuckling. "Did you check their scat to see if ..." I grew up on a small farm in SE Texas, even my grandmother called it s**t. So there! Just out of curiosity, did you get you mouth washed out with soap if you said that word, be she could say it as much as she wanted? "Where did you hear that word ?!?!?" And please tell me you were wish enough not to answer! :-) Nope, my paternal grandmother loved me, she just tut tutted, and shook her finger at me. After all I was her eldest grandchild. G Just like all my elders she used that word frequently. I never feared my grandmother but was scared to death of my mother, she whacked me upside my head with a ten inch cast iron skillet once for back talking her. That explains a lot. ;) I credit the head whacking for my IQ, she jarred my brain enough to get me through high school and college over a thirty year span. G Now I'm just another retired old fart living on his youth. If I had known I was going to live this long I would have saved more money. Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. You will love this. The Battle Hymn of Baby Boomers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49GavdGWtac It's a beautiful morning in SE Texas, temp is right around 64F, no rain, a bit of clouds. The garden is doing well, I think we will go get some store bought groceries today. |
A load of s**t
On 4/8/2016 3:09 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote: ... I credit the head whacking for my IQ, she jarred my brain enough to get me through high school and college over a thirty year span. G Now I'm just another retired old fart living on his youth. If I had known I was going to live this long I would have saved more money. Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. It's a beautiful morning in SE Texas, temp is right around 64F, no rain, a bit of clouds. The garden is doing well, I think we will go get some store bought groceries today. it's been cold here. spring is trying, just slowly gaining ground this year. we might hit 50F sometime this week. a few nights still below freezing. songbird We're awaiting the further influx of Californians to Texas as they flee the great liberal surge. We're still got room for you songbird and it's warm here and the garden is a-growing. Fertilized the growing stuff today as they were looking a bit puny. Fish fertilizer seems to help them though. The dawg and I had a nice afternoon nap and awoke to find the lady of the house was gone somewhere but left a note that said she would really be back soon. I checked to see if the credit card was missing and it's not so things will probably be okay. G I shiver to think of another load of plants being brought onto this small property. The dawg assured me everything would be okay but she's a female too. |
A load of s**t
George Shirley wrote:
.... We're awaiting the further influx of Californians to Texas as they flee the great liberal surge. We're still got room for you songbird and it's warm here and the garden is a-growing. Fertilized the growing stuff today as they were looking a bit puny. Fish fertilizer seems to help them though. thanks George! i really do like it here... if i moved someplace for the sake of comfort it would be the tropics, then i could study the many ant species, drink dark spiced rum and sweat off about 30lbs. The dawg and I had a nice afternoon nap and awoke to find the lady of the house was gone somewhere but left a note that said she would really be back soon. I checked to see if the credit card was missing and it's not so things will probably be okay. G I shiver to think of another load of plants being brought onto this small property. The dawg assured me everything would be okay but she's a female too. when you are surrounded... :) songbird |
A load of s**t
On 4/8/2016 6:05 PM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote: ... We're awaiting the further influx of Californians to Texas as they flee the great liberal surge. We're still got room for you songbird and it's warm here and the garden is a-growing. Fertilized the growing stuff today as they were looking a bit puny. Fish fertilizer seems to help them though. thanks George! i really do like it here... if i moved someplace for the sake of comfort it would be the tropics, then i could study the many ant species, drink dark spiced rum and sweat off about 30lbs. We lived in Saudi Arabia for five years, 1981-1986, I loved the weather except for the occasional sand storms. Lived right on the Red Sea, our weekend was Thursday/Friday and we would go to the Sharm (Arabic for creek) every Thursday and fish, swim, snorkel, etc. Lots of good fish plus we could fish off the reef into the Red Sea, 900 feet straight down the coral and lots of big fish came around. For a good ol' boy from SE Texas it was like going to heaven without any beer. G I've got the two page article I wrote for Salt Water Fisherman magazine way back then framed and on the wall. My friend, now gone to fisherman heaven, caught a very large fish on 20 lb line and he and his fish are the only picture in the article. Only article I ever sold to a fishing magazine. The dawg and I had a nice afternoon nap and awoke to find the lady of the house was gone somewhere but left a note that said she would really be back soon. I checked to see if the credit card was missing and it's not so things will probably be okay. G I shiver to think of another load of plants being brought onto this small property. The dawg assured me everything would be okay but she's a female too. when you are surrounded... :) songbird It's warming up quickly around here, we're having to water our clay daily. George |
A load of s**t
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songbird wrote: it's been cold here. spring is trying, just slowly gaining ground this year. we might hit 50F sometime this week. a few nights still below freezing. We hit 70 a while back - and zero more recently. 34 this morning. I'm afeared it will another bad fruit year (last year was the odd-ball bumper-crop year) since odds are good the night at zero after all the early warmth had a negative impact on the flower buds - but that remains to be confirmed in time. I suspect it's been a terrible sap year as well (I'm not tapped this year) as we've only had short stretches of suitable weather, and long runs of too cold or too warm, and the too warm brings out the buds which makes an end of useful sap. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by Please don't feed the trolls. Killfile and ignore them so they will go away. |
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