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i've enjoyed her writings through the years - some are on my bookshelves here. :)

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :)

yes, i did see those parts and am glad you're able to get patched up sooner rather than later. :)

"They all got right to it. That's the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own." Orson Scott Card in _Seventh Son_

we have rain and a chance of some ice for tonight but hopefully not too much that it all can't melt in the rains that are supposed to follow in the evening and Wednesday morning. we'll see how it goes...

haha! i read all of that and enjoyed it but now that i'm done i feel like a nap would be good. :) take care of yourself. i guess your back has recovered ok?

cardboard and good tape!

appearantly nebulous...

@Dirtmechanic it's definitely a bonus for a garden if your soil is poor, but it also is very hard to build up in a garden if you don't keep your organic materials in the garden. when i look around here, this is all fairly flat, it used to be swampy, built up some great amount of actual topsoil...

i love candied ginger. so much that i can't even buy it in larger quantities as then i eat it all. to make ginger tea here i used to use powdered ginger and brown sugar or honey. now i don't get that out very often.

brrr! this morning wasn't too cold taking out the trash, but windy to make up some of the difference. today is sunny and fairly warm. no flowers out yet.

just a few sticking in his pawz...

humic acid is an incredibly complex molecule... "Humic acid has the average chemical formula C187H186O89N9S1 and is insoluble in strong acid (pH = 1)." i.e. it is not very likely to have a major direct impact upon sweetness other than encouraging other organisms in the soil community in very...

doing ok thanks. keep on keeping on... :)

if you have to go out it may be a challenge to stay upright and also hold on to your hat at the same time! we may see the sunshine tomorrow for the first time in several days.