Recent content by flowerbug

flying roofing would not be something i'd want to encounter, especially if it were flying metal roofing! yikes!

same here. :)

yes, we have snow back in the forecast for us coming up. the heavy rains the past few days did end up having water coming over the road and the ditches full. water coming over the road seems to be about a once in every 5yrs or so event with the worst taking place some years ago where we had...

if i move slow i'm not running over creatures or stepping on things. i try to take it easy as much as possible as i find when i hurry i'm often not really accomplishing what i want to do and i'm also often going to hurt myself or other creatures or damage things. that said, when i really need...

a lot of heavy rains, thunder, lightning and hail last night. i've not heard hail that size too often. looked like some snow on the ground but it was hail. could not see the bigger pieces that fell but i didn't go outside to look either. we don't have a metal roof but we do have a metal...

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.