Thanks B! I'll reference it as a conference proceeding & keep my fingers crossed!
Thanks B! I'll reference it as a conference proceeding & keep my fingers crossed!
Sarah
When it's easy, ride hard; when it's hard, ride easy.
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Kit installed a vertical veggie/herb garden on our apartment balcony today. It's very interesting. She used a shoe rack, a spare bike rack, some PVC pipe and a few U bolts. Then she made an upside down tomato hanger out of a used 2 liter bottle of pop, some duct tape and a spare piece of rope.Here it is...
Kale, spinach, mixed salad greens, herbs... You can see we didn't use one of the spots. They didn't sew that one correctly. It's open on the bottom. We start watering on the top and work out way down the wall. Because it's the cloth kind it breathes, the excess trickles down and eventually ends up in the overflow tray, which will be recycled back to the top at the next watering. She used those gel crystals mixed with compost/planting mix to help keep the moisture in the soil.
We now have room in the longer floor planters for our beans, carrots and other things that need deeper or more vertical climbing space. That comes next. We're just waiting on the seedlings to get big enough to transplant.
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Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ~Ludwig Börne
X - tell Kit -- that is so darn clever!
I attacked a horribly overgrown meyer lemon tree today, the majority of the lemons were no good, I saved a few. I didn't realize Dad usually went out and thinned the blossoms each year. This year without him doing it, they were growing like clumps of grapes. Not enough air flow = rotten lemons. Those beasts have thorns too, I'm all scratched up.
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Found on side of the road bike ~ Motobecane Mixte
Gravel bike ~ Salsa Vaya
Favorite bike ~ Soma Buena Vista mixte
Folder ~ Brompton
N+1 ~ My seat on the Rover recumbent tandem
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Wow - that whole set up is amazingly innovative! Way to rock the patio garden!
Sarah
When it's easy, ride hard; when it's hard, ride easy.
2011 Volagi Liscio
2010 Pegoretti Love #3 "Manovelo"
2011 Mercian Vincitore Special
2003 Eddy Merckx Team SC - stolen
2001 Colnago Ovalmaster Stars and Stripes
Thanks!
Not shown is the rest of the balcony with a big, bushy catnip plant (great for tea to help one sleep... oh and the kitties) spearmint, lavendar and rosemary. The beans, carrots and fennel are going in later after they've gotten big enough. We're figuring the beans will make a nice, green privacy 'fence' on the balcony rail.![]()
I hear musket volleys outside...
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Urm crankin, why do you hear musket volleys outside? What anniversary is it today..?
I know there was a 150th anniversary up in the US last week...
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ah yes... Patriots Day- Good times, good times. We used to re enact in the battle road engagement going from Concord to Lexington by being one of the local farmers family who would follow the battle, drag off the "corpses" so that they could resurrect as new personae and run off to get ahead of the battle so that they could die dramatically again, preferably in the town square in Lexington.
This was always followed or preceded by a day spent being a colonial lacemaker (with sag guy as a colonial weaver) at the Battle Road museum in Concord right there by the bridge where it all started.
The kids usually did the big scout campout/ camporee and did the whole re enactment march/ placing of wreaths on the monuments through Acton, Boxborough, Stow and Concord and then raced back home to march and play with the ABRHS band in the Patriots Day Parade.
Unless you live in the area, you really don't get how involved everyone is in the day.
marni
Katy, Texas
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"easily outrun by a chihuahua."
We did our ride out towards the town of Harvard, and left at noon, to avoid all of the above activities, and being run over by the Acton Minutemen marching down Strawberry Hill Rd to the North Bridge, for the re-enactment there.
I marched in the Patriot's Day parade in Concord in 2008 and 2009, with the Military Family Support Group. It was really fun. Last year, I couldn't go, and I didn't get an email about it this year, so I guess my marching days are over. On Sunday, we were taking a walk and we stopped to see the renovations of the Colonel Barrett farmhouse, which is where the colonials were actually storing their weapons. It's about 2 miles from my house and it's only open 2 days a year. Very interesting; it's going to take a long time to finish this, as it's being done to strict historical guidelines. They actually extended the National Park to include this site.
Marni, I don't remember there being a parade that the ABRHS band marched in on Patriot's Day, unless they stopped by the time Josh was in the band.
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As a southerner, all I have to say is: "There was nothin' civil about that wah"
The shots were fired on Fort Sumter. http://www.us-civilwar.com/sumter.htm April 12, 1861
Beth