#Soil, ecology, low-input #MarketGardening, women's history, material history, math, programming, literature of the long nineteenth, #waltz, #polka, leavened bread. Mostly around the Salish Sea.
Moved over from octodon.social as that delightful venue closed.
Profile image looks grayscale but is a color photo; a gull on a gray day here is just that gray. Header, for contrast, is an edible-flower harvest, punnets of brilliant oranges and purply-blues and pinks, on a scrubbed washpack table.
"Civilization has declined. Why don't we have an atrium with a pool for rainwater like they did in Pompeii?"
This guy is driving me nuts. BECAUSE WE HAVE WINTER AND THIS IS NYC.
OMG. And we have a whole system of reservoirs in upstate NY so you and drink snowmelt and rainwater and it's better than an Atrium. And you don't need to have someone gather wood just so you can take a hot bath.
(But, if this were the mediterranean maybe we could talk then.)
I did manage to collect some black highbush blueberry and wild blueberry for seed saving.
I saved the black blueberry last year and cold-stratified them outside by just burying the berries in pots and only one came up. This year I’m saving the seeds in the fridge in moist vermiculite to see if it works better.
Pic: top left is domesticated blueberry from my garden, top right is black highbush blueberry and bottom is wild blueberry.
TFW you find a cassette at a multifamily yard sale that had very (and I mean very) limited circulation when it was released in 1994, but you recognize the band because you have a different cassette of theirs.
"Alright, which one of you is/was connected to the band, and how? We must have run in the same circles back then."
Meant to work on the boat this morning, but caught wind of an old time jam in the park.
Ended up playing the washtub for like three hours before coming home to pass out.
I might like to play a stand-up sometime, but there's so much gosh darn thinking involved...
Bucket bass is about as intuitive as it gets, and is so very much fun to play.
I have an article out today that's about how one person's determination to solve her own complex health problems led to an extraordinary effort on the part of one lab at NIH & a discovery that could lead to treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome & #LongCovid.
#news #journalism #health #MEcfs #medicine #research
https://wapo.st/3Pem0G4
(gift link)
This happened earlier this week. I got to attend when four(!) young owls where measured and ringed.
Yes, very soft, smelled good and this young owl was very calm when I held it. The whole process was very quick and all four of them were healthy.
Yay! Good news for the eagle owl population here in Sweden!
Two wheel tractor questions -- Anyone have experience comparing the turning radius, the headland needs generally, between the Tilmor Ox and the BCS walk-behinds?
other comparisons also useful
Decided on a pattern for my Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt an started to sew a test. My plan - so far - is to use no newly produced fabric. I made the first flowers out of a rest of my 1. medieval-byzantine garb, an old jumpsuit of my kid (woodland critters), a shirt I never wore and a vintage fabric scrap. The border of the flower (or the "ways" between the flowers in the garden, there will also be "leafs" in various shades of green) consists of second hand cloth, I hope I have enough of it. I had the luck to find second hand some vintage fabric from a quilter (may the earth be light on her). I bought ~ 4 Kg fabric online really cheap and without really knowing what was in it, only because of some turquoise cotton fabric I saw on a crappy photo. I gambled a bit and was rewarded. When I opened the parcel I was so happy to find that there were several pieces of (vintage and modern) damask bedclothes included, hand died in green, olive and turquoise. Really, it's an absolute treasure box.
Edit: (Also: I feel like I am deeply in need to review my thoughts about #art and crafting. When I look at other peoples things: Yes! This is art!
When I look at my things: No, you just did.. apply things you bought, used techniques you saw. 🥴)
#Diy #handarbeiten #crafting #epp #quilting #quilts #nähen #NähenVonHand #SlowStitching #Hexies #Hexagon #stitching #Patchwork #upcycling #flowergardenQuilt #flowerGarden #quilt #englishPaperPiecing #upcycling #sewing #scrapQuilt #quilt
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