What are you signing me up for, Elfie?

And what did I say about making note of all the stuff you've gotten into over the years because you read OG/was a member of the online forum? Is this another for me?

None of it was trouble, Loamy.

They won't come to Canada to see me in full gear at Lang. Just not big or important enough, Elf. If they emailed me to get ready, I'd have a nerve attack anyway and introduce myself as Loamy Baptie... Or Mud Baptie... Mutt... Gravel... Urinary Gravel Baptie!!

(sorry, on hydromorph at the present)

'Sokay. I'd take the pics for you.

ACK!
Beth wrote me!

I am sure loamy that you will have lots of things to share with us.

However, I am glad they decided not to do an article on me last year like they were talking about. I really didn't have anything that would help others out except how to turn only weeds into a green yard by just mulch mowing.

I turned this:



into this:



Except for the tree that blew down in the wind we have an even better looking back yard every year because of that mulching mower. I just love that thing.

Yay, Loamy!!

Nobody knows more about herbs than Rabbit (aka wasrabbity) - and she's gotten her whole town hooked on fresh herbs, it seems.

I second PhoebeBird and Alaskan, and what about HeatherHead??? She's one of those women who does everything more beautifully than you, so you want to smack her. Family! Animals! Garden! Career! And all that before noon. Then she mills some flour to bake some fresh bread for dinner to go with honey she harvested from her own bees, and sausages she made while the baby napped.

(It's all love...)

Major, what do you do with that lawn?

It looks like you did a great job, but wouldn't it be more eco-friendly (and cost effective) to have native grass and flowers growing there, rather than a large, empty expanse of green to mow?

Suasoria, is that you in the avatar?

Oh, Suasoria, I am BLUSHING! I wish it were all true!

Right now I'm feeling like I never accomplish much of anything--I'm half way through about five separate projects, and I keep getting behind faster than I can get ahead.

Ah well.

Anyway, they did profile me, several years ago. I kinda wish they had waited, because I do have more stuff to show off now. But it was fun--don't remember when it was, though. A February issue several years ago, I think.

You just made my day, anyway. Boosted my confidence factor. It's nice to know some folks think that about me.

Sausages I made while the baby napped! ROFL!!!

Thanks, and Bless You.

Heather

Octave.

I would not call that a lawn by any means. It is made up of the native grasses that grew when I cut down and ground up all the trash growing in the top picture. And since you have never been to the Eastern Washington, sagebrush high desert, Columbia plateau that I can tell then I will tell you right now there are very few if any wildflowers that grow in the wild lands around us.. Look again at that top picture and see if you can find any flowers. And the sage brush, tumble weeds and other plants with lots of stickers will crowd out the few native grasses if they are not kept in check.

What I do with it is keep it green to keep the dirt under it from adding to the dust storms we get over here. I also keep it green so it is thick enough to help crowd out the sage brush, tumble weeds and other plants with lots of stickers. I might also add that now we have all kinds of birds and wild animals that prefer to use the land rather than work so hard to scratch through the tangled stickers and other stuff that would be there if I didn't keep them out. The only thing that doesn't like it now is the rattle snakes but the garter snakes love it and so do the bull snakes and they are not poisonous. It is so much fun watching the quail scurry around eating the seeds and bugs that they find in there. And the deer like it too but I have to fence off my tomatoes because the deer like them even better.

I apologize if I got this thread off track.

quote:

She's one of those women who does everything more beautifully than you

Let's take it further off track.

Suasoria, this is a line right out of a comic strip called "Rhymes With Orange" - one of the cartoonist's characters is "The Woman Who Does Everything More Beautifully than You". You a fan?

Haha, yes, Elfie, I am a fan of Nicole Hollander, but my paper hasn't carried it in years, so it actually escaped my memory that I got that phrase from the comic. I say it a lot...but this is NOT the first time you and I have had weird pop cultural references in common. (Cake or death?)

HeatherHead, I figured with your lifestyle, of course you'd make your own sausage out of leftovers. Waste not, want not. I'm sorry I missed your 15 minutes.

Delectable green tea, or poison?

I guess since I started the thread it's okay if I take it off topic... ??

Cake or Death..

Are we talking about Eddie Izzard?

I hope so!

One of my favorites: We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" And they're going, "You can't claim us, we live here! There's five hundred million of us!" - "Do you have a flag?"

Yes, THAT Eddie Izzard!