::compost nerd high five::
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Feb 04, 2015 6:06:38 am PST #18252 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Connie Neil - Feb 04, 2015 6:14:35 am PST #18253 of 30000
brillig
Oh, the arthritis is bad today. If you're going to storm, just do it already! I need my hands! And my shoulder. And my hip.
aurelia - Feb 04, 2015 6:22:21 am PST #18254 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Meara, if you're near Kitchen Table I recommend it. [link]
I feel like my neck and my skull are engaged in a blood feud.
Calli - Feb 04, 2015 6:25:20 am PST #18255 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I love having a compost bin out back. Twice a year I harvest the stuff on the bottom for my garden. It's not quite optimized on brown-to-green composition and moisture, so I usually end up with eggshell-speckled mud to smear around the perennials. But my rose is growing like some sort of mutant monster, and my salvias couldn't be healthier.
Maria - Feb 04, 2015 6:34:19 am PST #18256 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
You know what sucks? Flying with an incipient migraine, accompanied by nausea. I can't figure out if it's because I dared to have 2 drinks last night, ate too much, or didn't eat enough. How's that for narrowing down the possibilities? One more flight to go.
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2015 6:34:59 am PST #18257 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
On the farm, all leftover food stuff that was not suitable for the barn cats was put in the manure spreader and used to fertilize the fields.
</random farm fact>
meara - Feb 04, 2015 6:43:30 am PST #18258 of 30000
Thanks for the record, Aurelia! I may stick with the restaurants within a block of my hotel tonight, given the weather, but will keep in mind for future trips.
-t - Feb 04, 2015 6:45:57 am PST #18259 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, Maria, that sounds awful.
My kitchen scraps get divided up and fed to (in order of priority of "dibs" on the scraps) the cats, the dog, the rabbits, the worms, and the compost bin. Compost bin also gets rabbit manure, so those scraps get pretty efficiently used. Also yard clippings, although I am hit or miss with collecting those and things like thistles and blackberry vines go directly to Waste Management's green bin for pick up. I don't know if I have actually harvested composted dirt, yet. Raccoons or somebody likes to break into my compost bin through the bottom to look for food and spreads some in that corner of the yard for me, I guess - my weeds are particularly lush over there.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2015 6:54:04 am PST #18260 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It's not quite optimized on brown-to-green composition and moisture
We're not super great on that either, but as long as there's enough of a balance to avoid it turning all slimy and mucky, we're happy. The weeds under our compost bin (it's a tumbler, which I originally spelled tumblr) are like bionic weeds.
Tom Scola - Feb 04, 2015 6:56:47 am PST #18261 of 30000
hwæt