Weird Foods and Other Strangeness

Of course! A vice! How silly of me not to recognize it! I wonder if it goes well with a refreshing beverage (but not bicycling because bicyclying seems to be hexed in this moonphase).

Looks like fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egrEfhPm5EA

I try not to misspell but figure misspelling is kind of like wearing a sock with a hole in it. It isn't good, but it isn't anything to get in a dither about unless you have to go through airport security and even then it probably isn't enough to get into much of a dither about.

Gosh, Paj, I didn't know airport security cared about spelling! Uh oh, now we're really in trouble. Most of my favorite people won't ever be able to go anywhere, if their spelling is going to be checked!

Loved the Chi Gong ( talk about spelling problems) video. It did look like fun acting like a tiger. Probably is good for you. Your live? I was thinking more of spine and thighs, but what do I know. Americans don't think much about their livers.

It has conflicts opinions about the benefits of refreshing beverages so it's a conundrum for many.

I think I'm home. An other whole group of people who seem to get hurt doing mundane things. I managed to break both ankels falling off a bathtub once. I think I should take up some sort of extrem sport. Then I'd live forever.

Don't do it right now while your toe is broken! I couldn't help teasing about vice and vise. One of my dearest friends is Mexican/ American with dual citizenship, which I envy. She spoke Spanish as a first language and she still doesn't quite get American sayings or figures of speech, tho she loves to use them. I never correct her because she is so funny to listen to! Enjoyed the 5 Animal Frolics! Not the same one I learned, but very nice. There are only a zillion Chi Gong forms. I don't get to teach 5 Animals because I am not experienced enough and it is fairly athletic so it is possible to get hurt doing it. Of course, as we know, it is possible to get hurt doing anything!

Lol! So right Roybird.

I know it said 5 animals and at one point I thought it was portraying a bird, but I thought it was all just a tiger! Obviously I have a lot to learn about Chi Gong.

roybird, I am also like your friend in that I always get my cliche's mixed up and turned around and my DH thinks its hysterical. Can't even think of an example right now but it is a common occurence. Luckily I don't tend to break bones, though. Better knock on wood.

I think I need to do Sloth Chi Gong. I would probably be good at that.

I have never broken a bone, but I did pop a bone out of place in my foot, after which it went back in, and it's never been the same since.

I actually dropped a piece of heavy equipment that I was building at work on my foot and it smashed some small bones. It was never a problem but a few years later when I had a bone spur they also noticed the broken bones. Now they are getting a little arthritic and I feel them, so it isn't quite true that I have never broken a bone. But that is the only time.

Only bone I ever broke was an industrial accident, I broke the tip of my left forefinger in a rimmer, a machine that puts the rolled rims on paper cups.

I was angry at my boss who was harassing me and I spun the cams without getting my finger out of the way and it near sliced the tip off. But only chipped the bone.

Quite painful, and the machine should have had better guards on it (this outfit had their own "hand specialist" at the hospital cause of all the injuries their workers had.) But I got 6 weeks off with drugs and 2/3 pay so it was more or less okay.

Later on we sued them for sex discrimination and got a rather nice settlement though I doubt if it changed their ways much if at all.

Thanks for the lunch invite pajarito. Sanbusco is a bit far for me to go in the hour or so I have for lunch.

Yeah, I figured it would not be easy. Maybe next time we will make it on a Saturday when I presume you don't have to work. That would be fun to have a mini-forum in Santa Fe and to eat yuca frita.

Plus, we could take a train trip and go see Dparson's greenhouse! I love the train! It takes longer than by car, but is ever so much more civilized. And/or he could ride the train here! Have you done that yet? The t.v. news said just now that gas is going up again. They also said the storm is moving east and south east very quickly. I think Roswell will have more snow than SantaFe, which is bizarre.

Lunch at either end of the tracks would be fun. I haven't ridden the train yet. My greenhouse is almost stuffed with pots. I counted a couple weeks ago: 399 pots. I've added ~35 more since then. I keep seeing new seedlings pop too. I'm meaning to take a picture once there is enough green above the rims.

Roybird, I've done animal frolics occasionally in my tai chi class. I think the monkey frolic would suit me best, but they haven't taught that one.

I'd like to propose that we all do sloth chi gong tomorrow around noon, followed by yucca frita for lunch with tutti frutti for dessert.

My husband's family is falling apart, and we need to do something drastic.

Oh, Picante, that sounds serious....... you want some high silliness as an antidote there?

Sloth chi gong is about my speed too but I don't think I can manage to acquire the yucca frita or tutti frutti either, in time.

I'll think of something.

Roybird and I will do that at the El Tesoro! They will wonder what planet we are from!

Nah, we'll fit right in. Sloth Chi Gong is the most beneficial kind. My tai chi teacher says tai chi is for slackers. We don't want to over exert ourselves, right? Good night, y'all.

Right. Nite, nite, roybird!

I doubt I can find Yucca Fritta in Iowa. How about Potato Fritta? ;-)

I have a suden urge for plantans.

Is there Chocolate Fritta? DParsons has 399 pots. I wonder how many I have? Not that many I yet I think but I have plentious more seeding to do but I need to stock up on pots and mix. We went to Costco last night and I picked up my begonia tubers. They had no screaming orange ones though :( so I got solid scarlet reds and white frilly ones with scarlet fringes. I also got a couple of astilbe roots and as usual a couple of luvly border mignon dahlia tubers followed me home. They had Zingaro too roybird!

I don't know my pot count but I have had over 1000 little plants in individual pots with pots leftover. A local dude ranch that gives me their pots after they plant their tubs and hanging planters with stuff from the nurseries. This helps me get way too carried away seeding...

Wow Mulch. That's a lot of plants. Good idea too.

I still have a lot of perennials in pots from last year which is why I haven't been doing much seeding. I have planted an iris and some shallots in the soil, but have columbines and gazananias and roses still in the pot to plant and some of them need really big holes and some even need to have junipers removed before I plant them. Much work for few plants. I am working hard to resist buying more until I have caught up somewhat.
My annuals usually go in large pots here and there around the house.

Speaking of pots I can't wait til they make cowpots in 2" size. I soooooo want to use them instead of peat pots.

That sounds like a very good idea. There was a thread on them somewhere on DG by a lady complaining that they were growing mushrooms and wanting to know how to destroy the mushrooms. We all offered to take the mushrooms off her hands and explained that even if they were toxic mushrooms they were just helping the manure decay.

See:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/960499/

I just found a whole new way to get in trouble at home. I found this article, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/garden/26slow.html?_r=1 and lo and behold! I could plant a garden in the back of the pickup and drive around with it! What a dandy idea!

Now, my DH is not likely to appreciate carrots and spinach growing where he wants to stow the fly rods and boat anchor. I foresee difficulties with this plan...

I know that article and that man! That is Felder Rushing of Jackson, Miss. who has one of the world's great gardening shows -- The Gestalt Gardener on Mississippi Public Radio. i always listen to it when I am there and frequently listen to it here, on my computer. He is not only plum nutty but knows all about gardening -- was a county extension agent for years and an expert on turf and does lots of speaking tours in Mississippi and all over the country.
He is one of the US's great weirdos and proud of it. My solution to the truck gardening problem -- get a truck of your own. I can't grow anything in mine though because it is always full of manure. Roybird can vouch for that. When I go to her house I usually leave her a bucketful.

Paj,
That is great! He does sound nutty but knowledgeable.

You could quit digging so many rock holes if you threw some topsoil over the manure in the pickup and just planted it...

Your idea of getting a truck of my own is a good one. But I would probably have it full of manure all the time too. ;-)

I think the poop is just the beginning component of the 'truck bed' for your truck garden Paj. I luv the line "Brown is a color, too.” I often keep dead plants for awhile as part of the "Plants I have Luved and Killed' Chapter in the Great Book of Lists so that soooo works for me.

I never take down the dead plants in the gardens in the fall. Some flatten enough into the mulch through the winter I never remove them at all. The ones I do remove have rotted at the ground and are easy to clear in the spring. Except for sunflowers and hollyhocks, which require loppers.

I like seeing the snow on dead sunflower heads. And the other brown-is-a-color plants.

I too luv brown-is-a-colour plants for seasonal interest and mulch too. I'm growing sunflowers this year for the first time in Cowtown. They will be in a big container to hide the gas metre. They will either luv it or hate it. It's an all or nothing spot.

OK, here is a crashing irrelevancy. Just saw a news story where a guy tried to pay a phone bill a little over a hundred dollars and accidentally paid $12000, in order to save a 43 cent stamp. OOPS!

Too funny. 'In for a penny; in for few grand' must be his motto.

Nice article, Mulch! My kind of gardening. And Paja, manure is always welcome here. The roses love it.

Loved that artical. I'll have to check if he has a pod cast. Been look for a good garden one for a while