Coffee's ready...

[vehve]

Okay, more about the potato towers. With this heat we've had, they taters started dying. The neighbor who planted the same seed potatoes in a bed, which gets a bit less sun, had live taters still. We harvested one of the towers tonight. What I noticed, was that we had not mixed the soil and peat properly, and the peat parts were really dry. There were a lot of potatoes, but they were very small. Had we been able to keep the tower alive, I think it would of yielded easily 5-6 times more than it did, now it only held about 4 kg. The neighbor harvested some of his potatoes yesterday too, and his were a lot bigger, on average maybe 4-5 times bigger. The biggest difference between our growing, was that he planted in uniform soil, wile we planted in badly mixed soil. Now we've learned another lesson for next year. I just thought I'd share this in case someone decides to try the towers.

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
Dug up a few potato's last night. tortured one in the micro wave then I ate it ,it was delishious .
Weeded again picked tomato's. had a lot of fun in general.
Felix what has age got to do with it? I know a lot of people [mostly women ] that crochet before the age of thirty!
Rancher keep on exploring the boundaries of distraction one never knows what one saves in ones mind if it is left untapped.
Rngr ,you out there ? Q ? Oes????? how is everyone?
Gotta work again God Bless!

 

[vehve]

Age is but a number. I usually associate knitting with endearing frail old ladies who drink bland coffee and dunk their dry coffeecake in it. I don't know why though. Karin knits too, and a lot of young people do it. During the Olympics, all of the Finnish athletes were co-operating in making a humongous scarf for the athletes that are going to Rio. I think the trainer for our snowboarders became a short lived internet meme at one point with his knitting.

 

[sourland]

Sometimes age is a very 'heavy' number.

Sometimes not so heavy -

Good morning to all

 

[vehve]

Afternoon.

 

[rancher hicks]

But for now, I'll stick to cooking and woodwork and other projects and let Karin do the knitting. She's pretty good, she's made socks, and sweaters for our dachshund. She tried to make me a hat once, but that turned out more like a yarmulke.

I do like to wood work but can't afford all the neat tools. Sometimes I think it would be nice if we had wood working places like we have gyms. We could have teachers like we have gym trainers. Then we could make things without having to buy all the tools.

I have a lathe up on the rafters of my garage that has been there since we bought this house. Not sure if it's any good though. I've been meaning to take it down and see if it's worth anything.

As for Age? I wish I didn't feel someone else's age's. I'm too young to feel this old. I'm sure exercise would help.

Our pastor says to use the talents God has given you. I think it's what one does WITH their talent that counts. It's not something to be selfish with but to share with each other.

The wifes a great cook but I'm a good gardener. She's also sews. I call sometimes call her Dorcas.

 

[vehve]

Quote: We used to live in student housing, and close by there was a workshop that you could go to. I never used it, but sort of a cool concept. There was a place with sewing machines and a garage too. You could try asking a school that has a wood shop if they would let you use it, in exchange for say a field trip to a chicken keepers coop. Or a presentation on chickens.

*Edit* You could even bring in a real live chicken!

Most things can be made with basic tools too, just takes some practice and time. Sort of like knitting, I suppose

Personally I like building bigger things where you don't have to pay close attention to the minutest of details, but making ornamental household items can be fun too. Haven't done that since school though.

 

[rancher hicks]

We used to live in student housing, and close by there was a workshop that you could go to. I never used it, but sort of a cool concept. There was a place with sewing machines and a garage too. You could try asking a school that has a wood shop if they would let you use it, in exchange for say a field trip to a chicken keepers coop. Or a presentation on chickens.

*Edit* You could even bring in a real live chicken!

Most things can be made with basic tools too, just takes some practice and time. Sort of like knitting, I suppose

Personally I like building bigger things where you don't have to pay close attention to the minutest of details, but making ornamental household items can be fun too. Haven't done that since school though.

I'm not sure how things are in Finland, but here in the states the liability insurance would kill you. I have no doubt that's why no one has started such a place.

I live right across from a high school. I don't know that they even have shop class. Many schools have pulled down the play ground for just such a reason. Kids using it when school is not in session. I know ours did.

We sue over the stupidest things.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Yeah, here you can't become a millionaire by pouring a cup of coffee in your lap. Usually, if found guilty, the defendant would have to pay the legal expenses for the other party, plus some sort of compensation, but those are more realistic around here. In most cases it's in the hundreds to a couple thousand euros, sometimes maybe around ten thousand in bad cases, but that's already a brutal assault or something similar. Also, I don't think anyone would even think about making a fuss about their kid being stupid enough to faceplant from a swing or something, unless there is gross negligence involved. But just having a swing set would not count as that, you don't need a man in a orange vest watching it 24/7.

 

[karl E lutz]

here here make the frivolous claimant liable for the loss of time and money.