The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

Son came home yesterday! After two yrs. serving a mission in GA. Soo happy to hugs now1

His little dog Ziggy missed him too! Kissed him all over his face.

Oh what a happy reunion on all fronts.... VBG... I used to date a fellow by the name of Rockey... He went on his mission.... of all places Salt Lake city...

I was investigating the religion at the time... but it wasnt a fit for me... Oh well.... Hes the one who taught me to dance... One step fox-trot polka and waltz...

Most fun I ever had with or without drinking....

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

What a great family photo! Your son is dressed up so nicely, I thought maybe he was a politician ( no offense intended)

 

[Double Kindness]

I just got out of a hot bath with epson salts, lavender, eucalyptus, lemon, rosemary, bergamot and orange essential oils and I still have red wine stained hands.

I found a few recipes to make voq au vin, and we processed a big old rooster this past Saturday, and he's been chilling in the fridge while I have been busy. Tough skin being air chilled in the fridge, had to get my bf to do most of it. Which in the process he ended up tipping over the dutch oven and spilled the 1.5 liter of free range red wine from Rex - Goliath. Good thing we bought another bottle of cabernet sauvignon, the wine soaked towel is in the dryer now.

You can google quite a bit of information about cbd, but the thing is, it doesn't work without thc. CBD is non psychoactive, helps with inflammation, seizures, epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, pain, chrons, insomnia, muscle spasms, anorexia, nausea, depression. It is far less harmful/side effects of pharmaceutical drugs, but it isn't found in all cannabis. CBD is found in high % in industrial hemp, as well as ruderalis and auto - flowering genetics.

I also search on NCIB, it has great published studies on all manner of interesting topics, it may be difficult to decipher to lay people, but it's my native language lol. I dig getting lost in reading, letting research take me on a journey.

Our friend Bubba stopped by tonight (2 times today lol) and said he saw how things worked around here. I do research and the day to day management of things, and using both our backgrounds, I come out in various intervals to have verbose outbursts on people's stupidity and how wrong things are, and venting, to formulating an idea of something I need him to make me to do xyz like this and that to do 123. And my bf has to make it for me. Because I can't find what I need in current existence that isn't suffering from severe design flaws. Since he's set precedent, I now just expect these amazing things to keep happening... it's awesome having my genie in my house that I say... hey honey.. I need..

Wow I just read that, and I know I sound as rambling stoned as I am. Sorry in advanced. It must have been the vat of red wine that probably soaked through my skin and a big shot of gluten-free local distilled whisky that pushed me over my edge. Yeah, right.

 

[drumstick diva]

Maybe Martha Stewart could tell you how to get the wine off your hands. She's probably had many similar mishaps.

 

[vehve]

Cyn, handsome son you've got, and looks like you had fun.

Diva, aren't politicians supposed to be liked? After all, a majority decided they were suited for the job.

DK, but surely pot doesn't cure diabetes, it just treats it? Loads of pharmaceuticals work through activating natural processes as well. But you do have a point. It's interesting how suddenly when Ebola is threatening the western countries, it takes under a year to come up with a vaccine, even though the virus has been around for quite some time. You could try some hand lotion, perhaps that would loosen the color in your hands a bit, although it's quite possible you're going to be red handed for a while

Some barehanded work with a shovel might wear some of the color off.

 

[Double Kindness]

The research into thcv combined with cbd and thc has not been done long enough to know if it cures diabetes, as there's no money in cures, but treatments, is a different story. GW pharmaceutical is doing a lot of research on the different cannabanoids, terpenoids and delving into the entourage effect, Ethan Russo is one of the more published scientists/md researcher working on this.

GW pharmaceuticals developed a drug called sativex after the epic failure of marinol, which is synthetic pure thc. It is highly ineffective as a medicine especially compared to cannabis. The thing with cbd and thcv is that these cannabanoids have been breed out of modern day mj in favor for bag appeal and high thc%, but thc alone is useless. As is cbd alone.

There are ppl touting cbd only medicine. That's not going to work well, one of my friends helped a lady who was growing cbd only strains for her patients, but they weren't getting much better. Now she has the right genetics with good cbd/thc ratios, and found that her patients actually are finally getting better, off pharmaceuticals. It is much the same with thcv, it is only found in very few landrace strains of cannabis, notably the african sativas and some Pakistani labdrace strains. Malawi Gold is one African sativa known to contain thcv, other high thcv strains are being developed with cbd, bruce's varin is pretty high thcv and I'm trying to get some seeds of it to see what it can do. There's a lab that does complete cannabanoid and terpenoid profiles testing except the acids that I'm switching to using b/c my current lab guy doesn't have the equipment to do these tests. And the tests themselves are incomplete, there's much talk in my circles on ideas for better analytical testing, as with current technology, much of the volitile compounds that all work synergistically together are totally gone in the process of testing. So not only is there little information, but we can't even figure out what's all in it yet or what all each does, and the endless combination between all the possibilities, that man made stuff in a lab will never be able to replicate it, the plant does that. Another thing is that most ppl are cash croppers, they are growing money, not medicine. I don’t grow money, I grow my medicine I depend on because 1- the dispensaries grow money not medicine 2- I can't find what I need 3-if I find what I need it doesn't work 4- I can't afford the amount I need 5- it's therapeutic for me to grow plants and raise critters. It is not about getting high for me, but I'm not against it. Everyone likes to relax in some manner.

This past summer I grew a jungle of tomatoes, ghost peppers, zuchinni, in huge fabric pots. They were 100 gallon round smart pots, all my neighbors kept coming by all summer asking me what kind of voodoo magic was I doing to make them grow like that. I'm still pulling off tomatoes and peppers.

Look into them Smart Pots. The nice thing, they're fabric they fold up and store nicely, I wash mine in my washing machine, they are sturdy and reusable. Mine cost $15. We're planning on doing more huge smart pots raised beds in the spring in front of the house again, and my rabbitry along another side with my outdoor medicine crop, other side of the barn my ducks and the raised enclosed garden bed.

We still need to build the cemani/bresse/haffie coop and run, it's almost Halloween. Yikes.

 

[vehve]

I think the trick with the cannabis based drugs would be to approach smaller drug companies about them, as they have a chance of making a name for themselves with them.

The smart pots sound handy, but what do you do with all the soil once the season is over? You still need somewhere to store that, or preferably hot compost it to kill any unwanted seeds and stuff.

 

[Peep_Show]

Martha time: Red wine stains can be removed with table salt. I had a bottle spill on a carpet...just poured and poured and poured the Leslie's Salt on it, blotted, removed salt and repeat. Red stains disappear!

Perhaps try a paste of salt and water for your hands?

 

[vehve]

The salt needs to be applied on the carpet immediately, it works because it pulls moisture to itself. Don't know if it would work too well on the hands anymore, although the abrasion effect could help.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Bama, that's probably true, I'm just not a fan of his work.

Listening to Jimmy Buffet songs is more fun if you're in one of his restaurants.
We've been to the ones in N'awlins, Montego Bay, Cancun and Cozumel, The one in Montego Bay is really cool, right on the water with a big water slide into the ocean.
http://www.margaritavillecaribbean.com/

Been back out working on the coop. Sad to discover that nobody in the Albuquerque area carries wood siding shingles, so having to make my own. The downside to having so many windows and coop openings is the odd-sized shingles that get wedged between sills and the corner aspects of windows. Needless to say, this has been a learning experience and taking far longer than I imagined....hope I get my chicks out of the back bedroom before they lay.

Picture of coop before stain and paint and attachment of nest box.


Windows open from the outside and are predator proofed.

Awesome

When i was younger i worked for a landscaping company. I was using a string trimmer along a fence and hank williams jr pulled up beside me and handed me the best cold beer ive ever had. I was so nervous. I say hi how are u mr. Williams. He said "fine how bout u". For some strange reason i said "how are u doing" again. He chuckled and said "still fine".

I saw him in concert once.

I was skiing with friends at Snowmass mountain in Aspen where John Denver lived and had a restaurant. One of my friends was a guitar player from Michigan. He was a crazy John Denver fan almost to the point of being a creepy stalker. He knew John Denver's birthday was that week so he went to a drug store to get him a birthday card. After much deliberation, he picked out a card and went to the register. While standing in line, he kept re-reading the card. The one person left in line in front of him turned around and bumped into him. It was John Denver. His jaw dropped and he couldn't say anything.
I said, "why didn't you just hand him the card?"
Apparently his mind quit working.

I have seen a few stars..back in the 70's when I went skiing. Think I already mentioned this..but would see Robert Redford and the Osmonds all the time ups at Sundance. And, like I said, that Robert sure is short.

Sundance is my favorite of all the Utah resorts. Some friends rode the lift with RR. They said he was cranky.

He's taller than I am so I couldn't call him short.

We manage just fine with outward opening doors and snow here. And usually the lock is a lot weaker than the hinges, you can pretty easily kick in an inward opening door. But it's mainly the windows I wonder about, I would think it would be easier to just use hinges like we do, instead of sliding windows that get stuck more easily.

You don't really meet real celebrities here. The Finnish celebrities are pretty much normal people. If you walk around the city center in the day, you can say hello to the prime minister if you're at the right place at the right time. Our previous president often went shopping among other shoppers. And our "movie stars" are pretty normal too.

One of our least know presidents was Gerald Ford. His son was sitting at a bar once and met a girl. He told her he was the president's son. She told him she was the princess of Sweden. Neither believed the other.
I can't remember where I heard that story. I think I heard him being interviewed.

I don't think I've ever met a celebrity- except for Morris the Cat and he wasn't impressed with me at all.

Was he tall?

I almost spit out my coffee
Love Tarantino, Django was great.
I thought I was isolated...

Even I have heard of that show

I'm not a Tarantino fan. Some good movies but the Kill Bill movies are the weirdest things I've ever had the displeasure to witness. I won't be watching the third one.

as to building for bears...nah..... most people up here, if they live in a known bear corridor put up lots of electric wire, not concrete block.

Concrete block is scary expensive...so heavy you see.


Me, I am gonna pretend the bears don't exist, until one eats some poultry, and then I will use electric fence.

I did have one come look at my turkey poults last year...but one of the boys saw him, and I ran out yelling and screaming at him (in my haste to get outside, I couldn't find the gun! just the BBs and pellet guns! ) Anyway, yelling and screaming like a crazy person (easy for me to do) worked well enough. I actually had to keep it up for awhile, because he just ran off a few feet, then looked back at me, etc. But, since he hadn't eaten the feed or the poults, he had no incentive to return... and he didn't. Which was good, since all I did was make a latch for the door that he had opened. (before, since it stuck closed, we didn't have a latch, and he just walked up and opened it.)

My coop, almost done!!!! Just need a perch, and nest boxes, and to close up the gaps in the pallet wall.

Finished the fence and most of the poop shelf today!

I was searching through the dump hoping for a 2x4 for the perches, because I am ALL OUT of any wood longer than 5 feet, and I found two fantastic 2x8 sheets of plywood, reenforced with 2x2s and NICE screws! (starting to run low on screws). All I had to do was trim off a few inches, take off the 2x2 that was in the wrong spot, and TADA! a poop shelf!!!

pictures!

It must be a hassle to be so far away from where one can get building supplies. You probably don't even have enough people around posting surplus stuff on Craigslist.
I'm about walking distance from both a Lowe's and a Home Depot. That's not necessarily a good thing either though.

My son and I were camping on the Gasconade river and heard a cougar just about a100 feet into the brush. I grabbed a stick out of the almost dead fire and ran yelling toward the brush beating it with the stick. My son freaked out and said "I would have been running the other way". I said, "they're faster than you are."

It has always amazed me that somthing as big and fierce as a bear is happy to eat bird seed!

On another note I just put 6 more duck eggs in lock down.

On an even more fun note for my craving tonight I made peanut butter fudge!

Bears are fond of ants and termites too.

Good luck on the ducks.

Sliding windows by there nature can only have fifty percent open at one time. Thus its more economical to have a window under six feet wide open just on one side. Windows over six feet have a solid center and two windows that open - one on each side.

The smaller windows don't have the three panel configuration per fire code. You have to have an alternate egress 18 inches or wider and 30" high.

While locks may be easy to pick, external hinges are the weakest link. The pin can be removed with a hacksaw even on fixed pin hinges.

I have 3D shaped key dead bolts on my external opening rear door - one for each side.

My front doors are double doors with a pair of those locks with the fingers that go down into rings but I did not install the cylinder on the outside so they have to be opened from the inside.

My hinges all have one screw that is three inches long to pass into the framework past the door jam. The screws on the door side are all 2.5". I have four 4x4 ball bearing stainless steel hinges on each door.

I have bars on my windows. 1/2" round bar 4" apart with a vertical bar every 12 inches. There is no further than 25feet to a door to egress.

Inside the house I have a room with a steel door and concrete on all sides including the ceiling. It has our most important stuff in it. If we were in a tsunami prown area I would put the scuba tanks in there. Though extremely rare, we are quite isolated and could be a target for home invasion.


Most home security sucks. The basic principle is to make your home harder than the neighbor. The roof is generally the easiest access in modern times and battery operated power tools.

Sounds tight. I assume this is all in the Philippines and not CA. Latin America is all about the bars on windows. I didn't realize Asia was like that.

My house used to have bars on all the cellar windows and the glass doors. The front door is all glass and big windows on the front porch but it faces a very busy street so feels pretty secure. The door to the enclosed back porch is also glass so not secure. I installed a steel door at the top of the steps entering the back porch with keypad entry deadbolt and dummy knob. There's a 1/4" steel plate imbedded in the frame and wall behind the deadbolt. It would be impossible to get in that door without the keypad code.
There is no longer an interior stairway from the cellar to the house so the bars are now removed.
They could still get into the house through first floor windows but the sills are about 8' above ground so they would need a ladder.
I've never locked the cellar or carriage house and have had nothing stolen in about 15 years.
I also have some hidden security cameras in the back stairway, back porch and patio.

You can also install rods on the door that push into the frame on the hinge side. That way, taking out the hinges won't allow the door to open. But most house locks are pretty easy to open with a proper hammering drill anyway, sort of a fireman's utility key. Here the easiest access would be the windows though. Sure, you risk cutting yourself, but yo can go through a window in seconds with an axe or a hammer.

Luckily, home invasions don't happen here. The few hostage situations that you get here, are usually among people who know each other, and have been let in voluntarily.

This is the most common type of setup for door hinges and locks here:


Self locking latches, no need to lock with a key separately.


The key can be inserted both ways.



Hinges on the outside.


These are not a part of all hinges, but here, cutting the hinge won't allow the door to open, since protruding parts on each part interlock when the door is closed and can't be pulled outwards.

I've always been impressed with European window and door hardware, not to mention bathroom fixtures.

My 2 ayam cemani roos are recovering nicely from decrowing surgery Tuesday and should be home this weekend

Awesome. Too bad you're so far away, and in a different country. I'd try to make room for some.