[TheForge] going on OT

[Jerry Frost]

From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>

>
> And he gee-ups and drives on.
>
> Now we do have topsoil, a whole 4 or even sometimes 6 
> inches of it.
> But if you plant potatoes in it, well then, you know, 
> you got to *dig*
> the new ones *up*, not to mention that you have to 
> wash the dirt off of
> them to boot.  If you just throw the seed potatoes on 
> the sod and
> cover them with seaweed [1], all you have to do is 
> rake off the
> seaweed and there're your new potatoes for the 
> picking up. They might
> have a few grains of beach sand on but they're just 
> as clean as can
> be.
>
> You *must* have seaweed in Alaska, don't you?
>

Of course not, we have real soil, plants like, we don't 
have to know which seaweed is best for amending soils 
and we can let our seaweed stay in the sea where it's 
happy too.

Similar story from AK.

Contractor: Where are those darned survey stakes they 
put in last summer?

Dozer operator: I don't know but there're ribbons at 
the top of those trees over there.

>
> Well, I guess that uses up *my* OT alloment for the 
> season....
>
> - Mike
>
>
> [1] Ptilota, desmarestia or eel grass.  Rock weed is 
> good, too, if you're
>    willing to go to the trouble of cutting it off the 
> rocks.  I've seen
>    old photos of ox teams with wagons down on the 
> shingle where guys are
>    collecting rockweed with sickles.  Too much 
> back-killing stoop labor
>    when I can just fork storm-wrack ptilota into my 
> truck.  Kelp is
>    non-optimal.
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
> .~.
> 
> /V\


Hmmmm. Dirt, seeds, water, a little patience and food 
appears. Of course you might need heavy equipment to 
lift the cabbages but what the hey, nothin's perfect.

19f today, "T" shirt weather.

Frosty
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