[TheForge] going on OT

[Bruce Freeman]

Talk about acclimatization:  I was doing a little work around the
house this morning when I notice the thermostat was reading "57 F".
Fifty-seven???  Felt a little cool, but...
Furnace thermocouple had died.  Highway robbers at HD want $11.50 for
those these days.
But the furnace is working again with a minimum of cussing.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> 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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Bruce
NJ

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