Digging up Dirt
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Digging up Dirt
galenkp chose to mute this post in retaliation, among other shady behind the scenes behaviour since I gave him the boot somewhere around two years ago. He has muted this post because I chose not to allow him to control me, give me orders, influence what I write, who to upvote, who not to upvote, whose posts to comment on, whose posts to ignore, etc.
No one controls me. I have always been and will always be captain of my own ship. Deal with it.
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Damn quite the garden you’ve got growing there! That’s awesome!
I hear you on the cats hahah those little demons, they would eat my parents plants they would try to start growing in the late winter so they eventually gave up on trying.
Tomatoes are tricky ones to grow for sure! We did a lot of tomatoes this year and some were good and some weren’t. I think next year we are going to stick with mostly grape and cherry tomatoes, with maybe one or two larger varieties put in there. I loved having a dozen or two tomatoes ready to eat every day towards the end!
LOL! Thank you @cmplxty.
Yes, cats, sigh. As much as I love them, the things they get into and do can drive one nuts. I can see why your parents gave up, same reason I did, LOL.
What happened with the tomatoes that weren't good this year for you? I'm curious (read tomato obsessed). I love having them there to just snack on when I'm on the balcony. It's such a wonderful thing to grab what you need every day fresh.
you ended with the most beautiful plant!!!!!!!!
I literally said out loud "oh my gosh these are beautiful!!" they look like the plant version of caviar hahahahaha
I was looking at your post and going wow - hmmmm i didn't know that - really??? oh my gosh, i have to try that!
not kidding
the whole post
just speaking out loud in awe and wonder!
but milk crates with landscaping material! wow - that seems freaking ingenious!!!
i think that the grow bags that @bluefinstudios uses is a little like this - but - your is like a homemade one!!! hahahaha
i don't know how to get that many milk crates though hahahahah
but now i'm wondering..... if they HAVE that material - can i just make grow bags myself and kinda fashion something that works for me based from BOTH of your ideas hahahahahahaha
cuz i think the grow bags might be expensive
and the milk crates (i know its weird...) i think are illegal for us to keep hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
so hmmmmmm now i have to figure out something from both of your ideas that works for me
and i love your garden - wow.... its really beautiful and the pictures you captured are so tender! you know? you can see that you love each plant - IN THE WAY you captured their beauty. truly... i love this!
Thank you @dreemsteem. Milk crates are abandoned all over the place where I live. It took me a few months to scavenge for them, since I picked up somewhere around fifty of them. Landscaping fabric is very inexpensive and holds up very well for repeated use.
It's all a matter of knowing what you need, then letting your imagination run wild to whatever you can come up with design wise with available materials. I prefer to reuse items and pick up things that are thrown in the trash to use in making many things. There are so many ways to set up a garden and you can customize it to where you are and what fits for you.
Yes, I love every plant and they love me back, LOL. This is only a small sampling of what I've grown.
im so jealous of your garden hehehe
and i love tomatoes LOL yours grew to 10 feet high?!?!?!?!
i think my tallest one was 5 feet hahahaha and i was feeling very nice about that - but now knowing that they can be 10 feet is making me covet
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
i don't see milk crates around here but if i did - you bet your sweet ass i'd be salvaging them now that i have a reason for them hahahahahahahahaha
how are you love?
I'm doing okay, thanks.
Yes, ten to twelve feet. You need the indeterminate variety and to spoil all their precious princess needs, lol. I also feed them a bit of me, but that's more complicated. 😂
peeps???
hahahahahahaha
i think its peeps!
'doing ok sounds not ok' hehehe
Nope, my essence (no not bodily fluids).
Hey now, don't layer on what isn't there, lol. This is why I'm okay, lolololol.
unlayering
hehehehe
ahhhhh essence. it's all about the essence ❤️
going to see your "this"
Yes, the essence, LOL
hoping for a better than OK day for you
dont' answer
just know that no matter what you feel compelled to respond hehehehe that i do want more for you TODAY. and - even tomorrow.
BUT NEXT DAY IS PUSHING IT, LADY.
hahahaha
Sends nod of acknowledgement in appreciation
Tackles nineclaws in a hug, and force feeds her fancy chocolates.
I'm known for biting, especially when force is involved. 😜
I'm not saying I am......
But....
I MIGHT be the kind of girl that appreciates a good bite
Smart.
of course! sorry for being playful when you're not in that mood. Didnt meant to be insensitive, just wanted to get you to smile.
I'll send love from a distance, my friend. Hope you are taking good care of yourself
Hard to be okay with the word "force" given the world situation with forcing people into many situations, so yeah, that word doesn't resonate well with me, even in jokes.
Much love back at you 💖
agree - joking about it was the wrong thing to do. The world has enough force for sure. I cannot agree more. PLUS - chocolates should only be indulged by choice. 😋
Imposing one's will on another is a violation of my code of laws. Current world state has heightened my sensitivity to such forcing of will upon another.
ok, but I have apologized. And I thought that you knew that I wasn't really truly forcing anything. not chocolates, not hugs, not anything. I was just trying to make you smile. I understand that you don't really know me outside of Hive, but from the times that we've talked, I thought that you did know me well enough to know that I wouldn't force you - or anyone - to do anything. I understand that my comment made you feel threatened and attacked, and now that I know that, I will be very very careful with other comments to you. Because I absolutely do care for you, and I'm sorry that you took a comment about hugs and chocolates as a force of my will over yours. I didn't intend that, but your perception of it was very hurtful to you. I can't take it back, I can only hope that you understand that my words were never intended to hurt.
There's no need to apologize, you're just being you. I don't see anything that would suggest that an apology is appropriate.
You don't really know me and I don't really know you. It takes far more time for someone to get to know me and for me to know them, either online or offline. I am expressing who I am, and my perceptions on a of couple things so that you can get to know me better. I don't feel hurt by what you said, so no worries there.
I can see that you're a very sensitive person and have taken much of what I said to heart in a way it wasn't intended. None of what I said is about you specifically, nor was it meant personally. At times I seem to express viewpoints that elicit reactive responses in others for various reasons. I think I've managed to unintentionally draw that out of about six people, both online and offline the last few months. This is why I don't like to talk to people sometimes and why I don't want to answer the question, "How are you?" with anything other than "okay". It stops any potential issues and/or drama before they begin, usually. I've enough on my plate without having to add anything that is not my responsibility.
If you really want to know how I am, I'll tell you.....
Eight years weary to the bone
The dogs have chewed clean
Finished sleeping here, not in rest
Dreams already accomplished
Killing time
Watching the tides
Waiting for the call
The bell to ring.
You always get poetry out of me somehow. I think you missed one I left for you on someone's post a bit ago.
The poetry is sad, expressive and beautiful.
Thank you for it.
Thank you for also sharing who you are. I've seen many shades, and of course, I've seen that side in the poem too. I've seen so many facets of you in your writing and your comments, but you're right - it does take time to know someone more.
I think I did miss some things. I had a few terrible weeks, but nice to feel the pendulum swing back :)
I was very confused by the turn of the comments - but thanks for clearing it up. You're right -I am a very sensitive person - extremely. Especially when it involves people who are hurting. I'm used to being playful with you, and when the comments shifted - it was fast. You might not have needed an apology, but I needed to give it. I very much appreciate you taking the time to do explain your heart. You didn't have to, and you did, and I appreciate it. ❤️
You seem to inspire me to write poetry, LOL. Sometime I'll do a post as to the backstory of my difficulty writing poetry and fiction. Thanks for inspiring me to bring that part of myself forward. I never would have published those poems if it wasn't for your inspiration you know.
Sad yeah, grieving and it seems to be on the downswing into it again, sigh. I haven't had much of a sense of humour the last several weeks for that reason. Nothing to be done except processing on my part until it moves again.
You're welcome and really, you've done nothing to offend. I don't get offended easily, although I know it's the trend these days to take offense to everything, LOL, weird, but that's what I'm seeing. 💖
I think it was just such a fast change that caused me to like... huh? what just happened. LOL
but reading back over it - i can see how. and I was hmmmm not so offended as much as, chastising myself that it seemed like I hurt you. I don't like to hurt people. Not even the ones that deserve it (aka predators lol) I just don't like it. (which is why i'm having SUCH a hard time ending my book properly. hahaha cuz damnit - he deserves to die. LOL or at least that's what i feel the voices telling me - but i don't want to be him. i dont want that. anyway - i digress!!!)
and maybe ... yeah, maybe that is the trend these days? I don't know. I think people are feeling so tired of being shoved like cattle - the nerves are raw and exposed and yeah... snap! lol
we need relief from this.
but truly, we can have relief regardless of the outside pressures. its incredibly difficult, and i certainly haven't mastered it. but we CAN. it IS possible.
until we, as a whole, realize that - we'll keep having those raw, exposed nerves. the world is on fire now
:(
You didn't hurt me. It's not easy to hurt me, lol.
It takes a long time and a lot of hard work to have compassion for those who are damaging. Having compassion does not mean allowing the damage to continue, nor having the person in your life. It took me years to get to that point.
That will only stop when they choose to lead themselves, realize what they really are, and step into their own power. Often people get stuck in a victim mentality and look outside themselves to be rescued, hence the issues we have in society. I say this because I was at one time stuck in this programmed mindset until I broke the programming.
The sadness and grief I am experiencing must be experienced, expressed appropriately, processed, and let go in order for it to lift. I'm no stranger to grief, but this is a different experience of grief that is not isolated to my personal experience. I'm just over a year in with it now, lol, and I was warned beforehand that I would experience this, so I was waiting for it.
World on fire metaphorically and real fire is coming, at least from what I saw several years back.
I'm living in a region of my state that is so protected - and so DETERMINED to fight against the control that we're seeing. So far we've been so successful at it that times it feels like we might actually forget that the rest of the world is feeling the strain. it feels amazing, but at the same time- i wonder how much longer we will be able to stand up under the downward pressure. I don't know. but i'm loving every single day when we collectively live life as "normal".
Yes, I notice a difference between the USA Inc. and Canada Inc. Canada Inc. is going down the toilet fast. Beginning of January, no renewals of driver's licenses in Canada without being stabbed repeatedly. Mine is good for a little while but won't be renewing it. So glad I did not follow through with a vehicle purchase last year. My intuition said scrap that idea, now I know why, LOL. Not allowed to travel within Canada freely without being stabbed repeatedly, never mind leaving the country. One province has started with no stab, not allowed to buy groceries. So, yeah, Canada Inc. is getting worse by the week. Any day my bingo number gets called, I'm pretty much good to go now, LOL.
my stomach clenched when I read this.
I was going to say - US is not much better... but it is.
(for now)
we just got an email about some new things coming and I am just waiting to see how the community responds.
Interesting to see the way people are behaving, and why. I just keep thanking God everyday that we still have freedom (for now)
HERE. definitely not in all of the US. there are lots of places (and definitely TONS in my state) that do NOT have any choice at all.
but here... its this little oasis. And Im grateful everyday.
I keep thinking this is nearing the end - and then more comes. it makes no sense to me and I can't understand how its making sense to some. I jsut can't see what they see. But - i'm just focusing on what's before me as much as possible. as much as i can.
but your comment. my stomach is still clenching.
I don't like being so blunt about the situation here since I know it's disturbing, but that's what's happening. I know it depends on where you are in the US, but from what I'm seeing, overall, at present, it's better than here. That said, the "plan" is being pushed hard and they are not going to let up. Whatever happens going forward, I've kind of washed my hands of it and made my own decisions, since I'm completely on my own where I am. It's okay though. Made my peace with it.
its not so blunt considering the situation. i know it - i see it - and hear it all over. especially in new zealand, australia, austria...
but it still makes my stomach tighten every time it hits home again. you know? its so distressing and I want it to end. but wanting it to end isn't changing it.
and i hate that feeling of hopelessness.
Yes, it's very serious, this situation, pivotal time and completion of a cycle. Test time. Each must choose their path. None of this is fun. It is distressing. It's only going to end when people decide it will end, when they realize what they truly are and stand in their own power.
I hear you on that. I detach and also limit what I'm exposed to, which is most helpful. Meditation is also very helpful. You're in a good spot at least, so that's a wonderful thing to have. I like to count up what I'm grateful for, a gratitude list. That balances the scale. All you have control over are your thoughts, emotions, actions, and choices. That's where the real difference is made.
send a dm - no need to read any time soon - whenever you do, its there for you :)
I'll catch up with you on there, thank you 💖
Grow bags are basically a thicker landscaper fabric, that really does well, with keeping roots form spiraling by keeping the roots "Airtrimmed"
I had abt 55 or 60 grow bags this year
and no root bound spiral roots
how much were they? cost?
not expensive at all.
5 five gallon for under $20
lovely close ups. balcony gardening may become a necessity sooner than soon. you got a good head start so it is great you share your experience and your methodical attitude. if and when home gardening becomes necessary for survival, attitude will be a determining factor for success.
i never heard of vietnamese coriander- will have to check that out.
Thank you @eolianpariah. I can never get away from taking macro shots, lol. I miss the way I grew up, so a balcony garden allows for me to have a taste of that life.
If you like coriander/cilantro, you'll like the Vietnamese coriander. They taste very similar. I hope you get the opportunity to check it out.
Now that is fun-knee...
I keep a mobile garden for my Herba-Carnas...
I love the way you spoil your cats.
It's more fun-knee on one's knees cleaning up various liquids from both orifices and I'm not talking one spot, I'm talking trails everywhere.
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