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Well LL. I have been doing it forever ands it just comes naturally. You are getting more comments since your funeral, good one.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2015 at 1:14 AM
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OK Chuck keep smiling.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2015 at 1:12 AM
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Lo PP hope all is coming up roses.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM
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Re: Wiley
Anytime Bro, I run an advisory service.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2015 at 1:09 AM
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sounds like your ambitious when it comes to plants, not me I gave up
posted by
Lanetay
on March 29, 2015 at 6:14 PM
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Enjoyed reading
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on March 29, 2015 at 6:07 PM
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I love the poem. I love anytthing clay.
posted by
Inside_The_Purple_Purse
on March 29, 2015 at 5:11 PM
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ChiffChiff
Thanks for the tip on the groceris and supermarkets Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 29, 2015 at 1:41 PM
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Re: Aniccita
Well we are on the verge of running a illegitimate business A. So I may soon write from jail.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2015 at 11:11 AM
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Re: Jimmy
Yes it is a good supermarket, Arthur took a bottle of wine back that had a hole in the cap and received two bottles. I bought a big cheese once that was too strong I had to dump it ,but I could not be bothered to take it back. Rarely get anything wrong though
Well Archie had an ECG. so we wait for the results. .
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM
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tales of you and Archie always make me smile...
posted by
Annicita
on March 29, 2015 at 9:24 AM
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That was nice to receive such a bonus as compensation. Here in the states, you would have been lucky to just 'break even.' And it sounded funny that Archie 'staggering down' those stairs was 'good news.' Would it have been even better news if he simply walked down? 
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JimmyA
on March 29, 2015 at 9:12 AM
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Re: Krisles
Quite easy to dye pots K. Anyway I don't want a motley collection of odd pots. We have certain standard to uphold each pot must hold ten liters of compost preferably with handles to make the pots easier to move around. And clay pots dry out too quickly in a green house. I know my Mum was buried and I fretted lest the bottom of the coffin was just hardboard. The last time I followed the ashes of a neighbour I noticed the directon the wind was blowing. The ashes were scattered on a reserved garden and believe me they danced in the wind the undertaker's trousers were white with ash and the poor mourners were treated to a dusty farewell. Well I thought anticipation is the better part of valour.
I had an phobia about glass once, but I had not noticed. I will try to omit in future.
Well one is never happy about what has been written so maybe that's the reason.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2015 at 12:56 AM
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Re: ChiffChiff
Yes ask at the baker or the supermarket for buckets that have held foodstuffs Bro.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2015 at 12:31 AM
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Well of course you can't you only went down under a week or two ago. I might buy Archie insurance to cover the sale of his goods as he said he can't afford to do so. I'll reimburse myself out of the first 100 bunches of flowers he sells.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2015 at 12:29 AM
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Well, I have tons of clay pots that have been used over and over again...they are like socks, the saucers and pots are mismatched as to size and....well, they are the same color, but some have ridges and lips, some are squat and others tall, even oval...what do you mean dyed???!!! Who would dye a clay pot??!!! Good grief, man?!
I hope to be sending out emotional and passionate vibes through my coffin or cardbox lid - my dad's ashes were given to us at the crematorium in a cardboard box, so that is what he was actually buried in; I guess they ashed him in with the expensive coffin - he would get a kick out of that...but I digress... So if you have a pulse you have something left to feel....as you defintely do with the poems you insist on putting at the bottom of your posts as though they weren't the most important things in them, an afterthought to be tagged on. Ok, Ok, I shall be more positive and consider them dessert. This one is particularly nice. Do you ever consider how often you use the words fragment(s) and shard(s)?
posted by
Krisles
on March 28, 2015 at 7:09 PM
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I had to google swede to see what she took back. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on March 28, 2015 at 5:13 PM
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ChiffChiff
Sorry Archie isn't feeling so hot, aging does that to us. Maybe I'll try growing tomatoes in pots this hear and sunflowers maybe Bro.
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WileyJohn
on March 28, 2015 at 4:37 PM
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grief,,,Archie must be sick oif he wouldn't take that money. Next time offer him some Aussie dollars that'll give him a shock. Our dollar is so low I cannot afford the airfare this year.
posted by
Kabu
on March 28, 2015 at 3:23 PM
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Re: Vermont
Sorry Vermont I thought you meant strawberries. I would try and buy plants from a certified grower . If you are serious about them this year, look on the net under frozen rooted ones, they should crop well this year, alternatively if you just want a dozen or so they are usually available growing in sections at any good Garden Center .You could try to mix them and then see which do best , alway have plenty of runners next year.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2015 at 12:20 PM
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Re: adnohr
A job to avoid plastic these days adnohr, but when I had my soil checked once there was even arsenic in the ground, beside other worrying chemicals. I expect your soil is more of the virgin type whilst mine has had other products over the last couple of hundred years.
I don't really think plants take up too much or in any quantity the nasty residues.
Or it it is so small that we do not notice anything. Yes memories can still give a kick, but reality is a strong palliative.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2015 at 12:12 PM
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Strawberries dear sir are about the easiest plants to grow. Some growers buy them from a frozen state with long roots and stuff them into bags and they fruit in a few months.
Of course , there are are the old ways just plant them in rows in the garden cover with
hoops and plastic for early crops or just net them. I am growing mine in food-safe containers as I like them to be free from slugs and the old way of pushing straw under them makes me a bit queasy as I have seen ricks of bales of straw infested with rats. As for those nice looking ones in the supermarkets. They do not have the flavor as they are varieties that stand longer and thus have a better shop life. I would prefer to pick one's own if there is such a project near to one, history is the key. My brother always grows three or four good rows on his garden, but he has no slugs much, only blackbirds. .
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2015 at 12:01 PM
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Re: CCT
No Archie is not a bad old chap really, he just annoys everyone. He is becoming more like his Dad though. His dad was a mild sort of old country man. Well I don't know which are good or bad poems Naut. I mostly only post the ones I can tolerate. I expect I have an inferiority complex besides many other faults. If you could tell me a bad one anytime I am sure I might be able to dissect it or annihilate the problem. I am rather dyslexic, by now I can usually tell if a word is correct, but cannot think how it is spelled. Now Arthur can spell any word but he looks on poems as a bit of madness. The sad thing is no one ever criticizes on here, which is lovely, but does not help to improve the status quo.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2015 at 11:47 AM
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Re: FS
True FS. But believe me one feels aches and pains more vividly as one ages, and one cannot work like you do from dawn to dusk.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2015 at 11:31 AM
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Re: Pat
Well Pat the problem is, the price would be prohibitive to just use clay pots and I wonder if they are dyed be nice if they were glazed like those red pans used for wine making once. Under the plastic buckets or containers there is a mark usually a couple of utensils and a code mark 5 those are the ones I am using. Although advice on the net says plants do not take up the chemicals in plastic. Thousands of grow bags are used here and most most salad and tomatoes are grown in some kind of plastic or mulched to prevent weeds.
I have grown veggies in ordinary plastic pots , but there is a kind of following to use food safe ones. I agree with you I don't like cooking in plastic , but some dishes one buys gives no alternative. Always make sure your terracotta pots have not been dyed.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 28, 2015 at 11:28 AM
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I have noticed that with a lot of people, when they say that they are old, they end up becoming as such. I feel that age is a number that in terms of physical health can be defied for a long time...A flurry of emotions can lead to one not experiencing any.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 28, 2015 at 9:53 AM
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CCT
Ol' Archie didn't even want the moolah? He must be getting old, LOL...
But your poem is another delight, worth lingering over! And at the risk of becoming a repetetive bore - when will you finally recognize that many of your poems (okay, maybe not all) simply must be made available to a wider audience? Does it take a mere colonial like me to do something about that???
posted by
Nautikos
on March 28, 2015 at 7:58 AM
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Strawberries are tough to maintain. Also I was informed not to buy plants from
the big box stores. What is your take on that?
posted by
Vermont01
on March 28, 2015 at 6:51 AM
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I think you're right - no plastics. The poem - one has feeling no matter what age. Some of them just seem to be less important after at time.
posted by
adnohr
on March 28, 2015 at 6:19 AM
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There's something they call PBAs that leach out of plastic, and
especially when food is cooked under plastic in a microwave. Some kind of carcinogen. I don't know all the particulars, but sometimes it seems every convenient change in how we do things brings more drawbacks. Wise to go back to clay pots for veggies.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 28, 2015 at 4:12 AM
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