Hold On! Sober Weekender Thread March 6-8
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Greetings Sober Enders!!!
Happy Thursday! One more day to go!
Well done, Bim! One year is fantastic!
JD, I am with you...not a fan of this Daylight Savings Time. I have never liked it. There is a plot here to stop observing in our state. I wish it would go through. Fingers crossed, but not holding my breath.
Brain....full moon tonight!
Did someone want a Spring theme?
My little seed pots I planted just five days ago have already sprouted! No idea what they are, because I simply forgot to label each group of pots.
Silly rabbit.
Be well everyone!
Happy Thursday! One more day to go!
Well done, Bim! One year is fantastic!
JD, I am with you...not a fan of this Daylight Savings Time. I have never liked it. There is a plot here to stop observing in our state. I wish it would go through. Fingers crossed, but not holding my breath.
Brain....full moon tonight!
Did someone want a Spring theme?
My little seed pots I planted just five days ago have already sprouted! No idea what they are, because I simply forgot to label each group of pots.
Silly rabbit.
Be well everyone!
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Olive, full moon - thanks, hot tub is calling my name, it's covered in 8" of snow and it's going down to single digits here. I got a wife substitute for valentines day. No, not the one I wanted. It's a chair back massage machine. My back is killing me from clearing ice and snow the past week.
Anyway, I was listening to Paul Parent last Sunday on my local AM station. He recommends using a heating pad set on the lowest setting for seed germination. Cover it so it doesn't get wet, place you seed starter pots on top of the heat. Heat from the bottom helps with germination etc. Give it a try.
Something I have done. I take a piece of cardboard and coat it with aluminum foil and use it as a 'mirror' so the seedlings get 'sun' from both sides so you don't have to turn them. Unless you have a light of course.
Here's a pic I took this afternoon while out playing in the snow.
Anyway, I was listening to Paul Parent last Sunday on my local AM station. He recommends using a heating pad set on the lowest setting for seed germination. Cover it so it doesn't get wet, place you seed starter pots on top of the heat. Heat from the bottom helps with germination etc. Give it a try.
Something I have done. I take a piece of cardboard and coat it with aluminum foil and use it as a 'mirror' so the seedlings get 'sun' from both sides so you don't have to turn them. Unless you have a light of course.
Here's a pic I took this afternoon while out playing in the snow.
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Trout season is in high gear down here right now. My favorite river is prime. Right. Now. I badly want to get there. All wild trout, not stocked. A pole, a fry pan, some bacon grease...heaven.
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More Spring.....
This is my sobriety bush. It is my favorite plant in my tiny backyard. I call him Henry. This is just his beginnings at spring, by summer he has full leaves.
Here is Henry's story.....
I had purchased my first home and then two weeks after I moved in, I drank myself into the ER. Two weeks in the hospital and then directly to rehab.
While I was gone, my mother was taking care of the cat. She decided to landscape the backyard, since there was absolutely nothing back there. She planted a lovely rhody, a fine mock orange, my bluer than blue hydrangea and then this stick next to the fence. It was wonderful to come home to a fine yard.
My first year sober, that poor stick stayed just a stick in the ground. Maybe one or two leaves. The second year it branched off, just a smidge, but still looked much like a stick in the ground. It wasn't until the third year that he started to look more alive. Henry's growth was much like my recovery....I was just a shell for the first year, the second year I started to feel better and as the third year started I was getting back on my feet.
Every day that I look at Henry, I am reminded of the struggle I went through and how much I have grown.
I love that plant.
If I every decide to move, you better bet that Henry is coming with me.
This is my sobriety bush. It is my favorite plant in my tiny backyard. I call him Henry. This is just his beginnings at spring, by summer he has full leaves.
Here is Henry's story.....
I had purchased my first home and then two weeks after I moved in, I drank myself into the ER. Two weeks in the hospital and then directly to rehab.
While I was gone, my mother was taking care of the cat. She decided to landscape the backyard, since there was absolutely nothing back there. She planted a lovely rhody, a fine mock orange, my bluer than blue hydrangea and then this stick next to the fence. It was wonderful to come home to a fine yard.
My first year sober, that poor stick stayed just a stick in the ground. Maybe one or two leaves. The second year it branched off, just a smidge, but still looked much like a stick in the ground. It wasn't until the third year that he started to look more alive. Henry's growth was much like my recovery....I was just a shell for the first year, the second year I started to feel better and as the third year started I was getting back on my feet.
Every day that I look at Henry, I am reminded of the struggle I went through and how much I have grown.
I love that plant.
If I every decide to move, you better bet that Henry is coming with me.
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Originally Posted by Ruby2 
I LOVE that story, Olive! Henry is pretty special. What kind of stick is he?
Testing my internet so will check back later.
Testing my internet so will check back later.
I have absolutely no idea what kind of stick Henry is.
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Clear, dry Roads today, and no near misses from large SUVs with Drivers on Cellphones while driving across the Colorado Rockies. See the Vail Pass Rest Stop below @ ~10,000'. Serious amounts of Snow, with joyful Snowmobilers roaring around nearby.
We went from London through the Chunnel not long after it opened. Memorable. I kinda recall that we hit 280 KM/Hr [~175 MPH] on the new French side Track. A good Pal knows the Guy who invented the Tunneling Machine. Two Machines - costing well over $1 Mil/each eons ago - bored from each Country toward each other. The Machines can't back out because the ~24' diameter front Cutting Blades only work in one direction. So, each Boring Machine takes a turn right as they meet, and remain buried under the Ocean forever. All part of the Project. Costly Consumables.
With all this Train Talk here, and the Conductor Vid bit, my favorite 'Claymation' Cartoon came to mind. Possibly the best use of ~2:30 minutes you'll make today! AArdman Studios have churned out everything from early Peter Gabriel Videos to the 'Sheep On Mattresses' Commercial. Brilliant, fastidious Work.
Great to read all the varied Gigs going on here today...
The Train Chase Scene ~ 'The Wrong Trousers' ~ Wallace & Gromit
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We went from London through the Chunnel not long after it opened. Memorable. I kinda recall that we hit 280 KM/Hr [~175 MPH] on the new French side Track. A good Pal knows the Guy who invented the Tunneling Machine. Two Machines - costing well over $1 Mil/each eons ago - bored from each Country toward each other. The Machines can't back out because the ~24' diameter front Cutting Blades only work in one direction. So, each Boring Machine takes a turn right as they meet, and remain buried under the Ocean forever. All part of the Project. Costly Consumables.
With all this Train Talk here, and the Conductor Vid bit, my favorite 'Claymation' Cartoon came to mind. Possibly the best use of ~2:30 minutes you'll make today! AArdman Studios have churned out everything from early Peter Gabriel Videos to the 'Sheep On Mattresses' Commercial. Brilliant, fastidious Work.
Great to read all the varied Gigs going on here today...
The Train Chase Scene ~ 'The Wrong Trousers' ~ Wallace & Gromit
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Originally Posted by trachemys
Olive, Is that a fothergilla?
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