Posts tagged ‘gardening’

What’s good in Thorne’s World today? Well, what isn’t? Haha! Really, a positive outlook can change the way we view things, can’t it?

It’s a GOOD morning in Thorne’s World!  Man, it better be after the last one.  That was a rough couple days in some ways. Maybe it was just the dregs of my winter sleepies after me, but I’ve been soooo tired lately!  Not tired enough to sleep early really (I’m rarely that tired, ol’ night owl that I am), but too tired to get up in the morning no matter what time I went to bed!  Laying there peeking out from under the covers at the clock… 9….10…11

“Please ma… just 5 more minutes!!”

Spring must be comin’!  I can feel it in my bones and in the way I’ve been waking up at 7:30 even when I didn’t get to sleep ’til after 2; and waking up feeling GOOD!

That’s OtGF in Thornesworld for today!  I did 2, count them- 2, Thursday Thirteens this week!  My regular one here, on Getting Ready To Garden that has me sooo fired up! And another over at my new blog, The Eclectic Witch on 13 Daily Practices of a Practical Witch, that really got me in gratitude mode and thinking about my attitude and outlook.  Ya know how sometimes ya go along and just take shit for granted?  Not just other folks, but yourself? You start feelin’ like somehow you’re not doing enough, or maybe even being enough?  Writing out that TT reminded me of who I am and what I do.  It was good for me! (And it made the front page on most discussed topics over there, so a big GOOD Thank you to everyone who visited and commented!!!)

This morning I popped in at Shelly’s place to see what was goin’ on for OtGF, and she’s talkin’ about gardening and has a link to another gardening blogger who is trying to start yet another really good thing!

Give What You Grow

Here in Thorne’s World we almost always end up growing more than we can eat (or more than I can keep up with freezing and canning), so we have been giving away our surplus to The Salvation Army and local Homeless Shelters and Soup Kitchens for years.  This is a really GOOD idea and nutritionally it beats the hell out of sending in that can of over-processed green beans (although of course giving whatever you can is good).

Thorne’s Garden this year is, in large part, only happening thanks to the generosity of my good neighbor, R.  R. isn’t in much better shape financially than we are, in some ways worse.  He’s got the VA trying to help him save his mortgage right now.  But when I told him I couldn’t even afford seeds this year and that I would be crossing my fingers and casting every spell I knew on my old saved seeds in hopes of getting a few to germinate he came over with his carefully stored seed box and shared seeds with me.  12 varieties of tomatoes, 6 different watermelons, cantaloupe, spinach and beets and squashes, pumpkins and bok choy and rutabagas!  What a doll!  Now, that’s good!

I could just keep ramblin’ on… I just feel that good today, but Imma quit now and go work on my Ancestor Altar.  I have painting and decopage and decorating to do!  Creativity and honoring and loving my dead is GOOD!

Peace, Out!

*edit. Dayum! All this good writing has my Gematriculator, (You know, that thing up there in the sidebar that tells you all how EVIL I am??) down to an all time low of only 32% evil. Shhhh… I’m not changing it. We’ll just go on pretending (pretending is good, right?) that I’m a badass 41% evil! Buahahahahaaaa

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13 Things on Thorne’s

To Do Gardening List

1)  Get out my little seed germinating greenhouses.

2) Clean and check wiring and bulbs.

3) Get out and clean plug trays.

4) Check to see if I have sterile starting medium and buy if necessary.

5) Set up drip irrigation for seedlings.

6)  Sort Seeds.

7)  Start tomatoes.

8) Order or trade for some herbs and fill in missing seed needs.

9)  Check garden fencing for critter access

10)  Cut down last year’s asparagus ferns

11) Add 4-6 inches sifted manure to asparagus beds

12) Sort plastic plant warmer bottles and recycle leaky ones.

13) Check and repair irrigation hoses.

(There are a lot more to dos than 13, but I’ll leave you with those.  I’m actually super excited!  Woooo Hooooo here comes Spring!)

That’s my TT in Thorne’s World, thanks for stopping by! I hope you’ll stop by my first TT at my new blog, The Eclectic Witch, as well.  I’d love to see you there!

I’m off to visit now…

Bwahahahaha….
And I didn’t even make another pot of coffee. Dayum! What’s up with that? I love the night. I am, (it’s true) a creature of the night. I really need to get my sleeping habits turned around a lil, though. Spring is on its way and that is the time of year that I love mornings!
It has been a productive evening.
I sent 7 letters of inquiry along with my resume and stuffs out.
*sigh
It’s true. You know times are hard when Thorni is looking for a JOB!
I know. It makes me want to cry.
Just kidding.
Kinda.
I can work if I absolutely must! I mean, like work for someone else. I work all the time. For myself. I just… er… don’t really work and play well with others.
Well, that’s not entirely true. I can usually (well, at least I could about 12 years ago which was the last time I worked for someone else) manage about a year. Well, maybe not a whole year. I think 8 months is my record.
It isn’t that I don’t deal well with authority, it’s just that- well… I’m so much smarter than anyone I’ve ever worked for! Bwahahaha! Oh, fuck. I’m not really kidding. Only a lil. maybe. Give me 6 months and I’ll tell you exactly how you should be running things. LMFAO
It’s just that I get so bored. I mean, once I’ve learned the job I want to learn something else. Like my supervisor’s job. Hee hee. Which doesn’t usually go over too well.
It’s okay though. Seriously. I only applied for 1 job that’s not a telecommuting position. If the money is right it could be fun. It’s for a blueprint place. They want a general art/design/layout and copywriter.
Then a bunch of freelance writing bids.
I know. You’d never guess it from the style of my blog, but I really can write well. Haha. And professionally if I must. Human interest, promotional, reviews. Journalistic, folksy, pretentious. LOL Whatever it takes.
I needs money. The hell with the mortgage, it’s time to buy seeds for the garden! And I buy the good kind. Heirloom varieties that haven’t been genetically modified.
You know, you can’t buy seeds from any of the mainstream suppliers anymore. Jackson & Perkins, Burpee. They’re all the same company owned by some plastic manufacturer like Dow or something. I could look it up and tell you the whole deal, but I’m a lil worn out after all those job apps.
Poison seeds, my friends. Insect genes spliced into your food. “Round-Up ready” vegetables. You know what that means? It means they’ve genetically altered the plant to be immune to the exfolient that they want you to spray on your so- called “weeds”. Round Up. Can you say “Agent Orange”?? That is an exfoliant, too.
LOL. You can all thank Adam over at Twilight Earth for my little seed tangent. Check out what they wanna do now. So sick.
I’m so allergic to corn already. It sucks too, because I love it. Imagine… read his post. Then imagine all the corn contaminated. The corn they feed chickens and beef and of course people. Your chips and salsa! OMG! Hehe. It’s so not funny.
Speaking of funny, I was looking through my old posts for something suitable to edit and use a a writing sample and damn, I was funny!
I won’t pause to wonder what happened to me; we all know.
I sure do swear a lot, too.
I wan’t to be funny and charming and stimulating again.
Hmmm…
Okay. Enough. (I’m getting maudlin- it must be bedtime)
Peace, out!