I know it’s a couple of days late, but my heart is in the right place.
Today I ran a half marathon at the crack of dawn, or maybe slightly later. I then hopped and shopped the nursery circuit, forsaking the orchids I love for gardenias, because the later has slightly better odds of surviving in my care. Some random perennials, and several black-eyed Susan vines were purchased as well. I am a nerd of many genres, gardening is one.
I’m up too late, but had some research to translate into a paper. Periodically I’d get diverted and write a blog post on Design For the First World, A Contest.
Because I was writing about gardening, and this is related via the fertilizer connection, I want to leave you with this link to a post/map/chart at Mother Jones. A post and chart about cow farts. Fart Chart: Cow Emissions by State. I live in a neutral cow fart environment. Lucky me.
How about you?
peace
Happy Mayday, Comrade!
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I hope you danced.
I et radishes from my garden. That’s something like dancing.
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A handy chart. I wonder if they have the pocket version.
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Yea, everyone will want one of those. ;) Probably an application for the iPhone or blackeberry.
the cow fart application
So on all those ozone action days we get in the summer, instead of bitching at me for filling my gas tank they should be passing out the antacids to the damn cows in Michigan I assume. This has been actually concerning me enough lately to agree with the idea of switching to less beef in my diet. Until they learn to breed cows underground and harness the gas directly for fuel or some other solution.
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I don’t think anyone need to eat beef but that is just me.
It’s May already?
Better you than me on running a half marathon.
I like the smell of cow manure, I don’t know why. To think there people who have never had the pleasure.
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I didn’t train as well as i would have liked but I’ve been running for most of my life and it’s an indulgence for me really.
I can live without it. The cow manure smell not the running.
I love orchids, and gardenias smell like heaven, but both are difficult to grow in my non-expert opinion.
I think they can live without cow manure too.
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As long as the gardenias is kept at a stable moderately cool temperature in full sun they will be fine, the orchid has other issues, mostly soil related and i don’t often succeed with them.
You are energetic (and eclectic – which I mean as a compliment!)
I love the smell of cow manure in the morning; it smells like victory. Oops, sorry, wrong toxic substance.
Growing season is short at the 54 parallel. I think we are zone 8 or something awful like that.
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That is short, I think I am in 6a or b they have changed it recently. I wait til after may 7th. Just 30 minutes to the south I’d plant a week earlier.
I for one, love black-eyed Susans. I grew them all the time when I lived in sunny southern California where the frost didn’t turn them into blackened death stalks…
I’ve read stuff about cow farts… facts of life.
Happy May to you too!
Thank you, and wish me luck with these things. I dislike dead flowers in general though I’m pretty open.
I grow dandelions and feed them to the cows. Never met a human who could really kill off the ‘lions.
I’ll take the smell of cow manure to pig shi’ite or chicken crap any day of the week. ’round here, manure is preferable to manufactured fertilizer as the natural stuff keeps the Bay cleaner. I hear it makes the crabs grow really fast.
Never really paid much attention to cow farts, tho… well, except when I am right behind a bloviating bovine.
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I know driving through Purdue country make me physically ill.
Utah’s neutral (23rd). I do have horses next door, and they sometimes fart; does that count? ;)
Anyone who runs has my respect. I haven’t run in years. But I’ve been biking to work occasionally. And I’ve started swimming again.
Wandered through the local nursery Saturday getting ideas for my annual flower planting, drooling at all the beautiful stuff I wish I had the money for. I usually settle for geraniums, alyssum, and petunias. I wish I could grow gardenias here — heavenly smell. I think because it gets too hot and dry in the summer (not sure). But my columbine and Iris will be blooming before long, as will the peonies and roses. The daffodils are done, and the tulips are winding down…
I’ve run forever it is an addiction I think, though this was my first half marathon and I wasn’t trained as well as I could have been.
In general a world without flowers is an abysmal one.
You just had to run a half marathon before me, didn’t you? Don’t tell me your time, because then I’ll have to beat it, to the long-term detriment of my knees.
Remember our deal now: NO full marathons. What do you mean you didn’t know about our deal? Well, now you do :)
I like your iPhone application idea. I think it’s pretty clear what it would be called. Of course, I’m not gonna be the one to say it.
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Ok I won’t, ;) though as I said above I wasn’t as trained as I could have been as I’m still both in school and working. It was my city’s marathon so it had to be done this year.
I think it will be some time, possible speaking infinity here, before a marathon is done. But yea, next time I want the deal in writing and notarized.
If you wouldn’t mind.