Posts by Ngaire BookieMonster
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Pussy Galore Cat Herding Dude Ranch and Petting Zoo?
I am so THERE.
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Ahh, hadn't thought about the farming angle, but that all makes lots of sense.
That does give me a good excuse for later years too. I'm not a crazy old cat lady, I'm a cat farmer!
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Personally, I couldn’t eat my cat (or a dog), and I’m entirely aware of the contradictions of separating “domestic non-eating” animals from “yummy eating” animals. Pretty sure if I ever befriended a farm animal I might have a hard time eating them too.
Also, I have this feeling that carnivores are generally not great eating? Isn’t that part of the reason most eating animals are herbivores or largely omnivorous? Or am I wrong?
On the other hand that’s never stopped Mr Monster and I from referring to the cat as our “backup plan” for when the Apocalypse comes. Got to keep one’s options open when the zombies are attacking. :D
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Back garden - it's hot. And in our new location we have the best soil ever so my hopes for (newly planted) lettuce, potatoes and carrots are high. A little light rain would be good. Just a sprinkling over a reasonable period of time.
But the clear weather does make the Kaimais look fantastically gorgeous.
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Have just found out we’re moving to a house that has an already staked out vege garden (in need of tidying) plus a greenhouse.
I am SO excited. I’m going to go for tomatoes all year round. My worm farm is going to be in heaven.
And I’m going to plant nasturtiums (good tip) because then I can cast them. Geddit?
Terrible puns aside, I’m so thrilled we will finally have space for a decent garden and have a shed and a good garage and a greenhouse. AND we don’t have to pay anywhere near as much in rent for it. *waves buh-bye Auckland*
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It must be a thirtysomething thing to blossom into gardening (oh, see what I did there!) - it hit me a few years ago too.
I particularly love vege gardening and fruit trees. Easy grows for me have been courgettes, tomatoes, potatoes (and they are so full of awesome you almost can't believe it the first time you eat one of your own grown potatoes), lettuce, carrots, beans, snow peas, raspberry.
Pumpkins I had to "help" the "fertility" process along (and yes I felt dirty afterwards and had to have a shower), ended up with only 2 small pumpkins that promptly died off.
Peas grew well initially but I could not keep them happy - they would always get some sort of fungal infection and die from the bottom up.
Blueberry also did not flourish but it was a cheap Warehouse plant so could have been a bad plant.
I thought I was going to lose my dwarf lemon and never get anything off it, but it's looking much healthier in its 2nd year.
I'm a bit like Amy, I plant you, I water you, I'll try and keep the easy bugs off you but if you're going to be all precious about your dang growing and fruiting then I don't have time to waste on you. Plants, make your own way in the world!
Oh and catnip and catmint can be a lot of fun too.
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PS More kittehs and I'm out of here.
Moar kittehs! MOAR!
I'm determined to bring the tone of this place right down.
I Cornified it, but now I can't figure out how to post my screen shot... :(
PS You can thank Andre for the cornifying. -
Pretty!
And with teh kittehs!
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I remember when the listener was massive, literally it was fucking huge, was it A3 ? It looked like a mat on your floor.Oh dear.
Oh, me too! It was like tabloid size?
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Personally I can't imagine choosing a partner whose political views were completely opposed to mine.
Hours of entertainment, it is.