I’m running late today, but I am here! The above A&J from five years ago is a good example of something I mention here rather often. Regardless of what one thinks of the joke itself, it’s a good example of the essential comic strip, one where the words and the art are equally important. Take one away, and the other doesn’t work. No less than Charles Schulz said, it is what makes a comic strip a comic strip.
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Less trouble around here with the bunnies and grasshoppers than with the deer. They even eat the ripe peaches off my brother-in-law’s trees for dessert after they finish everything else. I told him that when he has one of them converted to sausage this winter, it will all even out.
This little number would do just fine for a potager garden, I think.
http://www.skulegirl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SampleKitchenGarden.jpg
I keep the bunnies and bugs away from leaf lettuces and spinach by growing in plastic gutters hanging from the fence. Drill 3/8″ or so holes in the bottom of the gutters every 4 inches and hang the gutters from the fence with bent loops of heavy wire/clothes hanger. You can cut the gutters to the desired length or use in the typical factory length of 10′. Plastic end caps will keep the soil from falling out. Don’t use dirt, use “potting mix” sold in the big 64 quart bags at Lowes/Home Depot. Does a GREAT job of growing leaf lettuces, spinach, or other leafy greens. Can even grow beets for greens. Leafy stuff grows best in Texas during early spring and late fall. During the summer you can use the gutters to grow bush-type green beans.
Another place to look for BAEN science fiction in various e-book formats is at the website http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ It is possible to browse various copies of CDs provided as promotions with books and download specific e-books, or read them online. You may also choose to download a full copy of the entire CD in either ISO image form or a ZIP file of all the books on a particular CD. All fully legal and approved by the publisher.
Here’s an example of the leafy veggies grown in gutters. In this case they are actually fastened to the side of the house, but a fence works just as well. It increases growing spaces and keeps them up from critters on the ground. (still have to deal with flying bugs… )
http://www.notcot.com/images/2011/04/raingutt.jpg
Good idea, David, I’ll have to try that next Spring
The deer will love that…they won’t even have to bend over to enjoy their salad course. 🙂
NK: We overlapped, then; my years in Lawrence were ’61-’67! I spent most of my time in Malott Hall and lived in what was then called “Stouffer Place” in building 3 apt. 12.
I found out only a few years ago that my HS Latin teacher (from New York City) was in Lawrence in (at least) ’64 and died there!! I would have enjoyed visiting, had I known, and I would have certainly attended her funeral. No one at HS even suspected she was a “country gal” (albeit of some age) from KS!!
Coincidences can be fun.
David in Austin, thanks for the other link. I didn’t know about that one. Can you tell me what an ISO file is? I notice that the books are listed in ISO.zip and CD.zip.
The gutter garden looks like a cool idea. There is also a company that makes growing bags for potatoes. You just load up the bags with the appropriate growing medium, insert the starters and empty out the bag when its harvest time. Of course you have to water and fertilize them, but no weeding and no critters eating them from underground.
http://www.gardeners.com/buy/vegetable-gardening/vegetable-grow-bags/
Ghost, I know that we have whitetails here in our county. I have even seen coyotes on our street. But no deer is gonna come into our fenced yard smelling of dogs and completely surrounded by houses. Though there is a 6 1/2 acre lot that backs up to our place, there are horses on it and no trees to speak of. Squirrels and bunnies are our pests, not to speak of nasssty bugs
I need to find that B and B we stay in up near Apostle Islands that is an old motel turned into lavish gardens and cute B and B rooms. That was where I saw the guttering gardens, like Babylon, just blew me away since they have such a short gardening season and it was all blooming together, which never happens in Oklahoma and Texas.
My daughter has a house down street from her that is a multistory Victorian that had same thing, gardens to the sky, but all blooming, no veggies.
Ghost, I am going to find the link to The Red Dirt gardeners site. She has incredible potager garden and I do not know her but she is in Oklahoma.
I love the one you posted too.
Love, Jackie Monies
http://reddirtgardening.com/
Thanks for the mermaid arc reminder. I’d forgotten ‘the only female he half understood’ line.
When I was in junior high I read a fantasy tale about a floating island inhabited by the fairies described by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In fact, the fairies mentioned to the 20th century lad who made his way to the island that young Wm S had been their visitor.
Do any of you have any idea of the title or author of that tale? I’d love to purchase it for my grandkids.
Mark, the first link beside the CD title is browsable. You can download one or many ebooks from that link. The ISO image is an exact copy of the CD. Your CD burner software should/may be able to copy that image from your computer to a physical CD. The other archive/zip file can be extracted to your computer and accessed without making a physical CD. It has ALL of the books on the CD in one download.
Oops! Forgot I upgraded the Nexus 7 tablet and my ID info wasn’t saved…
Found the Flower House in Quincy, IL. I luckily remembered it was for sale and that price is an excellent one, by the way, as it is completely restored and gorgeous place.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1401-Maine-St-Quincy-IL-62301/212087331zpi
Hope that takes you there. The house is named The Flower House for the floral designs in roof tiles and the lush plantings on roofs. Enlarge photos to see detail. I have seen it more lavishly planted than this with giant ball topiaries all along walks, even more stuff on roofs. There is a watering system.
Love, Jackie Monies
No it DID NOT go where it was supposed to! Maui?
The other property is in Bayfield, WI and the Apostle Islands and is called Winnfield Gardens and Lodge, has gutters turned into flower containers along roof lines. Ain’t gonna try and go there!
I’ll end up in Australia.
Love, Jackie Monies
There, I have just put the veggies into the pot roast and it should be ready in 30 min or so. I’m the Tuesday night chef, din’t you know?
Jackie, here you go: http://winfieldinn.com/gallery/galleries-and-tours.htm
If any of you are using Chrome, it has a neat feature that sandcastler could probably tell us more about. If you see something on a site you want to find out about, highlight it, then right click and you will get a list of options, including search Google for the word(s) you highlighted. It makes a fast way to find something, like the inn Jackie mentioned.
Mark in TTown (and any other Internets gurus out there)
I was *just* searching for some information on a puzzle. I have a Rand McNally War Map puzzle. It gives a list of UN and Axis allies, populations, and has flags along the top and bottom. There is no copyright date, but preliminary searches indicate a possible year of 1943, but I have yet to see a photo for proper verification.
This has been a very poor summer for A&J updates. JJ – What have you been doing?
There are those who swear that New Coke was a publicity stunt. There are those who know this because so-and-so who worked at Coke told them so. I remind them of the first line of Richard Nixon’s autobiography. “I was born in the house that I helped my Father build.”
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Here is a good one for you, Ghost!
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2000/05/19#mutable_689130