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November 2009 
Welcome to my little corner of the world
Posted on Sep 6th, 2009
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Laurie
Laurie
1 - Home desk where I work and visit with Gaia friends
2 - View from my desk - this old oak is my friend and inspiration
3 - Len in his workshop building a compost bin
4 - Old Blue 1991 got pulled out so Len could work
5 - Behind the garage between two oaks is where the compost bin
6 - Looking out our back gate at the cat tails in the natural wet
7 - Our back yard
8 - Back to Len in workshop
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Your home base looks great. You ar both very tidy. Peace!
Hi Rbee - thank you for stopping by. I hope you're enjoying your weekend. We're wrapping up here at home, going to make a gigantic organic salad, and then heading over to a Labor Day weekend dinner party with friends.
Peace right back atcha – boomerang style!
Can Len build me a compost bin and teleport it over to Auss please. Alternatively could you photograph the finished product so Colin can copy it for me? Thanks for sharing some of your world with us Laurie.
Hi Jenny - I will photograph the bajeebers out of it once it's ready and in place. It's ending up pretty large (4 ft wide, 6 ft long, 3 ft high) because we have three large oak trees that will shed a lot of leaves for us to use in the composting process. Once it's in place, Len will put supports on the outside of each length. These will go down into the ground – this to help prevent any bowing that may want to occur. Len actually wants to build one more compost bin prior to building the raised beds that will be in our back yard. These will house produce. All of this is a result of watching Gaia's own Lee O'Hara's DVD's that we purchased on his amazing website HERE, and also from all of the phenomenal information that we acquired this past week as Lee has been featured HERE in the Gaia Networking group.
Thank you for sharing your part of the world Laurie!
Great start with the compost bins Laurie, it will bring fertility to your soil add to topsoil's depth, and you will be amazed how stuff will grow.
What a beautiful dip into your river of life…
Thank you
Blessings
Ange..
Wow, what a great friend, wise & beautiful!
I wrote such a nice comment, and it wouldn't upload! Well, nice to see your photos. Looks very comfortable.
Did I ask you where I could Rent-a-Len? Here I've got all these men around here, all cousins, and they are willing to help as long as it has an engine and makes plenty of noise. Anything as mundane as using a hammer and nails is up to me. Now if I need a tree down, here they come with the chain saws. I have never told them I can use one myself, or they'd have me doing that too. That's going to be a beautiful compost bin, it is a wise move to have two for ease in turning the huge mass that you'll collect. You're going to love having this come spring and raised beds too!
Liza, Zephyr, Ange, Jeannie and PJ - Wow, I go for a Labor Day dinner with friends and come home to find you all had stopped by for a visit. As Kathy (~KES) would say, thank you for leaving your heartprints.
PJ - One of the 'tricks' I have learned is to type my comments into 'Notepad' first. Then copy and paste them into the comment box. If they get eaten by a Gaia monster, I still have them in Notepad and I simply repaste them in a fresh comment box.
Sandi - We had to have been typing at the same time! I just missed you. Tomorrow, I will post pictures of it completed. I'm so excited. Today I saved the pewies from the salad I made, and today's egg shells and tea leaves. I haven't figured out how I'm going to keep Willa out yet. If Len makes the sides any taller I won't be able to reach in and turn it.
Laurie, I used to use notepad too, are you on firefox? I don't loe posts since i changed to firefox, but I do remember how frustrating it was, LOL
i do love being welcomed into a friend's world! thank you for inviting us…
My Word, I hadn't thought of Willa, to her that would be like us stepping over a curb. There is something that I've used before though, I don't now if it would work for you. I used discarded window screens to create a visible barrier, mind you I said visible, any beastie worth it's salt would go right through, however it did work for me.
Zephyr - I usually use Internet Explorer 8. Sometimes, I use Safari. Thank you for the tip about Firefox.
Nicole - I'm so glad you stopped by. Thank you for visiting.
Sandi - When I shared your thought with Len (create a visible barrier), I could see the wheels start turning. He's sitting at the kitchen table with his morning cuppa, pondering the idea right now.
You are so darn neat. Yikes! I'm going to dust something right now.
I love composting and bought a big ole rubbermaid tub and had some holes drilled in it. I am giving it a try but so far it isn't working too well. It looks like you will be getting The Super Duper Deluxe Mother of all CompOH-sters! Lucky you. Can we clone Len? The hell with sheep! ;>)
Mimi - I laughed out loud when I read your comments - thank you! “Everything has a place, and everything in its place” – that's my creative muse. If there is chaos around me, my creative well simply dries up.
Isn't Len amazing?! Almost 30 years worth and still ticking. He's better and more reliable than a Timex!
Hi, Laurie, do you mind if I pass this on to Mimi? Mimi, this is a closely gaurded secret, don't tell anyone but the 600 people that are reading this…. Go to the store, buy some RidX, the stuff people but in the drain to restart their septic tanks. All natural, not what you think it is, non-toxic. Throw half a box around in your compost bin and water well. In tthree days go and check to see if white powdery stuff is growing under the first layer, turn your compost and mix it back in. Keep it damp. This stuff is the organic fuel that drives your compost, it is natural bacteria and enzymes that will heat your pile and cause it to break down naturally. It sounds as if you have a cold bin and it won't work, it must have sufficient bacteria and resulting heat to start the process. Please excuse me for butting in but it's the fastest and easiest way unless you have 5 gallons of worms.
Sandi - Shhhhhhh, you're secret is safe with us. We won't tell a soul, promise! [Len was so tickled to get this bit of information. He didn't actually say it, but I could 'see' whoohoo in his eyes!]…
We went to the movies late this afternoon and saw “Time Traveler's Wife” – having both read the both, we enjoyed it very much. We both agreed thought, that if a person hadn't read the book first, they'd probably be lost – and stay lost – throughout the entire movie.
Thanks Sandi for the great tip. I will give it a try.
I can't begin to tell you what these pictures do to me. I am over the moon on watching all of this production and creativity. I look forward to seeing the after shots of an edible garden among this beauty. W O W
That's is why I thought the books of Diana Gabaldon might appeal to you, the protagonist is a present day physician who inadvertently travels back in time to Scotland where the Scots and English are warring over the “Bonnie Prince” and the aftermath. The trick is to start at the beginning with the “Outlanders” so that the history is not lost. She, the physician is a very wise woman and so learns to deal with bad “Good old days”.
Mimi - let us know how it goes for you.
Kathy - I look forward to taking photos of a garden next spring/summer!
Sandi - I can hardly wait to start reading that series. I've got two books ahead of “Outlanders” and then I'm off and running with it.
Now this is a stellar example of a family preparing to deliver the goods…
I so look forward to seeing the after pictures as the before are so set up and in a power mode making the creation even more ideal. Love these shots! That is a perfect spot for a compost bin. You can use the '91 to get lumber :-) & have a night out on the town!
Lee - we hope to actually MOVE the compost bin to its rightful spot today. I'm sure you can imagine how much that sucker weighs! And we need Eoghan (our son) to help us accomplish the task.