Strontium Dawg

Hi Stormer, Things can be a bit slow here lately, but trading is always happening, often below the surface. I've got a bunch of new brugs, probably need a little more time for cuts to be ready. Glasshouse Angel The dancer Knightii Dwarf pink and green Daddy long legs Dark pink Glossy yellow And can do cuts anytime off frosty pink, sacred sunset, old apricot and red sanguinea.

I've got a tacaquirensis and it's super slow growing and prone to rot. Nursing it through it's early years and hopefully it'll be good once established.

The ABG "werdemannianus" (not my pic)

Recently I have been experiencing visitations by birds on a daily basis. Most notably magpies, but also king parrots and crows. One magpie in particular is now so comfortable that he will eat from my hand. I call him Claude. King parrots are also making daily visits. Crows watch from a distance but are very vocal. This is a new occurrence that started a month or so ago, and it seems to hold some importance, but I'm not sure what to make of it. Magpies seem to be associated with a message to focus on spiritual pursuits rather than material ones (I'm hardly a materialistic person so I think there's something I'm missing). Parrots are associated with the need to be watchful and alert. These are the typical associations in dreams anyway. But my visitations are physical, so I wonder if there is more to the picture. Does anyone have any experience with bird visitation and their symbology?

They almost always come good. I've cooked loads of em, and they outgrow it pretty quickly, given some TLC.

It's not something you should drink daily if you value your tooth enamel.

Anyone got a fresh print - seeking one for my buddy. It's his first attempt at microscopy so something suitable would be great.

https://youtu.be/dPRsdQIsqIk

Not sure what I was expecting but at $200/kg for powdered kava, it's no cheaper than the grey market stuff available now. It would want to be some seriously good waqa.

I heard about this case, and have to wonder why anyone would try this. I guess he was in a very bad place to begin with. I've also heard of a recent trend towards "boofing" various things like cactus tea. Which is also a very bad idea, maybe slightly less dangerous than IV injection, but nonetheless, bypassing the various filters and systems the body has in place to avoid such pathogens can end very badly.

Well, apparently anything with white petals and purple spots is a "Tasmanian" according to the punters on the SAB Facebook page haha! (Don't get me started!) In all seriousness though, unless you have certified seeds from a reputable source, where there was no chance of interbreeding, nobody knows. They hybridise at the drop of a hat. You can take a stab at some fairly identifiable ones like danish flag, hens and chickens, pink peony etc. But anything else is a guess at best.

https://youtu.be/D4nox3QOYvc

Pretty unlikely to to be Galania given how hard the seeds are to come by!

They're somniferum, unspecified variety.

"To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material." Hemingway

It's weird how something that is normally tolerated can cause an abnormal reaction like that. Christmas Eve last year, I had a dose of some opiates that would normally just be quite mild. An hour in and I was having clear signs of a bad allergic reaction. 2 hours in and I asked my wife to be ready to call me an ambulance. I was covered in hives, my lips and tongue were swollen to the point I struggled to speak, and I was fainting due to low blood pressure. In the end we decided I should just ride it out, cos being in emergency ward on Christmas Eve sucks (I know this from experience!). It was a scary old night. Hope you feel better soon DL.

Done diddly.

OP festival here...

Most, if not all of our political problems could be solved with one decisive action: ban ALL political donations. Then the only reason any politician has to put their name on a ballot paper is to actually serve their electorate. Rather than cosying up to donors to assure themselves a seat on a board later.

Seeds have extremely low viability period, like days from picking. You might get lucky for the coming summer.

If people stopped getting conned into voting for them via their preference farmers UAP and One Nation, that'd also be nice!

https://youtu.be/3jA1wbjexyM

Well that's a straw man argument concocted by the Howard government wasn't it. Yes, indigenous communities were having problems with kava. They also have problems with alcohol, petrol sniffing, and many other things. So, let's take a look at that. Was petrol banned? I suppose Opal ( non sniffable fuel) was introduced in the NT. Alcohol? Well, I've stayed at Uluru and it's freely available if you're white, you just can't buy it if you're black. So it seems to me, kava was targeted specifically. If you live in a community with no hope because of the systemic racism built into every law, you'd probably be looking for any escape you can find too.

Unfortunately that hasn't been quite true since not long after 911 when sweeping laws were introduced that allow for detention without charge, and other draconian measures akin to minority report. It's a shame nobody lined the streets protesting about those laws which were an actual attack on our freedom and the rule of law...