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Hey Fancypants! Hey Tangled! Rosemary sprigs under your pillow are preposed to keed nightmares away.. we try it? test a proposition?

Dnt worry if you keep it up eventually your skull should harden like the shaolin monks who hit their heads against sacks of flour for hours per day...then you'll have the ultimate weapon always with you, the concrete head-butt

When you have a bloody creepy dream, and then google the description of the entity that accosted you in this dream to find hundreds of reports of him, anywhere from mildly bothering to severely traumatising people all over the world. I dreamt I was in a big regal old house, on the second story landing. The only other person present had just left through the front door, I watched them go. And then the elevator chimes and lights up, someone is about to get off on my floor. So out comes this very tall man dressed in a black and white suit, long coat and a fedora. His skin is almost pure white, and he moves extremely slowly as he walked towards me. Instantly I was filled with terror, and slapped my hands together into heishi hands (prayer hands) and said some chant to make him leave. I lost visual clarity, everything was dark and then became light. I looked around after the burst of white, but he was still there, very still, staring at me. I tried again, this time shouting at full power that he must leave, and everything in the dream fades to first black, then brilliant white and I wake up. Creeepy... *shudders* They call him hat man.

Ah well, you mayaswell relish it, you only get so many days of free collective pampering per year, Internet birthdays are as good an excuse as any! Happy Wednesday it is then..

Happy birthday buddy, keep on shining you rainbow tornado being.. ;)

I grew mine in singular spacing, but I'm sure they would do okay in clumps. They will be sweet in small pots for quite some time but after a year or two they do start to get quite big. So you have a bit of time up your sleeve and if you have room you may wana look at creating a new patch for them so they don't rob you of too much garden space. I'm just at the harvesting stage now so gonna do a bit of reading up on preparation, and will report back if I have any interesting news. Quite exciting. Good to see others growing it too. I'm gonna start a new batch once I find some more seed, and grow more, as I only ended up with one plant making it past the first couple years.

Ummmmm.. Yes. You will defs need to repot eventually. The whole impetus is orientated towards root growth so you want as much depth and width as you can spare. Not for wee peckers like those in the pic, that's okay for the first while, but realistically they should go into the ground once established if you can. I kept mine in a 15L pot for years 1-2 and then in the herb bed for years 2-3.

Wow. Mad skills. Your plants will love their new home, you should be very proud!

Not an entry but just a congrats an a big ol ethereal hug WB. Happy long time sab learning and bantering, many more good times to come

^ I recently found a small life hack related to this, i was at the supermarket with bugger all $, needed shampoo, conditioner and body wash and then saw the 'mens' hair and body wash, made sure it didnt smell toxic, and thought fuck it, womens and mens hair cant b much different realy so bought that 1 bottle of shower goop instead of3 sepearate ones and then had money left to buy a big bunch of rhubarb for crumble. Also, convert money when u have it into big bags of rice, spuds, lentils, oats, flour etc so when time gets rough u can still make hearty foods with fresh additions of herbs, veges and weeds frm the garden and surrounding land. It really pays off to learn about ur local edible weeds, as alot of things grow all year round and are very nutrient dense - and free! Ive been eating stinging nettle lately, cz its everywhere! You've just gotta boil it for5mins and pour off the liquid to remove the spines.

Oh Paradox, it must be hard to be you sometimes, surrounded by all us muppets. I do hope you still have hope.

Childhood Kathleen Raine (b 1908) I see all, am all, all. I leap along the line of the horizon hill, I am a cloud in the high sky, I trace the veins of intricate fern. In the dark ivy wall the wren's world Soft to bird breast nest of round eggs is mine, Mine in the rowan-tree the blackbird's thought Inviolate in leaves ensphered. I am bird-world, leaf-life, I am wasp-world hung Under low berry-branch of hidden thorn, Friable paper-world humming with hate, Moss-thought, rain-thought, stone still thought on the hill. Never, never, never will I go home to be a child.

Yeah those cacti-people are the best. It has been a similar perception changing process for me too. Just the fact of coming across shared enthusiasm and realising the way in which so many of us have dreams, goals and ideas in common has really reshaped my overall view of people. You can only work with what you know, and before all my trading i thought there was limited cause for hope for us as a culture. Now i see the same issues but have greater faith knowing all the plantheads of the world are quietly working away towards self-liberation.

Yay im glad this thread got a bump as i can refer to my own advice as well as all the great info from other members in conducting my next seed sow. My memory is like a seive with somethings so im almost beginning again as a newbie

Dcliw there is a perfectly timed cross over of dream and waking realities which blows your mind more than just a little bit. I was dreaming that giant multicoloured feathers were falling down on me, yet somehow I was still awake to the extent that I physically put my arms up above my head to try to catch one, and just at that moment, the poster I have of a black and gold Chinese dragon on really light handmade paper happens to fall down off the wall to be clasped by my waiting hands.

Happy birthday everyone who is birthday-ing on this day. Full moon and venus conjunct jupiter..auspicious as can be *let me preopose a toast to Toast and all yee shared birthdayers, to your health and happiness*

Hah... thanks mutant. Its very nice you sayin you love me and all and i love ya right back. But Meanwhile the hyperaware and cunning virgo in me deduces that this is really a ploy to make the pride and vanity of leos self evident through my response.. While your speaking of those wiley aquariums.. i have come to especially appreciate their unique, kick-ass value this year. I spent a fair amount of time this summer properlly getting to know and appreciate an aquarian friend. She is a hybrid metal-head/fire hippy who had always intimidated me a little, then when we spent some time hanging out and i discover she loves classical music as much as metal and trance, reads books like nobodies business, is a pro at fire poi, rope dart and hoop, has a degree in psycholgy, is obessed with classics and mythology but is also an extreme skeptic, yet more openminded than most people i have met. Wtf. Usually those things wud only fit in four people. Then i realise my mum is dating an aquarian and my friend who i now live next door to is an aquarian, and somehow all though they are each incomparably unique people they show very much the same traits, so many contrasts and surprises. So clearly focussed on going about their business in the way THEY choose.. so inquiring, always making assessments and testing theories, yet unattatched to developing set belief systems. Dynamic is the impression i get i guess. But erratic if not chanelling as that energy into something they find meaningful and rewarding.

You really are an awesome astrologer Mutant. Mad skills. Now tell me the good news and bad news about Leo's aye? I am Leo sun. Ascendant Virgo. Moon in Gemini. (hence the wordiness) Mercury in Virgo. Mars in Virgo. Venus in Virgo. (all those last three Virgo-ness's in 12th house) Can't remember the rest of the top of my head Apart from Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Scorpio. So I got lotsa that manic Virgo energy, balanced out a bit by the other tings.. When I first talked to ya in another astrology thread a couple years back it was the first real exposure I had. Set me off on a search. I now love astrology and find much usefulness in it. I go through phases or borderline obsessiveness with it, and then won't pay much attention for a while...but I do this with all things.

Edit: off topic Desert Dwellers are pretty good mostly

That man has a demon in him or something. He should get that looked at.. Jesus.

This is so incredibly cool I don't even know what to do with it..so I'll just leave it here, enjoy