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3626. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:39:52 AM That's what he's looking at--certification. This land hasn't been farmed in years. There was a news segment on CNN or MSNBC TV some months ago about that.
I'll dig online some when I get time at work this spring. It's hopeless at home. He and his best friend are already buying a few grape vines from an organic catalog--can't remember the name of it. 3627. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:41:25 AM BTW, Bob made his living as a farmer for a number of years, and both sides of his family have long traditions of farming. Still do, for that matter. 3628. alistairConnor - 3/7/2006 1:42:15 AM Choose the varieties with care, in respect of the climate and soil... I don't suppose you've got much of a winemaking tradition to guide you around there! 3629. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 1:53:46 AM You'd be surprised! Bob's friend's cousin (and as I mentioned above, my uncle) have already been at it for quite a while, and to our crude Arky palates it's pretty good stuff.
But no moonshine. 3630. arkymalarky - 3/7/2006 2:01:21 AM Bob's main interest is really working into a second career, but not with an eye to making money as much as breaking even plus a little and benefitting from what he grows.
Bob LOVES farming, and this opportunity has fallen into his lap, with not much land but enough and enough equipment, and the means to get into something along that line that he can enjoy both before and after he retires from teaching. But it would have to be something both marketable and enjoyable--and, for that matter, something that we'd benefit from ourselves.
There are lots of nice, rather large gardens around here already. We talked about trying to do a local farmers' market co-op thing and share produce among all the participants. They have a really nice organic store and farmers' co-op in Nederland, CO, which is a very small town. Bob actually did something along that line on a much smaller scale in gardening with a friend about 30 years ago. There's still a jar of butter beans from that project in the cellar. 3631. Macnas - 3/7/2006 10:41:34 AM I cna't give you much help, but I like the plan! 3632. PelleNilsson - 3/7/2006 6:30:40 PM Wintry playground.
 3633. thoughtful - 3/7/2006 6:46:56 PM nice shot.
What is that V shaped thing? how do you play on it? 3634. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/7/2006 7:19:34 PM arky- You might find this place interesting.
I had a unique and wonderfully bitter salad green in Rome, called "puntarelle," which is a form of chicory root that's a perfect crop for winter gardens. The only place I could find that sold them was King's Seeds.
3635. alistairconnor - 3/7/2006 7:45:15 PM The V thing looks like a swing-around-seesaw type device, the extremities are derived from tyres. 3636. PelleNilsson - 3/7/2006 8:18:39 PM That's right. 3637. thoughtful - 3/8/2006 12:02:02 AM yes i see what it is but how does one ride it? Does it wobble or just spin? Do kids run to spin it and then hop on? Or does one ride and one push it around? 3638. jexster - 3/11/2006 6:19:03 AM Took my 17 year old Balinese to the vet today...last year's heart murmur, no different and during senior blood test and urine test, my boy Son of Thunder(CFA) took a dump on the lab techs.
"OOO he's MAD!!!"
This photo not of Sonny but of another blue point balinese
 3639. Jenerator - 3/12/2006 7:32:47 AM I had a seal point Himalayan.
Best cat I ever had.
RIP Simon
 3640. alistairConnor - 3/13/2006 12:29:42 AM Shared a chair lift this afternoon with one of the ski station staff. Reprovingly he noted that my two daughters were not wearing helmets. I'd never really understood what they were for, so he explained : you've seen people slaloming going up the ski tows? Strictly forbidden. Get caught, and you'll lose your ski pass.
I'd known that too, but again, hadn't understood why.
So he goes into clinical detail : Slaloming, you're pulling the ski tow cable out of line, and it sometimes jumps off the pulley at a post, and goes zzzzzzing and decapitates someone.
Not often. But recently, he saw a guy get scalped, from the centreline of his skull to the ear. Long stay in hospital, many many stitches, but the worst (for the staffer) was spending all evening at the police station filling in forms.
OK... I make a mental note to buy some headgear...
Ten minutes later, we are on a ski tow : two daughters ahead of me. And the four guys ahead of them start doing ... what? Zigzagging all across the track and well outside it, having a great time, and me in a cold sweat...
Nothing happened, of course. 3641. ronski - 3/15/2006 8:04:29 PM What kind of lift is that? T-bar, "pomalift," or something else?
3642. ronski - 3/15/2006 8:04:54 PM Simon was a cutey! 3643. alistairConnor - 3/15/2006 9:18:36 PM uhm I don't have the technical vocabulary. Rubber disc on the end of a broomstick : the classic French "tire-cul", I have no idea what is used elsewhere. A fairly modern version with a retractable rope.
But I imagine the problem is generic to any sort of ski tow : the vulnerability is where the wire cable can potentially jump off the pulley at any post. 3644. thoughtful - 3/15/2006 9:21:53 PM Comme ça?
 3645. thoughtful - 3/15/2006 9:24:33 PM vs. a t-bar?
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