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Seedlings in the Greenhouse
Busy Hands Building the Green Roof
The band played friday night at a house party up the street. This time we managed to play 8/9 of the set darn near perfectly. We skipped the slow song, which is prolly for the best, since we were opening for a metal band. After we played things began to get rowdy, so I bagged ass. I don't want anything to do with house party shenanagins, I'm too old and too conservative for that stuff.
Saturday I set up the greenhouse and planted some seedlings. I've started some early greens, brocolli and cauliflower outside under a glass cold frame (to trap heat to promote germination). Inside the greenhouse I've planted pea and bean seeds, and I'll transfer them outside when it's time.
Today my chemistry class group came over to build an eco-roof. We hadn't had any luck with outside sites needing our help building one. In order to provide an "experiential" portion of our eco-roof class project, we built a small scale one over my compost reactor to prevent leeching of my valuable nitrogen into the Willamette river. It was a good day to be working outside, and it only illustrated how much more garden work I've got to do to get the yard in order.
posted by nate @ 5:23 PM
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1) The craftsmanship on your greenhouse is breathtaking. I would be remiss not to acknowledge it.
2) Danger Will Robinson! Warning, psychological narrative to follow:
On this webpage are countless narratives of threads spawned. Very few documents of projects completed are present here, that I can see. Why is this?
Shrinks tell us why: Starting a project is thrilling. We can cherry-pick tasks from the matrix of obligations, we select the novel and interesting. Everyone can be included at this stage, heck we are just ideating! NPA theorists say that we are indulging in perfectionistic bliss. By contrast, let's ask ourselves what is required of a man in completing his tasks? By now, an interpersonal burden must be shouldered. Those people who aren't useful to the project must be excluded. Some of the group's ideas must be abandoned. Napoleonic eggs are broken. Capital (who wants to be reminded that they are a broke-stroke?) must be obtained. Iterations of work that exclude ideation must be performed. When we are planning, we sleep when we are tired. When working, we must often see the job through. Ever see workmen feverishly complete a roof before a storm? NPA theorists say that completion is an aggressive challenge. Basically, planning has a passing intersection with the dreary worlds of money and power. Finishing lives there.
This observation does not pertain only to the physical. In the sales world, there is such a thing as a 'closer.' This individual can risk rejection. One can determine if one is a closer (if one isn't a salesman) by reviewing his 'pelt count.' If the notches on your bedpost are threatening the structural integrity of your bed frame, you are a closer. If you often find yourself taking matters into your own hand, glorying in your 'near misses,' then you are not a closer.
~ibidem~
There is a picture in which Fritz Lang, the director, is an actor, as an old man. I think it is a French film, and the director is quietly lauding Lang's inestimable contributions to film. This seems to be the case, as Fritz Lang plays the role of an old movie director in the film.
"We must finish what we start!" Lang says, in English, while glaring straight into the camera. No further explanation is given, the idea conveyed being -- no explanation possible--its ontological.
Then who is this Fritz Lang, then, I ask myself. Among other great things, he was the director of 'Metropolis.' This was the first mega sci-fi joint. This was the most expensive, correcting for inflation, film ever made, discounting 'The Battleship Potemkin," which had state sponsorship. In pure money terms, it was the most expensive film ever made until Star Wars II. Therefore, this guy was able to convince investors to pony up the equivalent of greater than $200 million, when the category, 'sci-fi epic,' had no exemplars!
He delivered. "Metropolis" killed at the B.O. in every country. Remember, silent film is more trans-national.
His investors couldn't have known if he would succeed. He was after all, an artist, and this was no commodity deal. But they could look in his eyes and tell that he meant it. That he would expend his last measure of will in the context of this challenge. All investments bear a measure of risk. Lang's determination and craft were the certainties.
So, want to come over and build a green roof over my badly in need of a replacement roof? When are we making a COB house? We should make a cob oven in your backyard first to test the structural integrity. We could use it to bake chicken for Tandoori or bake some Nan.
talk to the wife, her 1/3 of the backyard would be where we'd put it.
I was just thinking last week of putting an outdoor oven in the yard. I'm game.
Beautiful green house and raised gardens.
Thanks, prolly 5 more of those raised gardens on the way for this spring.
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