Ouch! My brother had his nose broken when a wake board fell off a wall bracket onto it. At least it broke straight so it was easy to set.

I took gross anatomy to fill my credit requirements and I still have a lot of stuff memorized after 35 years.

With the very young kids you can also help out by teaching them chisenbop as an aid. Some kids learn best with physical means, others are fine with rote memorization and chisenbop help visualize how numbers sort out into ones and tens.

No, there is a huge difference between rote memorization of concrete facts - numbers, the alphabet [and you have no idea how many people I hear singing the ABC song while filing!] and other information. You can rote facts about the American Revolution [Washington crossed the Delaware River 26 December 1776] The Age of…

10*450 + 3*450.

True, though you can plant smaller stuff for more or less instant gratification =)

When done correctly they can be really good, when done badly, purgatory. See, take the horror that is usually lime jello, cottage cheese, mandarin orange slices and it looks like this:

Then if you want to save seeds, you should start by buying your first batch of seeds, to make certain you have the correct plants, then save the seeds from there. If you want to get into period [non modern] cooking and brewing you should hook up with the local bunch - some quite excellent scholars there. There are a…

I have 6 aerogardens that I use for growing select herbs inside during the winter - they also help my SAD as I have them set generally to 16 hours on 8 hours off and they are fairly complete spectrum. I experimented with growing romaine in one and while it worked, they were touchy as they really need more of a root…

We did bale of straw - was easy to 'dig' them, and we have really heavy clay soil and wanted to rot it into compost to turn in to loosen it up. Didn't work so well for garlic though, at least we also planted half the garlic over near our lilacs so it wasn't a total loss.

No blog, and I started gardening as soon as I could toddle around pulling weeds [and non-weeds, to my moms agitation] 'helping' my mom. I started being more interested in heirloom fruits and vegetables around 30 years ago when I got more interested in food and cooking as part of my historical research for my…

Thanks =)

Not yet, I was supposed to check in for something but our roomie broke her leg 2 weeks ago so I postponed until winter. I am *not* having 2 people unable to do stuff for themselves at the same time in the house, my husband would probably be driven to commit murder [Dear can you please make breakfast and lunch for both…

Dudette. And there wasn't last time I was admitted 4 years ago =)

Hm, something to think about - but if you never tried new stuff life would get boring =) I buy from a seed supplier instead of trying to grow from food items, as you said, they may have been treated with something.

With trade many have gotten accustomed to the more western wheat styled diet. I do agree that potatoes are excellent producers for the space they require - it was said that an acre of potatoes would feed an average family pre-potato famine in Ireland. I like growing different potatoes [this past year we did a purple…

I haven't seen a Cracker Barrel since we lived in Norfolk VA [Husband was a submariner] though I will agree with you about their food. I seriously miss really good sausage gravy and biscuits.

Ask, and I will try to answer ... though it is nice having the choice of Popeyes vs KFC in Connecticut now. Extra spicy is nice as bland fried chicken can get boring.

Well, if the morons who buy up farmland and chop orchards down to put in housing complexes would fucking stop it, we might still be the 'breadbasket' of the US. Western NY and many areas of New England used to produce an excess of fruit and nuts [not to mention all the olive and orange groves in California that now…

You can't "backyard" much in the way of grain, and other than some modern hybrids, the 2 grains that grow the best in short/cold are barley and buckwheat. You can get 65 bushels of winter wheat per acre, 88 bushels of barley, and 25 bushels of buckwheat. In the US [except for the idiots who do not have celiac disease…