The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[wasellajam]

Good morning! Anyone on this side of the world planting yet? We had a bit of spring but now frost warnings, the last few years they lasted well past mid-May, but peas and greens and radishes worked early. Anyone with mud under their nails?

[milo]

Oh man - I am all about my garden !!! My goal has been a walkable garden that brings beauty enjoyment and nourishment. So far I have peas, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers. Brussels sprouts and Brocoli wintered over and are in season now! I have 4 fruit trees along the main path - 2 plum and 2 peach - as well as a strawberry patch that is in bloom, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries and I just put in the annuals - petunias, clematis, impatiens and begonias. I have beans germinating now . . . Wait - what was the question ?

[wasellajam]

Oh man - I am all about my garden !!! My goal has been a walkable garden that brings beauty enjoyment and nourishment. So far I have peas, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers. Brussels sprouts and Brocoli wintered over and are in season now! I have 4 fruit trees along the main path - 2 plum and 2 peach - as well as a strawberry patch that is in bloom, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries and I just put in the annuals - petunias, clematis, impatiens and begonias. I have beans germinating now . . . Wait - what was the question ?

Yep, that was the question. I could never get brussel sprouts going. Do you share strawberries with the birds or got a way to protect them?

[milo]

Oh man - I am all about my garden !!! My goal has been a walkable garden that brings beauty enjoyment and nourishment. So far I have peas, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers. Brussels sprouts and Brocoli wintered over and are in season now! I have 4 fruit trees along the main path - 2 plum and 2 peach - as well as a strawberry patch that is in bloom, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries and I just put in the annuals - petunias, clematis, impatiens and begonias. I have beans germinating now . . . Wait - what was the question ?

Yep, that was the question. I could never get brussel sprouts going. Do you share strawberries with the birds or got a way to protect them?

We run a first to the berry gets it policy in my house !!

[Magpie]

  
Now that the dillodafs have gone
I've got flutterbyes on my pansies
my broom was drooping but I tied it back
and it has since recovererered and is a bout to ex plode
into glorious flourishment.
I've never had my digitals popping up
in so many different nooks and crannies
I can't wait until it blooms.

I think I stroked the sun yesterday

[wasellajam]

Gold n sythiafor arches of ringsp
frame wen eaves llac lies green
sur round pale purpletual bee looms.

Two lips part from petals
as heartsblood out lives through w all.
Must(re)tard the ramp ant growth.
Soon time to Beet back the jungle.

[Magpie]

Been repotting stuff today



Found a cormorants pelvis and a swan's sternum last week on a trip the coastline. So I decided to start collecting bones. Did three more trips and found part of a dolphin vertebrate, something from a seal as well as some deer bones and shoulder blade and gull femurs and more bird sternums along with interesting stones and pieces of glass and pottery and shells. 
And although my bone collecting days are over it was fun while it lasted (4 days), I want my bloody bench back.

[wasellajam]

Wowee, great collection, you could set it in cement or plaster or acrylic and lean it up against something, take up less room.

[Magpie]

Good idea. But I'm probably going to leave it on the bench, it hurts my hips so I need to stop sitting on it anyway.
It's another absolutely beautiful day here today, working in the garden all day today, pure heaven.

Hope it's good for everyone else. Enjoy the sun people. 

[milo]

Good idea. But I'm probably going to leave it on the bench, it hurts my hips so I need to stop sitting on it anyway.
It's another absolutely beautiful day here today, working in the garden all day today, pure heaven.

Hope it's good for everyone else. Enjoy the sun people. 

What you really need to do is construct an ossarium.

Love the flowers surrounding your ossuary bench. 

[Magpie]

What you really need to do is construct an ossarium.

Love the flowers surrounding your ossuary bench. 

Ossarium - Cool new word thanks, I like it. Want to work it into a poem somehow.

The flowers are getting better everyday, the broom and azalea will be out soon so I might take a pic at some point.

[milo]

What you really need to do is construct an ossarium.

Love the flowers surrounding your ossuary bench. 

Ossarium - Cool new word thanks, I like it. Want to work it into a poem somehow.

This was my hope

[wasellajam]

So where's the Ossarium poem? Did I miss it?

[busker]

Been repotting stuff today



Found a cormorants pelvis and a swan's sternum last week on a trip the coastline. So I decided to start collecting bones. Did three more trips and found part of a dolphin vertebrate, something from a seal as well as some deer bones and shoulder blade and gull femurs and more bird sternums along with interesting stones and pieces of glass and pottery and shells. 
And although my bone collecting days are over it was fun while it lasted (4 days), I want my bloody bench back.

This is all well and good, but what would be really interesting is if you started seeing bones that looked unfamiliar, but still fun, and then one day you opened a book on dinosaur paleo biology and discovered that you’ve been gathering bones - not fossilised ones - of a Mososaurus.
And an adventure starts.

[wasellajam]

This is all well and good, but what would be really interesting is if you started seeing bones that looked unfamiliar, but still fun, and then one day you opened a book on dinosaur paleo biology and discovered that you’ve been gathering bones - not fossilised ones - of a Mososaurus.
And an adventure starts.

mosasaurus reconstruction

Neat creature, how would its bones be recognizable?

[Magpie]

This is all well and good, but what would be really interesting is if you started seeing bones that looked unfamiliar, but still fun, and then one day you opened a book on dinosaur paleo biology and discovered that you’ve been gathering bones - not fossilised ones - of a Mososaurus.
And an adventure starts.

There all unfamiliar to me, but I bring them back and use google lens to identify them. A part of modern technology that I think is amazing. The first few I got my guesses were all wrong but now I'm getting better at identifying them. It did tell me that the cormorants pelvis belonged to a plesiosaurus and that I needed to take it to the nearest museum but then it changed it's mind after a second look. It also said that a deer bone was a whale bone, but that was because I said it was 150cm instead of 150mm. That's the closest I've got to finding a dinosaur.