Saturday, July 30, 2011

Writing and gardening go together.

I'm going to take my laptop and some lemonade out on the deck, and mosey around the garden.

Ah, the life.

Hopefully, I'll get some good ideas for the next chapter. I gave my subconscious strict instructions last night to give me some dream inspiration. Instead, I dreamed about huge equipment that I was returning to a huge store. Huh?

You'd think the further I get into a story, the more comfortable I'd get with it. But the more possibilities I see, the more pressure I feel. Pressure to complete the story; and to do a good job.

I have to throw out those notions and just write.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But the HBM growing cycle here is so short.

Do you have a green house?

This is why I like SE-ASIA, I can grow stuff all year round, just drop a seed, and 3 months later harvest any fruit or vege you wish, ...

I now have a new process when I cook, rather than bag and trash the vege sees ( pepper seeds, tomatoe, ... ) I just take the rubbish out and bury in a shallow hole, and add water, in a few days I have little plants. Hard part is know what is what I can't tell, when in doubt I just ask a native, everybody seems to know every little seedling what is what, ... watermelon, .. cantelope, ... I can't tell but they can tell.
Just planted two bannana plants yesterday, actually transplants about six feet tall.

I need to make compost box, like I had in ORYGUN, but folks don't seem to do that here, ... they just buy shit. I think rat's & mice would be a real problem, and of course where you have mice you have snakes, and here snake means a 2 meter monocol-cobra :((

Of course food is cheap to buy in the markets, but most homes simply have herbs and veges in the yard, and rather than go shopping, you just go out to your pond and net a few fish, and pick some veges, go back to the kitchen and cook. I think its a better life than shopping, after all why drive/ride unless you have too.

Anonymous said...

Watching the charade in USA called the debt debate. Like all things in USA, what really goes on is secret.

SO I'll share the secrets and get feedback ( comical of course ) from my fellow Bend-Parasites(tm).

Ok, there will be a VAT tax coming soon, which is very sad, but here's the argument PUSHED by the ELITE. Now less than 50% of US citizens pay federal tax, there is no way the FED-GOV can collect money, unless there is a FED-SALES-TAX. So behind the scenes everyone is pushing this and can be seen on FOX by O'Reilly pushing the VAT. It will start at 5% and go to 15%, but again, its a TAX on the poor, because now the US government cannot tax the poor. The arg is "WHO WILL PAY MEDICARE?", it MUST be paid by the poor, so say the rich, so now there will be a crisis, perhaps next-week OREO will announce a federal-sales-tax. :(

Of course the real MEDICARE problem is that US HEALTH-CARE is 99% fraud, by that I mean get rid of the AMA, and big PHARMA and make pills $1 for a bag like 3rd world, and have unlimited doc's like CUBA, problem solved. So we make a VAT, to pay FRAUD medicare, which is push by FRAUD AMA. What a horrible argument to tax the poor :(