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hum drum?  nah, I've always been an adrenaline junky.  Jumping on an off barges in high seas is truly an exercise in the Tao of movement... Don't think, just move fast, think fast, make things happen.  Lotta fun, and they pay me alot too....

Kemp, mrs chanley is just fine, raising kids, gardens, and whatnot like always.  Bout like all of us, little less poison, little more humility, little further down the path.

heres a pic of me on one of our dredges:



v12 mak diesel, 7200 horsepower.  Plants and engines have always been my passion.... I'm just working out the other side of it all.

Drew

what can I say.
ran into this place randomly again, just a thought train I guess.

anyway, I couldn't find my freedom on land.
8 months out at sea doing the hardest labor possible is good for the soul.
Putting pipelines together, shifting barges, moving mud offshore, and we picked up that plane that crashed in the Hudson river...
so I guess I'm the chief engineer of the Tugboat (sorry, name was showing up in google).  This means I'm in charge of the mechanical dept of the boat.
I sold the farm, and only grow veggies and tobacco.

Sometimes freedom is in the desolate wilderness, sometimes in an engineroom with diesels bigger than schoolbuses, sometimes its sitting on the bow of a boat for 4days straight looking at the horizon, or appreciating the fresh salty air in 15ft seas.

Whatever gives you hope.
Drew   (I believe the name Ringworm is no longer mine)

I need a few prints.
preferably cubensis.

thanks
Rw

been a long time.
whats new in my life.

this guy, best friend of mine "Z" worked with me once in awhile cutting trees and running machinery, etc.  He lived with us for weeks at a time.
He was the only one I'd use these plants with anymore.  Only fella worth doing them with.  Hell of a knife maker.
I couldn't find him for about 3-4 months.  But he had a knack for disappearin tho, so we figured he was in the swamp hunting, and he'd be back to make me a pair of alligator boots or such.
Well we found him.... he'd been in his freezer all that time.

kinda lost interest in plants and much of life.... I kinda gave away most of my plants, and did more work as a contractor.
I'm about to take a job at a diesel fuel injection shop (I'm mighty good with old diesel engines).

just the same, I've become a little too good at meditation and Tao in general.  (diesels and taoism? sure... same principles)
Question is, in a world where you need to fight to support a family, how can you surrender to the spirit of the way? (I'm workin on that one)

rw

Nicotiana glossei?

and I thought I'd grown most of the smokable nicotianas....
this one is Australian in nature, yah?

winter hardy no.

adaptable to a short season, yes.
this would obviously be useful in wisconsin or some such place.

In my experience (and yes I've grown this cultivar) if you have the ability to start some seeds indoors before the last frost, it kind of counteracts the need for short season crops.

the thing with rustica is to cure it just right.  Mine was best after about 3years.  Still as potent, but less likely to gag you.
I did have some powdered/bone dry that I'd snort.  A lil bit was enough to see the world in negative for awhile....
nothing like sitting on the porch watching the grass grow.

why bother with a pot unless in the far north.

I've had a heimia alive in the ground for 8 years or more.
the lil bugger only gets 6-7ft tall, but it gets wide.  Oddly enough for the 10billion seeds it generates annually only 1-2 a year pop up.
This is especially odd since, I can germinate the same seeds with very good success.

end of the semester being what date?

many entheos aren't the most florific.  My salvia only flowers once a year, my caapi doesn't flower, my cactus don't either.

hmmm, I remember this place.
nice to see it up and alive, many of the same faces.

long walk

rw