The Contents of My Pickup Bed
Posted by garth on 02 Dec 2008 at 05:45 pm | Tagged as: dropstone farms, lists
1 (one) Combination brush hook/zombie pacification device
3 (three) six foot lengths of rebar
5 (five) seed starting trays
1 (one) tow rope
3 (three) 25 kg bags of organic layer mash
1 (one) 50# bag of diatomaceous earth
It seems like an interesting life, doesn’t it? It’s dark now (at four-freakin’-thirty) but I’ll post a picture when the sun comes up.
Hmmm… I don’t want to know what is in my dh’s pickup bed. Could be interesting though!
It’s like comparing purse contents only more rural :o)
Put it all together and what do you get? I don’t know but you’re right, it would be interesting! Plus, I wouldn’t want to cross anyone in a dark alley with one of those monsters. Yikes, I want one and have no use for it! hehe
Thanks for sharing.
I feel so new at this - I don’t even know what some of these terms mean (blush). What is a rebar?
Oh, starting seeds - when do you start doing this? Any tips on what works well to start when?
Cassandra: After reading your comment I went to look to see if the contents of my purse could be considered rural, too, but the only remotely rural thing I found was my headlamp, which I need to get to and from the bus in the morning and evening. That qualifies as rural, sort of, because we have no streetlights? I guess.
I have a lot of other stuff in there — I also carry bandaids, bus schedules, advil, a stain stick, extra hair ties, several pens and pencils, a measuring tape, an inhaler, ipod - cell phone - digital camera, a tiny mirror for checking one’s teeth, some allergy pills, scissors, pocket knife, antacids, notebook, various computer components (seriously), and keys — but I would want to be way overprepared if I lived in the city, too.
MangoChild: Garth was showing off a bit. :) Rebar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebar) is basically a stick of metal. Garth’s other hobby is blacksmithing, so he collects random bits of metal when he finds them for cheap or free, and smushes them into different shapes (he is still learning).
“Layer mash” is chicken feed, and diatomaceous earth is a very fine dust that kills insects and the like; you can use it in the garden (though it also kills some beneficials) and we also use it on the chickens. We sprinkle it on the ground and in their bedding, and in their dust bath area. It doesn’t hurt the chickens (or you), but the tiny sharp corners of the tiny dust particles cut up the insects’ bodies and they die. Keeps mites and other pests down. Also worms, I’m told.
And seed starting is a whole separate issue! There will be plenty of posts on that very topic. Planning starts this month or next, so keep an eye out here and on pretty much everyone else’s farm blog too.
I’m sorry, but that’s just not weird enough. I think my husband’s got you beat there:
http://chouchouminou.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
(scroll to the second entry)