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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Jul 2005
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Holy shit that's good reading. There's not a whole lot of people who can string words together correctly that make me laugh out loud. This was a real treat.
Shadow Boxer
Joined: Nov 2003
Location: N Van BC
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I'm in for the long haul on this one
More please.
"One of my goals in life is to someday be in a position where I can
yell "Enough stalling! KILL THEM!" and no one laughs.
Well, that, or "Guards! SEIZE THEM!" I'm not picky."
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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CACK Haikuu
Magnificant Cack
Vermin, Drifter, Dollbaby
There are 10 kinds of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.
Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Denver
Oddometer: 67
You couldnt throw a dead cat without hittin a famous or attractive person
The 'famous' couple here is German (ex)national soccer player Stefan Effenberg and his on/off wife Claudia. They are shooting a reality show for German TV in LA...
The ADV salute is now commonly called "Effenberg" in Germany. Stefan used to greet referees (and everyone else) ADV style on a regular basis...
Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Oddometer: 379
Thanks for the "Heads Up" Players Markus.. I WAS a tad puzzled!
Now, can someone go dig Vermin outta that cubicle and get him back on the job over here???
"Enough Robert Pirsig-esque philosophizing. My bike didnt need maintanenece and my Zen was around the next corner. Time to ride." Sly-on-2
unrepentant thinner
Joined: Jan 2007
Oddometer: 542
Ones comin
Hugs and Kisses
I stink therefore I am.
Zen and the art of motorcycle negligence
The grapes of rat
Cack Comes Back
Age Against the Machine
ADV, this, I crave.
Joined: Dec 2007
Location: Wichita Falls, Tx
Oddometer: 344
Fellow cubical Unix/Oracle slave here Verm.
I'm in on this fo sho.
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Studly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Baltimore, MD
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[quote=PlayersMarkus]You couldnt throw a dead cat without hittin a famous or attractive person
The 'famous' couple here is German (ex)national soccer player Stefan Effenberg and his on/off wife Claudia. They are shooting a reality show for German TV in LA...
I thought it was Sharon Stone. Whoops
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: Stumptown
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"it's easier than just waiting around to die"
Townes Van Zandt
Making things worse.
Joined: Dec 2005
Location: leaving
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Vermin, keep it coming.
unrepentant thinner
Joined: Jan 2007
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Revisiting the depression
The Quest for the American Dream at the Crystal Palace
or "The rise and fall of country and western civilzation"
Woke up in a hotel on Venice beach. Ate the Continental breakfast shooting the breeze with some Germans (ich bin ein dummer amerikaner jah). Unk, Ant, Dollbaby and myself seem fairly rudderless at this point and I will be damned if I will be accused of having a plan.
Packed 'em up
5 Kilograms of excrement
2 Kilogram bag
I originally had planned to head up the angels crest road and all these other twisties north and east of Los Angeles I had read about in cycle magazines since I was a pup but Unk had spent a lot of time polishing the bottom of his floorboards and didn't want to scratch them up on curvy roads so we headed west toward Malibu. I actually think he may have been trying to ditch me for a little quality time with ant but I didn't take the hint. In reality we live so far away from our loved ones I wanted Dollbaby to get to know her Ant and Unk up close and personal rather than in a mass gathering every other year, there are plenty of curvy roads ahead so I figure the trade is well worth it.
Leaving town
Malibu beach bums still exist. Livin la vida loca in the camper on the beach. Hmmmmm.
We cruised west a little and pulled into a gas station, in Malibu, to get some more go juice and while I was filling cack up a 60 something woman in a new Mercedes pulled up and started shooting the breeze with Dollbaby. Doll told the lady what we were all about. The lady was startled and grinned from ear to ear as I am sure she probably couldn't imagine such a cool trip. As the lady turned to leave I thought she started misting up a little. Maybe her dad was too busy to take her on trips, maybe he did take her and he was gone on the biggest trip of all at the moment. Either way I knew we were in the sweet spot of life if we had that effect on a rich old lady in Malibu.
My Pacific Coast on the Pacific Coast
At this point we light up the bikes and cruise west into Ventura. I didn't see any town as we were on the state highway. We pulled over in a construction turnoff to get our wits about us.
Miscellaneous agriculture off the coast by Oxnard (hi roboter)
I was entirely unaffected by L.A.
So I see this whole thing as a feel good summer blockbuster like "Little Miss Sunshine" but with a more rubbishy littery feel. The demographics will be great, wide range. It'll kill on both coasts and the middle. Have your people git with mine.
Vermin=Nicholas Cage
Dollbaby=Miley Cyrus
Ant=Jessica Simpson
Unk=Montgomery Burns
Intro: Long, sweeping, moving, montage of two renegade bikes rolling down the pacific coast highway with the song Born to Be Mild by the band Steppenshit, go to a medium shot as they pull into a gravel construction pulloff
Close up on the Verm
Verm: Hain't this purdy
Ant: Why are we stopping?
Unk: I have to pee.
Verm: Hey where did my maglight go?
Doll: Back there (waving her hand vaguely backwards toward LA)
Verm: Daaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmit
Unk: I have to pee.
Verm: Where are we? (looking at trucker atlas)
Ant: Why don't we use our GPS? (Snotty rich Ant speak for my stuff is better than yours) Dang the batteries are dead (futily shaking the unit).
Verm: (smiles a non battery needin smile) Why don't we use my trucker atlas?
Ant: I am hungry
Verm: They make a mean chicken fried steak at Buck Owens Crystal Palace in Bakersfield that killed 'im deader'n a doornail about a year ago. ( Imagine the glory of creating a delicacy so delicious it is lethal. It is like a hillbilly version of them poisonous Japanese puffer fish).
Unk: Bakersfield is heinous the coast is beautiful. I have to pee.
Doll: Are we there yet?
Verm: Where?
Dollbaby: Why don't you use that porta potti? (she points to the porta john, the only visible building anywhere, 75 feet across the road)
Unk: Oh
(Cue ominous important decision makin music)
Ant: I gotta have that chicken fried steak.
Verm: (Singing way out of tune, I believe the word is caterwauling, sounding not unlike the uvulating shrieking of some mourning Bedouins)
"you don't know me but you don't like me
you could care less how I feel
how many of you that sit and judge me
ever walked the streets of Bakersfield"
Doll: Cripe
And this is how it came to pass that we missed the entire pacific coast of and chose Bakersfield as our destination.
Old School Country Music Rant
(you type A personality types can go get a cup of coffee you will not understand this part)
Musically I started out normally enough with my Monkees records and my Beatles lunch box, this quite naturally led to the Rolling Stones and Zepellin. I was pretty much an archetypical couch layin long hair snot nosed punk. So far, So good. then on June 1st 1977 I became a roustabout on a Midwestern tent crew (carney if you will). I was unceremoniously shoved into a tent truck being sent to my first dusty heat shimmerin fairground.
The scene: a cab of a 1975 Ford F600 Flatbed truck pilled 12' high with tent bags, with Conway Twitty wailing out of the metal dashboard, headed toward the Frankenmuth Michigan beer festival in a slow moving convoy on northbound US-23.
Vermin: Hi old hatefull carney how about we share the radio even steven? 50/50 Rock/Country.
Old Hateful cigar smokin' carney: How bout you touch the radio and I break your fingers off and shove them up your ass? Sound Fair?
Vermin: Sounds good to me.
I had never listened to country music prior to that. I was forced to listen to it in the sweltering cab of a truck that smelt of sweat, Strohs Beer, and cheap stogies. The songs that came out of that dusty dashboard speaker took me away. It was created by people that had survived the depression and never even knew it happened because their poverty was no different regardless of what Wall Street was up to. They came to town after WW2 looking for jobs in the big cities like the GM Hydromatic plant in Ypsilanti Michigan. They sang their hearts out. They sang about love, loosing the life they knew, pain and glory, there was a richness and depth to their "3 chords and the truth" style. They believed if your ex didn't have a restraining order on you it wasn't real love to begin with. In those songs love would destroy you when it inevitably failed.
In a way their exodus from the hills was similar to my own. I was raised on a farm as a young lad and eventually moved to the big city That particular paradigm/value shift staggered me and has somehow kept me permanently out of sync with my surroundings.
White boy blues primer, do yourself a favor and download this stuff (don't worry about royalties the artists are mostly dead and the rich cats at Sony/BMG wont even sue you over these songs just stay away from Gwen Stefani) grab a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon turn down the lights and get a good misery waller goin.
Ramblin' Man-Hank Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi9GuQofDLc
should be advriders theme song ignore lame video but listen to cool song)
Long Black Veil-Lefty Frizzell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50k18gL76AU)
Big in Vegas- Buck Owens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kOr...eature=related)
What have you got planned tonight Diana?-Merle Haggard
Faded Love-Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys possibly the best song ever written played by the best band ever assembled (he wrote this tune when he was a field hand at the age of 14)
Cold hard facts of life-Porter Wagoner (it has become politically incorrect, as of late, to stab your wife and her lover to death but it was a different place and time)
This is part of a subgenre of country music called psychobilly of which Porter was a master, his song "Rubber Room" is also tremendous.
Take an old cold tater and wait- Jimmy Dickens
Roses for momma/Teddy Bear-Red Sovine
Kansas city star- Roger Miller
This is basically po' folks group therapy.
Be careful not to listen to them right in a row the intensity of 'em could mess up your DNA. In the old days they had what you call "emotions" just wipe the saline solution off your cheek with your sleeve and blame allergies. This is before Pfizer, and Merck created capsules designed to obliterate emotions so they would not intrude on your ability to produce. Whatever happens, do not turn away from the television pill ads and notice that the only industry that is currently thriving are the pill pushers at CVS, RiteAid and Walgreens that are popping up on every corner. Produce so you can consume, consume so you can be happy, take a pill when it falls apart, then repeat one more time but faster, it is the American Dream.
I suppose if you where born and raised within spittin distance of a T.G.I.F. or a Bed, Bath and Beyond, then Kenny Chesney and his bland ass music will work fine but I need to keep it hard core down to the bone hurtin music. The only hurting Kenny Chesney does is when he wears his flip flops to the beach and stubs his toe on his beer cooler.
I like the pain it makes me feel alive. That is where Buck Owens and Merle Haggard come in.
Rant over
Where was I? Oh yeh, Unk gets done with his roadside respite and we head out on my personal favorite road of the trip. Go find it yourself (hint 11x3=sweet road north outta Ventura) tons of scenery, good corner radii for the speed and absolutely no cars.
Cool Road, Cool Company
Unks sphincter grows some teeth in the twisties and his footboards get scratched up anyway.
Up top of the pass into the interior I saw a beautiful desert flower.
Don't get distracted by the flora.
Hey I smell a rat this is looking less and less like paradise and a lot more like hell.
Was Unk right?
So I figure, what paradise is this place called Bakersfield? Buck and Merles folks moved here from the dust bowl states of Texas and Oklahoma to pick fruit and vegetables. They could have gone to Iowa, Michigan, Tennessee or for that matter, the fruit laden capital of the blue haired set, Florida. But no, they chose Bakersfield, it must be beautiful! Unk said it was the armpit of California but certainly he had never been there. So we cruised over the mountains north of Ventura into the central valley, certainly this heat I am feeling is unusual and it will be nice and cool in Bakersfield. The closer we got to Bakersfield the hotter it got. My arms where so hot it felt like god was enjoying smoking me with a magnifying glass. Somebody had done something to really piss off the sun because it was on'ry today. At least the thought of Buck Owens chicken fried steak bolstered Ants spirits and made everything tolerable. We do roll past vast fields of produce I finally realized why the central valley is so important to America this is where it appears the vast majority of our produce is grown. I was not aware that it was grown in 100+ degree heat. Tractors should work fine here the surroundings are pancake flat and featureless. Smooth move Verm you have somehow managed to put the kybosh to the most beautiful coastline on earth for this, I AM A MORON. Perhaps I have made a mistake. So we roll up California 99 to Bakersfield. WHAT THE HELL? THIS IS PARADISE TO AN OKIE? Jeez I would hate to see Oklahoma in 1935.
A little about the Crystal Palace. I had read that these old country musicians Buck Owens and the Buckaroos played honky tonks for years all over the country and they wanted to settle down, so Buck decided rather than retire he would build the ultimate honky tonk/nightclub right here in his home town and incorporate the finest features of all the beer joints, honky tonks and nightclubs he ever played in and he called it the Crystal Palace. He played here most Friday nights. One Friday night a year or two ago he played a 45 minute set for his adoring fans, ate a famous Buck Owens crystal Palace lethal chicken fried steak and went home. He claimed he didn't feel well and went upstairs and died of a heart attack.
What a grand edifice this must be! I imagine a great crystal dome with search lights piercing the desert night sky. I have a good deal of melancholy over having never seen him when he was alive. I have seen most of the greats, George (if you have to ask you wouldn't understand), Waylon, Willie, David Allan Coe, Merle Haggard, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, JR Cash, Carl Perkins I even saw Ray Price at a blue hair warehouse down in Ohio but I never got out to Bakersfield to see Buck so it is with some sadness and guilt that I approach this musical mecca. Oh well I must pay homage and move along.
Surely there must be special exits off the freeway 3 or 4 lanes wide to handle the extra traffic to see one of the worlds greatest musician.
So we roll into a gas station on the south side of town to get gas and ask directions. The black top is sizzling like some one left the back door open to hell and my arms feel like they are being bitten by fire ants. I saunter into the building and start asking the patrons directions.
Vermin: Excuse me, Do you know where the Legendary Buck Owens Crystal Palace is?
Patron A: No Comprende inglese los siento
Vermin: Excrete me, Do you know where the Legendary Buck Owens Crystal Palace is?
Patron 2: tu motocycleta es muy basura
Vermin: Exhume me, Donde esta el palicio cristal de Buck Owens.?
Patron C: Who is Buck Owen?
Dollbaby: Cripe
Cue sound of breaking crystal and the cartoon sproinging sound of broken (minds) springs.
You could have knocked me over with a feather. Was I in some twisted twilight Zone episode and no one bothered to tell me? No I didn't see cameras.
I thought Buck Owens invented Bakersfield and vice versa
Finally this nice Arabic cashier went on the internet for me and found directions. We were about 2 miles away!
I was still excited but the fact that nobody had heard of him/it caused me to steel my resolve in preparation for no small amount of disappointment. By the time we pulled into the parking lot I was pretty much inconsolable, there was no Crystal anywhere it was pretty much just your average cheesy night club/gift shop. First the tooth fairy, then santa, and now this, please god let trickle down economics be true.
Where are the guys with the flags guiding us to our parking spot?
To depressed to be witty
At least I finally got to meet him, unfortunately he had previously joined the ranks of the dead bronze guys
A sweet custom job by Nudies Rodeo Tailor (gives me some good ideas for a cack car). This was back when country artists had class.
We where the only ones there. Even the lady that ran the souvenir counter seemed shocked that someone had showed up.
As I quietly, reverently reviewed the memorabilia scattered about the place the only known employee yapped loudly to her girlfriend on her cellphone about what a terd her boyfriend was.
We took the obligatory tour of the place and bought a bumpersticker. I gotta confess I got misty but hid it from the rels. I get overemotional about these old hillbillys because they remind me of my dads generation that came busting out of the south post ww2 full of piss and vinegar, one hand spinning their steering wheel speed knob (they stole offa their dads tractor), and the other on some hot babes torpedos, fishtailin and spitting gravel into Memphis or Nashville circa 1955. It was all yassir and no maam but you knew they had "da devil in dey drawers".
One by one they are dropping, either burning out or rusting, either way they had a spirit to them that cannot be copied, every generation tries but the signal to noise ratio continues to deteriorate. The music has devolved into either bland jangly horseshit, gutteral demonic thrash or shallow macho chest thumpin rap either way I still listen to music that was made before I was born. The river is always cleaner closer to the source.
It is not just crass marketing acumen that has Snoop Dog doing a tribute to Cash (who has been dead several years) and has a video on Youtube singing with Willie. Snoop knows the real thing when he hears it.
I would also like to point out that early rappers watched Hee Haw and stole the idea of the droopy drawers from Dave "Stringbean" Akeman
Tupac got the idea of getting shot to death to highten your career from String.
The original notorious B.I.G.
You can't get more gangsta than country, Merle Haggard was in San Quentin for armed robbery. Johnny Paycheck wrote the song "Old Violin" as he was headed to jail for shootin a feller in the head because the guy said he "sang good for a short guy". David Allan Coe learned guitar from Charles Manson in prison (the Coe part may be false but Coe claims it is true).
I feel confident they won't be forgotten, I looked on Drifters Ipod and it is chock full o' JR Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Horton.
The straw that broke the Ants back was that the Buck Owens lethal chicken fried steak maker had not come in yet. There Ant was with her fork all drawed back and no place to stick it so we did a perfunctory tour of the buck owens crystal palace nudie suit and memorabilia museum and then mosied over to the IHOP out back to cool off and add a layer of plaque to her arteries.
At this juncture it was important for Ant and Unk to go to a radio shack and find a charger for their GPS so they could figure out how to get away from me and I had some unfinished business in a suburb of Bakersfield (Oildale) so we split up temporarily. Unk would like it stated that at this juncture that had the cigarette lighter I had cable tied to my dash hole would have worked he wouldn't have had to buy a charger. Duuuuuh!
"I came here in looking for somethin'
I couldn't find anywhere else
Well, I don't want to be nobody,
Just want a chance to be myself."
(streets of bakersfield dwight yoakum/ buck owens)
Searching for "The Hag"
Dollbaby still seemed game for whatever I wanted to pull off. It was pushing 4 oclock and the temperature had plummeted to a hundred deg. so I decided to search for the original converted boxcar that Merle Haggard grew up in before he got busted for armed robbery.
Mama Tried
"The first thing I remember knowing,
Was a lonesome whistle blowing,
And a young un's dream of growing up to ride;
On a freight train leaving town,
Not knowing where I'm bound,
No-one could change my mind but Mama tried.
One and only rebel child,
From a family, meek and mild:
My Mama seemed to know what lay in store.
Despite all my Sunday learning,
Towards the bad, I kept on turning.
'Til Mama couldn't hold me anymore.
And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.
No-one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried.
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied.
That leaves only me to blame 'cos Mama tried."
(Cool autobiographical lick from The Hag)
I went lookin' for a feeling more than an address, which worked out perfect because I never did know what the address was. I just knew he lived on Yosemite Street in Oildale which is the poor part of Bakersfield, which is the poor part of Kern county which is the poor part of California. I still don't understand what them okies where thinking. So I pogo'd my no suspension havin' self around northern Bakersfield looking for the joint. I saw "Trouts" bar were "The Bakersfield Sound" was fleshed out by Tommy Collins, Buck Owens and Merle back in the late 50's early 60's. Just so you know "The Bakersfield Sound" was sharp as a damn straight razor (It pretty much cut the throat of the smooth Nashville orchestra sound of the sixties). Usually featuring twin Fender Telecasters that where up front and center in the mix, with the twang knob spun past 11 and broke off. Buck and Merle did their own thing out there in B'field and it caught on pretty good cause that sound could cut through the wadded up empty packs of Pall Malls, work order tins and oil field dust on the dash of any pickup truck's speaker as it hightailed its guilty ass home to momma at closing time.
I could have gone into Trouts as a salute to the masters but in a rare moment of good parenting I decided against it. Some of these things are better left to the imagination anyway as I had recently found out. I got in the vicinity of Merles boyhood boxcar and decided I needed a haircut and it would be cool to shoot the shit with some of the old timers that may have known Hag or Buck. Much to my dismay Okie Rays barber shop a block away was closed.
I eventually found Yosemite, which is only a couple blocks long. By now I have been so discouraged about seeking the shining light of my heroes I don't expect much, and I wasn't disappointed. We pulled into the concertina wire, pit bull tire chewed, burned out escort (Ford or flesh) capitol of the planet. I figure rather than fiddle faddle around this probable high crime area too long I would just ask a guy where was Merle's boyhood boxcar.
I really didn't want to get off the bike. This is a place where I clearly had no business but I had to try. I presume it was this shitty back in the 40s also but who knows? So this guy slithers across the street in front of me. Judging from his slender frame he is either a world class marathon runner or a devotee of Vitamin M. When he opened his mouth to reveal what appeared to be a row and a half of mildewed corn I had to vote Vitamin M.
The Scene: 5:30 PM Yosemite St. Oildale California June 2008
Vermin: Pardon me your majesty. Do you happen to know which Box is the one that the best singer/songwriter ever born was raised? You know Merle Haggard?
Vitamin M: …..
Vermin: You know, the one that got outta San Quentin in 1960.
Vitamin M: …..snif birtx
Vermin: You know, with a voice as sweet as a new awlins tenor sax bawlin at midnight?
Vitamin M:…….
Verm: You know, the only singer that can make sweet thang cry?
Vitamin M:…….
Verm: You know, theeeee Haaaaaag?
Vitamin M: (Wild darting eyes) "I don't know what yur talkin' about mang" (cue Road Runner pitcheeeeww cartoon leaving noise as he peels out and leaves nothing but tracks across the dusty road)
Dollbaby: Cripe
This little moronic sojourn into the past was a failure to a degree but it helped highlight, in my mind, that there ain't no future in history but non the less, the savage beating that my preconceptions took stung and left me feeling blue.
Enough of this semi dangerous tomfoolery, it was time to make tracks, we had to meet Ant and Unk up the road apiece so I pointed my hi viz fuselage north on the slab and rolled on the throttle.
Rollin' down the freeway my internal dialogue was a full on harangue. The Buddhist call this dialogue "the monkey mind" well my monkey mind had a brand new tire in its cage and was whippin' it around, shrieking and flingin' ape shit at the spectators (don't get any on ya).
Painful Internal Dialogue Rant
I try to sort through the mess as to how much is personal and how much of my angst really is justified by the state of the world as it pertains to me. Working in a domestic industry that had no apparent plan for high fuel cost doesn't improve my "tude". But yet somehow the big shooters do quite well, win, loose or draw.
I will use a true story to sum up my view of this morass:
A lady I worked with had a barn full of horses and a rat problem. She found out my dad had a heckfire four legged rat killin' machine. Actually it would try to kill anything with DNA but bein' 14lbs, (soaking wet with varmint blood) all it could kill was rats (it pretty much just perforated horses, possum, coons, irish setters, nieces, nephews, UPS drivers, truck bumpers and wiring harnesses).
We pulled up to the barn with the rat killin dog justa vibratin' with excitement. He knew something needed killin' but the fact was we had forgot to bring Frankie the ferret (a gift from carl with a K) to chase the rats out of their holes. It twernt much of a killin'. The rats lowtailed it subterranean asap and the dog commenced to pacing around, barkin' and carryin' on. He was all dressed up with nowhere to go and more than a little pissed. Being an astute rational engineer type I looked around the barn and found several morbidly obese cats laying around up on the rafters and on the feed bags, swishin' their tails and looking bored. I continued scanning and saw, on the ground, a big hubcap piled high with cat food.
I immediately ascertained that the barn didn't have a rat problem it had a cat food problem. I figure we have a cat food problem at the highest levels of leadership in this country.
Rant over
A hour and a half north of Bakersfield we reunited with Ant and Unk at a motel and relaxed and had a couple of adult beverages. Then for some unknown reason, as I was trying to wrestle myself out of my depression era funk, Unk repeatedly tried to highlight what an abject failure my pursuit of hillbilly glory had been. It confused me as to why he would kick a vermin when he was down. After I agreed several times that I stank, my plan stank, my entire operation stank, Bakersfield stank, and my bike stank, Ant came to my defense and told him to lay off. Thanks Ant. I think the motivation was that in his world planning and its resultant success is the only alternative. In my world a plan that has failed miserably but taught me something about myself or the world around me still ranks as a success. In my routine I run vague plans that are liable to tank and then enjoy the challenge that a recovery mandates, it keeps me on my toes. That's how I roll.
It is all part of the Unk loosening up program. He was in my world now.
Ant and Unk have been a pleasure all along and I am glad that we are still together. This is Ants first semi long trip with Unk and she is loving it thoroughly. It is nice to see a couple get along well after 30 years and, ideally, gives me a glimpse into my future once the kids leave home.
Good night.
I stink therefore I am.
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vermin screwed with this post 11-14-2008 at 12:56 PM Reason: i forgot stuff
Bent, But Not Broken
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Cack is back. Hell yeah.
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Carry on....
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GO VERMIN GO, we is with you, RANT ON, RANT ON,, it only gets better!!
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Dang it all, Vermin, you got me leaking saline here.
I share your feelings about these guys - I saw Ernest Tubbs once - it was sometime in the 80s - at the Golden Stallion dance hall east of San Antonio. The Texas Troubadors came out and played a few songs - Leon, Moon - I got right up close to the stage like some teeny-bopper - and then Ernest came out. His guitar looked bigger'n him, his hands were thin, wrinkled, his skin was almost transparent - he looked friggin old.
A gut bomb went off in my stomach, I was losing something that I'd had there my whole life, this little old frail man on the stage was stealing it away from me. He stepped up to the mic, raised his chin a little, and KA-BOOM - "I'm walking the floor over you." It was like lightning and a miracle and magic all at once - That little old man was goddamned Ernest Tubbs.
Thanks for letting us ride along.
(Oh - you might like James Hand - singer-songwriter from Marlin, Texas - he's old-time country - http://www.jamesslimhand.com/jukebox/LB-NotWorth.mp3)
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Nice set of pans
I bought these thinking that they were cheap enough that if they didn't work out, I could toss them, no harm done. But upon recieving them, I found that they are a set of well made pans with enough material to be rugged.
Handy to use, easy to clean, perfect for mini quiche. Mini key lime and Boston cream are next. Well worth the money! I am buying another set.I recommend this product.Was this helpful?
well built, sturdy,works well for individual sized desserts.I recommend this product.Was this helpful?
I made apple crumb pie in the tart pans and they cooked perfectly and were easy to clean and unmold. I am a single mom of one child and I see myself using these on a regular basisI recommend this product.Was this helpful?
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These tart pans are nice quality - should last a long time. They are the only ones I could find in this size with removeable bottoms. I have used them twice so far and they performed perfectly and are easy to clean.I recommend this product.
- April 26, 2011
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I have only had my Tarlet Pans for a few weeks, but I have used them several times. The have worked exactly right for everything I've made in them, they cook very evenly, crusts come out beautifully & they are so easy with the removable bottoms & easy clean up that I know I will continue to use them over & over...& the price couldn't be beat anywhere that I looked. I would definately recommend these to anyone!I recommend this product.
- January 16, 2011
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Easy to use
We make savory and sweet tarts in these and they are the perfect size for individual servings. We use them often.I recommend this product.
- August 23, 2010
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I am pleased with the tartlet pans. They are a better quality then many I have seen. The shipping was fast even though a bit pricey. I find your products good and I enjoy your recipes. Please look at using flat rate shipping. I do it all the time with my baking.
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Written by Lloyd Alter
Going off-grid is easier than it used to be as the equipment gets cheaper and better, but it is still a challenge. In London, Ontario, Steve Szucs and Dave Pope are doing it in the city, in a rental apartment. It's a four-month experiment in sustainable living, trying to live off-grid, zero waste, as green as they can be, "to develop a sustainable now for nature and humanity."
Steve wants to show that this is possible for the Average Joe, hence the name of the project, the Sustainable Joes. Dave told the CBC: "I think a lot of people are curious [about sustainability] and have an inherent feeling that something needs to be done, but they just don't know how to do it, so we're just trying to make this more accessible to anybody.
It isn't easy. They have electricity courtesy of Goal Zero Canada, which supplied them with solar panels and a Yeti, a neat little battery/inverter package that gives them AC, DC and USB power. They have a solar shower (but the sun hasn't been very cooperative) and are trying to cook by the light of a giant fresnel lens from an old projection TV that they call their "death ray." This hasn't worked so well yet either; they are surviving on smoothies and raw food, and have lost a lot of weight already.
Watching the videos, it is clear that these guys are learning as they go, and having some fun doing it; I am glad they are in the city instead of trying to survive in the bush or out in the desert. It is sort of what Colin Beavan tried to do with his No Impact Project, but they actually have it a bit easier than Colin did, having a backyard for solar panels and a bit of room for a garden.
Steve tells the London Free Press about the challenges:
"Are we experts in this? No. But, are we going to try and figure it out? Absolutely. Because otherwise, what kind of world are we going to leave future generations — one with no natural resources left."
Writing about his No Impact Project, Colin Beavan wrote that the exercise "wasn't just good for the environment, but it made them healthier, happier and richer in ways they never expected." It looks like the same might be happening to the Sustainable Joes. More at The Sustainable Joes new website and on Facebook.
This post was originally published at Treehugger.
Read more: canada, electricity, off-grid, solar, sustainability, sustainable living, zero waste
The top photo is a screen capture of a Sustainable Joes video.
cool example
thanks for sharing :)
Good ideas but I could not see most of the videos, hopefully I am living sustainably most of the year, just going up to cut back my wisteria which is beautiful but climbing over the solar panels also which helps to keep the house cooler in summer!
And the parts that make it difficult for them to cook much of anything make it easier for them to keep their weight down. Good deal!
Imagine if everyone was green like these guys.
Good on these guys for having a go. Thanks for the article.
Thank you Lloyd for the article and great videos, I also enjoyed reading the numerous comments from the care 2 members.
I may be a lot older than these guys, but trying this is something I would love to do! It sounds so GREEN!! And I love living green and clean! Thanks for posting this, Treehuggers!!
thnx for this
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The first is often in the form of making a raging overgeneralization about a group - one that cannot possibly be true in all cases, and is often so outrageous that it might even be hard to find a valid example. The second is upholding the prejudice in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, often with the help of TheoryTunnelVision, InsaneTrollLogic, and/or IRejectYourReality.Sometimes combined with StrawAffiliation to make it extra insane: If you have Trait X you belong to group Y, and everyone in group Y are Z. For example, if you are a man who has long hair, you obviously turn over gravestones and nail live kittens to church doors. Because men with long hair are satanists, and satanists do that kind of stuff. Compare NonsenseClassification and InsaneTrollLogic. When used by characters rather than the narrative itself, tropes such as DepravedHomosexual, BondageIsBad, and AllGaysArePedophiles are often played as aggressive categorism. 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Having established that, she moves on to portray a scenario where all western women with this style are treated as if they were terrorists.* In one ''Samir'' strip, one white woman try to get the protagonist (a brown man) arrested for trying to rape her. He didn't come closer than 20 yards, much less touch her. But he ''did'' walk on the same street as her. This comes as the comedic punchline after a long angry InternalMonologue of his, complaining about prejudice against men and against non-whites. The woman is portrayed as being totally honest in her analysis of the situation. * ''MadMagazine'' used to run a recurring feature called ''You can't win with a bigot'' which alternated examples of bigots contradicting themselves in ways that ensured their interpretation of events always conformed to their prejudices.[[AC:{{Film}}]]* In ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', Chad gets all of his friends to believe that the local hillbillies are trying to murder them. He hates hillbillies because a hillbilly murdered his parents. [[spoiler: Eventually he discovers that his father was the hillbilly after all. Not all of them are evil psychos, but this one was and it seems to have been passed on to Chad]].* In ''ShowMeLove'', Markus is the obvious case, with his inane rant about how women can't possibly understand cellphones and men can't possibly understand makeup. However, it's implied that the people in general are just as narrow-minded, they just don't flaunt it like he does. Life in a small town is hell.[[AC:Live Action TV]]* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Jonathan Kent is firmly convinced that ''all'' Kryptonians are evil by nature. When Martha points out that [[InterspeciesAdoption their son]] is a Kryptonian himself, Jonathan simply replies that Clark is the exception because he was {{raised by humans}}.[[AC:{{Music}}]]* Parodied in Nanne Gronvall's song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfR58YVqTH4 Fördomar]]. 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This causes Arne to go on a rant about starting concentration camps for men, and giving the woman the "Sieg Heil" salute.[[AC:VideoGames]]* In ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}: Legion'', [[SemperFi Colonel Barclay]] refers to ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' when discussing the Ceph. Gould is {{Mind Screw}}ed by this - he's a ProperlyParanoid ConspiracyTheorist who has feared TheGovernment and [[ArmiesAreEvil especially the military]] his entire life, and "lifers who read ancient science fiction don't fit comfortably into his worldview."* If a female Warden recruits Sten in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a conversation will eventually ensue where he states that he doesn't believe you're a woman, because qunari women cannot be warriors. Despite the deep cultural divide, you can eventually make him respect the Warden as a warrior.[[AC:WebComics]]* As with most other tropes, ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' did it: [[http://xkcd.com/385/ How It Works]].[[AC:WebOriginal]]* One of the annoying customers in ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' doesn't like the music. [[http://notalwaysright.com/this-strange-kind-of-woman-needs-to-hush/20308 She puts the blame]] for this on teenagers and their modern tasteless music... in spite of the music ''and'' the people playing it being older than her![[AC:WesternAnimation]]* Played straight with Lampshade in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. See page quote.** Shows up in regards to "Those lousy teens" as well. When Homer and his drinking buddies get wasted and cause a ''lot'' of damage with his car (with a blatantly visible trail leading to his car parked on the front lawn), the police conclude that it was the work of "punk kids", and enstate a curfew.* [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' does this with just about any kind of minority, often in utterly bizarre ways ("[[RedHeadedStepChild gingers]] [[MemeticMutation have no souls]]," for example). However, sometimes he's portrayed as [[RuleOfFunny actually being right]] about some things, to the perpetrators' [[StopBeingStereotypical own annoyance]] (e.g. Token's ability to play bass, and Kyle carrying "Jew-Gold" around his neck).----


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The name might be misleading "Hostel", this is an very nice private 4 star hotel, which is very close to the Außenalster in a very nice neighborhood. Parking is free in front of the hotel, direct and frequent bus connection to the center.
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We thought we would get the kind of room we saw presented at the site of hostelworld.com. We chose the hostel because of the pictures of the hotel as a whole: the entrance, the terracy, the stairs, the breakfast: small and beatiful. On the site of the Hotel Boulevard itself we saw other rooms, which were more expensive. How surprised we were, to get such a room, really romantic, with original furniture...! The breakfast buffet was delicious and well organized. Opposite of a bus, good service!!
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- Netherlands
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This is a hotel, not a hostel. But staff was very nice.
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Very nice, quiet and clean hotel - charmingly kitchy decorated. Ever so friendly staff. Maybe too much furniture in the not very spacious rooms. Breakfast at 7 € with a huge variety of fresh bread and standard products - not fond of german coffee though. Stylish and peaceful neighbourhood with good restaurants and cafés - a bit away from the city centre, but bus no. 6 left every ten minutes, or why not take a nice half hour walk along the Alster Lake right down to Kunsthalle?
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Introducing The 2015 Marlins Charity Partners
The following is a Guest Blog Post from Renee Foster, Intern for the Marlins Foundation:
On April 10th, 2015, the Marlins Foundation introduced the 2015 Marlins Charity Partners. The four organizations selected were each awarded a $25,000 gift and were honored during a pregame ceremony.
The Charity Partner Empowerment Fund allows the Marlins Foundation to invest in innovative organizations that are impacting the South Florida community in a very positive way. In addition to a $25,000 donation from the Marlins Foundation, our charity partners are entitled to other benefits such as:
- Select Charity Partner Days at Marlins Park that includes media coverage and in-game promotional/fundraising opportunities.
- A partnership with Marlins Ayudan (Spanish for "help"), our Front Office community service program that responds to a variety of community needs and is now widely known as a corporate leader in volunteerism.
- Complimentary Ballpark Buddies tickets for local, underprivileged youth groups
- Access to Billy The Marlin, the Marlins Energy Team and more!
There are four words that describe this year's beneficiaries of the Marlins
Foundation Charity Partner Empowerment Fund: Big, Special, InclUsive, and Artistic.
The Miami Marlins and the Marlins Foundation are proud to continue their partnership with Young At Art Museum and Special Olympics Florida – Miami-Dade for the second year in row. This year, they are joined by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami and Up2Us Sports. These non-profit organizations will support the Marlins civic engagement efforts and Corporate Social Responsibility projects in order to make a deep and focused impact on our South Florida youth through education, the arts, and baseball with a special focus on children with special-needs.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami's mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentor relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. BBBS will be launching a pilot Sports Buddies Program, serving middle and high school students in need of a positive role model. On April 24th, the Miami Marlins will honor the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami partnership by hosting their exclusive Charity Partner Day at Marlins Park. It will also be Mardi Gras Night at the ballpark which will add a vibrant flair to a special night for BBBS.
Special Olympics Florida – Miami-Dade has a mission to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for persons eight years of age and older with Intellectual Disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, talents and friendship with their families, other athletes and the community. For the second consecutive year, the Marlins will serve as the official sponsor of Special Olympics Softball in Miami. The partnership will provide a higher threshold of opportunity for training, competition, personal growth and community engagement for the athletes in the program. The Miami Marlins will celebrate the Special Olympics Charity Partner Day on May 1st, and what better theme than Superheroes Night to complement such a joyous occasion?
Young At Art Museum is passionate about providing inspiring and interactive experiences in which art is central to shaping young minds and enriching our community. YAA will develop an Artist Residency Program for students and teachers at Marlins Ayudan Partner Schools. The Artist Residency Program will integrate art and literacy through the student's excitement for baseball. Young At Art's Charity Partner Day will be hosted at Marlins Park on June 26th while the ballpark will be themed for Nickelodeon Night.
Up2Us Sports is a national nonprofit organization that is focused on the power of coaches to transform the lives of our nation's most vulnerable youth, and the communities they live in, through sports. The Marlins will partner with Up2Us Sports to conduct a training program for coaches who will receive a Certification in Sports Based Youth Development (SBYD). SBYD coaches understand the importance of leveraging the sports setting to achieve positive outcomes around physical, mental, social and emotional skills. The Marlins will salute the organization's initiatives and accomplishments on July 31st during their Charity Partner Day. It will also be Wrestling Night at the ballpark on that date.
"Marlins Charity Partners are a signature example of our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and reflect our values-driven mission of philanthropy and service," said Marlins President David Samson. "These impactful organizations do great work in the community, and we are honored to support their efforts in South Florida." The Charity Partner Empowerment Fund is a signature program of the Marlins Foundation and it has helped the Marlins elevate their corporate social responsibility initiatives to new heights and supported the Marlins Foundation continued mission of philanthropy and service. This year's partners are sure to help the Marlins reach even further BEYOND THE BALLPARK!
The Power of Mentorship
Ever wonder what Marlins staff is up to when the team is on the road? Well, the Marlins Ayudan School Partnership Program keeps them all pretty busy.
Yesterday morning, Blue Shirts led a Marlins Ayudan Mentorship Program session for students in Ms. Jordan's class at Citrus Grove Middle School. Students and Blue Shirts discussed topics based on Jackie Robinson's Nine Values: Teamwork, Persistence, Integrity, Citizenship, Justice, Commitment, Excellence, Determination and Courage. This session dove into the value of Courage, primarily the courage it takes to know oneself, to get to know others in the peer group, and to be confident in who they are as people.
Meanwhile, Blue Shirts were leading a Career Workshop Series at Marlins Park. This session, titled the "Senior Seminar," was the fourth of six sessions to take place this semester. First, students from Booker T. Washington, Miami Senior High School, and S.L.A.M. heard presentations given by Marlins employees from our sales, information technology and human resources departments.
The second half of the session was a resume workshop. Students brought their resumes to be critiqued by Blue Shirts. They were given examples of good and bad resumes and a helpful list of buzzwords to spruce up their own. Students who had the best resume from each table presented it in front of the group and shared what they had learned.
Later that afternoon, Blue Shirts led weekly literacy tutoring sessions and read to students at both Lenora B. Smith Elementary and Citrus Grove Elementary Schools.
In all, Blue Shirts were represented at five of seven MASPP schools. For many, yesterday was just another typical Thursday — but for the Blue Shirts, it was an exciting and impactful day that touched many students lives.
Marlins Ayudan Puts the "Pep" in Pep Rally
The school house was rocking Thursday afternoon at Citrus Grove Elementary!
Students were expecting a pep rally, but what they got was a full on party, Miami Marlins style! Billy the Marlin, The Street Team and Marlins Ayudan team Pulse were there to get the students excited about taking their standardized state tests, and also to relieve some of the stress that comes with testing.
Shrill screams of delight could be heard all the way from the parking lot as Billy made his way to the back of the school where the pep rally was being held. At Citrus Grove Elementary, Marlins staff are treated like celebrities. Once students see our blue shirts, they cheer and yell out, "Marlins! The Marlins are here!" They ask for autographs, still, even after we explain we're not players. Yesterday was no exception! They love to have us there, and we love to be there!
DJ Daz and The Street Team were already hard at work playing songs, holding dance competitions and handing out t-shirts, magnet schedules, candy and more at the prize wheel.
Team Pulse was put on snack duty. A table was set up at the front entrance of the pavilion where the pep rally was being held. Pulse handed out chips, lollipops, and ice pops to each student as they arrived to the dance party.
Classes came in waves by grade. First was Pre-K, first, and third, then came forth, second and fifth. The students had a blast! They even out-danced Billy! One of the students exclaimed, "This is the best day ever," while the rest shouted out "Yeah" in approval!
Citrus Grove Elementary is one of seven schools selected for the Marlins Ayudan School Partnership Program (MASPP). Having the Marlins host a pep rally is one of the many benefits that come with membership to the program. Citrus Grove's pep rally was definitely an unforgettable experience!
To learn, more visit www.marlins.com/MASPP.
Kids Play with the Pros at Marlins Spring Training
One after another, they kept coming to our table.
"What's your name, buddy?"
I must've asked that hundreds of times.
Well, actually closer to 60, for all of the kids that came to our 2015 Marlins Spring Training Youth Baseball Clinic this past Sunday. It was an event that I had really been looking forward to. We were in a new place (Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, FL), working with kids directly (incredibly fun) and our Marlins players enjoy it as well (everybody wins).
The itinerary was pretty straight-forward. First was batting practice that about half of our participants signed up to attend. Afterwards was the game that everyone attending the clinic would have received two tickets for. Then, by the time the 9th inning rolled around, we would set up and start checking in our participants. I had been signing up each kid and their parent for weeks now, and I knew most if not all of their names. "Oh! You're Sergio! We spoke to you on the phone!" they would tell me.
By then we had all the kids split into 4 groups. Each group worked with a different Marlins player on either fielding, pitching, or hitting. I was leading Group 4 (ages 10 and up), and our first stop was a visit with Dee Gordon. Picture a 10-year-old fielding grounders while Dee Gordon instructs him: "Widen your stance!" or "Make sure your glove touches the ground!" They loved it.
Our next station was the pitching mound with Mike Dunn. Introductions were brief, as Mike likes to get down to business. He takes more of a hands-off approach, offering advice only when necessary and occasionally cracking jokes with some of the older kids. Luis, the only 16 year old at the clinic, was easily over 6 feet tall. He drew a lot of attention from our players at each station.
After saying our goodbyes to Dunn, my group went over to the batting cages where the Super Solano Bros., Donovan and Jhonatan, were ready to go over some of the finer points of hitting. Here my group joined with Amanda's group and everyone seemed happy to get out of the sun. At one point, kids were gently shoving to get to the front of the line and I may have had to cut in to keep the order but everybody still got multiple opportunities to step up to the plate. You really can't blame them; it's exciting and the Solano Bros. are so great with kids. Jhonatan was even handing out batting gloves to a lucky few.
The event closed with one final group photo and a few parting words from our Executive Director, Alfredo "Alfie" Mesa, before everyone split off and rejoined their parents. It was at that point that you really get to see how much the kids enjoyed the clinic. They would all excitedly tell their parents about each station and everything they had learned, recalling every little detail. I'm positive that every mom and dad got an earful on the ride home that evening.
I want to thank Amanda, Cesar, Juancho, Renee and Sarah for all their help throughout the event. I also want to thank our players, Mike Dunn, Dee Gordon, and Donovan & Jhonatan Solano for their participation. Finally, I want to thank all the children and parents that attended. It's really you all that we do this for, and your contributions directly benefit the Florida State League Scholarship Fund. I had a great time, and everybody there came together to make this year's Marlins Spring Training Youth Baseball Clinic a home run (Sorry, I had to).
Pictures from the event can be seen here.
Hands On Helping At Citrus Grove Elementary
Before yesterday, if I were asked what I knew about gardening, it would've sounded something like this: "Get a plant or some seeds, dig a hole, put the plant or seeds in the hole, cover with dug-up dirt, water, repeat."
Easy enough, right? Boy, was I wrong!
Marlins Ayudan team Pulse, captained by SVP of Marketing & Event Booking, Sean Flynn, took on a two-part garden project at Citrus Grove Elementary, a Marlins Ayudan Partner School. Pulse had the privilege of getting a one-on-one beginners lesson in gardening from Darrill Gaschler, COO of Hands On Miami, the Official Service Partner of Marlins Ayudan.
The first part of the project was to restore the school's vegetable and herb garden. The entire garden needed to be cleared out. All plants were uprooted, the cinder block beds dismantled and the weeds and grass raked out. This was definitely the most laborious part of the whole project.
The next step was to roll out a weed barrier cloth, horizontally, back and forth, until the entire garden floor was covered.
Once this step was complete, team Pulse began to rebuild three garden beds, laying cinder blocks in the shape of rectangles. The beds were then filled with organic soil. The original dirt could not be used because of the possibility of chemical contamination, such as lead, that leeches into the ground during the building process and thereafter.
A hose connected to a rain barrel was run through the beds beneath the soil so that the garden could be self-sufficient: a hose timer on the barrel will allow the garden to "water itself." Finally, mulch was laid all around the outside of the beds.
The second part of the day consisted of re-beautifying the front entrance welcome sign of Citrus Grove. Native, self-sustaining plants like Milkweed and Yellow top were planted. These plants should stay beautiful all year round with little to no maintenance!
Stay tuned for our next project at Citrus Grove Elementary later this month. Team Pulse will return to team up with 5th grade students and teachers to wrap up the garden project with the planting of vegetables and herbs.


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