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Comment on Irrigation – drainage – water harvesting – permaculture by Christine

Christine — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:46:54 +0000

Yeah, we should have had some boats! We were VERY excited to see it all work as planned.

And it was a lot of work, but not nearly as hard as I expected. We didn’t even start until after the last storms and then only worked about a couple hours/day IF we had time to work outside. Probably no more than 15 hours of the two of us tearing out bushes and making the ditches (watching videos and reading up on permaculture NOT included).

It’s amazing how much easier it is when the soil is wet.

I just had a look at your rosemary wreaths, what a great idea:

http://gardensindesert.blogspot.com/2010/02/little-rosemary-wreaths.html

We’ll be planting lots of rosemary. Once it’s established, even the rabbits should be leaving it alone.

Comment on Irrigation – drainage – water harvesting – permaculture by Laura GID

Laura GID — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:03:56 +0000

Awesome job, and it looked like a lot of work. Time to do the dance of joy! (and make some little boats!)

Comment on Thanksgiving bio char, cow pies and plastic pipe by Christine

Christine — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:57:23 +0000

Thanks for the comments, been SO busy, I just haven’t had time to update here. No lack of pictures, I constantly take all these pictures and then don’t get around to posting them.

There USED to be the Smith Ranch and it was sold and is now a tourist hot spot — mostly Europeans and Asians flying in or bussed in from Vegas:
http://www.grandcanyonranch.com/

That’s on the way up to the Skywalk and we’re just a few miles away. Until they recently paved the lower part of Diamand Bar road up to Grand Canyon West, we got so much dust from the buses driving up.

Also, here is Laura’s blog: http://gardensindesert.blogspot.com/

Great pics and she’s gardening in the Black Mountains near Las Vegas.

Comment on Thanksgiving bio char, cow pies and plastic pipe by Laura Gardens In Des

Laura Gardens In Des — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:32:04 +0000

I like your blog, I look forward to your next post. We went through Wickenburg on the way to Phoenix, and when I got home I looked up Wickenburg on mapquest, arial view and stumbled on what I believe is the Smith Ranch. Is that the same area? You can email me if you’d like.~Laura

Comment on Thanksgiving bio char, cow pies and plastic pipe by Anna

Anna — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:40:44 +0000

That is my kind of day. Love those exploration trips but don’t do them as much as I used to.
A recent post about using tubes in adobe could be a way to use those old unsightly pipes. I think the piping is used in the buildings a lot like they used cob, kind of a wattle and dob type of building like in Africa, only they use the piping as reinforment.

I loved the wood fencing around the water trough. Thanks for sharing. Those were beautiful pictures. Anna

Comment on Tulsi (holy basil) can slow down aging? by Christine

Christine — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:17:20 +0000

We’re growing several pots with two kinds of holy basil now. It’s doing very well!

Comment on Nanosolar.com sold out to the military industrial complex and utilities by Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:50:30 +0000

Peace!I see feel you have good vibs.Im retire 66 fat guy veg spiritul backround.seems you could include your photos !we wife Bebe and 3 grow kids live near Flamingo and Peco’s in las Vegas. Whole system is colapsing here ,people dont have a clue . what do I believe in read Rense.com. drop me a line . -Charlie

Comment on Solar steam generators ready for testing now by Christine

Christine — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:59:24 +0000

It so happens that Charles Shults III is on Coast to Coast tomorrow night:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2009/06/17

Hopefully he’ll update.

Comment on Solar steam generators ready for testing now by John

John — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:07:14 +0000

When are they going to be available. I want to start a farm NOW!

Comment on The puppy by Christine

Christine — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:42:03 +0000

I’m sure you can, dogs have even been trained to use a toilet.

But, I MUCH prefer him going outside. That’s one of the nice things about living in the desert, Butch “usually” goes where it doesn’t matter.

Amazingly, Andy (as I named him temporarily) already got the hang of it. I suppose he just copies what Butch does.

He turned out to be a very bright puppy. He keeps his toys on Butch’s pillow (which is now Andy’s pillow) and I can tell that Butch is still wondering when Andy will go “home” again. I’ve taken care of other dogs for a few days occasionally. But he likes to play with Andy and even tries to WRESTLE with that little puppy.

Right now Andy is not doing too well, I took him along to get water and just as we got back home he puked. But he didn’t jump around, whine or yelp, just stayed on the back seat.

He’ll be a very good and lots of fun dog.