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Breakfast burritos…made from scrambled eggs, cheese of preference for each of us, and leftover rice.
DH made supper….oven-roasted kale, slices of potatoes roasted on tray in oven [unfortunately they were kinda charred-which doesn’t usually happen to him-oops] and slices of beef with a garlic, butter sauce. He cooks fancier than me.
I’m having ginger/honey/lemon tea cuz I suddenly got so cold…which is not helping the muscle spasms in shoulder. Right arm is nearly in a sling today. Muscle spasms from shoulder so bad I can’t do much…dominant arm. Yowww. What’s an herbal/whatever muscle relaxant? Topically applied or whatever.
I went off researching ‘wall gardens’…..tons of ways to make plants grow vertically. We did some planting in 5 soda bottles stacked inside each other and water drips down to all of them. It actually does work…setting in a window This article had soda bottles hanging horizontally, tied with 2 strings…against a wall. The hole was in the middle of the horizontal bottle. I actually used the chain link dog kennel for some of the vertical ones – fastened tightly. I’d have to do same for these in the WIND we have here. Dangling from strings, even against a wall, would be a disaster. But secured, it might work.
Several ideas of putting lettuce, strawberries, etc in pockets in vertical pallets. [all my pallets are used to store hay on….lol.] Planting in recycled gutters was interesting to me…since I did save the old ones a few years ago. They are currently being used in a water redirection of a different sort…keeping us from flooding the garage….{don’t ask…just another nightmare of these steep mountain sides} But plants with short root systems might be protected from our rampaging voles and thieving bunnies. The gutters can be fastened on a wall….a couple feet apart vertically. I wonder tho, what metal and paint is used….toxic? Could recycled gutters be painted with something non-toxic? If it’s for edibles, that is.
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