LOL, you guys crack me up!! =)
Your Neck of the Woods 2015 Part 3
Acute lead poisoning... LOL !
I think I have a family of them living under my shed. Want to come and give them some acute lead poisoning, Ric ? I'll even let you relocate them to your dutch oven afterward. What a deal. ;)
Love those photos, Robin!
Busy afternoon at kindergarten today! I might have been overzealous in my choice of dollar store containers, but I really wanted the pots to be big enough that the zinnias, dill, and garlic chives could live in them all summer... it took 3/4 of a big bale of pro mix to fill those 18 ice buckets!
The handles on the buckets did work well though, kids were able to lift & carry all right. Hopefully they made it home without incident!
I took the kids in pairs to my worktable, set up outside the (outer) classroom door, under the overhang so we weren't in the drizzle. We took our time, 12-15 minutes per pair while the rest had math and reading work time. The kids had decorated their containers last week, so today we potted up hunks 'o seedlings into them.
We also potted up individual pomegranate seedlings (from seeds they ate & spit out a couple weeks ago in our "how seeds get around" class) in plastic cups. And we decorated a container with "We heart Mrs. E" and everybody's names for a present from the class.
Joyanna had ballet tonight, and a friend of hers (Martina's daughter) came along so that we could go to Chef Lin afterwards. Fun!
I'm done in!
Sally and Holly, if you have the Netflix DVD option, you might really enjoy Whiplash.
What a great movie. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. It may be that I only found it interesting because I played in a jazz band for years, but boy was it thoroughly entertaining.
Jill, what fun! Do pomegranates germinate that easily?
Robin, congratulations, no wonder you let her pick such a beautiful dress. Didn't you buy her that dress? The flying birds do look quite lovely.
Critter, how fun that you can indulge your planting passion that way with the kids.
ssg- you won't believe, we did just watch Whiplash last week! It was great. I even liked the jazz - though I don't consider myself a jazz fan. What instrument did you play? Any teachers that crazy for you? What was the show you told me you guys liked, based in a comic or graphic novel...We are watching Hell on Wheels. It's OK.
Yes, I'm pretty sure I had as much fun as all the kids put together. They were so proud of their seedlings... they'd help me loosen the edges of the pot to dump them into my hand, and I'd exclaim "look at those roots!" and I'd get that great "oh, wow!" kid face in response.
I wish the rootballs had been solid enough that the kids could have broken them into clumps, but they were pretty delicate... so I separated clumps of seedlings (the little pots were pretty crowded), and they dug holes and tucked them into place. The pomegranate seedlings made a good lesson in handling delicate baby plants, since they could hold them by their tuft of leaves and lower them into their planting hole.
It took 2 weeks for the pomegranate seeds to germinate, and I had them on the heat mat at home. By 3 weeks, they were 1/4 inch tall and were just starting to show the first hint of true leaves above the cotyledons. Then they took off and had 2-3 sets of true leaves and an inch-long tuft of roots when we transplanted them at 4 weeks. Being trees, they were pretty easy to handle, also. We planted them deep, up to their cotyledons, which I hope was the right choice!
The seedling buckets went home with the kids yesterday, but the poms came home with me to spend a week under the lights. From what I've read, they should be easy to grow as a houseplant, but I've only read about the dwarf ones producing any actual pomegranates... regular pom trees are probably too large to be houseplants, but I rather doubt these seedlings will survive long enough for that to be an issue LOL.
Tamarind seeds are pretty easy also and produce a pretty, feathery plant. If you get a block of dried tamarind, the seeds in it are generally viable. A friend of mine started a little grove of them next to a sunny window one winter.
What a fun great day Critter.
Sally, I played the keyboard and bass. I never had jazz directors who were that intense, but I did have a piano teacher who may have been... mentally ill. I have some friends and family who are professional musicians and they have some crazy stories of wacky music professors.
The Netflix series that my husband and I loved is Daredevil, but I should say we're very big comic book nerds so the show may not appeal to everyone.
There's another Netflix series that we liked called Unbreakable Kimmy Schmit, produced by Tina Fey. It's very much like a 30 minute TV sitcom. A lighthearted comedy.
We went this way:http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1397149/
