In each of the tubes was a piston that ended in a broad curved "lear" (leading to the pistons being know as arbors)....
Leaf?
And the explosion of the depth charges roiled the water, meaning.... Crossposted at my place.
The whole long post was just click bait? 
I'm with WeirdDave on the timing of this, except mid-day I might get to read it, but wouldn't have time to add this brilliant commentary.
I suspect XBradTC was sleep-posting?
But you might charge I'm out of my depth to think that.
Along with all the other tedious trash separation into various recyclables, burnables (shh!), and that tiny bit of to-the-dump garbage, there's separating compost for two gardens.
For food gardening, basically anything vegetable, except citrus peel. Coffee grounds, banana peels, etc. are ok.
For non-edible gardening (eg flowers), the Dark Side of composting. Animal matter: meat scraps & related residue, eggshells, dairy leftovers. Also the aforementioned citrus peels. And kitty litter box extractions. Basically, as Lady W just put it, this is almost more of a burial than composting.
I like to optimize my manual labor. I prefer timers and drip irrigation to standing there with a garden hose. So, I prefer to avoid things like tilling... or turning compost!
The ideal would seem to be beds built up with layers of compost, until it's gardening height, cover with thick mulch.
Yeah. Never quite got that going as we hoped. Like everything else in my miserable existence, I'm great on theory, but you know the saying about the difference between theory and practice. Armchair gardener. City slicker thinks he can garden in Oklahoma prairie's tough sod and determined grasses.
Seriously, my grandfathers had real, big, tractor-tilled, feed-the-extended-family gardens here back in the day. Nothing of that was transmitted or remained by my adulthood. But the gardening potential is one reason we moved back here.
Every year we say we're going to attempt (again again again) to get some garden going this year. Twenty years back on the farm, and it's like we never had those strawberry hills, the cherry bushes, the sunflower patch, or other transient victories. LadyW did grow some nice veggies last year, in pots.
But this year it'll be different. One way or another.
I mean, have you seen the price of arugula at Whole Foods lately?
Lurking on the discussions. Whatev's been said, it's some uplift for me to just hang it witcha, folks. As we say 'round these parts, appreciate it.
Hi! Do I see chatter about jury duty?
Mrs is on call, currently. Been in once and passed over. Dutifully left her cell in the car, only to find everyone else seemed to be ignoring that rule.
She brought along Liberty Amendments to pass the time. Fellow next to her had a different Levin book.
not.. going to.. make it to... triple-6... hit it , tentacled one..
((suddenly fades))
Every tenth comment from the first, every Ace comment, every wall of text comment, and the last 20-or-so will get you to the right neighborhood.
Posted by: cthulhu
Oh My Gaww! I've been doing it exactly backwards!
Start at around 2003 and read forward. -freaked
Tried that once.
Got stuck on Ace's first post.
Playbook question. How far back should one go reading ONT comments to be "caught up to the plot"?
1. At least 25 comments
B. 33% of comments
§. All the way
ω. Bewbees
®. Camels
Type answer here: _____
1. Finally watched the first episode of Agents of SHIELD. You say it gets worse??
2. The pizza chart up top? At first I thought it was an ad and went right by it.
3. ...?
4. Profit!
Goodness! Look at the time!
((roars in, parks boots on coffee table))
That Governors map on the previous thread?
See that middle of the country, that solid red swath from Texas to South Dakota? The middle of the country is doing our best to preserve the country.
What are all you other slackers doing? (Apologies to all the non-slackers not aforementioned.) Is your governor, oh, say, asking you to leave? Hmmm.
And a reminder about the map colors.
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/blue
((realizes boots are stuck in the ranch dip, slinks out the door to scrape it off))
Your link gave me a page not found, but this link works for me at the moment. (Whole buncha links when I searched on it.)
Oh hey, hi. I ended up on a page of Margaret Sanger quotes, wondered maybe there’s some item new to you, prob’ly not, but I pass the link along.
First quote was, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” The emotional horror is almost overpowered by the sheer boggling at the pretense of reasoning. (Alas, an everyday experience reading the news.)
I really felt like reading further after that one, yeah.
Why are those darned grown-up kids never around when I need t’hug one?
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Speaking of loving your kids, LadyWebworker was delighted by the pix in “Tree, apple. Apple, tree.” “Look how cute Chrissy is!” she said.
Late but FTR
Oklahoma: Pro-Second Amendment Lawmaker Introduces "Piers Morgan Constitutional Right To Keep And Bear Arms Without Infringement Act"…
Heh heh. Oklahoma state senator Nathan Dahm needs to be made an honorary 'ron, stat.
Well played, Sen. Dahm. Well played.
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 24, 2014 11:15 AM (7ObY1)
bit.ly/1ejJrTL
OK State Senator Nathan Dahm - District 33 bio at oksenate.gov
Anyway, when the Satanists produce a document which can be considered a basis and inspiration for the rule of law we have today, I might consider their arguments of equal display. -polynikes
I was walking around, cursing my cell for having lost my comment from the input box because of a phone call... but lo, you said what I was saying and probably more succinctly.
Oot oot eet eet smashes banana into usb port
Oral Roberts (big prophets)
HBD, O.R.
Grew up watching him on TV... while looking for cartoons or something funny. A faith healer with the skills of PT Barnum or Cal Worthington.
By my HS Soph year, my folks divorced, remarried, and I got moved to Tulsa, less than two miles from ORU.
One day in our high school Sunday class, we had Rev Roberts as a guest. Long, long ago. What we talked about I have long since forgotten. Mostly I recall being impressed how that tent-revival TV huckster, offstage, was a quiet, well-spoken theologian and man of faith.
He really did facilitate healing, beginning when he was a young man. There are lots of fake faith healers, and certainly not every "cure" OR helped with was necessarily complete or lasting, but he brought faith, and hope, and freedom from fear and misery, and that's were healing most matters.
I deem, for all else, Oral Roberts was sincere, and never forgot whence healing comes.
The message of faith can use some good, honest salesmanship. If it requires a little carnival barking, that's the rubes for you.
Posted by: mindful webworker - brought got nuthin at January 24, 2014 12:33 AM (U13jb)
That fortune must've been 6" long.
Agh. I got so nothin' I can't even get into lurking on y'all. I blame Maetenloch for causing me to wander off to Cracked and Buzzfeed. There be drag-ons.
Say, did you know that a devoted and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a lighthearted and joyous life and with a successful and honorable career on earth? I found that in a fortune cookie.
Good night, gracies.
