Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

<Charlie> wrote in message
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:49:28 +1100, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 be given>
> wrote:
>
>
>>:-))  I post and have read a group called misc.rural for years. 
Sometimes 
>>I
>>have wondered if some of your fellow compatriots there are either asleep

>>or
>>just ignoring international news.
>
> Both of the above, with the added factor of a significant dumbing down,
> by intent is my opinion, of the quality of education.

Sadly yes.  It seems to be universal.  I did once read something written
by 
a baseball palyer written in the 1920s and it was so erudite that I was 
gobbsmacked!  Can't see any modern day s****tsman writing much more than a 
signature on a cheque (check).

Our 'news', at
> least what is available on cable and satellite appears to be simply
> gov't propaganda.  Some of the print media is still trying to do whta
> thye should.

There are a few posters in that ng who do seem to keep up with the news
but 
there are sadly so few of them.  they seem to have to make a special
effort 
to read good papers online and they too have frequently lammented about
the 
parlous state of the media.

The same thing is slowly happening here right across the board and our TV
is 
getting to be really woeful.  Popular shows are things like "Dancing with 
the Stars" and similar no brainer stuff.  I simply can't believe the
garbage 
that people will waste their time watching.

I know how saying this sounds, but you are seeing the
> results of this great social engineering process, when you ask if
> people are asleep or whatever.

I've recently bought a book by one of Oz's soucla historians and it is
quite 
fascinating. He says that here people went to sleep for a decade and just 
did home renovations.  I tend to agree with him.  thankfully our last 
Federal election seemed to bring them out of their slumber.


> My god, you should experience the state of the youth in this country,
> in general.  It is sad.  Cripes, I sound like my father sounded!  ;-)

Snap!  Pissed as newts on most weekends, and incapable of working at more 
than a snails pace. And if you ask then to actually 
think...............!!!!!

>>> Well now, that is right up my alley.  I shall continue my education! I
>>> have been an advocate of organic gardening for many years and have
made
>>> myself somewhat unpopular in the other groups with some folks and with
>>> some family members in relation to organic and sustainable.
>>
>>I love manure.  My husband says I have a **** fetish and I admit that if

>>it
>>comes from the rear of a cow, horse, sheep, alpaca, rabbit or elephant,
I
>>will collect it.
>
> Am I correct in assuming you age or compost it?

Nope.  I don't bother.  My garden would be at least 2 acres and there is 
always some spot where it can be put in whatever state it arrives in. 
Sometimes it's come straight from the horses/cows/paccy's arse and so is 
stinky, fresh and moist, sometimes it's sat in the bottom of the pile and
is 
starting to compost.   How it looks, depends on where it goes.

As you know there was
> a discussion of this a while back in rec.gardens.  I've always been of
> that opinion, and only add fressh **** to the garden in the fall so
> that it can do its thing over the winter.

I top the veggie beds each Autumn and let it do it's stuff, but sometimes 
during the growing season I'll use a bag in the veggie garden that I've 
filled with the more rotted stuff too.  When I collect my poops, I tend to

fill each bag with manure of 'like' composition so have some discretion on

how I can use them in the garden.