MM is going to break me

javaaddict wrote:Thank God this is the hardest part, I thought about giving up! I did get another finished, but I'm done. I'm going to have my husband do the rest. Since this is my crazy project I felt bad making him do the crappy parts!

javaaddict wrote:Or my pregnant back, but either way, it isn't going to be pretty. I just mixed up and put 9 cu ft of MM and put it into one of four boxes. This might take a while to do them all. I thought I was looking at a few hour project. HAHA

tomperrin wrote:I've got one of those, aka herniated discs. Sometimes it takes me a couple ibuprofen in the morning just to get out of my chair. I know, not recommended for the pregnant. But medications aside, there isn't anything you can't do in SFG sitting down. I dug post holes sitting down, I've mixed MM sitting down, I tie string sitting down. I sit down whenever I'm tired, which can be a lot some days. One of these days I will cut down one of my spades so it's more convenient to work with when I'm sitting down.
The important thing is to pace yourself. It's not a race, not a competition. You win by enjoying the food you eat and share with others, to say nothing of the fun of watching things grow.

Tom

Grandpop wrote:

tomperrin wrote:I've got one of those, aka herniated discs. Sometimes it takes me a couple ibuprofen in the morning just to get out of my chair. I know, not recommended for the pregnant. But medications aside, there isn't anything you can't do in SFG sitting down. I dug post holes sitting down, I've mixed MM sitting down, I tie string sitting down. I sit down whenever I'm tired, which can be a lot some days. One of these days I will cut down one of my spades so it's more convenient to work with when I'm sitting down.
The important thing is to pace yourself. It's not a race, not a competition. You win by enjoying the food you eat and share with others, to say nothing of the fun of watching things grow.

Tom

My back and legs both require me to have a chair most of the time. I find myself sitting outside each day watching the seeds sprout.

javaaddict wrote:OK! I'm DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whew!..... and I won't be doing any more MM for a LONG time. ha!

tomperrin wrote:

javaaddict wrote:OK! I'm DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whew!..... and I won't be doing any more MM for a LONG time. ha!

Until you see how successful the method is and start building more boxes.

Tom

ahrendtd wrote:We started with 3 4X4 bxes. When it came time to mix the MM we invited the grandkids over. Put all the ingredents on a tarp and they take turns pulling it from one end to the other ... eventually it's mixed and then they get to shovel it into the boxes. Then older ones measure the girds and ensure the box is square (3,4,5 formula) and the younger ones get to hammer the slats. All of them have a stake in it all summer and love the fresh raw veggies.

tomperrin wrote:The only thing I liked in 8th grade shop was our printing press. It was the old type that would take off your fingers if you weren't nimble. Of course, I tried to run it as fast as I could without losing a finger (totally unsupervised!). I learned to set cold type (reading in mirror image) and have been in love with printing and publishing ever since. I'm not ignoring the real safety factors (or lack of them). But it was fun and I profited from the experience.

I do believe that we should learn as many skills as possible at the earliest possible age. That is one reason I support scouting, as the merit badge system is skill and knowledge based. Those experiences can not be found in the schools. Nor much of anything else, it appears.

Tom

javaaddict wrote:Or my pregnant back, but either way, it isn't going to be pretty. I just mixed up and put 9 cu ft of MM and put it into one of four boxes. This might take a while to do them all. I thought I was looking at a few hour project. HAHA

llama momma wrote:Tom
You are probably the first person I have Ever read who enjoys the printing process. It made me think of my beloved grandfather who started out setting type back in the very early 1900's when Each letter had to be set By Hand for newspapers. He would talk about lino-type(?). He eventually supervised others and would take men off the streets of Manhattan and train them for this work. He called the colored ink section of Sunday newspapers by its old name of rotogravure. Wow I hadn't thought about this stuff in ages.