This is scheduled to start on Thursday, August 30, 2007
Since this also includes my internet connection, I have no idea how successful the new hookup will be.
Fortunately, my email is routed through gmail, so I will get that from a remote location and within the past few months started using a cell phone.
I do use call forwarding but I don’t trust my [soon to be ex-] telco to be nice about it. So try my regular number first which is call forwarded to my cell, but don’t leave a message if I can’t pickup. Then call 778.848.6086
Update #2 07sep07 - Transfer complete - working normally
Update #1 30aug07 - Internet connected, current phone number still working, email configured.
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Now playing: John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
via FoxyTunes
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Bokashi videos on YouTube
None of them by me, yet.
Also a list of suppliers of the friendly microbe liquid aka. EM to make your own bokashi.
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Update: 14 August 2007 - Bees gone! See comments.
T. who I met through the Guerrilla Gardening Meetup Group asked me if I could host a bee hive in my garden. My house neighbours said okay in exchange for some honey.
They arrived tonight….
A Boy Bee
T[apprentice] & S[teacher]
There are bees in both boxes. The cardboard box contains a swarm with a virgin queen. S wants the bees outside to go inside and to stop the established bees from killing the new ones, she sprays the swarm with a mixture of sugar water and vanilla.
The old bees will lick the vanilla mixture off the new bees because they taste good and be accepted as friends.
In just over a day the swarm started building a honeycomb
Here they are at the entrance of their new home
Eventually they will get inside
Another view of the honeycomb they made
Daylight pics to be added in a few days….
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Seed balls “are one half inch diameter models of the living world. They can contain all the seeds for a complete habitat, or a wild or domestic garden. In a holographic way, each ball can contain the whole plant potential of the entire ecosystem.” Source [archived]
I have written about them here and provided some links here as has Andrea Bellamy on Heavy Petal. [3 links]
Here is a seed ball planting I did a few years ago at 12th and Cambie across from Vancouver City Hall:
March 2005
The setup:
I scored the ground with a ski pole to rough it up a bit
The placement:
Now all I have to do is wait.
May 2005:
June 2005:
I thought I took some picture in 2006 but apparently not.
April 2007:
August 2007 - In the middle of the RAV Line construction zone:
They take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’. Nature is beautiful that way.
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No explanation required:
If you need one…Wikipedia: Parodies of the ichthys symbol
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