Category Archives: Words

Priorities

Garden, Words, ,

DSC00929 My machete and IDSC00930 Felled the tallest plantains

DSC00933 To provide more afternoon sun to my garden.   It seems to have helped to cut back the elephant ears earlier this week. You can see some green patches.  One thing I am learning is that it is not so easy to grow food.  We can grow just a little bit of our food.  We got and will get enough plantains to make about nine batches of plantain bread, or about 216 meals.  This has been the most prolific part of our garden.  If we realize that the plantains are about 1/3 of the ingredients, that means about 72 meals were provided by all those massive plantain plants.    This could be enough food for one person for three weeks.

It is a start.  But now the plantains are growing slowly, and tattering in the wind.  So to give more light to my poor crippled garden I got out my trusty machete and chopped down the tallest plantains at a level which I could reach.  I made sure that they would fall where they would not do any damage.   There are many small plantains to grow up next year.  This year they achieved 24 feet in height, and one of the large leaves was 8 1/2 feet long, and two feet wide.

This is an example of me prioritizing how my garden gets the sunshine.  Everything cannot get optimal sun all the time in my back yard

 

Everything And Everyone On Earth Is Interconnected

Climate, Global, Words

 

DSC00723 Everybody came out of East Africa.

The origin of mankind is East Africa. For more information on this please see the Genographic Project  by searching those words online.

We are all related, and we all have greater or lesser amounts of Neanderthal DNA in the bulk of our DNA, (but not in those portions traceable by way of our female or male parentage.

We all live on this earth which has provided our beloved home and different heritages, and we all inhale oxygen, and exhale carbon dioxide, and we all manage to provide ourselves with a certain viable temperature range.  We also rely on food which needs certain specific conditions in which to flourish, and all of which requires water.

So we are all interconnected.

Fact and Opinion

Fact and Opinion, Words, ,

View between two Southern Victorian houses DSC00282

 

It is  a fact that the house on the left is a southern late Victorian house, because it was built in late Victorian times.  Furthermore, we see that it has the porches railings, and overall style of this late Victorian time.

If we consider this to be  a beautiful building style, that is our opinion.

As the commentator of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” said today, facts are facts, and are the same for everybody.  We all should have the same facts at our disposal.

Our opinions can, and do, vary from person to person.

To me, late Victorian is a beautiful architectural style.