Blotanical Lists Are Back

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At least for . . right this second.
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I'm expecting there might still be a few more bumps.
Happy reading!

Stuart Speaks

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Rather, he tweets!
For those of you who don't do the tweet thing and want to be kept up-to-date:

(5 hours ago) "Finally into the backend of Blotanical. Should hopefully see the lists back up by the end of the day.

(3 hours ago) Blotanical lists are now up in temp mode. I shall continue watching them to ensure they stay up. Will let you know when they are A-Ok

(2 hours ago) It looks as though I'm going to need to split the lists again. With 50+ new blogs waiting to be added the lists are too demanding on space

(30 minutes ago) Obvious memory problems with Blotanical lists. Bear with me people, I'll get to it tomorrow night. Off to bed soon. Enuff for today - soz."

It looks like things are moving along (I'm getting a 404 for the lists right now). We just need to be patient a while longer.
Moving all that info to new servers is quite a technical challenge, to say the least, and bumps along the way are to be expected.
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Using Reusables

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Colleen Vanderlinden, of In The Garden Online, Mouse & Trowel Awards and book (plus numerous articles) fame, has an interesting new article up at her About.com site - Colleen's Organic gardening Blog - "Reusing items For Seed Starting".

Whew! She's a busy girl.

She's included links in the article for some wonderful posts by some fellow bloggers, including me (yay!) who reuse ordinary items for seed starting.

The amount of waste that we humans generate is astonishing.
Any little bit we can do to reduce it deserves a kudos. I saw a picture of some large aluminum cans painted, planted and attached to a wall that was gorgeous and something I might try this year. You wouldn't think something like that would look too nice, but it looked much like carefully arranged attractive garden art.

We have to start somewhere, why not with starting seeds this spring?
If you get a second, check out the article and see if there's something listed that you might like to give a try.

What are you going to reuse for your garden/gardening this year?

Happy (reusable) Growing!
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The Tuesday Chuckle

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Quit hogging the bowl!



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Buried

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Here it is the 28th of February and I'm more than glad to see its backside slide out the door.
This heavy wet snow is awful and it's still falling. Roofs are collapsing.
I can't imagine how much this would have added up to if it was the fluffy stuff.

My Winter Sown jugs are under there . . . somewhere! I think I'll hold off on doing any more until some of this melts. At least they're nice and cozy three foot down.



Awww, he looks so forlorn -



That black spot behind the shrubs in the back left - that's our mailbox.



But, it does make for some pretty pictures. It's very quiet out there and kind of eerie.







How are things where you are?

Happy (think spring) Growing!
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