--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1I00003 Date: 01/13/98 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 04:53pm \/To: BERT QUILLIN (Read 2 times) Subj: glass-fragment cement? CG> sort of cement one should use to lightly attach chunks of glass BQ>for years have used an all purpose hobby cement called "527". Comes in a Bert, thanks for this. I'll ask for it under this name; we often have the same brands as elsewhere. If not, an informed salesperson knows the corresponding product. Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com www.interlog.com/~cgreaves * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Don't Brake! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1J00000 Date: 01/14/98 From: LYNDA KENDRICK Time: 07:30am \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: Compost Greetings Everyone, Well, I guess I have lots to learn about composting and mulching. I'm on my way to the doctors right now and I will let ya'll know what he says and recomends, as I have what I have always heard about "Spores Infections" ... Anyone else heard of it? Sent By Way Of The Electronic HUG [ ] System! Your Friend, Lynda --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.3 * Origin: Ganas BBS Home of StarBow Net *(941)728-2132* Alva,Fl (1:371/61) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1J00001 Date: 01/13/98 From: MARIA VAN RYMERSDAEL Time: 11:24pm \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: Quick mail now ! Hallo Marilyn! Sunday 11 Januari 1998 19:43 Marilyn Boissoneault wrote the rules and other messies : After coming back from holiday the first weekend of January, I had a very busy time last week. To all in this echo that still have to get a reply from me, be sure it will come. When polling today and reading in this echo. Great was my surprise when I realised that the date of your message was only 2 days ago! Whoooooow that is very very quick now. During last month the messages came in within some 5/6 days and that was already fine but being able to read in this echo within 2 days seems to be really a wonder; Hope this will remain so good for the future. By the end of January I will certainly have again more time to quote a bit more in this echo, but at this moment all kind of administrations things and others (due to my divorce) are keeping me very much busy. Hope you will get my messy as quick as I got yours. May I expect a little sign?? Greetings, from Lanaken Maria --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: INTRO-BBS Lanaken/Belgium- A place to be +32 89732917 (2:292/127.44) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1J00002 Date: 01/14/98 From: BARBARA HAZEN Time: 09:07pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: creative arts Hi Chris -=> Quoting Christopher Greaves to Barbara Hazen <=- CG> I make trees out of candle wax, they burn something beautiful. I CG> think I posted the recipes here about four months ago. Who is the CG> host, and would he/she/it mind if I reposted them? I would really like any recipes. I have tried making scented candles in babyfood jars. They always sink in the middle. If you have any suggestions, I would really appreciate them. I made the others for our Church craft sale and I got given everyone's leftover ones. So I am looking for something to do with them. Remember when thinking, I can't see what or where I'm going with the hot wax. CG> Jams from fruit. Any fruit. I used to shop at a store where the CG> owner GAVE me slightly-damaged fruit that he couldn't leave on CG> the display. Sounds good. CG> nothing at all to the mint tea. A teaspoon of crushed dried CG> leaves in a tea-strainer, boiling water poured through, and off CG> to bed. No sugar, no honey. I have another question. Have you seen Susan Mercer around this echo? I gave her my netmail address but I think I gave it wrong. I wanted to talk to her about her secondhand books on tape. I haven't seen her around but I sometimes don't get time to read the entire echo. If you have any info, it would be greatly appreciated. By the way, the mint is not up yet, but I can send you some snow if you would like. I would like to see you can or make it into a jelly. (smile) Take care Barb and Remi ... The hardest dollar to earn is the one you have already spent. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Blue Beam MailServer Stoney Creek Canada (1:2424/3120) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1J00003 Date: 01/14/98 From: WL-SKI Time: 11:37pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: Compost LK>> Found a book just the other day at a library book sale called "Let It Rot". LK>> ..or how bad or well ..it all comes out compost in the end at sometime or CG> You got it. In fact, you could probably get away with alternating six-inch layers of CG> books and librarians (grin!). Ok, I gotta know, Christopher, do librarians compost at the same rate or a higher rate than users of "Word" (or whatever it was that you said :) cheers, WL Sakowski --- * Origin: gn3.gratisnet.com (1:170/302.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1J00004 Date: 01/14/98 From: WL-SKI Time: 11:24pm \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: seedless cukes MB> Thanks for the info, I knew they were hybrids, MB> Marilyn And I thought the original question was *how* we got new ones each year, considering that they don't make seeds and all, (to start new ones... but maybe I missed some of it :) (Sort of reminds me of the little kid that asked where he came from and ended up getting a course in sex education... when all he wanted to know was where he was *born*! :) cheers, WL Sakowski --- * Origin: gn3.gratisnet.com (1:170/302.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1J00005 Date: 01/14/98 From: WL-SKI Time: 11:39pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: bristle-sticking CG>> Why do bristles stick to the hand-basin? TS>> what exactly does this have to do with "Home and Garden" ??? CG> Cleaning sinks, cleansing agents, wetting agents, keeping the palace clean and healthy . And *soap scum* (sorry, I guess I *could've* called it soap *residue* ... maybe *that's* what holds the little bristles there... along with acute wettness :) cheers, WL Sakowski --- * Origin: gn3.gratisnet.com (1:170/302.10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1K00000 Date: 01/14/98 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 06:36pm \/To: JUDITH HEATWOLE (Read 2 times) Subj: glass-fragment cement? JH>A man after my own heart! I tend to stick to rocks, which Er. Ahem! Could we please water that down to "A man who shares my interests at heart"? Unless you're looking for a balding 50+ loves-cooking .... (vbg!) JH>A word of caution here. These beadlets can act like a JH>magnifier for the sun's rays, and can cause fire. Thank you for this. I'd not thought of that. I should have, though. Any number of brush fires in Australia are thought to have been caused by refraction on broken bootles at campsites. JH>Sorry, don't know. I used Elmer's to glue rocks and It's worth a try. I figure on experimenting on small sheets, anyway. I get a pocketfull of "beads" each time I walk the lake. Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com www.interlog.com/~cgreaves * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Don't Brake! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1K00001 Date: 01/13/98 From: THURSTON ACKERMAN Time: 09:53pm \/To: LYNDA KENDRICK (Read 2 times) Subj: Compost LK>What I do have are oak leaves and pine needles beside lots of wood chips LK>... and ashes from our fire pit ..any use? The wood ashs from your fire pit will add excellant pot ash (containing benifical potassium carbonate and/or potassium hydroxide) most planting will enjoy. I note most grasses,etc. have very poor health under pine and oak trees so I would avoid them (unless I have an area I wish to avoid growing vegatations. Ciao, Ack. --- * SLMR 2.1a * There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. * Origin: SKYLINE BBS (617)361-1242 U.S.A. Mail Feeds Available. 1:101/580) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1K00002 Date: 01/14/98 From: DON DODSON Time: 07:53pm \/To: LYNDA KENDRICK (Read 2 times) Subj: Compost LK> easy way of making Compost - We do have lots of wood chips that th LK> crews cut down the trees and grind it up in their chipper and they LK> it on my property and I was wanting to try and make some good comp LK> from it ... What else can I add to help the process ... We don't r Lynda, I had the tree monkies dump their loads of wood chips here and I just left them for nature to handle. This is normally called procrastination as I actually was going to mulch around my plants with them. After about three years, I bit the bullet and and dug into the best pile of humus I ever found. Beats the soil conditioners found at garden centers. I make it a point to keep an ongoing pile of rotting wood chips present all all times now. Mix it with river bottom sand, lime, 10-10-10 fertilizer, and topsoil and you have a medium that will grow warts if you plant them right . Good Luck as you get dirt unner your fingernails! =Don= --- TriToss (tm) 1.03 - #28 * Origin: PC GARDEN BBS * Gibsonville NC (City of Roses) 336-449-7857 (1:3654/18)