Wed. Open -- Permaculture

Growing stuff that will take care of its own self (mostly) plus attracting beneficial wildlife -- that's what permaculture is really all about.

On a semi-related note, we in PA have suffered an almost 90 percent collapse of our bat population.  I have been in this apartment since late 2006, and never once got a mosquito bite.  Until this year.  Now I'm getting bitten nightly...and I'm not sure how they're getting in.

Right now, I'd vote for introducing an invasive species of bat just to get rid of the skeeters.  And the bat collapse is going to be bad for the farmers, too, sez the local paper.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

I know we get sprayed for West Nile every so often...but without bats to eat the little fuckers, we're screwed, even so.

And I live downtown with no ponds around.  It must be much worse out in the county.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

Tenseness is one of the things that affects my back too.  And thats one of the things I haven't found a good work around for.  When it seizes up from cold a nice hot soak can really help, but when its from being tense the bath is only good for while you're in it.

Have you tried emptying your mind by meditating?  Or, and this one used to help me some when I had time to do it, go to sites with puppy and kitten pictures.  Any place with animal pictures.  I used to start with Cheers and Jeers at dkos, just scrolling to look at all the pictures, not to read the comments, then I would head to a kitten place that I no longer have the url for.  It kind of seems like it had what was called a kitten generator, but I don't remember if that was part of the url name or not.