Fandom Presents: Miss Manners for the Interweb. :-)

Yoinked from Torrain:
This is a very intelligent list of reasons to excercise good manners. online (most of which work offline, too). Well done. :-)

In other news: I've started work on a short story inspired (vaguely) by Hansel and Gretel. (Among other things, including the Blights from Arcady, and the
Forest People from "Snow, Glass, Apples"). Here's hoping it works out. :-)

House Plans and Garden Plans

Well, I've been oggling the Vesey's catalogue again...
<*sigh*>

It's unfortunate. I really can't justify spending that much on flowers, even when I'm getting half of them for free. My garden's pretty full, anyway.

I do want to get a new blueberry bush. I have a Bluecrop (maybe) bush. Or at least a bush that comes in that height.
Unfortunately, I don't know if my surviving (I think) blueberry bush goes with the 'bluecrop' label I found blowing around my yard.
As such, I have no idea what type I should get as its companion (you need to bushes - different varieties of the same height of bush in order to get the cross-polination to work).


I am thinking, again, about sustainable-hobbit-style housing and the ammount of land I would need to have a meadow[1] full of berries and flowers and herbs, an annual vegetable garden, and a forest-garden full of fruit and nut trees (and other trees as well).


So, let us see...

( Trees )

( Fruiting Shrubs )

Ideally, most of the fruiting bushes would grow on the roof/walls (think of a geodesic dome, covered in terraced earth, with windows and maybe a balcony/veranda... Just to give you an idea. :-)

With enough patio and garden space around the house to grow (perenial) flowers & herbs and annual veggies (Squash!!! And beans, peas, and a couple of other things, but we all know where my loyalties lie when it comes to the vegetable patch), before the trees closed in. :-) There would be more trees on the north-facing half of the house than the south-facing, in the interests of a windbreak, but also because the annuals need the sun a bit more (and the trees will probably get taller than the house... at least some of them will).


Anywhoo. That's about where my brain is right now. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)


[1] Do 'meadow' and 'mead' come from the same word, do you think?

[2] I'm not sure if they grow this far north, or if I'm mistaking black raspberries for them... Hm...