How I loss 30 pounds in 2 months
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Northwest Hurricane pounding California 2/23/2008-2/24/2008
Comments (13)Let us see who have lost their marbles. If my marbles are intact, it was the first time this winter that there were several widespread damages due to a "hurricane"-like weather pattern, aka, extra tropical cylcone that is loaded with moisture and sustained winds that hit us hard, that even until now, there are some areas being repaired for electrical connectivity. The only other widespread anomaly that has happened to create such a wide spread disaster aside from the non-cyclonic type winds are the deep freeze of winter 1990-91 when a lot of pipes broke all over the state. There are many anomalous tornado-like damages here and there through the years but not as wide spread damages as the one we had experienced earlier this winter, if your memories are fresh to remember during the course of this winter, there was none like that for the past 18 years here that I have witnessed. The winds and rains were sustained, and it has the characteristic signature of extra-tropical cyclone to hit us. Many have the same shape, but they usually are toned down or smoothed out before touching inland California. There were flooding, levee breaks, here and there, usually are not due to combination of sustained winds and rains together. Earthquake capital, shaking here and there and other tra-la-las. Do you have any evidence or reference of sustained wind and rain in the Sacramento Valley that is comparable to the widespread damages earlier this winter? And how many years ago was it? I was glad that there was a change in the pattern of the current weather that the sustained winds and rains were a lot lower than previously forecasted so that it did not match the one earlier in the season, otherwise it would have been as disastrous, and that's why the announcement. But sustained strong winds and heavy rains that causes state of emergency declaration are nothing but ordinary events in the typhoon frequented areas of the Philippines. In here, we Californian typically scramble, have disastrous results, declare state of emergency because we are not accustomed to such events that are too ordinary in some places, proof that it is not common here, and happened only once in the last 18 years that I lived here. Show me proof of the same magnitude from the same type of weather event......See MoreIs this possible - 2#s of worms can eat 30#s in a Month
Comments (5)Worms will eat what you feed them. Try to remember that in the wild they tend to be small so that they can survive on less food. When some animal walks by and drops the "motherload" on their location, they will gather at the location for a feast. Proximity to other worms triggers breeding and a central food source will result in new worms. They will gain size rapidly so as to store energy in their body and they will make use of the excess food to produce more offspring. When the large pieces of food get used up, the fat worms won't be able to sustain their size and will begin to starve. They are now too big to fit in the small gaps of soil to hide or find bits of decaying matter below. They will starve to death and because of this, they will reproduce for the rest of their lives. The resulting offspring will not have excess food, so they will remain small so that they can maneuver through the topsoil and eat dead roots/leaves and whatever else they can find while waiting for the next cow pie or whatever. Worms can go their whole lives without getting to the assumed normal adult worm size though they will have every other aspect of an adult worm and be ready to grow large when the conditions are right for that. So what this amounts to is that if you suspect you have 2# of worms, you can give 2# of food per day or per week or per month if you wish. Worms use death as a survival mechanism and as long as they have enough time to pull off a few rounds of emergency breeding, they are harder to accidentally kill than most people think. The growth of a worm is a one way trip though. They can get big and fat when conditions are right, but the only way for an individual worm to shrink to a less hungry size is to breed and get out of the way for its offspring. As long as the bin is not too dry, you can theoretically do some amazing worm tricks by feeding way too much and then stopping feeding for long periods. I try to give my worms everything I possibly can without buying anything specifically to feed them or diverting something to them that could be used for something better. For example, if I don't want to eat bread loaf ends I'll feed them to my dog but I get over 2# of free junk newspapers per month that I use as worm bedding. Colored cardboard and newspaper is supposedly not harmful like it used to be in the olden days because it's understood that it generally gets landfilled and leaching into ground water is verbotten* within the current time period... also, in the '70s legislation* was put in place to prevent anything that may be mouthed by a reasonably parented child from containing harmful compounds. If newspaper and cereal boxes don't say "keep out of reach of children" it's likely that they don't contain lead or other toxic compounds and I put them in the bin. *I'm speaking specifically about the USA. Most countries have environmental protections that meet or exceed US standards. Some countries may not have standards, or items that can be standardized, or may not enforce their standards....See MoreHow Many Pounds of Worms Necessary to Harvest Four Pounds per Day
Comments (13)I think Mendopete is right about losses of mass due to evaporation. Remember that any bin system must be open to air flow, and as long as the stuff exposed to air is wetter than the air, moisture is gonna move to the air. Earthworms don't have urinary tracts. My own observation is that compost is less than half the volume of the stuff composted. But I'm not weighing in and out so I don't have a feel for weights. Since the answer to the ratio of weight in to weight out depends partly on the kind of stuff you're composting, I really don't see any way around trying this out and seeing how it goes. Re stackable trays, which I have, see various threads (via search) on the difficulty of teaching this system to the worms. On the whole, more worms will be toward the top where the feeding happens than the bottom, but some will always be hanging out down at the bottom. It's not as neat as the people who sell stackable trays would have you believe....See MoreLoss of pet, How do I move on??
Comments (28)I am so sorry for your loss. We have a 11 year old poodle that has been our "baby", we got him the year we found out we couldn't have kids so he became our world. Five years ago he was diagnosed with diabetes at the time the vet misdiagnosed him and gave him steroids which pushed the diabetes into overdrive so by the time we figured it out he had lost his eye sight. They told us at the time to take him home and make him comfortable. Well me being his "mom" there was no way I was giving up that easily. He's been on insulin for 5 years now and is doing great. But I know the time is going to come sooner than I would like and we will lose our little boy. The thought of that is more than I can bare. I don't know what we will ever do with out him. I made the decision about a two months ago to adopt a little Dorkie, hale doxie, half yorkie. His name is Cooper and he has been such a light in our home. He's even made Buster a little more spry. I knew we would NEVER be able to replace Buster, he's just way to special but I also knew I couldn't live with out a dog in the house. To me having Cooper will make it a little easier when the time comes to tell Buster goodbye. I know in my heart that Buster is loved and has had the best life possible. We have been so blessed to have him in our lives....See Moremrskjun
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