A killer love (outline)
An assasin shoots a target, only to accidently hit a bystander. Upset by his sloppyness, he tries to meet the woman, not sure what he could do to make amends. The shot has scared her face.
The woman is looking fo r who did this to her. And has three suspects. A sleazy grifter, who was trying to black mail her into sex. A con artist, who was made that she stole money in the form of gold from him. And a thuggy muscular man that has tried to get in her pants, almost forcing her. When she scratched him in the face, he swore to get even.
The direct threat from the thug was most obvious. But we find out he is a beta. Has sex with men as a bottom and hates himself. He is an introvert and wants control, which is why he forced himself on her. But in the end, he's not the guy.
The next day a handsome man that is staring at her make her uncomfortable. She tells him off. But he tells her we cant control what happens, only how we react to it. She can still be beautiful. She sits down and she talks, telling him she's trying to find and kill the man that did this to her, so... She's not so beautiful after all. He disagrees, and asks if she had any ideas. With the firtst one played out, she tells him about the con man and the grifter.
He offeres to help, if nothing to keep her safe. She gets the hots for him. He knows that's a bridge too far, but can't help but feel for her, and she is very sexy. Maybe this is the in he needs to settle this.
She finds the grifter and tries to confront him, but he's up to something. He's very shifty. He tells her he can't shoot straight, Money is money, you win some and you loose some. But he's looking into a conspriacy theory, if it pans out it could pay big. He's looking for an assasin. He's sure he's from the govenment, and if he can prove it he'll sell the proff to the paper or the police. She relaizes for the first time the shooter wasn't a random guy shooting up the crowd but a contract killer. Maybe the grifter can help.
That night she tells the contract killer what she's found. If the grifter is right, then he'll lead her right to him. And then she can kill him. (this puts the grifter right in the cross hairs of the killer) She kisses him, he's been so supportive, he tries to tell her its not a good idea, but he doesn't want to say no for fear she will feel she is ugly. So he kissed her back an they fuck.
The con artist has guns for days, he's got to be the killer. And in face, he has footage of that day. He always takes video where ever he goes, with a 360 camera on a selfi stick, you never know what you will see. She confronts him and he tells her the guns are a con, in fact he's looking for a buyer. He was there. but he can prove he wans't the shooter, he shows her to footage, in fact as he pans around, he's captures the shot, her, and the shooter. She takes the video, a gun he has, why not he never uses them and goes to confront her killer.
Arriving home, he's making dinner. She points the gun at him and she's shaking. "How could you make love to me. After..." He takes a deep breath and tells her it was a mistake, he shouldn't have taken advantage. If she needs to shoot him, to feel whole somehow, go ahead. She's no killer, she's in love with him and now that she knows who he is, she can't he does genuinly seem to care for her. He's a contract killer, but he loves her.
Meanwhile the con artist is trying sell the footage to the grifter, a guy that put out tendrals for information. It turns out the grifter is a government agent, and kills to con artist on the spot. He then calls the FBI, and tell him, it's done.
Rio and the sun is out, she's running around on the beach nakes, not a care in the world. She's making love with the man she loves, when the phone rings and he gets it. Germany, ok. "She kisses him and tells him, better not shoot any girls while he's gone."
The woman is looking fo r who did this to her. And has three suspects. A sleazy grifter, who was trying to black mail her into sex. A con artist, who was made that she stole money in the form of gold from him. And a thuggy muscular man that has tried to get in her pants, almost forcing her. When she scratched him in the face, he swore to get even.
The direct threat from the thug was most obvious. But we find out he is a beta. Has sex with men as a bottom and hates himself. He is an introvert and wants control, which is why he forced himself on her. But in the end, he's not the guy.
The next day a handsome man that is staring at her make her uncomfortable. She tells him off. But he tells her we cant control what happens, only how we react to it. She can still be beautiful. She sits down and she talks, telling him she's trying to find and kill the man that did this to her, so... She's not so beautiful after all. He disagrees, and asks if she had any ideas. With the firtst one played out, she tells him about the con man and the grifter.
He offeres to help, if nothing to keep her safe. She gets the hots for him. He knows that's a bridge too far, but can't help but feel for her, and she is very sexy. Maybe this is the in he needs to settle this.
She finds the grifter and tries to confront him, but he's up to something. He's very shifty. He tells her he can't shoot straight, Money is money, you win some and you loose some. But he's looking into a conspriacy theory, if it pans out it could pay big. He's looking for an assasin. He's sure he's from the govenment, and if he can prove it he'll sell the proff to the paper or the police. She relaizes for the first time the shooter wasn't a random guy shooting up the crowd but a contract killer. Maybe the grifter can help.
That night she tells the contract killer what she's found. If the grifter is right, then he'll lead her right to him. And then she can kill him. (this puts the grifter right in the cross hairs of the killer) She kisses him, he's been so supportive, he tries to tell her its not a good idea, but he doesn't want to say no for fear she will feel she is ugly. So he kissed her back an they fuck.
The con artist has guns for days, he's got to be the killer. And in face, he has footage of that day. He always takes video where ever he goes, with a 360 camera on a selfi stick, you never know what you will see. She confronts him and he tells her the guns are a con, in fact he's looking for a buyer. He was there. but he can prove he wans't the shooter, he shows her to footage, in fact as he pans around, he's captures the shot, her, and the shooter. She takes the video, a gun he has, why not he never uses them and goes to confront her killer.
Arriving home, he's making dinner. She points the gun at him and she's shaking. "How could you make love to me. After..." He takes a deep breath and tells her it was a mistake, he shouldn't have taken advantage. If she needs to shoot him, to feel whole somehow, go ahead. She's no killer, she's in love with him and now that she knows who he is, she can't he does genuinly seem to care for her. He's a contract killer, but he loves her.
Meanwhile the con artist is trying sell the footage to the grifter, a guy that put out tendrals for information. It turns out the grifter is a government agent, and kills to con artist on the spot. He then calls the FBI, and tell him, it's done.
Rio and the sun is out, she's running around on the beach nakes, not a care in the world. She's making love with the man she loves, when the phone rings and he gets it. Germany, ok. "She kisses him and tells him, better not shoot any girls while he's gone."
Plant nutrition
People often say "Hydroponics is difficult and unnatural, they grow plants in chemicals." First hydroponics is actually pretty easy, I will get to that over the next few weeks. But as far as unnatural and plants steeped in chemicals lets examine what plant nutrition is. Plants do not ingest, nor require complex nutrients as we do. They do not "eat" proteins, fats, nor carbohydrates. They do not take in vitamins as we would, nor do they inject amino acids. They do make all these things, but the plant does not ingest them.
So what do they need? whats a plant nutrient?:
- the primary macro-nutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K)
- the three secondary macro-nutrients: calcium (Ca), sulfur (S), magnesium (Mg)
- the micro-nutrients/trace minerals: boron (B), chlorine (Cl), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni)
One thing you will note right off the bat is that all of these things are on the periodic table. That is they are elements and none of them are even carbon compounds (Carbons not on the list, it comes from the air but that a talk about sugar). But then why do we talk about "living soil?" Soil is very active with microbs, that digest and eject elements from organic matter. Plants dont digest food (no stomachs) so the plant relies on the soil microbs to be their stomach. Soil can support plants without them, but would quickly deplete and the plant would become deficient. another action plants need is a week carbonic acid solution. What? rain water with dissolved CO2. This acid solution helps dissolve minerals from the soil.
Plants are truly amazing as its the only organism on the planet that takes in inorganic elements and produces living tissue.
The point is all plants use is raw chemicals, that's it. It really does not matter where the atoms come from, the plant does not know the difference. In hydroponics we try to supply these elements to the plant in a way that the plant has to spend no effort seeking them. The roots can be smaller and the plant expends less energy growing roots and more growing plant. May solutions used come from organic sources (seaweed etc...) but many do not, no matter its all the same to the plant, and ultimately to you. A plant can pick up toxic elements, and frequently does so form soil. Hydroponics can be used in areas where the soil is polluted and unusable, since the plants grow in water pots, allowing us to reuse spoiled land, or land in cities.
Often people will remark that hydroponic plants grow faster. They don't really, the part your used to seeing grows faster, because the plant has to grow fewer roots, but the plant itself grows overall at the same rate.
2010 Growing Season
To give you a little scale there is the garden at the end of the season with my son in the middle of it, this was taken pretty much at the end of the season. That's corn behind him, 40 ears and these guys grew in 6 inches of dirt. Corn was interesting because I never really noticed that for 4/5 of the season your growing sticks, the ears set at the very end.
This year I have promised myself to journal (blog) the garden once a week at least. I am seed saving as well as preserving this year for 2012 (hopefully) will be a product of the 2011 garden. We will see.
The Science Behind The Three Sisters
The Iroquois Indians never gave it much thought, but there was a lot of science behind their farming methods, both nutritional and agricultural.
Many Indian tribes were dependant on hunter/gather behavior, but when one item could not be found there was a deficit in the nutrition. The three sisters are interesting because they are a balanced diet. Corn supplies carbohydrates and a variety of important amino acids. Beans have protein, including two essential amino acids that corn lacks. Squash contributes vitamin A. Squash seeds also contain quality fats that corn and beans lack. So the Iroquois stayed relatively health all the time.
So what about the agriculture? Corn is a heavy nitrogen feeder, squash need pollinators, and the Indians did not really plow the land. So why this combination? Initial feeding of the corn was done with fish, a couple small minnows with the seeds, once the corn in 7" tall the beans were planted, which climb the corn (trellising) and like most legumes they fix nitrogen into the base of the corn plant right out of the air. The beans also attracts pollinators with their flowers, kept picked for a few weeks beans create a lot of flowers and the pollinators get used to returning. Once the beans are a foot tall or so, the pumpkins were planted and by the time they set flowers the bees know right where to go (they have been trained). At that point the last 1/2 of the beans were allowed to grow and mature, dry out and stored for seed and food, same for the corn.
All the shaman of the Iroquois knew is it worked. But there was a lot of good reason why it worked and was sustainable. The early settlers owed quite a bit to this method also, because these were the staples the Indians traded them, and taught them to grow.
Next time... Some garden pictures and plans for a micro orchard.
More about the three sisters
Iroquois Indians lived in new york area and were not what I would call true farmers, they were still a nomadic people for the most part, There was really very little "science" in the farming, like irrigation systems, they mostly acted on cultural mystic belief, they didn't really know why what they did worked. But farming did let them range a lot further than other tribes. The key to travel is absolutely knowing that when you get there you will have food. Without this assurance it was very dicey to move.
Farming was "woman's work" but for the Iroquois Indians this was not a sexist thing. In fact, although the chief was always male, he was elected by women. Divorce was allowed but the children stayed with their mother. In Iroquois culture women had at least equal status to men but in some case had higher status. they farmed because they could be trusted with the task.
Farming today, for the small gardener, is about fresh produce. But for the Iroquois it was about sustained survival. Lets look at the three sisters. Grist corn or popcorn had very low moisture and stored well, this is not the sweet corn we tend to grow. Rattle Snake beans, named for the sound they make when dry, also stored well. Finally pumpkins, most do not realize that kept dry and intact a pumpkin will store for months. They are heavy though so this was most likely a food they ate when they were staying somewhere.
There were three priorities for all early farmers though, first was seed. Second storage crops for winter, then fresh produce. remember, specially for a culture like the Iroquois, food was easy to find in the spring and summer, gathering and hunting were sources of fresh foods. survival was about making it through the winter for everyone. Even in Europe where the potato was a big deal, it was because it stored over winter in the ground.
We farm for very different reasons now, but this year I will be trying to follow these principals, seed saving, storage foods and the produce. The proof will be in next years crop, since I will be hopefully using the seed from this years crop.
Next time... The science of the three sisters
The Three Sisters
Last year I blogged the garden and about lost my mind with all the writing. This year I have 3 blogs and I have decided that I will write to each blog one time a week. One blog IS a writing blog so....
What plans do I have this year, yes raised beds again but this year I am focusing on tomato's, cucumbers, melons and peppers. I will probably try to keep a bed of radishes going in the shade.
Last year people asked me about my companion planting, I tend to put marigold and morning glory in the beds to attract beneficial insects and it worked pretty well. This year I want to prepare a section of my yard for an interesting experiment. It's called the three sisters.
This is a myth from the Iroquois Indians. Corn, beans, and squash were the most important crops to them. They were called the three sisters, given to man by the great spirit. Basically the area is prepared, and grist corn (popcorn in my case) is planted, when it gets 4" tall, beans are planted at the base of the corn, then finally when all that is 6" tall the pumpkins (their main squash) are inter-planted. The beans climb the corn, the pumpkins overgrow the base to block weeds. The beans are important because they attract pollinators to the corn and the pumpkins. So that's the plan, I will be preparing the plots and taking a few pictures in about a week of so.
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