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[mangosteen]

I'm still in Portland. I fly back tonight. Much fun has been had, although I believe that my body is finally getting its rightful vengeance for the relentless abuse that I've done to my body clock over the past few days.

Observation: When I travel, I tend to shift to a more nocturnal schedule. This would be completely explainable by doing time zone math, except for the fact that it happens whether I travel east or west.

I'll give a recap later, but for now, I put this forward to the assembled:

Assignment: give an example of the versatility of the phrase "Ninety litres of compost"

Comments

how's this for the truth?

[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

"I'm backfilling my yard this spring so that something will actually grow in the god-forsaken soil of somerville. I need an imperial buttload of fresh dirt and other soil amendments; the ninety litres of compost that's been cooking over the winter probably won't be enough."

Re: how's this for the truth?

[xeger.livejournal.com]

Heh. My first thought was something related:

90L of compost? Is that a truckload? (metric or imperial, your choice) - and will I actually have the beds dug and marked out in time for the truckload of (free) compost to arrive tomorrow... (no).

OTOH, the garden will look loverly partly done as a potager, with a nice wilder corner at the other end. No idea what I'll end up growing (beyond tomatos in several varieties, and chard in the cool season - and herbs, of course).

Re: how's this for the truth?

[claerwen.livejournal.com]

A standard sized-bag of compost, weighing, I estimate, about as much as your average seven-year-old (am I the only one who estimates weight in babies and small children?), contains 70 litres of compost. I find that three such bags make one stolen supermarket trolley-load :-)

Re: how's this for the truth?

[xeger.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I tend to estimate weight in cats, actually (and babies in meals).

Some of last nights fun included trying to figure out how much of a cubic yard of substance would be required for a given
effect. This was annoyingly complicated by the unfortunate use of imperial rather than metric (I mean - why on earth would
you want to use a system that results in things like 27 cubic feet in a yard, rather than a nice sane number that's easily
divisible by 10?)

At any rate, my conclusion thus far seems to be that the final requirement will be approximately one cubic yard of sand,
one cubic yard of gravel - and a shitload (not at all accurate, given that it's actually vegetable compost) of compost.

Today should be a fun trip to the nursery - http://www.gardens.com/nursery/locnurs.htm#berkhort (and speaking of nurseries and people who shouldn't answer the phone, I called the local nursery looking for Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus Vitaceae) and got a response of "That's a house plant - we don't carry that" This becomes entertaining when you realize that the varietal that I'm looking for (http://www.brushwoodnursery.com/parthenocissus_henryana.htm) is the baby of the family, and only grows to about 10-20' ...)

Assignment

[skreeky]

I refrained from comment on the meal, as the deep-fried tunafish gelatin would have been vastly improved by liberal a sprinkling with NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST.

Holy NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST, Batman! I think Poison Ivy is up to her old tricks!

I contemplated the convertible that had cut me off to steal the last parking space, and thought, O for NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST.

Moments before my vacation was to begin, the manager walked in and deposited NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST on my desk. There is nothing worse than being NINETY LITRES OF COMPOSTicated.

Haiku--
Nature's aroma,
NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST
Releases its warmth

Her argument contained rather less logical structure than NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST.

NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST on the wall, NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST.
Take one down, pass it around, eighty-nine liters of compost on the wall.

He smiled NINETY LITRES OF COMPOSTily, and herded us into the timeshare information session.

An ode to Elbows... NINETY LITRES OF COMPOST!

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Just a small dash of Ninety litres of compost will give your souffle that special lift.

"I'd like the large salad with raisin vinaigrette dressing please."
"OK - A Ninety litres of compost, table 5!"

The contract had the aroma of Ninety litres of compost.

Oh my darling, my love for you is as fresh and fragrant as newly-shat Ninety litres of compost.

My Ninety litres of compost-mobile is a real shitbox.

(OK, I'm at work - that's all I can really think of on short notice)

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

some from a military standpoint, courtesy (almost) of my grandfather...

Like putting 90 litres of compost in an 88 litre bag...
90 litres of compost-on-a-shingle
he looks like 90 litres of deepfried compost.

Hey, be glad I didn't tell ya the WD-40 story...
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