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AllyCat

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24. We have built make-shift cold frames from someone's cast off storm windows.

Tue Aug 27, 2013, 10:14 AM

Aug 2013

Plan on growing things well after the snow falls. This is the first year we have grown enough to preserve for the winter. It will be a necessity for us soon and we are trying to practice, learn, and plan now.

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Why It Still Feels Like Recession To 95% Of America [View all] xchrom Aug 2013 OP

Stop telling the truth! Safetykitten Aug 2013 #1

Workers Of America Are Getting Screwed xchrom Aug 2013 #2

It seems capitalism is real good at creating real crappy jobs. fasttense Aug 2013 #3

Oh, but jobs are being created! chervilant Aug 2013 #4

If you don't have a solid full-time job and you can only afford necessities, LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #5

and those of us with solid full time jobs (or any job) Skittles Aug 2013 #39

They are not talking about us, when claiming recession is over. As during the * regime, they are Mnemosyne Aug 2013 #6

And now the Lying Liars are doing exactly as the Lying Liars before them did - truedelphi Aug 2013 #49

"Feels like" hell! It still IS a recession to most people hobbit709 Aug 2013 #7

I used to think of my garden as a hobby, now it's a vital necessity. WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #8

We have built make-shift cold frames from someone's cast off storm windows. AllyCat Aug 2013 #24

Same here. Do you live in Virginia? WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #33

Ha ha! AllyCat Aug 2013 #38

I wondered if it was truly a small world as my neighbor is also building a greenhouse. WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #53

I usually plant the cloves in September, but due to house project, was late AllyCat Aug 2013 #56

Great. I will definitely do some garlic. WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #58

Garlic is particularly resistant to pests and protects many of your other plants. AllyCat Aug 2013 #59

Thank you. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #60

Question from an economics-challenged DUer nxylas Aug 2013 #9

Nominal is actual (dollar in this case) growth. Real is adjusted for inflation. Lucky Luciano Aug 2013 #23

nominal looks at a number hfojvt Aug 2013 #35

Thank You For Sharing cantbeserious Aug 2013 #10

It IS a recession, still SmittynMo Aug 2013 #11

republicans have no interest in bolstering an economy with a democratic President at the helm spanone Aug 2013 #12

You're so wrong about that. R. Daneel Olivaw Aug 2013 #26

I think they are interested , but they don't know how to Johonny Aug 2013 #32

That is how they keep propping up a bogeyman. WCLinolVir Aug 2013 #34

K&R. The truth is important. AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #13

K and R (nt) bigwillq Aug 2013 #14

... xchrom Aug 2013 #15

.... bigwillq Aug 2013 #27

k/r marmar Aug 2013 #16

k&r Puzzledtraveller Aug 2013 #17

Growth is the WRONG measure,. when you have enough you don't need more. Civilization2 Aug 2013 #18

Resources are a function of technology. TampaAnimusVortex Aug 2013 #28

Plants grow right out of the ground, converting molecules into whatever we need using solar now! Civilization2 Aug 2013 #29

Because that techno fix does a lot more... TampaAnimusVortex Aug 2013 #37

Ah yes, the soon to come,. It is like the bar sign "FREE BEER!", with the small print "tomorrow",. . Civilization2 Aug 2013 #43

Are you serious? TampaAnimusVortex Aug 2013 #54

Are you dreaming? Little plastic parts are not going to rebuild the collapsing biosphere. Civilization2 Aug 2013 #55

No - everything we need isnt here yet... TampaAnimusVortex Aug 2013 #57

This is reality PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #41

I agree... we cannot summer-hazz Aug 2013 #47

Because 95% of Americans bluedeathray Aug 2013 #19

Because 95 % of Americans are irrelevant Snake Plissken Aug 2013 #20

K+R KG Aug 2013 #21

We need a New New Deal. That is, a new economic structure that works for working people. reformist2 Aug 2013 #22

I once heard dotymed Aug 2013 #25

In the long run there is no other way whoiswithme Aug 2013 #30

What did we expect? dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #31

I hear you dickthegrouch Skittles Aug 2013 #40

DURec leftstreet Aug 2013 #36

But, but, but....how can this be? progressoid Aug 2013 #42

K&R As always. Keep getting it out there, all we have on our side is the truth. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #44

And yet JNelson6563 Aug 2013 #45

In my state hotrod0808 Aug 2013 #46

kick Liberal_in_LA Aug 2013 #48

It's the Fukushima of economic recoveries. n/t jtuck004 Aug 2013 #50

During the Cold War the Soviets used to talk about "capitalist exploitation of the workers"... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 #51

You know what they call the 99% In DC? blkmusclmachine Aug 2013 #52