{"id":5683,"date":"2010-02-19T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:01:47","slug":"planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/","title":{"rendered":"“Planes, Trains and North Sea Ferries”"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/planes-trains-and-automobiles\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5722\" title=\"planes-trains-and-automobiles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-automobiles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-automobiles.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-automobiles-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">You do not want to be with me on any type of public transportation…trust me, I am a traveling companion’s liability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/train_wreck1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5684\" title=\"Train_wreck1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Train_wreck1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Train_wreck1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Train_wreck1-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>“Six coaches of the 1400 Glasgow to London express passenger train carrying about 300 passengers became derailed as the train approached Harrow and Wealdstone station. The train came to rest with the locomotive and leading four coaches standing on the rails in the station platform. The fifth coach was derailed and leaning over. The rear of the train <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">(which I was in)<\/span> had divided into two parts with a gap of 400m between the leading part and three derailed but upright coaches ; and a gap of 35m between those three and the last two derailed but upright coaches. Twenty-six persons were injured, none seriously. Twenty were treated locally, and six taken to hospital. The emergency services were called by the senior conductor, using a passenger’s cellphone, as the train came to rest. <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">(conflicting reporting, I know).<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/attachment\/1970\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5688\" title=\"Intercity 125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1970.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1970.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1970-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I came across this newspaper cutting that my parents had sent me other day, it took me right back to that fateful dusk. Of course I just had to be on this train!\u00a0 I thought I would share this story as a welcome break from my usual Hell-Strip rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/speeding_train\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5768\" title=\"speeding_train\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/speeding_train.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">It is a really weird feeling to realize that something is going very wrong when you know you are going very, very fast, and this train, taking me back to my flat in London, had it’s pedal to the metal.\u00a0 The first thing I noticed that I thought was very odd, was the sound of hail, large hail, hitting the roof of the train, odd because it had been a rare, uncustomary hot day.\u00a0 As it turns out this hail was actually gravel from the more forward sections of the train that had already jumped off the track.\u00a0 These carriages were ploughing through the gravel sending it shooting up into the air where it was landing on the rear of the train.\u00a0 Before I really had time to think about this, all hell broke loose as my part of the train got dragged screaming and whining from the tracks.\u00a0 On “disembarking” the tracks the carriage immediately filled up with gravel dust and it was loud…extremely loud. I held onto the seat top in front of me then I broke all of the crash-survival rules and stood up out of my seat for a little bit of insanely bumpy urban surfing, I think I was fighting a natural primordial instinct to run to safety, hard to do on an Intercity125 train, even if trying to escape the nasty on-board sandwiches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/dream_about_falling_down_by_bucz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5689\" title=\"Dream_about_falling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Dream_about_falling_down_by_bucz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Dream_about_falling_down_by_bucz.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Dream_about_falling_down_by_bucz-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Dream_about_falling_down_by_bucz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">The closest thing to convey this experience is when you know you are having a bad dream and you are falling, you know something really bad is going to happen to you, so you change it. You usually wake up, or change the script in that final white flash of the “impact” moment right?\u00a0 Well it felt exactly like this, only your brain has made the delineation that this is not a dream, oh no it tells you, this is actually really happening and the white flash will most likely be your…well yes, that.\u00a0 Lets just say adrenalin courses through one’s veins at an alarming rate when things get this far out of control.\u00a0 When the train finally came to a grinding halt,<em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> (it took a while)<\/span><\/em>, a teenager sitting across from me at a table with her family, broke into some shock related language that targeted the driver of the train, oh and what a shocking monologue it was!<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/surprised_thomas-thumb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5698\" title=\"surprised_thomas-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/surprised_thomas-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/surprised_thomas-thumb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/surprised_thomas-thumb-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I always remember this, as I couldn’t tell if the parent’s horrified expressions were the result of the crash they had just survived, or their look of horror was the result of what was now emanating from their young daughter’s mouth?\u00a0 They turned, ashen faced, and looked at her as if she was the…<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/theexorcist006\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5790\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5790\" title=\"TheExorcist006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TheExorcist006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TheExorcist006.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/TheExorcist006-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">“The **** of a ******, what the ******* WAS THIS *****….******* DOING?… ****!… ******!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Me? I only had one thought: <em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">“Must get out before another train comes along.”<\/span><\/em> My carriage was pitched over which meant we could only exit from the high side, which required a hang and drop. We all made it out and started to head across the tracks and up onto an adjacent embankment. I could see sections of the train derailed further down the track. Our section had ploughed through a bunch of railroad ties that were now snapped in half and wedged up tight under the undercarriage, elevating the entire structure. I could also see a bloke in the distance frantically waving his arms and running toward our group screaming.\u00a0 The tracks that we were about to cross to carry us to “safety” were in fact charged with enough force to sling-shot us around the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/haironend\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5791\" title=\"HairOnEnd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HairOnEnd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Image nicked from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasoner.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Reasoner<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">These tracks were the start of the London Underground rail network…and we were literally feet and seconds away from crossing them and getting instantly vaporized. <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Oh no, you do not want to get on any form of public transportation with me…<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Here are a few other travel nuggets I think you should know about…<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/pobrugge_02_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5715\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5715\" title=\"POBrugge_02_b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/POBrugge_02_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/POBrugge_02_b.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/POBrugge_02_b-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I was on a North Sea ferry that hit a force 10 full gale on its way from Hull to Belgium. Everyone was confined to sleeping quarters. You could feel this massive ship riding over waves the size of mountains. When the ferry would get to the very top you could feel the whole boat shudder as the propellers came out of the water, riding down these waves actually caught your stomach. I asked a worker the next morning if that was normal?<em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"> “Oh no”<\/span><\/em>, she said, <em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">“We would have turned around but the waves got too large too quick, worst sea I have ever been in, in twenty years of doing this crossing”. <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I avoided the piles of sawdust until I disembarked.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">It continues…<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Apart from the Chevy Tahoe hitting my house a few months back <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2009\/09\/dude-wheres-my-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2009\/09\/dude-wheres-my-car\/<\/a> <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I do have a few more travel-tales believe it or not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/virgin-atlantic-8x6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5714\" title=\"Virgin Atlantic 8x6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Virgin-Atlantic-8x6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Virgin-Atlantic-8x6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Virgin-Atlantic-8x6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span>I was on a Virgin Atlantic flight that was almost empty<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">(which added to the surreal atmosphere)<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">.\u00a0 About an hour and a half into the flight we hit turbulence, no big deal, oh but it was, it was turbulence that got worse and worse until the 747 felt like it was literally getting punched in the side of it’s fuselage.\u00a0 I have traveled a lot and never had turbulence like this.\u00a0 The captain commented numerous times with the last one being…<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>“Well folks we have taken the plane as high as we can possibly go, and as low to get us out of this cell, but it looks like there is no avoiding it, please stay seated with your seat-belts fastened”<\/em>.<\/span> There was a young couple behind me, in the quiet darkness I heard the girl whisper: <em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">“The plane surely cannot take much more of this beating”<\/span><\/em>, I looked out of the window, and immediately regretted it when I saw the wing of the plane flapping like a migratory goose…I slammed shut the window screen and continued to panic for the next five hours, it was exhausting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I swore I would never fly again after that…whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Oh yeah, you don’t want to get on any public transportation with me…<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">There was this other incident that involved… oh never mind…<\/span><\/span><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Enough of this nonsense, back to more of my Hell-Strip rhetoric…You didn’t really think you could escape it did you?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5741\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5741\" title=\"Hell-Strip moundage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02471-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02471-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02471-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02471.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">I got a letter today from the leader of the Naboo tribe thanking me for expanding his tribe’s territories in the East of the Patch. The area is now cleared and prepped<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em> (for the most part)<\/em><\/span>, ready to receive copious amounts of decompo<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">sed granite<\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">, and some rocks…<\/span><\/span><\/strong><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5735\" title=\"Hell-Strip holes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02461-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02461-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02461-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02461.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">…and the first of many gnarly holes have been excavated and tested for drainage, which I have to say did not go very well, not very well at all.\u00a0 This hole took a good twenty minutes to drain, not good, and yes, RR, these holes needed some tooth shattering, pick-axe action to get them down to the deeper depths. Got to love hell-strips for supplying soil and drainage more reminiscent of an off-world, dead planetary “crust,” then soil you would actually plant anything in!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/spock-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5745\" title=\"spock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/spock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/spock.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/spock-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">“The substrate is totally devoid of all life-forms capt<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ain, ESP’s <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em> hypothesis <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">is co<\/span>rrect.”<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5734\" title=\"Treasure in the Strip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02460-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02460-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02460-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02460.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">There were a few treasures to be found though, treasures like this old milk bottle, I think that is what it is…Spock, analysis?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/dsc02469\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5739\" title=\"New planter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02469-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02469-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02469-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02469.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">The new home for a future planter. I think another burgundy canna lily will be going in here, along with some pea-gravel as a back-fill.\u00a0 Sorry to make you tilt your head.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/dsc02482\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5797\" title=\"shifting rock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02482-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02482-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02482-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02482.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Here are some boulders starting to go in at the base of the mound to hold it all in place.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>(Hobbit picture)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5801\" title=\"New Border\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02497-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02497-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02497-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02497.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a>A few transplanted rosemary plants and an old cedar carcass will help fill-in and naturalize the area.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/dsc02475\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5795\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5795\" title=\"Compost Tea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02475-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02475-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02475-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02475.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>I used some of my compost tea that has been stewing for the last six months to water these plants in…this immediately caught someones attention, especially when it started to foam up and stink.\u00a0 He would stick his face right inside this vessel and keep smelling it, I had no idea really why?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5796\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5796\" title=\"Tea Observer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02478-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02478-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02478-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02478.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5804\" title=\"Feather grass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feather-grass-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feather-grass-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feather-grass-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feather-grass.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">The next thing I will do is to plant yet more babies from my Mexican feather grass in front of the boulders like I have in my back garden to soften the scene up.<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> I have <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">trans<\/span><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">p<\/span>lanted about twenty-five babies so far this year and they are all growing well at about an inch tall. Excuse the stroller, it seems like this product is a camera hog, I take pictures and think<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em> “mmm, I think that will make a nice shot”<\/em><\/span>…and sure enough, there she is, lurking upper frame in all her pink raggedy glory!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/1236111-bin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5805\" title=\"Molly Ringwald\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1236111.bin_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1236111.bin_.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1236111.bin_-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">“I like the way it looks ESP”.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>“Sorry Molly, I thought you might”.<\/em><\/span> While I was out messing with these mounds of dirt and clay I did happen to notice that we now have moss, and a lot of it on my moss-boulders, and oooh how fresh and green it is. It amazes me how these boulders green-up with only a little moisture. It is also amazing that these mosses survive our harsh Texas summers…one tough, resilient, bounce-back tiny little plant.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5738\" title=\"Moss on Boulders\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02468-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5737\" title=\"Moss on Boulders\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02466-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02466-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02466-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02466.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Good enough to eat, balsamic vinegar and chop-sticks please.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5798\" title=\"Poppies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02488-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02488-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02488-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02488.jpg 1939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Poppies are looking bumper this year…and<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Finally…<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/?attachment_id=5736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5736\" title=\"Laughing Bug\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02465-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02465-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02465-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSC02465.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">With all of the construction going on with our house, a few bugs have been coming out of the woodwork so to speak.\u00a0 This one climbed up my USB laptop keyboard light and succeeded in completely giving me a full-on conniption, complete with silly walk around the room…in my peripheral vision I thought it was a roach, I hate roaches. I instinctively slapped it to the ground with the back of my cordless mouse, where I found it lying on it’s back in this pose, cracking up laughing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Inspirational “mossy” image of the week:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/2010\/02\/planes-trains-and-north-sea-ferries\/jardin-redim\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5852\" title=\"jard\u00edn redim\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jard\u00edn-redim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jard\u00edn-redim.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.eastsidepatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jard\u00edn-redim-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Stay Tuned for:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><em> <\/em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><em>\u201cThe Shire\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">All material \u00a9 2009 for eastsidepatch. 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