Today I planted the rest of the parsley seeds in a planter on the shelf below the GP box and in a hanging pot. I found a hook somewhere and hung it up. Now that the room is warmer, in part thanks to the five-pane windows and the frequent sun, I can make this the first of many hanging pots in the sunroom making use of the vertical space. Maybe next winter with some affordable solar and the AIR insulation system the room can be full of plants from top to bottom. Speaking of bottom, my friend John purchased today most of what he needs for a tray on the shelf below the GP box. The idea is for the tea that now drains from the GP box to drain along the tray full of pots and starter plants to a container on the other hand. The tray will be removable and in the summer can be placed along the fence in the driveway where I built the irrigation system from a rain barrel last summer. (Pictures to come will make all this clearer.) So from the top we will have plants and on the bottom more plants, all, like the GP box and the garden, using the same old, same old system.

There is an old saying that we either learn from history or are doomed to make the same mistakes. When I heard people talk about the recent actions to demilitarize Marquette as something new I looked into the history of this resistance. It actually started in 1968 when I was a graduate student there. I did some research, and with contributions from persons participating in this 40 years of resistance, began this 40 year history of resistance to the military at MU. As they say “there is nothing new under the sun.”

Well, you can take that statement back a little. Every plant under the sun, just like every human being, is new and unique. Today we started, hopefully, some new plants, and some of the homicide victims in Milwaukee were recognized as valued human beings in our “Holy Ground” prayer service at the homicide site and on the new Milwaukee Homicide Report.

Time: 11:37pm, Office Temp.: 64, Sunroom Temp. Average: 57, Outside Temp. 29, KWH: 70.22

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