Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

I think the tall plants do not need the electromotive force to grow. That's knotweed, the most obnoxious plant I know. You can practically see it grow. I'd get rid of it if I were you.

Indeed the growth of the green ones compared with last years snow bound ones are giants by comparison.The long internode distance, the ability to survive for over a week without roots (if submerged) and large stem diameter (to insert the electrodes into) make application of electromotive force to the plant easy to do and observe.I already have had some results as I showed on EVC before. (look for the cell "bumps" I assume were re-grown (possibly in response to cell-death)to seal up pathways of electromotive force flowing through holes in the "internode space" created during the experiment.)I chose to use aluminun electrodes because plants dont usually use alumninum so the direction the ions may be flowing to and away from the plant may be in a trajectory not natural to the plant and thus cause it to repsond in a way never seen before.Aluminum coming off the electrodes form layers during the experiment that may??????????? be equal and opposite to the unnatural motive force applied as shaped by the plant itself. The fact that this experiment possess all of the components necessary to proove or disproove Gladyshev's law, the weeds are not going any time soon. It is also quite interesting to watch how the soft tissue turns woody during the course of a year's seasons. I would like to know why knotweed gets hard. It lead me to the idea that wood is the plants' way to force it reciprocally to invade a different place.Edited by Brad McFall, : No reason given.

My mothers family (her father's side) had\has a lot of property on Conanicut Island and we spent many summers there (driving over the old Jamestown Bridge, now demolished). Still have some relatives there but no immediate ties (mom & dad sold their interest in grandads house to an uncle who has since passed away). Beavertail was the place to go on stormy days.I also sailed my sailboat around the island - back when I owned a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/505_%28dinghy%29I had mine rigged to sail single handed with a telescoping tiller extension and the spinnaker pole in a launcher mounted on the boom. I could launch the spinnaker pole into position and then the spinnaker all from out on the wire. I did this on Narragansett Bay and promptly dumped just as an O'Day sailed by: they guffawed loudly and made comments about sailing a boat I could handle. A minute later I was righted, sailed out of the water in the cockpit (self bailing transom) and passed them as if they were standing still, with a roostertail off the rudder and a humming centerboard ... I didn't have time to guffaw back, there wasn't enough time. I rode that wind all the way to Mt Hope Bridge before sailing back to the "compound" -- glorious times.Edited by RAZD, : link fixed

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Sanctuary 620 What's the problem? A nice quiet day sail for 3 kindred souls?

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I've never sailed or been on the ocean...and it sounds as if it is something I should experience!My favorite back door scenes were when I was growing up and had a trampoline. I loved that thing! I was outside every day of my life jumping and tumbling around. Maybe the experience shook something loose up there....I dunno...

Those 18 footers used to be the fastest in the world. Real man-killers--crew of about 8-10 with double trapezes and spinnakers the size of--um--Randman`s ambit claims.

On the water, or under it, PB, whole new worlds waiting to be explored.

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I always wondered what it was that we were supposed to be retreating from?Anyway....if I look out my Front Door, I see a greenbelt, since Denver is getting plenty of rain this year!

Long, long ago and in an Earlier life Spring meant the annual St. Michael's regatta. It was always timed to coincide with one of the Chesapeake Log Canoe races.Folk would sail across the Chesapeake and down to St. Michael's on the Eastern Shore where we would all raft up, eat the last oysters of the season, lots of steamed crab and National Bo beer while watching the log canoes race.I've seen some claims in this thread about fast sail boats, but I would have to put the Chesapeake Log Canoe right up there alongside any mentioned.For those of you not familiar with the craft, you can check them out here. The things you see on the side are hiking boards and it is normal under sail to put one to four folk out on each of those for balance. No sissy trapeze, you just sit out there and hang on.

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18`s with all the washing hanging out

I live in NH, just like Percy!It is the view out the window that is next to my computer. Edited by AdminAsgara, : fixed pic size to reduce page width

It's about like the way my stomach feels today

Sure it`s not a gastric by-pass?

Industrial grade.