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Rabbits and deer can be kept out by taking bars of Irish spring soap, cutting them into chunks and tying them into a a hunk of onion bag, that plastic netting, and tying the little bag of soap to a stake which goes right next to the plants. If it gets really bad you can actually dissolve some of the soap in water and put it in a sprayer and spray that directly on the plants getting chewed on. They hate the smell and taste.
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Holy shit sorry that was so long. You inadvertently stumbled on one of my greatest passions. <3
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I don't know what kind of perennials you have- find out what growing zone you are in and that will help you a lot- but there really are just a few key tips to get you started:
1. Feed the soil in the spring and fall. It's either spend all season trying to feed the plants, or just feed the soil and let it feed the plants. You can get soil test kits that telly you about the condition of your soil, and then it's just about looking up what kinds of plants you have to see what levels they want. If something is "off," you can feed the one deficiency directly. Too much fertilizers will burn your plants so check your levels. Most areas will have a farm bureau/agricultural office/local state government gardening techs. If you look them up you can often get all kinds of information and even free soil test kits because they promote gardening!
2. Water periodically. The surface soil doesn't have to be wet all the time. What you want to do is dig your fingers into the earth. If there's moisture below the first inch or two, you don't have to oversoak. If it's dry and crumbly all the way down, give it a good soak. That means you water until it starts to pool up a little, then move to the next area. In hot summers (90+) you may have to do this two or three times a week if it's not raining. It really helps to get a good rain gauge to have in your garden. If you look up your plants it will tell you how much rainfall they like to have, so if you have a rain gauge you can just do the math to see if you need more water! If your area lets you install a rain barrel, I highly suggest you do to conserve water and cut your water bills. They are gravity fed with a hose at the bottom so you can siphon the water out.
3. Trimming encourages blooming in perennials if done correctly. Again look up the plants to see when and how much to trim. Generally speaking you want to cut some things back in the fall when they start to whither. You also will want to get some kind of mulch to cover your garden in the fall to protect it. You can save some money here – towards the end of the season if you let your grass get real long for two grows in a row you can get a big heap of tall, thick grass clippings and mound it around the bases of the plants. Under the snow during the winter it will keep the roots of the plant from freezing solid because the decomposing organic material creates warmth as it rots. In the spring when the snow melts, that organic matter is already mostly decomposed into rich black earth that will feed it in the spring. Not all perennials need this, so google your plants!
4. Weeds. Dun dun dun. In the spring some of your new growth can look like weeds. I know I've said it a million times but do google your plants, You'll get pictures of what the new growth looks like so you know what is weed and what is garden plant! If you have some open areas that are weeding concerns, I suggest planting a native breed of a hearty day lily that bushes, or something like iris. They will spread themselves so voraciously that at some point you will probably have to pull some of the bulbs or they will take over! The advantage is that they choke out the weeds. Wherever you have a thick patch of day lily or iris, you probably won't have to weed. Another fun idea for your back garden patches if this is your permanent home is to plant perennial foods that will keep providing for you. Two great ones for this are asparagus and rhubarb. Both take about three years to grow before they are ready to be harvested to eat, but once they establish themselves you will have plenty of both. Both like to be in the sun. The asparagus comes in during the mild spring and early summer. The rhubarb is good all year – note that the leaves are poisonous, you just eat the thick red stems. Chopped up and simmered with a bit of sugar and gelatin it makes an incredible topping for ice cream. Or mix it with cut strawberries and some gelatin for an OMGamazing strawberry-rhubarb pie, one of the best things there is. You can also just chop it up and freeze it wrapped tightly in bags and put it up for later use in pies and etc. Yummo.
5. Pests! Bleh! Some varieties of plant are very susceptible to diseases and pests, like soil molds that get hollyhocks and tomatos and potato beetles! There are organic and inorganic ways to address this. Unfortunately if you get soil molds, it's usually all but impossible to get rid of, and you have to just tear out the diseased plants *burn them don't turn them under you'll make it worse!!* and put in something different that's resistant. This is where your soil test kits can really help!!!
—> I'll make one safety note here…not all fertilizers and soil-feeds or treatments are appropriate for edible plants. If you want to eat from your garden, you have to adjust what you are putting in it and how you address pests. But that's all easily look-uppable.
My grandma taught me everything she knows and I'm known as a bit of a green thumb. Any veeners can always feel free to message me with gardening questions, edible plants or no! But truth be told, if you know the basics of the five tips I just gave you and are willing to go to the agricultural office folks and/or the internet when you have a problem, you should be right as rain. As a last piece of advice, MOST community colleges will have a basic gardening course, which I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY suggest you take. They are almost always taught by a master gardener who will give you all kinds of INVALUABLE information about your local growing conditions and who stays current on all the latest agricultural and farm tech progress. Find the master gardeners in your area and you will never run out of answers!
Above all…enjoy it. Gardening allowed me to connect to my grandmother in a way that makes my connection to her spirit inseparable even after her death. She is still with me – in every patch of earth and every bloom. I ate the food she grew. She is in my blood and bones. Recently her house was sold to people who grew up in the area and remember driving past her beautiful gardens. Gardening connects you to people. Take advantage of that and a new beautiful world will open up to you, where the goodness of people shows through. It's a beautiful and life enriching hobby that has added to my life beyond measure.
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Also last year when BSB week came along, I was in the middle of a fucking atrocious moving process. I hadn’t had my pole up in a month and then it would be another several months before I would get it up so it was a stressful time.
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I’m not a medical professional but I am currently sitting in my grandparents house watching an auction company strip any trace of their life from the home. It’s painful and I’m angry and sad and not feeling even remotely into the idea of sexy week. Unless huddling in a corner crying is sexy but I think it is decidedly NOT.
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Haha I just think, if I have had them even at my thinnest (about 105) then I am pretty confident that basically every woman walking the earth has them. And if literally every woman in the history of ever has had them, then I feel no need to hide them or be ashamed.
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I’m 25 years old, 125ish lbs and never had kids and I have stretch marks. All. Over. My butt and hips and thighs. And my boobs even though they are non existent…because my weight has fluctuated a lot. Frankly if anyone’s getting close enough to me to see them, they’re either about to get lucky or about to watch me bust a pole move. Negative comments at that point in either context will get you kicked out and locked out of my love hut.
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I sure do! It makes it hard to find where the floor joists are, but if it is a TRUE plaster over flak boards ceiling, the nice thing is that you should be able to put it up anywhere. (they used to put the joists closer together than they do now, and the flak board and plaster are tough stuff). As long as you don’t over tighten, you shouldn’t damage the plaster. If the plaster is already cracked or flaking though, then I would think twice.
If your concern is just that it has the textured plaster overlay- the swirly stuff or the popcorn- your pole won’t hurt it in any way. Occasionally you can make a few little popcorns fall off but nothing noticeable.
If you’re concerned about leaving a ring mark, a magic eraser takes it off for me.As always though if you have structural concerns I suggest contacting x-pole customer support. They can advise you best on their reccomendations for install.
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Shimmy just put out a GREAT vid about this subject recently, but I’m failing at finding the link. Anyway she was talking about the importance of keeping just enough bend in the bottom arm that it’s not “locked out” because the hyper extension is dangerous and unstable. She posted a video of her doing a twisted grip hold during a performance and she let her bottom arm go into that locked out, hyper extended position and she starts to wobble like crazy. She posted it as like a tips video for working bracket holds. If anyone knows where that video is, help me out cause I can’t find it!
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I just want to sneak in here and say for several demographics of women including some older women, it’s not a good idea to have multiple servings every day of super iron-rich greens like spinach. Too much iron from those foods can have a negative impact on bone growth/density and healing, so for example someone at risk for or suffering from osteoporosis or a broken bone would not want to elevate their iron levels.
Also those with kidney or liver problems can suffer serious negative effects from the way the body processes certain kinds of protein supplements.
The simple answer is that supplements are best used under the advice of your licensed medical doctor. Those with poor nutrient absorption because of secondary medical issues in particular can benefit from working with a doctor to form a plan for incorporating supplements and checking nutrient levels to monitor the effects. For those of normal, average functioning, nutrient absorption from food tends to be higher than nutrient absorption from some supplements. So again, a doctor’s advice can be really helpful. As others have mentioned, those who train very heavily in particular could benefit a lot from working with a licensed nutritionist as well- they are trained not only to help you eat what you need, but also show you how to make your meals varied and appetizing.
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Ooooh maybe July challenge we should all do "happy birthday studioveena" videos where we show off "nemesis moves" we got or progress we made because of the site. 🙂 happy birthday sv!!
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Fortunately I haven’t heard of the media being disparaging of her. I am admittedly a little disconnected (no tv) but from what I’ve read there hasn’t been negativity about her poling so far. Fingers crossed. I do think it’s a good idea for anyone who wants to, to send her a YT comment or a private message just letting her know and reminding her that pole family is for life and she has our support.
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You have to stay with her. You’ll be glad you did. They often get scared and struggle if you leave- that makes it emotionally difficult on the staff and for you. Trust me, in the long run you will be glad. You’re not killing your dog. You are giving her your last gift as parents, the gift of carrying her away from her pain. This is part of pet ownership and I think it’s only right to face it.
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OMG THE MELUNA SPORT LOOKS AMAZING AND I WANT ONE LIKE RIGHT NOW!!!! That looks like it would completely address my one beef with the diva cup. It’s true what the comment on it is, if you have a strong pelvic floor and a soft cup, you compress it and it breaks the seal because it can’t hold it’s shape :-/
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Exactly web….”be the change…”
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Hm now of course I’ve said that I got a logout on my phone again.
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I agree. Enjoy your time together and be an example. You can learn whatever you want to learn from each other, just be mindful of what you are teaching in your own classes to maintain a professional respect about not taking each others work and marketing it as your own as far as specific movements or teaching skills. Basically, feel totally free to learn from each other personally, just be respectful of her work product as a professional. Keep communication open if there’s anything you do together that you would like to incorporate into your business and navigate that thoughtfully and respectfully if it happens.
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Login is holding on both phone and laptop after closing browsers or navigating away. I'm not seeing any phantom messages in my inbox either. So far so good!
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It definitely was more than once. Just here to report that I just came to the site for the first time today to find I had been logged out on my phone. I did log in yesterday when I checked before bed and never signed myself out. I also did navigate away from sv in this window of safari, but that never used to log me out until recently. I used to be able to even start up my desktop computer and go to sv and still be logged in even though it had been off. I’ll keep an eye on it today and let you know if it keeps happening!
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I'm definitely getting logged out as well. I actually didn't start really experiencing this until recently and it doesn't seem to be tied to use of links for me, as I'm getting randomly signed out from both my macbook and from my iphone several times a day now. I haven't noticed any direct correlation between following a link and the signouts, but I'll really try to pay attention to what I've been doing when it happens and see if there's something in common that I just haven't noticed.
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Just checking in to say I am super sweaty in the hands and recccomend dirty girl poletice. I was feeling the effects of the stuff on my hands like two days later, it works great for me. Much like toothpaste method in the feel, but stronger.
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The last option with the “traditional” looking strap will probably keep the foot and ankle most stable. However I don’t think these would be even a remotely good idea to be doing pole tricks in unless you are already conditioned to working in 7-8″ shoes. And I would not suggest anyone try new tricks in these ever.
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I have a few devices that use standard 12v AC wall adaptors for power. Might it be compatible with one of those?
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L-O-L
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Seriously at least once a day it seems like there is a charley post I could just sit with popcorn and read lol…
