Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Reusing Plastic Bottles

I like to reuse plastic bottles. I've made assorted things out of them ... bird feeders, birdseed scoops, etc. Every spring I take 2-liter bottles and cut the bottoms off. The top part then becomes a miniature greenhouse to put over seedlings.

I've also heard of people using plastic bottles to make a coldframe. You fill them with water and set them upright on the ground in a square, then lay a pane of glass or clear plastic over the top. (For extra stability you can dig down a few inches and set the bottles into the earth.) Solar heat will warm up the interior pretty well.

But this is the wackiest reuse I've seen so far.
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I would only do that kind of thing to the bottles that don't have the 5 cent deposit on them.
Where I live there doesn't seem to be a deposit on bottles, alas.
Where do you live? I thought the 5 cents deposit was all over the USA?
Central Illinois. If there's a place nearby that will pay for plastic, we haven't found it. We do take our aluminum to a scrapyard, which pays. For a while there was a recycling center that would take assorted types of stuff, but it went away.
Central Illinois??? I thought you were the editor of PanGaia? How could you do that all the way from over there, when PanGaia is published in California?
I was the editor of PanGaia for some years, and during that time, I telecommuted. It worked very well. I used mostly email for communicating with contributors and my boss, and postal mail for handling review copies and other packages.
You're not the editor of PanGaia anymore? Who is?
No, my job ended with December. Last I heard, Anne Niven intended on doing it all herself.
Wow, she must be one busy little bee.
Something else neat, or not, depending on your opinion of the character... (background info first!) I am very imaginative and can come up with intricate details for my own worlds, but whenever I read something of someone else's, I have a very hard time visualizing the images in my mind's eye. Spacial perceptions in stories I'm reading are very confused, too. Long ago I figured out I either had to borrow the pieces I needed from things I knew, or be constantly lost and take forever to get through a book. So I tend to borrow settings, characters, and so on for the things that constantly shifted in my mind during reading. In other words, I have people I know/have seen before playing roles in my mind for the characters, and I borrow settings too.

For example, the first couple Harry Potter books were very difficult for me, because I had no clear idea how the author thought things should look nor how to imagine them myself, and so even when I had "actors," they shifted around a lot. But then the movies came out and I saw them and suddenly it was very clear and the books became easy to read.

Anyway, back on point... I saw your picture in PanGaia one day and then I read Harry Potter 3 afterwards. When I got to the point where Professor Trelawney was introduced, I needed someone to play that role, and there was no one else yet. I thought you bore a resemblance to what I thought the author intended, so I put you in playing that role! To this day, even after seeing the movie with the actress they got for that role, I still put you in that role when her character shows up in the books. (Didn't know, of course, that she would turn out to become a drunk. And when I initially chose you for her role, I didn't know she was a fraud, either.)

I think you're the only real person, aside from actors and actresses, to have such a position. :-)
That is so cool! Thanks everso for sharing. Yeah, Professor Trelawney is kind of a flake ... but then there are those moments where her Talent flares to life.

I'm really, really glad that I don't have actual ForeSight. Pattern-sense can be scary enough.
I'm really, really glad that I don't have actual ForeSight.

What about fivesight? ;-)
Gah, that's worse! Have you read the Spider Robinson story by that name?
Um... no. What is fivesight? I thought I was just punning.
There's a short story about a man who had the ability to know about disasters before they happened, but not prevent them. Most of it is available online:
http://books.google.com/books?id=95ZJXCA25qAC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=fivesight+robinson&source=web&ots=WJc8ud6caT&sig=wnBpCz416gvdP5v-LzEgx4oTJpo&hl=en

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