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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Your memory is accurate, Gene.  pp 43-44 (ONE STRAW REVOLUTION,1978 
> edition): "If rice is sown in the autumn and left uncovered, the seeds are 
> often eaten by mice and birds, or they sometimes rot on the ground, and so 
> I enclose the rice seeds in little clay pellets before sowing."

Thank you, Barbara. Of course, that Fukuoka quote does not say how many 
seeds are in each pellet. Given the, um, truth-seeking nature of this list, 
there may be some who will want to give this more light.

I have thought about you from time to time, typically when something pops 
up about your part of Texas, and wondered how your owner-built homestead 
was faring. It's good to have you back and posting. How's the water level 
in the pond? How's your daughter? How does your garden grow? There are 
those here now unaware that self-reliant women still build their own 
abodes, gardens, garden structures and anything else needed. Toni will 
likely be happy to receive this confirmation that women don't need men 
cluttering the homestead.