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25 Oct 2007, 6:13 am

Digging in the dirt is good, but not anywhere near as good as playing in the mud. 'Til this day, I see mud, I have a really hard time resisting the urge to knead my hands all through it. Pretty peculiar seeing a grown woman playing in the mud at the playground while her child's looking at her like "what the hell, mom?"

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25 Oct 2007, 11:34 am

I used to make pretend drinks, like "dirtade", "grassade", "sandade", "peatade" etc. And put them in old Corona bottles.

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25 Oct 2007, 6:15 pm

Aspergean Dirt People unite! As long we're diurnal, it's alright!

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25 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm

I loved digging in the dirt as a child, but I guess digging in the cat litter box for so many years kind of cured that.

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26 Oct 2007, 2:34 pm

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I've been craving to dig a bunker. I don't know why. I just want to go down to my mother's relatives' land in Gaspe and convince them that they need a bunker, and build it.

I've spent more than a little time convinving anyone with a garden that what they really really need is a moat.

Digging is the single most therapeutic thing I have ever found in life. When our cat lost two kittens, they were buried in a four foot deep by four foot wide hole, complete with a brick mausoleum, because I just kept digging.

There is very little in life that cant be solved by digging a hole, to my mind. I even bought an east german army entrenching tool, just so I can dig more.

My landlord is going to kill me. hehe

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26 Oct 2007, 4:55 pm

Macbeth wrote:

I've spent more than a little time convinving anyone with a garden that what they really really need is a moat.

I love moats too! When I was little I was convinced that my house needed a moat, but was disappointed when I figured out how much water one would require. :lol:

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26 Oct 2007, 5:45 pm

I use a moat to keep ants out of my outdoor cat's food dish. Works great.

I've always liked the engineering aspect of castles.

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27 Oct 2007, 11:27 am

Plutonian_Persona wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

I've spent more than a little time convinving anyone with a garden that what they really really need is a moat.

I love moats too! When I was little I was convinced that my house needed a moat, but was disappointed when I figured out how much water one would require. :lol:

Easily solved. Fill it full of s**t and sharpened stakes. (Hacking through the sewage pipes will do the first spectacularly. Have to be creative with the second)

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27 Oct 2007, 11:43 am

When I was younger, I liked digging in the dirt. I would use sticks and spoons to make little caves for my toy animals to "sleep" in. One time I actually attempted to dig to China using a shovel, but I only got about three feet in before I hit a rock.

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28 Oct 2007, 10:39 am

Macbeth wrote:

Plutonian_Persona wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

I've spent more than a little time convinving anyone with a garden that what they really really need is a moat.

I love moats too! When I was little I was convinced that my house needed a moat, but was disappointed when I figured out how much water one would require. :lol:

Easily solved. Fill it full of sh** and sharpened stakes. (Hacking through the sewage pipes will do the first spectacularly. Have to be creative with the second)

The sharpened stakes aren't that difficult either: old fashioned pike-like fence posts should do the trick!

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28 Oct 2007, 10:50 am

Plutonian_Persona wrote:

One of my favorite activities has always been digging and playing in the dirt. When I was younger I used to play in my "digging hole" for hours by myself and now as an adult I love to garden. Does anyone else share my interest for digging?

I'm to assume you have worms.

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28 Oct 2007, 11:03 am

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I'm to assume you have worms.

If what you mean is, "Have you found a lot of worms?," yes I have (and dissect them all the time too).

If what you mean is, "Do I have worms floating in my body?," (which is my interpretation of your statement) than no I do not.

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28 Oct 2007, 11:08 am

Lloyd Christmas came to mind.

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28 Oct 2007, 1:15 pm

IdahoRose wrote:

Actually, yes! When I was younger (and I am still like this today, though it is latent) I was almost obsessed with digging and dirt. I loved geology, making tunnels, caves, I was into all of that.

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28 Oct 2007, 9:11 pm

I always liked to play in the dirt. Now I'm in school to become an archaeologist and attened my first 'dig' (excavation) this past summer.

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29 Oct 2007, 12:21 pm

militarybrat wrote:

I always liked to play in the dirt. Now I'm in school to become an archaeologist and attened my first 'dig' (excavation) this past summer.

Actual archaeological digs were my favorite part of my archaeology degree.

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