[ Action, Voice ] .030

[markofthebrave]

[Today is Catch Up Day. There are more than a few people Katara hasn't heard from in a while, or that she meant to catch up with after first meeting them when they came, and so after morning chores she sits down to make a couple of voice posts. All messages are filtered between 70-80 percent, and the filters are mostly there as a courtesy to keep from trolling your journals.]


[Filtered to Longshot... and not against Jet.]
Hey, how are you guys doing?

[Filtered to San]
Hey, San! I haven't seen you in a while so I thought I'd try the journals. How are you?

[Filtered to Ginko]
Hey... are you still there using this thing?

[And some time after she's done with those, she begins making house calls. Sigmund, she has not yet satisfied herself about your ribs since you won't give her a straight answer... and she wants to hear if there's been any news about Katie, so that house will receive a knock on the door. Also, there have been a few 'normal people' she's met that she's concerned about, so she'll be making her way to Alexis' building, hoping to bump into her. She'll also be stopping by the Straw Hat house. She doesn't want to embarrass Nami or anything, but she does want to see with her own eyes that she's okay. If you think she should be checking on your character too, she probably is, or feel free to stop her as she goes along the road.

...although when she returns to her house much later, Katara realizes Something Important and makes a voice post.]

[Filtered AWAY from Ginko]
Does anyone know how to prepare a garden for the winter? There has to be something you can do to keep them so that they'll grow the next year, right?

Comments

[markofthebrave]

Maybe Sokka and I [Yes, she so easily volunteers her brother] can help you build it for yours, and you can help us build one too?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Sure. It'll make it go faster. We'll have to figure out a time.

[markofthebrave]

Thanks, Derek! Just let us know when you're going to do it.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Probably soon; depends on what else I decide to grow before winter, if anything.

...Although I could do it before then. Maybe in a week or so?

[markofthebrave]

What kind of plants were you growing?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Mostly vegetables. Had a few flowers and some herbs at one end; those would be the ones I'd want to keep warm.

[markofthebrave]

That makes sense. So... there is a way for plants to survive in the winter?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Ones that are used to it, yeah. The rest you either protect...or let nature run it's course and replace them in the spring. Lot of crop plants are like that.

[markofthebrave]

Oh, I see. ...and only some of them come back the next year anyway, right?

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Most of them you let die out, retill the ground, let it rest for a season and then plant again. Feeds the soil and keeps from draining it of resources for healthy plants.

[markofthebrave]

Wow. There's a lot more that goes into growing things than I'd ever thought about.

[derek-bliss.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Not as easy as dropping a seed into a hole.