I use it in bonsai soil. jd On 3/18/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Yes, it's a good name. Sharp sand, otherwise known as builder's sand > is used for loosening clay soil. > > http://gardens.com/terms/index.php?tid=805 > > I've never judged a poetry competition - and I don't want to - but it > seems to me that the judges must at least recognise the style of most > of the entrants, particularly in the fish-bowl that is UK poetry. How > can judges not be influenced by this knowledge? Or am I being too > bitter and cynical? > > Roger > > On 3/18/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I'm with you on contests, Joe. And btw I love the name > > of your blog, though you could go one better and make > > it sound like a place name: Sharp Sand Flats. > > > > Hal > > > > "He's the kind of guy who can brighten > > a room by leaving it." > > --Milton Berle > > > > Halvard Johnson > > ================ > > [log in to unmask] > > [log in to unmask] > > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard > > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > > > > On Mar 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote: > > > > > Avoiding the work I should be doing, I wrote this last night > > > <http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/03/17/poetry-contest/>on my blog. > > > May be of > > > interest. > > > > > > jd > > > > > > -- > > > Joseph Duemer > > > Professor of Humanities > > > Clarkson University > > > [sharpsand.net] > > > > > -- > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde > -- Joseph Duemer Professor of Humanities Clarkson University [sharpsand.net]