Sentences with phrase «vegetating on»

I should have been connecting with her, as it's our second last night together of my holidays, but I was cactus from a week of not sleeping properly (I keep waking in the middle of the night and worrying), so I was only capable vegetating on the couch.

Explore our learning holidays and get more out of your next holiday than a fly - and - flop week vegetating on the beach.

We are well into this Sunday and all I want to do is continue to vegetate on that couch behind me.

Something sweet & gently amusing that you can vegetate on the sofa in front of on a Sunday afternoon and this is exactly what you should expect of and what you should do with «Chalet Girl».

If you want the luxury of time off to care for a family, to vegetate on the couch, or to «follow your passion,» then you can't have the extras.

· Consider WHAT you want to do with this dog: vegetate on the couch, long walks, competition flyball or Frisbee, obedience or agility competition?

The other evening I vegetated on the couch to catch up on a few old programs I'd TiVo'd.

Personal: we loved the screened porch / marsh view; granddaughters (7 & 10) read all the decor plaques (loved «Beach Your Children Well»); vegetated on the inlet beach = dolphins & small jumping fish appeared every day.

Not exact matches

I know now that I need space and time to just vegetate, not worrying about the look on my face and if anyone is interpreting my going to my room immediately after coming home as anger or aggression rather than the sheer exhaustion it actually is.

Finally they reached the vegetated area and saw one, and then two, enormous shining, black - looking bodies spread out on the bush.

From a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

This study assumes that mosquitoes stay on the block where they're born — in the safety of the cool, moist, vegetated area where they hatched.

«At Crissy [Field Wildlife Protection Area], we'll see the plovers out on the open beach by the water sometimes, and other times they are in the vegetated dunes,» Merkle says.

This contrasts with the vast mangrove forests in Hinchinbrook Channel, and the rugged vegetated mountains and lush rainforest gullies that are periodically cloud - covered on Hinchinbrook Island.

«To reveal the hottest spot on Earth,» Mildrexler notes, «we focused on barren areas and sparsely vegetated, open shrublands.

Almost half are due to a greater number of rain - free days on vegetated land, he said.

This progressive new law will require a minimum of 20 to 60 percent vegetated roof coverage on all qualifying new development starting in 2010.

We have successful projects growing across North America on almost 2 million square feet of vegetated roofs.»

A band ratio was used on the imagery to identify active mining operations and to discriminate bare surfaces from vegetated land.

As everyone knows who has heard him speak, the soft - spoken yet highly engaging Swiss researcher is renown the world over for his detailed studies of birds — in particular lapwings (Vanellus vanellus)-- beetles (hundreds), and others insects on vegetated roofs — and he has made many friends along the way for his passion, belief, and promotion of designing a better living roof to encourage biodiversity.

15 Using an infrared thermometer, I have observed the dawn temperatures within vegetated areas are 10 to 20 °F cooler than surfaces just 20 feet away on paved and gravel country roads, instrumentally confirming that cooler tree ring temperatures are more accurately measuring natural climate change.

National Research Canada has published a Wind - Roof Calculator on Internet for vegetated roofs to calculate roof cladding wind loads and vegetated roof assembly design parameters based on the National Building Code of Canada 2015.

Scientific studies had, for instance, revealed an «overall expansion of desert and contraction of vegetated areas» on that continent.

Where clouds are absent, darker surfaces like the ocean or vegetated land absorb heat, but where clouds occur their white tops reflect incoming sunlight away, which can cause a cooling effect on Earth's surface.

In the article and subsequent aimiable exchange with Nordhaus, Dyson touted no fewer than three possible crackpot mega-schemes as contingency «low - cost backstops» against global warming: «carbon - eating trees» covering fully a quarter of Earth's vegetated land mass, «carbon - eating phytoplankton in the oceans», and «snow - dumping in East Antarctica» (via «a giant array of tethered kites or balloons so as to block the westerly flow on one side only.»)

With a great cost - to - benefit ratio and significant stormwater retention, this system supports hardy succulents, vegetated blankets or pre-vegetated mats, and may require irrigation depending on the depth of the growth media.

Most of the energy transfer from the surface of this rather wet globe is accomplished by evaporation, and heavily so in vegetated areas on land.

Instead of just adding insulation to improve thermal performance and using a single roofing system to cover it, the roof on A3C's building is an experimental lab to study a variety of roofing options, including both flat roof membranes and vegetated roof systems.

Part of the decision was based on what would work structurally with the existing building roof, so the lightest weight vegetated systems were placed where the roof could only support the lighter weight, and deeper, heavier vegetated assemblies were then placed in other areas where there was additional support capacity.

And our products speak for themselves with successful green roof projects on vegetated rooftops covering more than 11 million square feet.

Over vegetated regions, the effect on Tb of an eastward drift is a combination of tropospheric warming and surface cooling and is difficult to detect for a few hours of orbit drift in the daily average.

Contrary to our experience on Isabela, Fernandina is sparsely vegetated, and by mostly mangroves in a ring around the island.

One example of the German groups is the Deutscher Dachgartner - Verband (German Roof - Gardening Association), which has been advocating greenroofs since 1984 and provides up - to - date information on new developments in vegetated roof cover design in Europe to its many members.

Property owners who are challenging the Norfolk Wetlands Board's recent demand that they obtain a permit in order to continue mowing vegetated wetlands on their property can not have the court determine the wetlands boundaries on their property, and the Norfolk...