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You are here: Home / Garden Chats / My Seedlings are Producing

My Seedlings are Producing

by John Cole|  July 23, 20188:23 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Garden Chats, John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House"

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I think I am going to grow from seedlings from now on- the process was so much more fun and intimate (not hat kind of intimate you perverts). This is only 1/3 of the harvest of tomatoes which have started to turn colors. I think I am going to seriously get a couple hundred tomatoes out of three raised beds. And I have at east fifty green tomatoes that are going to come from the seedlings I decided were going to die and threw in the compost pile and they decided to grow out of it. A good haul.

Of course I immediately turned them into dinner:

The only thing I don’t like about this house is I just feel like several people could be living here and taking advantage of it. Maybe when I win the powerball and move to the middle of nowhere in the new Balloon Juice compound (like Branch Davidians, but without all that creepy child rape and Jesus shit) I will be able to find a nice young couple who will love it and really get the most out of it, because this house has a lot to give.

What’s shaking my people?

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    July 23, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    It’s the circle of life.

  2. 2.

    efgoldman

    July 23, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    .@Baud:

    It’s the circle of life.

    Hakunah Matata

  3. 3.

    Yarrow

    July 23, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    When everything goes to hell in the Great Russian Orange War you know Juicers are going to show up on your doorstep needing shelter.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    July 23, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    in the new Balloon Juice compound

    Dibs on the bungalow furthest from the willow!

    :)

  5. 5.

    lollipopguild

    July 23, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    somebody cue up “If i were a rich man” for John.

  6. 6.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 23, 2018 at 8:30 pm

    Just remember a compound has to have a bunker.

  7. 7.

    RoonieRoo

    July 23, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    We have a new kitten! Adopted her last Sunday. She’s got the normal shelter problems of upper respiratory infection and tapeworms so getting her all healed up before she meets the rest of the crew. They said she was 3 months old but our vet says she is more likely 2 months old. It’s been 12 years since my last kitten and I’ve never adopted this young before. Handful would be an understatement. We’ve named her Artemis AKA Missy.

  8. 8.

    Josie

    July 23, 2018 at 8:31 pm

    I could easily grow to hate you, John Cole. It’s so damn hot here I can barely keep my tomato plants alive by watering twice a day, much less talk them into producing anything. All I can hope for is that, if they live to see October, they will give me some tomatoes before winter sets in (January). I obviously have a lot to learn about gardening in this climate.

  9. 9.

    BruceFromOhio

    July 23, 2018 at 8:33 pm

    Listening to some serious thunder off the backyard. It’s moving slow and I can hear the rain the distance. It’s ominous.

  10. 10.

    MelissaM

    July 23, 2018 at 8:34 pm

    We had tacos al pastor, using the Serious Eats recipe, and it was quite tasty. I omitted the pineapple, and whipped up a corn salad from two ears cooked yesterday but not eaten (with tomatoes, avocado, lime juice and salt.) https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/05/tacos-al-pastor-recipe.html

    I’ve given up on tomatoes this year, pretty much. The squirrels have taken just about every one from the one grafted plant I bought, and the two I’m trying to grow in my straw bale gardening attempt are not going very well. Plus they will be marauded by squirrels. I do have cukes out the ears, though, so that’s a plus. And self-seeded sunflowers, which will serve to make me happy.

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    A Ghost To Most

    July 23, 2018 at 8:36 pm

    Enjoying some much needed rain here. The folks down in Manitou Springs, not so much (flash flooding).

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    NotMax

    July 23, 2018 at 8:38 pm

    Preventive pre-trip mowing accomplished. By the looks of things, just in time. Dark gray clouds slowly moving in and the humidity is hovering somewhere around 1600%.

  13. 13.

    debit

    July 23, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    Weren’t you pondering fostering a child or two, John?

    @RoonieRoo: Congrats!! Kittens are so much fun and so adorable even when they’re being little monsters.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    July 23, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    Win a large enough Powerball and you won’t have to move at all. Will be able to buy Bethany.

    ;)

  15. 15.

    Mary G

    July 23, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    I have one green bean find that volunteered from 2014. It’s not blooming yet, but the leaves are huge.

    I have to say that when I went from one to two to three to practically four housemates in my two-bedroom house I was worried, but I am enjoying it immensely. Of course the two parents work 70-hour weeks and the two teenagers only emerge from the den of videogames for food.

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    trollhattan

    July 23, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    Maybe when I win the powerball and move to the middle of nowhere

    You have already achieved the dream, Grasshopper.

  17. 17.

    Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)

    July 23, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    @RoonieRoo: Congrats on new baby Missy! Kittens go from cute to annoying as hell in zero-point-five seconds, but then they zoom right back to cute before you can get mad at them. Wishing you many years of snuggles and purrs.

    In the meantime, is anyone in Georgia interested in offering a dog a foster home for approximately six to eight weeks? A friend’s daughter needs to foster her good-natured lab-mixed-with-something-or-other-probably-another-breed-of-dog-but-really-who-can-tell for a little while. She’s in Athens, Georgia but willing to travel.

  18. 18.

    geg6

    July 23, 2018 at 8:49 pm

    When can Lovey and Koda come and play?

  19. 19.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 23, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    @NotMax: lol!!

    Testing out the ghostery iPhone browser… pretty zippy.

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    MagdaInBlack

    July 23, 2018 at 8:53 pm

    A friend and I always started our tomatoes in January, then it was a contest to see who had the 1st ripe tomato. I contend he cheated by using Wall-O-Water…..which I highly recommend….both the cheating and the solar water thingy for tomatoes

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    SG

    July 23, 2018 at 8:55 pm

    My dear Cole, the house is lovely but it’s just a house. It is you that makes it a home because you are the one with so much to give — and you do. To your family, your bffs, to anyone lucky enough to become your friend, and totally to your animal companions. Even us jackals.

  22. 22.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    It was so humid again today. It has finally cooled off and we had a nice dinner on the back deck. Kids are home so we all cooked together. We had fresh basil from the garden on our pizza tonight.

    Now we are sipping bourbon and they are playing a silly video game.

    I’m going to go back to binge watching Berlin Station.

  23. 23.

    debit

    July 23, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    In other news! When I adopted Walter I shared his pictures and his story with everyone I knew, including one of my payroll clients. She lost her cat to old age this winter, had been idly looking at pets on the Humane Society website and noticed a senior dog that had been there a while. She kept looking, and kept thinking about Walter, and after a few weeks, said, “Fuck it, I’m taking this dog home.” She adores her dog who adores her in return. And I cried at work when she came in to tell me.

    John, your act of kindness continues to ripple outward. Just thought you might like to know.

  24. 24.

    dr. bloor

    July 23, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    “Getting the most out of a house” is not a function of the number of (bipedal) residents.

    Just sayin’.

  25. 25.

    schrodingers_cat

    July 23, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    @RoonieRoo: Photos please.

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    @Mary G:

    You are such a cool person.

  27. 27.

    Shell

    July 23, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    I will be able to find a nice young couple who will love it and really get the most out of it

    Before I reread the part about you moving, my first thought was ‘And they’ll be your kindly caretakers in your old age.’

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    July 23, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    @debit: When my kitties were little it was amazing how much noise they could make at night as they ran around after I was in bed. I called them my crazy kids.

  29. 29.

    HinTN

    July 23, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    I prefer feta to mozzarella, but that’s a quibble compared to the transformation of the mud flat into the verdant space. Did you paint or photoshop it?

  30. 30.

    debit

    July 23, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: I have a motion sensitive light strip under my bed so I can see when I inevitably have to get up in the middle of the night to pee. When Dani was younger, she’d zip in and out of my room a couple dozen times every night and set it off. It was annoying, yet oddly adorable.

  31. 31.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 23, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    @debit: That is so nice to hear about. Thanks for letting us know!

  32. 32.

    RoonieRoo

    July 23, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    @debit: Grumpy has described her as “Part tortie, part tabby, part badger”. Definitely an amount of badger in there.

  33. 33.

    RedDirtGirl

    July 23, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    I want in on that compound!

  34. 34.

    debit

    July 23, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    @RoonieRoo: Oh my god, she’s a torbie? You got a good one, but be prepared for torbietude. Which explains the badger.

  35. 35.

    Yarrow

    July 23, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    @RoonieRoo: I know it’s not the same badger, but has Betty Cracker posted here at Balloon Juice this totally adorable video of her Badger and the mop? His hopping and barking just slays me. He is going to GET that mop!

  36. 36.

    The Dangerman

    July 23, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    This compound is going to have an area for people that stay up late, right? And good coffee in the morning?

    And pastries! No pastries, I’m outta there.

  37. 37.

    stinger

    July 23, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    What’s shaking my people?

    You’re not John Cole! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HIM???

  38. 38.

    TenguPhule

    July 23, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @Baud:

    It’s the circle of life.

    Some of them look more like ovals.

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    July 23, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @trollhattan:

    You have already achieved the dream, Grasshopper.

    Fairly certain WV is considered the middle of nowhere.

  40. 40.

    Yarrow

    July 23, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @The Dangerman: I want crepes with Nutella.

  41. 41.

    p.a.

    July 23, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @RedDirtGirl: It’s boring, but, as you would expect for canids, a group of jackals is a pack. Although I saw an internet thread where someone proposed ‘jumble’. That would fit for commenters here I think. Cole’s jackal jumble. Maybe too touchy-feely…

  42. 42.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 23, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @debit:
    That is just the kind of story I need today ?

  43. 43.

    debbie

    July 23, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    @Yarrow:

    So cute! I love his slipping around on the wet floor.

  44. 44.

    magurakurin

    July 23, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    @MomSense: humid…I got your humid right here in Western Japan. Our dew point hasn’t dropped below 73 for nearly two weeks now. Yesterday it was still 73 when we hit our high of 99 around midday. And cool off at night, forget about it. At 4am yesterday we hit our low of 80 and the dew point was 77. Air meet Knife. No relief in sight for the next week. Other places around the country were much worse. Saitama set the all time Japanese record with a temp of 41.1C, nearly 106…and it weren’t a dry heat, let me tell you. No such thing in these islands. This Chinese hoax is kicking our asses right now.

  45. 45.

    Schlemazel

    July 23, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @debit:
    Good story! It is easy to miss the positive ripples from a single act of kindness.

    Sorry I never got to met Walter

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    magurakurin

    July 23, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @Yarrow: I do, too. But I want them on a street, in Paris, at night.

  47. 47.

    jl

    July 23, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    Congrats to Cole! Growing food is fun. I’ve never accused Cole of ‘hat intimacy’ type perviness, though.

    But, I thought they might be pawpaws at first.

  48. 48.

    Yarrow

    July 23, 2018 at 9:38 pm

    @debit: That’s such a great story. Walter is one of the great Balloon Juice success stories. Glad to hear he’s inspiring and helping other animals in need.

  49. 49.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    @RoonieRoo:
    Congratulations ? ?? ?

  50. 50.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2018 at 9:41 pm

    @debit:
    You and Cole are good people.?

  51. 51.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    Cole,
    That dinner looks delicious ?

  52. 52.

    Yarrow

    July 23, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    @magurakurin: Well, obviously. But when you can’t have them in Paris, they’re still pretty good.

  53. 53.

    chris

    July 23, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @MomSense:

    It was so humid again today.

    Southwestern Nova Scotia this afternoon at three PM. I hung a basket of laundry on the line and soaked through my shirt. For old times sake I pushed the F button on the weathernetwork.com, drumroll, 86 F-ing degrees, 92% humidity, feels like 106 F-ing degrees. Bert and I ambled the half mile down to the river where I sat in the water and threw his ball until my arm fell off. Soaked through my shirt walking home to the ibuprophen.

    Right now? 72F, 96% humidity, feels like hell, 88F. The Chinese hoax seems to be working as advertised.

  54. 54.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2018 at 9:53 pm

    @magurakurin:

    Humidity was 93% here today!

  55. 55.

    debit

    July 23, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    @Schlemazel: I am too! He loved people and was so happy whenever I had someone over and could demonstrate his patented heavy lean into a leg.

  56. 56.

    Raven

    July 23, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    It’s insanely unhumid here in Georgia, I fly to Houston in the morning!

  57. 57.

    Raven

    July 23, 2018 at 9:58 pm

    Remember when the commies took over the big house in Dr Zhivago?

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    July 23, 2018 at 10:03 pm

    @Raven:
    Unhumid in Georgia? Check outside, are cats n dogs living together?

    Houston should fix that, right quick.

    We’re a hundredwhatever but humidity is probably three or something. You can go through a lot of water in weather like this.

    “Remember to stay hydrated.”

  59. 59.

    Calouste

    July 23, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    @TenguPhule: WV is the big city compared to certain parts of Australia. They have paved roads and stuff.

  60. 60.

    Schlemazel

    July 23, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    Had a Hmong friend introduced me to tvix saiv foraging yesterday. It is the seed of the Chinese boxwood tree. The leaves are edible also I guess but have to be cooked. The seeds are out of this world! They taste like tangerine/lime/orange and leave a very pleasant tingle on my tongue. I have had them in a condiment that I plan on making myself soon. You mash 6-8 thai chiles with a couple cloves of garlic a little onion & some cilantro (optional for those who think it tastes like soap). As a paste it goes with any meat or fish. The seeds can also be tossed into soup & they really liven up the results.

  61. 61.

    MoxieM

    July 23, 2018 at 10:08 pm

    @MomSense: Love Berlin Station, but I find it pretty funny that the two lead American spooks are British and Welsh, respectively. The ensemble cast is great.

    I’d love to share my house with other people, but it can’t be this specific house. Looking to move anyway, so I don’t end up in a cardboard box in my really old, old age (and hoping I have some control over that). And, wanting a bigger back yard so I can rescue more Newfies.

  62. 62.

    magurakurin

    July 23, 2018 at 10:11 pm

    @Raven: out of the sauna and into the pressure cooker!!

    ETA I missed the unhumid part. Wow, really? I bet you guys are enjoying it. Too bad you have to go to Houston

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2018 at 10:12 pm

    Great Thread

    @jameyhatley: Libraries aren’t just museums for books, people. Real life people come there for information on services to try to often s… https://twitter.com/jameyhatley/status/1021050000892100609?s=17

  64. 64.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    @MoxieM:

    I’ve been looking at farms up in Patten, Maine (near the Katahdin Woods and Waters Monument). You can buy a lot of nice land cheap. You’d have to grow your own food because it’s so far from everything. Would be a perfect place for a balloon juice compound.

  65. 65.

    Mike in NC

    July 23, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    @chris: Visited Nova Scotia almost 20 years ago for genealogy research. So amazing. Wife is from Virginia and wouldn’t be able to handle winters but I could. In Halifax we rode on one of those amphibious trucks that recently sank in Missouri.

  66. 66.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 23, 2018 at 10:36 pm

    @MomSense: Where was redshirt’s compound?

  67. 67.

    Corner Stone

    July 23, 2018 at 10:39 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Would you really want to show up there?

  68. 68.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 23, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @Corner Stone: Maybe I’m asking so I can avoid it.

  69. 69.

    Kay

    July 23, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    Grown from seed plants seem tougher to me. They start out slower than the seedlings I buy – they just sit there for close to a month not doing much of anything- but they handle dry spells better and eventually outpace the purchased plants.

    It could be I’m growing better varieties from seed but I don’t think so since I basically pick them based on a photograph in the catalog and I;ve tried tens of different types and they always seem to be sturdier (over the whole season). They just always win out over the purchased seedlings by midseason, even given the slower start.

    I wonder if it’s because they don’t get perfect greenhouse conditions in my mudroom so they toughen up :)

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 23, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: It wasn’t a compound.

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    July 23, 2018 at 10:46 pm

    @Raven

    I fly to Houston in the morning!

    And boy, will your arms be tired!

    ba-DUM-bum

    @MomSense

    Winters is Maine? No, no and thrice no. Think of the children geezers!

    ;)

  72. 72.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 23, 2018 at 10:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Could have sworn it was a compound.

  73. 73.

    SWMBO

    July 23, 2018 at 10:48 pm

    @trollhattan:
    https://youtu.be/kd3eL4C8nCw

  74. 74.

    MoxieM

    July 23, 2018 at 10:48 pm

    @MomSense: Def a great place for a compound, if the mosquitoes didn’t carry you away. In my youth I associated with a feller from Ashland, and we used to spend time at his brother’s camp outside Bangor, and all the way up north at his dad’s place. Beautiful countryside, but I don’t have the stamina for it anymore. My back is a crumpled, mangled mess, and I’m just to damned old and incapacitated.

    My family ties from way back are in the Kittery-Eliot area, but that’s crazy expensive now. oh well. Who pays $500K to live in a tiny house in Eliot ME (rhetorical question). Nice town, but that’s a lot of money and you’re not even on the water.

  75. 75.

    chris

    July 23, 2018 at 10:49 pm

    @Mike in NC: The Harbour Hopper is still going. You’re a braver man than I am, I drove a bus for a while and have been on a lot of boats and don’t think the two should mix ;-)

    I’ve experienced winter in both Fort MacMurray and Victoria and i have to say, Victoria was the best. That said, winter here is usually not too bad but it’s always interesting. “Usually” is doing a lot of work there, In the time I’ve been here there have been two winters with no snow and, of course, White Juan and the blizzards of 2015. But on balance they’re not too bad but I say that as one who has lived and worked in -40 or more so take it with a grain of salt.

  76. 76.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 23, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    @MomSense: you still awake? Had enough of bargaining in Orlando in the summer. What resort in Maine has a conference room for 6-8 people and no humidity/thunderstorms/alligators?

    Steve totally not at a wine bar in the 407

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 23, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Said it was. Meh.

  78. 78.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 23, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: “It wasn’t a compound.”

    So a mixture?

  79. 79.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 23, 2018 at 10:55 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: A solution.

  80. 80.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 23, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Meh. I don’t do technical. Something or other….

  81. 81.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 23, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    @chris:

    Victoria was the best

    And you can probably buy a nice house there for not a lot over $2mil.

  82. 82.

    Duane

    July 23, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    @The Dangerman: We need to make Cole a list of supplies we’ll need for the compound. That way he won’t forget anything.

  83. 83.

    Davebo

    July 23, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    @Josie: I feel ya. I got maybe 35 cherry tomatoes from two plants I got in early and threw the plants away this weekend.

  84. 84.

    chris

    July 23, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Heh, when I lived there the population was 130,000 or so. It’s about 370,000 now.

  85. 85.

    Eljai

    July 23, 2018 at 11:17 pm

    Put mustard on the list fer sure.

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    July 23, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    @Duane

    And e-mail it to him in bold ALL CAPS.

    Repeatedly.

    :)

  87. 87.

    Duane

    July 23, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Humidity/Thunderstorms/Alligators? In Florida I’d be more afraid of “Stand Your Ground” people.

  88. 88.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 23, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    @Duane: nah, I’m white.

    But yeah this place scares me more than Texas. Where I’ll be in a couple of weeks.

  89. 89.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Samoset in Rockport. Harraseeket in Freeport. Brunswick Inn and Tavern – short walk from the Amtrak stop. 250 Main Hotel in Rockland. It’s in a cool downtown, on the water, and very modern.

  90. 90.

    Duane

    July 23, 2018 at 11:47 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Make sure to bring your paper so you aren’t arrested or deported. Oh yeah, right.

  91. 91.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2018 at 11:50 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’m not sure. It was inland and I think hilly or small mountains. I got the feeling it was maybe near Bethel.

  92. 92.

    efgoldman

    July 23, 2018 at 11:53 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    you still awake? Had enough of bargaining in Orlando in the summer

    You want to come up here and break the nurses’ union?

  93. 93.

    Kdaug

    July 23, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    @NotMax: @Steve in the ATL: Texas ain’t gonna kill you.
    Until it does.

  94. 94.

    Zeeecube

    July 24, 2018 at 12:02 am

    Maybe get a head start on next year by saving some of this year’s seeds.

  95. 95.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 24, 2018 at 12:06 am

    @efgoldman: The Governator learned early DON’T FUCK WITH NURSES.

  96. 96.

    Duane

    July 24, 2018 at 12:06 am

    @NotMax: Cole’s not returning my emails. But I’ll try again.

  97. 97.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 24, 2018 at 12:07 am

    @Duane: Did you use ALL CAPS in your email?

  98. 98.

    Duane

    July 24, 2018 at 12:09 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: The internet has too many rules.

  99. 99.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 24, 2018 at 12:13 am

    @MomSense: merci!

  100. 100.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 24, 2018 at 12:14 am

    @efgoldman: checking flights

  101. 101.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 24, 2018 at 12:17 am

    @Duane: It’d be a madhouse without them.

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    July 24, 2018 at 12:21 am

    @Steve in the ATL
    FYI, from just a handful of days ago (emphasis mine).

    SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly granted the union’s board of directors the ability to call a TV animation strike, voting 98.27 percent in favor of the authorization, according to a letter to members from union president Gabrielle Carteris that appeared on the SAG-AFTRA website Wednesday after voting closed. Source

  103. 103.

    sukabi

    July 24, 2018 at 12:29 am

    @efgoldman:

    It’s the circle of life.

    Hakunah Matata

    A Gouda Tomatas

  104. 104.

    Corner Stone

    July 24, 2018 at 12:33 am

    @Duane: First Rule of Internet Club…

  105. 105.

    Aleta

    July 24, 2018 at 12:42 am

    @Steve in the ATL: These are further up the coast than Rockland, but still below Bar Harbor. Great views. Maybe not as full service as you require, but beautiful. (You’d have to look up the closest golf.)

    On a wide open point, near Brooklin: http://www.thelookoutinn.com

    In Stonington: http://www.stoningtonmaine.org/conferenceroom
    https://www.innontheharbor.com/guest-rooms.htm

  106. 106.

    seaboogie

    July 24, 2018 at 2:32 am

    @debit: Walter is love, and his energy continues to abide…

  107. 107.

    chopper

    July 24, 2018 at 2:33 am

    that willow tree is way too close to those tomatoes.

    i’ll see myself out.

  108. 108.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 24, 2018 at 7:11 am

    @Aleta: thank you!

  109. 109.

    Miss Bianca

    July 24, 2018 at 9:01 am

    @Yarrow: I watched that video, and he is so *not* going to get that mop! He’s all barking like a badass but then he zooms out of reach when the mop actually gets close to him! Ha!

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