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Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

This fight is for everything.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

So many bastards, so little time.

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Eye of the Beholder

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And some inspiration for those of us whose tomatoes can be less than photogenic…

Given the premium price of an Iberian ham, that’s quite a consolation for a gardening ‘fail’!

What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?

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  1. 1.

    raven

    We’ve got several crape myrtle’s and guess who hates them and who loves them? They suck, they shed all over my cars and the shit sticks like glue!

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Considering what the squirrels do to my maters, I’d be a front runner every year. Which would make my wife very happy.

  4. 4.

    PAM Dirac

    The sad news from our yard this week is we finally took down the largest tree in our yard (~100 ft high). It died last summer, but we left it up this summer for the birds. The late summer storms took down a couple of big branches so it was time to clean it all up. It does leave a big empty space and the birds are still pretty confused.

    The better news is that wines from the vineyard did well in the county fair. Three entries got 1 first, 1 second and 1 no place. The first place wine also won double gold, essentially 2nd best in show. This year’s harvest is underway and it has been frustrating. Too much rain diluting the juice. Two white wines are in and fermenting and a third will be picked Mon or Tues., but with another inch or two of rain forecast for mid-week it is unclear whether the reds will dry out before they rot. The weather drives me crazy and it’s just a hobby. I don’t see how anyone farms for a living.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: I see you’re tiling the entry/living room. Word from the wise: Don’t use white or black. ;-)

    eta: gotta love the drywall over the old lap siding.

  11. 11.

    raven

    @PAM Dirac: It’s funny as hell and fits right in with your comment about anyone farming for a living.  He makes one dumb decision after another and barely breaks even.

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: That’s not Durock on the floor?

    eta it’s common enough for add ons to be like that, I just always snicker a bit at the laziness of going over the siding. Sometimes it even works.

  14. 14.

    Geminid

    After an application of fertilizer and zinc in the spring, my friend Joan is getting a bumper crop from her two pecan trees. The neighborhood squirrels are loving it! And now the crows are flying in to enjoy the banquet. Joan has become Joan of Assisi, giving her distinctive one-fingered benediction to her beloved squirrels and crows.

  17. 17.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: 72 per at Lowes but ours may be a bit less. We’re going to refi the joint now that we’re looking at 50k but, when I went through the process with the lender, we learned we can’t proceed with just a subfloor!

  18. 18.

    Immanentize

    @raven: I agree with raven. As we move out of garden season, people have a lot going on in and about their homes.

    My garden is now 15% tomatoes remainders (Rutgers and celebrity mostly), and 15% other stuff like potatoes maybe and some leeks. But the rest of the 80% is tomatillos! I am so happy! Last year the resident ground hog got almost all of them. But this year I put up a riff raff fence and kept the ‘chucks out. I pulled 4 pounds Friday and roasted them up for Salsa Verde. Yum! I will easily get another 10 pounds from the 5 plants before the freeze comes.

  19. 19.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: Yeah, they’re kinda picky on that stuff. I went thru that whole construction loan process on my first house 30 years ago. I’m sure it’s way different now but just as big a pain in the ass.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    @raven:

    Clarkson’s Farm is hilarious!

    “The presenter has announced a new show called I Bought The Farm, which will see him attempt to run a 1,000-acre farm over a year – and it sounds like it will be a real fish-out-of-water scenario as (surprise, surprise), he’s not well equipped for the job.”

    Oh boy!  That’s got train wreck written all over it!

  23. 23.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: I was surprised, I tried to refi through our current lender and they were fucking impossible. I googled best investment refi’s Quicken came up several times. This dude was really good, said “I’m not going to fool around and give you a bunch of bullshit”. We went through the process in about 30 minutes and, when we got to the fannie mae checklist and we hit the subfloor question he was straight up and said we needed to put it on hold for a couple of weeks.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I’m only getting squash and peppers out of my garden, and not much of the latter as it desperately needs water, which I just don’t feel like providing. Everything is weedy as all get out and I’m not pulling them because the shoulder just doesn’t like either the pulling or the leaning on it.

    That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

  29. 29.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Raven: I’m still picking my dried beans too. For some reason or other in my brain they don’t count because I can’t eat them now.

  30. 30.

    Immanentize

    @OzarkHillbilly: but do you see where the lap is now interior right next to the plaster and lathe? I had an 1890 house like that which must have gotten an extra bedroom around 1900.

  31. 31.

    debbie

    I bought the ugliest tomato at the farmers market. It will probably rot because I have no idea what it should look like when it’s ripe. It’s yellow, green, and orange. It will probably be too soft by the time it is all orange. ??‍♀️

  32. 32.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Immanentize: ???

    I see where the P&L is on one side of the wall which was always interior and the lap siding is on the other which was once ext in Raven’s first pic.

    In his 2nd pic I see lap siding on one wall which used to be ext and 1x boards on the opposite wall which were used as int finish.

  39. 39.

    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    Sorry, I’d posted in the wrong thread. I was yelling at myself.

    My tomato is less psychedelic, but the description fits. I’ll be checking it out at lunch.

  40. 40.

    waratah

    The moonflower is gorgeous. First I have seen. We picked a large bowl of tomatoes that will be roasted and frozen, with a few left to ripen.

  41. 41.

    Kattails

    My gardening year got off to an awful start. First it was too dry and cold, then too hot, then soaking wet. The peas came up well but died back or got eaten by the deer, same with the tomatoes, which never really recovered. Frustrating as I spent good money on larger plants. Sweet peas grew well then got aphids & I was too busy with a show to get out the soapy water.  SIGH.

    However the dahlias got in late but caught up, the pole beans are still going, the  scallions got huge, there will be leeks, and the fingerling potatoes seem to do well here.
    l’ve got 3 cords of wood stacked so far and 2 1/2 more coming courtesy of a local fuel assistance program for seniors. Trying a “holz hausen” round stack this year for part of it, which went very quickly and is super stable.

    Got a quart of Concord grapes at a farm market and the Italian plums just came out so jam is on the day’s agenda. We have four lovely days coming up, nice outside work weather.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: For ripeness, my thought is that you should go by feel.  If it feels rock hard like a solid green tomato, wait.  But if it gives at all, I think I would go for it

    P.S.  I was just teasing you.  No need to say ‘sorry’!

  47. 47.

    Geminid

    @Kattails: My friend Joan also grows leeks (when she’s not cussing out squrrels). Joan always lets some of her leeks and onions grow up. The leek flowers are the size of softballs, and small polinator insects seem to like them.

  49. 49.

    stinger

    @waratah: I’m also growing moonflowers for the first time this year. Pure white blooms the size of salad plates! They open in late afternoon/dusk, and close in the morning just as the morning glories are opening. Such fun.

  52. 52.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: Well, if you bought it at a farmer’s market YESTERDAY, I don’t think that was your fault.

    (I always think of farmer’s markets as a saturday thing, though I know they are also on other days of the week in some places.)

  53. 53.

    Gvg

    I am procrastinating going to the local stables for manure. It will be hot. We got an amazing thunderstorm last night so it will be waterlogged and heavy. I don’t have a truck anymore so I have to bag it. Experience has taught me to just put maybe 25 pounds in a bag. Too heavy and it’s a strain to lift. More smaller bags are better for my health. Not a fun chore but nothing makes things grow as well as manure. Plain fertilizer doesn’t improve the soil and long term that just works better. It is still hard work. I wish I could find someone with a truck to pay to get more.

  57. 57.

    opiejeanne

    We moved a bunch of plants into the greenhouse last week because the warm weather in King County just east of Seattle is gone and the overnight lows are creeping down. We transplanted a bunch of peppers into 1-5 gallon pots and set them on the benches. There are several hot peppers that I don’t know the name of because my girls planted them and didn’t mark them. Most of them I don’t know the name of, but there’s a pot of Anaheims and one with Criolla di Cocina sweet peppers with six or seven fruit on it. They’re strange and wrinkly, still dark green and not ready to eat.

    The other plants were already growing in larger pots so we wheeled them in. The San Marzano  and  Brandywine tomatoes are ripening, but the plants look like hell. As soon as we moved them the fruit started to color up. There’s a Honeynut squash in one of the big pots, which is a sweet miniature of the butternut squash with 5 or 6 fruits, and there’s a “Hot Portugal” pepper plant that burst into bloom as soon as we moved it into the greenhouse. I’ve been playing honeybee with a cheap paintbrush, trying to pollenate the peppers, with some success.

    We’re not running a heater in the greenhouse, not after last year’s fire, so this is costing us nothing.

  58. 58.

    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    Here, it’s Thursday for the one down the block from me. I believe most farmers markets around here are sometime between Wednesday and Saturday. NYC’s Union Square Market used to be Wednesdays and Saturdays. It’s probably changed since then.

  59. 59.

    thebewilderness

    There is an ever spreading carpet of pink and white cyclamen blooms in the back garden. Soon the leaves will come out and create a silvery green carpet that lasts all winter through.

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