Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Second rate reporter says what?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

A consequence of cucumbers

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

In after Baud. Damn.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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I am on my way to the farmer’s market this morning.  I can’t buy much since I’m only here until Monday morning, but I am hoping to pick up some of the really great sweet corn they had last Saturday.  Small kernels, tender, very sweet.  And white, which makes no difference to me, but it is pretty!

Looks like the US women won their soccer match last night!  I am perfectly happy to bump one of the soccer threads to the top of the front page whenever there’s a big match.  Someone will just have to nudge me to let me know when that would be.  The current one has 131 comments… for you phone peeps, at what point should I add another thread because length gets to be an issue on phones?

Anyway, happy Saturday!  What’s everybody up to?

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  1. 1.

    OzarkHillbilly

    What’s everybody up to?

    Work work work work work work work work WONDERFUL WORRRRRK

    Too much to do and not enough time in the day. Blech.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Media mention.

    Found on Freevee via Prime (also on Tubi): Great West End Theatres. Focusing on the history, architecture, design and decor, along with anecdotes aplenty (a sample). I do wish they’d spent a little more time peeking in on non-public spaces, but that’s a quibble. Relaxing watch.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    for you phone peeps, at what point should I add another thread because length gets to be an issue on phones?

    When the cannibalism begins.

  5. 5.

    HinTN

    at what point should I add another thread because length gets to be an issue on phones?

    When HumboltBlue runs out of steam?

    Right now, morning cappuccino accompanied by birdsong and creek (talking about these recent rains) through the open window.

  6. 6.

    eclare

    After being wo power for a few days last week, it finally came back Friday afternoon.  So I am throwing everything in my fridge/freezer away and going to Kroger.  The freezer hurts, whenever there was a sale on meat/seafood I would stock up.  Oh well.

    As to your question about threads, I pretty much always use my phone to read Balloon Juice, and I don’t have any issues.  About that, I should add.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    at what point should I add another thread because length gets to be an issue on phones?

    Is there really a need to get hung up about it?
    ;)

  11. 11.

    Immanentize

    Sipping hot coffee, eating a bagel, then more work at Beach House. This trip saw turkeys, a leopard frog, more osprey. Also, finally, a young beaver munching on my raspberries. Then driving back to Boston. It’s a beautiful day!

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    Is it ok to just dip celery right into the peanut butter jar?

    And if you say no, why are you wrong?

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud: Oh…  Ummm….. Let me go check my door locks.

    Homer Simpson: Faster, boy!  He’s got a taste for meat!

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    A murdered writer, his secret diary of the invasion of Ukraine – and the war crimes investigator determined to find it

    “Something happened to me that I cannot convey to you,” she (his mother) tells me. “I had a realisation, suddenly, that he was no longer among the living. But I tried to suppress those thoughts.” She pauses. “You know, I sometimes felt like I wanted to fall upon the road and hit my head against it, just hit it and hit it, and then I would raise my head and Volodya would be standing in front of me.”

    Her son never did stand in front of her again. His corpse was found six months later in a mass grave outside Izium. He had been killed by two bullets from a semi-automatic Makarov pistol. But before he was abducted for the second and last time on 24 March, he did something important: he buried a diary in the back garden, beneath a stand of cherry saplings he’d planted. Six months afterwards, on 10 September, the Russians were driven out of the Izium area by a Ukrainian counteroffensive. And a fortnight after that, on 24 September, the Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina dug the diary up.
    ……………………………..
    That day, 24 September, Amelina took detailed testimony from both of Vakulenko’s parents. It was while she was talking to his father, Vakulenko Sr, that he remembered his son had buried a diary under cherry saplings. They went out the back, beyond the little garden shed. Amelina stooped to pick up a fallen acorn and put it in her pocket; when we speak in March, she has it still.

    At first, Vakulenko Sr couldn’t find the diary at all. He promised to look for it, telling Amelina to return the following day. She, though, less patient and more robust than her 73-year-old companion, took the spade herself, and after a while she hit something just under the surface of the black soil. It turned out to be a plastic bag containing a waterlogged, coverless exercise book.

    She called friends with jobs in museums and libraries, asking advice on how to make sure it didn’t just disintegrate. They told her to find some kind of album and place it between the pages. She replied, frustrated, “Guys, I’m in a recently deoccupied area and I don’t have any album with me – what are you even talking about?”

    But Vakulenko Sr had given her a copy of a poetry book by his son, so she slipped the diary between its leaves, the pages of the printed book absorbing the moisture of the manuscript. When she and her colleagues returned to their base at the end of the day, she called one of Vakulenko’s friends and asked him if she should open the diary. “Of course,” he said. “What else can we do?”

    “I couldn’t read much of it,” Amelina tells me. “I’m not an expert in handwriting. But what struck me most was the last entry in the diary. It was about spring. He saw the cranes in the sky, and he wrote that it seemed to him the birds were crying, ‘Ukraine will be well again.’”
    ………………………..
    Things are different now. The main room of the library smells of fresh paint, in pistachio green, the shelves are stocked with new children’s books and there’s a portrait of Vakulenko above them. There are bright blue beanbags on the floor and light floods in through brand new windows. The date Vakulenko is thought to have bured his diary, 23 March, has been named his memory-day in the village. This year it was marked by an event here in the library, with drawings and stories and games for the village children. “I wanted it like this,” Amelina, who co-organised the day, tells me this spring. “I wanted to commemorate him not by some pathetic speeches and crying, but by making sure the children in his village have some connections to books and writers again.”

    It’s a long read, some of it is hard, but it’s well worth the time. The post script is a real gut punch.

  22. 22.

    Layer8Problem

    Around here it looks to be a tolerable weekend.  Highs in the low to mid 80s, just below 30 for the Celsius-mad, decent air quality.  Our house guest of the close relative persuasion is behaving.  I’m looking to be lazy and lying about idle, which I’m sure means I’ll be doing laundry later.

  25. 25.

    Chief Oshkosh

    What’s everybody up to?

    Just basking in the reflected glory of my better half, who weekly organizes and cooks dinners for unhoused, HIV+ women living in transitional living environments. My job is to go get the supplies today, probably chop veggies, and clean as we go.

    And stay out of the way otherwise… ;)

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    How much do I despise the spiteful cretins currently bossing the Labour Party?

    Yesterday there were three by-elections to replace MPs who have resigned, one of them Flobalob’s Uxbridge seat on the very outskirts of London, which has never, ever gone Labour in its entire history, including St Blair the Liar’s 1997 Megavictory.

    Labour won Selby with a 20% or so swing after huge numbers of Tories stayed home and lots of Lib-Dems voted tactically, the same was true in the other seat down in the south-west where the Lib-Dems triumphed because Labour voters moved over and Tories sat in their arses in protest.

    But in Uxbridge, the Tories clung on by a few hundred votes.

    Now, you’d think that Labour’s leadership would be high-fiving like mad and using this media window to promote their election winning policies, but if so you don’t understand who and what are leading Labour these days.

    You see, the Tories made a centrepiece of their campaign opposition to ULEZ, which is basically the low-emissions/environmentally progressive scheme introduced by Flobalob back when he was London Mayor and carried on and improved by his Labour successor, the current Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Their hypocrisy should have been an opportunity for the entirely centrally directed Labour campaign in Uxbridge to hammer home the message that the Tory Party is a cesspit of lying liars who lie all the time, but they didn’t, because apart from everything else they’re absolutely awful at politics. Hence the Tory’s clinging on.

    So instead of bigging up the wins and acknowledging that Labour needs to do more to get across the green message that it needs to harness younger voters, Starmer has instead plunged a knife into Mayor Khan’s back by blaming the entire defeat on ‘his’ ULEZ policy, demanding that Khan should ‘reflect on that’, and insisting that his Labour Party simply cannot be promoting any policies that a Tory might object to.

    It’s just breathtakingly cynical and entirely about the spiteful, paranoid factionalism that the mob around Starmer live for. It can’t possibly be the leadership’s fault that their campaign failed to convince one of the most pro-Tory seats in the country to vote for them, it must be the fault of ‘wreckers and vandals’ from other parts of the Party. Khan is popular in London and in the wider Party, but he’s not part of the insular, corporate-owned Labour Right clique advising Starmer so is seen purely as a potential rival who must be brought down. Plus the Labour Right want donations from corporations and groups who oppose environmental regulation, so obviously anything Green has to be dumped as firmly as anything vaguely Red tinged.

    Bear in mind, this comes after a week in which Starmer’s mob u-turned on established policy to bring hundreds of thousands of poorer families out of poverty by dumping their commitment to ending the two-child restriction on receiving child benefit (can’t those slutty poors just keep their legs closed?) and their obsessive dedication to purging the Party of anyone who they don’t trust to be 100% loyal to their cult finally started to hit the headlines.

    I swear to Dog, these fuckers are absolutely determined to replace the Tories by just becoming the Tories. They’re certainly not interested in giving anyone to the left of Cthulhu any reason to want to vote for them.

    Other than that, the holiday is going fine.

  28. 28.

    Immanentize

    @eclare: I did — its not even on the lake but about a mile into the woods from Lake Oneida. But the original farm that the old farmhouse (my new money pit) was built on, was owned by Aldus Beach. It is on Beach Road. I love to confuse people.

    My cousin calls it “Casa Boondocks.”

  30. 30.

    Baud

    @Tony Jay:

    Khan is popular in London and in the wider Party,

     
    Interesting. Someone else here said Khan was on track to lose reelection but that the Tories put up such a yahoo that he could win.

  33. 33.

    MattF

    Thinking about breakfast. I sometimes do a Granola-plus: plus fruit, yogurt, cottage cheese, and preserves. Mix it all up and make tomorrow a farty day.

  34. 34.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:  He’s won election twice and London is a Labour stronghold. If there was a chance of unseating him the Tories would have had decent candidates queuing up to run for Mayor, instead they’ve had to scrape a full-on Godbothering Brexiteer off someone’s shoes. What does that tell you?

    The Starmerites just see him and London generally as an enemy faction that must be purged and brought to heel. There’s not much more to their hostility than that. 

  39. 39.

    Josie

    I am studying the intricacies of Amazon ads for my book. It is a fascinating world of details that I was totally unaware of. I love researching and learning new stuff, so this is sort of fun. Weird, huh?​
     ETA: It’s way too hot to do anything outside except water my pot plants and run back into the house.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    My counter protest plans were postponed because of rain (and lightning!).  My mom took the bus and instead of meeting me at the protest, we had dinner and then went to see my kid’s band play in Ogunquit.
    I spent a lot of time there when I was young but I think it’s been 20 years since I’ve been there.  Leavitt Theatre is the same as when I saw the first Indiana Jones movie there.  Last night it was rocking!  So much fun.  They show movies silently in the background so I got some amazing photos/videos of my kid playing guitar with TRex behind him.
    I noticed the theatre has a lot of drag shows coming up.  My favorite flyer said something like Rude Crude and Yes We’re Actually Dudes!  I think I’m heading back to Ogunquit.

    Only downside is that we got home at 2 am and I typically turn into a pumpkin by 10.  Oh well.  It was a fun night.  My mom had a ball. It was worth it.
    I’m going to guzzle some coffee before I make the trek upta camp.

  41. 41.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

    Isn’t that a good chunk of your path to power?

    But yeah, Khan might well be beatable by a top-tier Conservative candidate, but they don’t exist. If they did Starmer and Co wouldn’t be 20% ahead in the polls. The Tories have spent the last few years shitting the bed so thoroughly that almost everyone just wants to see the back of them.

  46. 46.

    Raven

    Illini Supersweet!

    John Laughnan was a corn geneticist and professor of botany. In the early 1950s he was studying the shrunken-2 (sh2) gene and discovered this gene led to corn that produced kernels with less starch and four times more sugar than other sweet corn at the time. When Laughnan started marketing his varieties of sweet corn with the sh2 gene, he developed the “Illini Supersweet” hybrid. Today “supersweet” is often used synonymously with sh2.

  49. 49.

    WaterGirl

    @Raven: Sadly, they did not have the amazing white corn today.  I got a few ears of what they called its “sister corn” – yellow, I think.

    I will know more after lunch. :-)

  50. 50.

    lowtechcyclist

    @mrmoshpotato: ​
     

    Is it ok to just dip celery right into the peanut butter jar?

    I slice up apples and dip the slices into the PB jar. If celery is your thing, then go for it.

    We just got back from the farmers’ market. Among other produce and baked goods, we bought a zucchini that is bigger than my size 12 clodhoppers. A Third World family of four could live off that sucker for a week.

  51. 51.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @eclare: The state GOP would never have done it so the voters did at the ballot box. Surprise surprise the state GOP now wants to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives.

  52. 52.

    Tony Jay

     

    @eclare:

    That’s the question a LOT of people are asking, and all they’re getting in response is either “Well enjoy five more years of Tories, moron!” or “They’re just being clever to look electable, once in power they’ll do absolutely everything you could possibly want.”

    If you point out that the people running Labour are the exact same mob who spent the entirety of Corbyn’s leadership telling everyone who would listen that decent people should’t really be comfortable voting Labour, they’ll just scream at you and start throwing poop around.

    It’s sad, but this is what happens when the people informing the country about politics are so afraid of paying a few more pennies in tax that they simply have to tell whatever lies are necessary to prevent that horror from coming to pass.

    Not that they’re ever going to admit it, of course.

  53. 53.

    eclare

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Here in TN we don’t get voter initiatives, as far as I know.  We don’t even elect our AG, that position is appointed by the TN Supreme Court.  Can’t let people vote too much!

  55. 55.

    gwangung

    I’ve taken a quick trip to Minnesota just because….I haven’t seen my theatre friends for a while and one of them has written a duopoly: Kung Fu Zombies: Shaman Warrior.Female protagonists. SE Asian based. Fight choreography galore.

    Irresistable.

  56. 56.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    As for what I’m doing, I’m thinking about maybe, possibly thinking about thinking about writing something. Maybe.

    Also I should phone my siblings and my best friend. And get some exercise.

  57. 57.

    Layer8Problem

    @Layer8Problem:  Whoop, the honeymoon’s over.  The related houseguest has just unconsciously made the third grotesque inhaley snort in the past half-hour.  Partner and I in response have just Gazed Significantly at each other.

  58. 58.

    AM in NC

    I will shortly be watching F1Qualifying while going through lists of Dem or unaffiliated voters from my precinct who vote sporadically, trying to target those who might be fruitful for canvassing drops.  We want to do regular flyers to those folks to remind them of all the great things Dems have been doing; inform them of new GOP voter ID requirements; and connect them with the Dem. Party throughout the year.  We already send hand-written postcards to every newly-registered Democrat in our precinct to welcome them to the neighborhood.

    We are also trying to coordinate with other precincts and other counties to share these materials so that we aren’t all reinventing the wheel all the time.  I am excited about our new state-level Democratic  leadership.  Not so sure about my county’s leadership this time, but we have good precinct people and volunteers in abundance.

  59. 59.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @eclare: The Guardian had this up today: Tennessee toughens voting rules for people with felony convictions

    Previously, someone with a felony who wished to vote again had to pay all debts and then get government officials to sign off on a form – called a certificate of restoration – affirming their eligibility to vote. The process was burdensome, especially compared to the automatic restoration that occurs in a majority of states upon release from prison or after a period of probation or parole.

    But on Friday, the state’s division of elections added another hurdle. It said that someone with a felony had to first successfully receive a pardon from the governor or have a court restore their full rights of citizenship. Once that is done, the person must then complete the certificate of restoration process to get their rights restored.

    Definitely can’t have those people voting.

  63. 63.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: My Aunt and Uncle had a fishing/hunting camp on the Lake of the Woods. When we went up for a visit it was always in August, their off season. One year the old man stopped at a roadside stand in Iowa and bought a peck of sweet corn. When we finally arrived on the island it was 10 PM and the kitchen was shut down for the night. So Betty set up a big pot of water and made sweet corn for everybody. Sweet corn and seconds of sweet corn with 3rds for those who wanted it.

    One of the best damned dinners I’ve ever had. Absolutely one of the most memorable.

  66. 66.

    Anyway

    Had a busy, stress-filled week at work and look to be lazy and decompress a little today. Maybe some light clean up, yard work as the mood strikes…and catch up with my neighbors.

  68. 68.

    Nukular Biskits

    @eclare:

    MS had a voter initiative process, until the state supremes struck it down as a result of a lawsuit filed by some a-hole who was desperately trying to stop the medical marijuana ballot initiative over two years ago.

  69. 69.

    Nukular Biskits

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Sounds like TN is envious of MS.

    That’s pretty much what we do here … it’s a vestige of Jim Crow and our current (mostly “conservative” white) political leadership in this state is quite happy with the status quo.

  72. 72.

    MagdaInBlack

    @OzarkHillbilly: As I remember from my childhood summers there, one does not get sweet corn like that in Ontario. You bet I’d open up the kitchen and feast 😊

  75. 75.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: The Del Monte plant in Mendota, IL contracted out their sweet corn to farmers in the area, some of which were friends of ours. We always knew the day before they were set to pick, so we would be out in the field the night before…filling the back of a pick up truck.

    Having had a miserable summer job de-tasseling for Del Monte, I felt I had earned some of their corn.

  76. 76.

    laura

    Sacramento Saturday Corn Report- spouse and I drove up the Jackson Highway to Davis Ranch, the home of sloughouse corn and other less celebrated vegetables the other day and got a couple sackfuls of white and yellow corn. Shared half with friends, ate some for dinner the night before last. Today, I’ll convert the remainder into cowboy Caviar and we’ll be eating it on tortilla chips until we chase the very last kernel.

    It’s been so hot and we’ve got days more to endure, so it’s off to the backyard to water and weed, and then sail the couch with some books and some icy hibiscus tea and maybe some painting. I’ve got a backyard mural project and I’m going to narrow down the color palate and effects before I put brush to wall.

  79. 79.

    eclare

    All of this talk of wonderful corn, I guess I’ve never had any.  I don’t think I’ve seen it at our big downtown farmers’ market.  I just googled, corn does grow here.  Maybe it’s all grown for livestock feed.

    I don’t remember having it much growing up.

  80. 80.

    zhena gogolia

    @eclare: Oh, man, you need to rectify that. My father used to grow it in the backyard. I’m too lazy to go get it now, but when you get it, it is a gourmet treat.

  82. 82.

    dnfree

    @mrmoshpotato: Answer from last night: These days I microwave sweet corn!  No more waiting for the big pot of water to boil.  I shuck the corn, put it in an old Corningware flat square casserole with a lid, and microwave for maybe 4 minutes.  Another plus is that the cob also gets heated so the corn stays warm longer while you’re eating it.  The only water is what’s left on the corn after I rinse it off.

  83. 83.

    eclare

    @zhena gogolia:

    I would have to go a pretty good ways to find that, I think.  There is a smaller farmers’ market pretty close, maybe I’ll try there.  The downtown one is huge.

  87. 87.

    dnfree

    @Jackie: if your peanut butter is soft enough to dip cheese into, you’re probably not refrigerating it after opening?  And even your own germs from today, or last week, or however long the jar sits around, can multiply unpleasantly.

    I know the recommendation to refrigerate peanut butter after opening is controversial, but Consumer Reports scared me years ago and I refrigerate it.

  89. 89.

    zhena gogolia

    @eclare: Oh, yes, you probably need to be a little farther north. You probably have some delicious corn nonetheless. I don’t really like it super-sweet.

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    Linky coding fix. (Sorry ’bout that.)

    @dnfree

    Almost too easy to microwave fresh corn in the husk. And it really does emerge silk-free.

    I find a thick hand towel more helpful then the oven mitt he uses in the video to free the cob. Reheat it later on after it’s out of the husk? Wrap in a dampened paper towel.

  91. 91.

    dnfree

    @zhena gogolia: Our local farmstand had posted earlier in the week that they would have sweet corn on Saturday (today).  Then yesterday they posted that surprise, they had some.  I saw the post 15 minutes after it went up, jumped in my car, and drove over.  The place was packed.  We had it for dinner last night and will have more tonight.

  93. 93.

    kalakal

    @Tony Jay:

    The Evening Standard has also helped Khan by showing the Tory Loon on their cover.

    Vote for me! I’m sane

    She’s a terrible candidate, the equivalent of a full blown MAGA Trumpist in a purple district. Amongst other thing she wants to bring back Lettuce Liz’s economic policies.

    ULEX is pretty unpopular in the outer suburbs, classic nimbyism and probably did hurt their vote but Labour did really well in the bye elections, that’s the message Starmer should be pushing. The media should be full on “The Tories are stuffed”, instead  there’s that mixed with  a ton of garbage about how Labour are planning to ditch ‘Green policies’. Temperatures are at their highest ever, every 2nd headline is climate doom, and the Labour leadership is worried about scaring 70 year old Tory voters who will never vote for them anyway . Want to win elections? Forget trying to win over hardcore right wing nutjobs, instead fire up under 25s and you’re not going to do that by offering oatmeal

  94. 94.

    dnfree

    @NotMax: Thanks—I’ve seen that method more recently, but I was already into the microwaving as I described.  I think the lid on the shucked corn has a similar result to leaving the husks on, or the paper towel?  I’ll have to try it sometime.  (This way I get to see and remove any worms or bugs.)

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    @dnfree

    Trick the cooks at summer camp used to employ when boiling hundreds of ears of freshly shucked corn in humongous pots was to add milk to the cooking water. Corn did come out noticeably sweeter.

  96. 96.

    kalakal

    Been crazy busy for the last few weeks so normally only get to reading dead threads. Nice to comment rather than just lurk.

    Had a lovely Thursday afternoon this week. The latest subject in my biographical lectures was Beethoven, wasn’t sure how it would go, in the event I had a great time and the punters seemed to enjoy it.

    I played it out with this performance of the Ode to Joy and people were coming up with tears in their eyes saying how beautiful it was. Fortunately I had a box of tissues😀

  97. 97.

    Miss Bianca

    @gwangung: Is that in Minneapolis? I have a friend who’s going to Minneapolis in a couple weeks, I will tell her to look out for this one! (currently she’s booked to see Into the Woods at the Guthrie, but I am sure she would make a detour for Shaman Zombies.)  :)

    @dnfree: I always refrigerate the peanut butter I get because the oil separates and it becomes a goopy mess if I don’t.

  98. 98.

    opiejeanne

    @dnfree: When I was a kid we had a couple of acres and my family planted a big garden every year; planting day was always a big deal and sweet corn always took up the largest space.

    We went to dinner at a friend’s house once and took them a big bag of ripe corn as a gift, but there was a worm near the top of one ear and the wife threw the whole bag away WHILE WE WERE THERE!. A criminal offense, for sure and My mom never forgave her, in private referred to her as a city girl.   The city girl insult makes me laugh now: This was all in Los Angeles county, we lived in Baldwin Park and our friends lived in Eagle Rock.

  99. 99.

    zhena gogolia

    @eclare: I don’t know about that. I’m not sure how MO compares to TN, but we had good corn, it just wasn’t the super-sweet stuff. I prefer it a little less sweet but with a deep flavor.

  101. 101.

    Cowgirl in the Sandi

    @Raven: Illini Supersweet!

    We lived in Illinois when I was a kid and I remember once when someone my father knew brought us some Illini Supersweet!.  It just blew everyone away compared to regular corn.

  103. 103.

    eclare

    @zhena gogolia:

    I’ll keep a look out for it now.

    As for heat, I just googled, and if it’s anything to go by Memphis is in a different hardiness zone than MO.

  105. 105.

    Mustang Bobby

    Gathering with family to celebrate my mom’s life and put her ashes next to Dad in the garden wall of the little chapel in the woods in the place in northern Michigan where we spent many summers and where they lived year-round for fifteen years.

  106. 106.

    AM in NC

    @Mustang Bobby: Thinking about you and your family. We scattered my mom’s ashes a couple of weeks ago. This is all so hard. Glad you and your family can be together!

  107. 107.

    Tony Jay

    @kalakal:

    Labour leadership is worried about scaring 70 year old Tory voters who will never vote for them anyway . Want to win elections? Forget trying to win over hardcore right wing nutjobs, instead fire up under 25s and you’re not going to do that by offering oatmeal

    Hand on heart, I think the Lost Cause Loons running Labour these days have come come to the conclusion that progressive politics and firing up the under 25s = a membership that would, if offered the opportunity, dump their corporate owned centre-right arses and go Left again. So they would rather leave that entire voting demographic to wither on the vine of FPTP and instead seek the votes of elderly Tories and racists who reward authoritarianism as long as it’s wrapped up in anti-hippy, anti-green, anti-woke flagshagging.

    That’s the Starmer Project in a nutshell. Oatmeal and bile. That’s all that’s on the menu.

  110. 110.

    dnfree

    @opiejeanne: That was a criminal offense!  We had a big garden in northern Illinois when I was young.  We did a lot of weeding and hoeing, but we also ate warm tomatoes fresh off the vine, like apples.  Great memories.

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