I spent a delightful 50+ minutes this afternoon chatting about plant physiology– and popular misconceptions about such– with Kat. At issue is the idea that less than perfect leaves should be wacked off the plant so as to allow the plant to channel its good intensions to more desirable parts of the plant. What poppycock.
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A new Tie Dye from Dyed and Company! The hand of the 100% cotton shirt is luxurious. It’s “USA Strong,” too! Assembled in Nicaragua, all USA components. And did you see the hem? That’s just the canvas for this one-of-a-kind work of art. Aren’t the colors fabulous? I know from experience that they stay true
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The theme is wheat and other grasses. Not quite Still Summer but, as is becoming undeniable given the later sunrises and earlier sunsets, no longer Summer. You may ask, and it’s a legitimate question, “Why? Why bother? It’s not like anyone is going to see it except you and Mr. Big Food.” Why not? What’s
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Born this day in the year 1811 Théophile Gautier. That infallible source spills a lot of ink over someone of whom I have never heard– though now that I’ve search the card catalog of my little home library I see “The Mummy’s Foot” is one of The World’s One Hundred Best Short Stories Volume Two:
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There’s a theme. We’ll talk about that later. I’d first like to remark that if you thought putting a new tablecloth on a big dining room table all by yourself was a challenge, you should try it with just one hand someday.
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Ace of Spades Headquarters Sunday Morning Book Thread Also
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The little Irish boy got swarmed by a nest of cotton mouths. Lonesome Dove. What a great mini-series. Life was rough back in the crappy olden days.
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Picked up supper at The Asian Market in Starkvegas yesterday. Business was hopping! Dine in is still not open but the takeout orders were stacked up and it was only 5:30. Good to see. Lots of new people working there and the Help Wanted sign was still up. FYI for those who know the store,
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JoBeth posted a cute little rhyme today. For some reason it reminded me of this.
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Love the penmanship.
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On this day in 1828 Leo Tolstoi was born. If War and Peace is a bit much, here’s your chance to read some Tolstoi. The Prisoner in the Caucasus Here’s the entire entry at that infallible source: “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” (Russian: Кавказский пленник, Kavkazskii plennik) is an 1872 novella written by Leo Tolstoy. The story
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We were, and still are, in the slot, thankfully. This is what I’ve been thinking since yesterday. It’s been an interesting storm. Did a lot of damage in Louisiana. Did you hear? Just as the storm was moving over Lake Charles, a sugar plant outside of town caught fire. Toxic fumes. Turn off your air
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Today we turned quite a few pages in our crappy little old Guide to Daily Reading (1925). If you’ve forgotten, turning the page means we’ve started a new week in the Guide which offers … um, daily readings, and at the beginning of the week, an epigraph. It’s been a while since we’ve been guided
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“As I suspected, and as none of the local forecasters noticed, there’s a shit ton of thunder and lightning going on right now.” To which M Miss and replied “How rude of them.” And I said, “Inconsiderate.” You would have thought they’d have seen this coming.
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Mr. Big Food often includes the verbiage that comes along with the recipes in his crappy old cookbooks. This Hurricane recipe, from Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter (1960/1970), has a lot over verbiage. The recipe is in there… somewhere, along will Bull Cook’s recommendation.
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Don’t know about the door shutting, interior doors do not seal tightly. But what harm could it do? Life is full of stress. But the more control you have over the circumstances of your life, I think particularly your day-to-day routines and habits during a weather “event,” the less stress you will feel. How many
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Might get some rain.
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Dry run. For no reason other than what we learned was a downed line, we lost power for about an hour immediately after I’d posted that last post. We were up & running in no time, but a considerable amount of cuss words were uttered in the first 20 minutes or so. WTF? is a
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Yesterday I had a spot of fun looking at some graphics from local National Weather Service (NWS) Twitter. This one especially tickled me. On the face of it, everything on the list sort of makes sense. But when you start digging in, and thinking about some of the underlying assumptions, I don’t think it’s particularly
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