@pennyjs.bsky.social These cheer me up and made me think of you! Have a lovely day today! The same goes for everyone else, of course! 🌱
Software developer and hobby gardener in Germany. I like books, snail mail, birds, sewing, and running. she/her. I run the Organic Gardening feed from a separate account (@gardening.cyrinne.dev).
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@pennyjs.bsky.social These cheer me up and made me think of you! Have a lovely day today! The same goes for everyone else, of course! 🌱
My mom smuggled vodka into the care home where my granny spent her last few months. My granny never got drunk, but she grew up with the taste and they only allowed beer and wine at the home. When you're 90+ and managed to not damage your liver thus far ... 🤷♀️
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Oh no. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope next week will be better and that we'll get a golden rather than gloomy fall! 🍁🍂☀️
I'd love to have a dog and while I could afford it financially by now, I know I don't have enough time.
Okay, 750 is a bit much. That does sound odd.
I get where you're coming from, but at least they're rehoming her instead of dumping her somewhere. Rehoming fees are pretty common in Germany. Especially for animals from a shelter, but I've also seen them in private ads - perhaps the family has a different cultural background?
... and if you have a squirrel in your area, you'll always have more seedlings on hand. 😁 (It's too cute to watch them clean and bury the nuts, though. ☺️)
And even if you did ... It'd be sitting on that trampoline 🤷♀️ But hey, TIL that there's a yo-yo emoji! 🪀
I'm sorry that your world (and ours) needs to be brightened, but thanks so much for always posting your lovely pictures and words.
"His self-esteem bounced up and down like a yo-yo on a trampoline." 🪀 Maybe the authors should've paired their (acknowledged) ghost writer with a stricter editor. 😅 #writing
I've been wondering why you went with individual shares rather than an index fund / ETF on the MSCI World or similar? The latter spreads the risk and you can skip the research / monitoring required for individual shares to avoid complete losses.
I've never seen this cat before. The last lurker came in 2018 or 2019 when there were no privacy stripes yet. Thus, I feel entirely justified in my response as my face was a mere two feet from the cat when I turned from my desk to fetch something. 😂
Just got a message from my husband upstairs: "What happened? Did you scare yourself? Wasn't me!" This. This happened. 🤣 #cats
Thank you, it was better. ☺️ Even the dentist couldn't find anything.
And what about Bluesky? When you search there? The claim was that Bluesky was censoring the results for some reason. Perhaps it was just a technical glitch that the search wasn't working, who knows.
Wow. I see tons of posts when I repeat that search. I'm in Germany.
I have a pen pal from the US who's worried about snail mail not being secure anymore. Do you know anything about that? I haven't heard anything regarding USPS censorship nor could I find anything online.
Regarding the scraping, I'm not sure it can be avoided if you post anything in public and bots will try to sign up for anything else, too, even the most obscure private forum.
Ah, okay. At least for now, third-party clients for Bluesky may be a solution for the censorship part:
What are you looking for? News? Entertainment? Text / audio / video?
Thank you! I do have to leave early for that and yes, only two more days this week!
Thank you. I do have a dentist appointment tomorrow, so we'll see. 😅 (Just a check-up. Should be fine.)
Today was basically a "red chicken day". 🤣
Wow, I was so wrong. I had totally forgotten about how all hell tends to break loose as soon as my co-workers are on vacation. I'll probably be able to laugh about this next week, but today was so bad it was positively absurd.
Are you positive it isn't pure hatred on the IDE side?! 😅 Mine can smell upcoming releases and has made an evil pact with Gradle to add some extra excitement to crunch times. 🤣
Haven't gotten very far yet as I had to have a very stern word with Intellij IDEA about loading and running the example code first, but if it's only half as good as advertised, I'm almost certain that I will enjoy it. 🙂
So very pretty! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Have a lovely day! 🙂
I finally started to read the book today after seeing all your posts, haha. I had bought it more ot less as soon as it was available, I think, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. 🙂
I've noticed a lot of dying conifers in my area - large, established ones, too. Not sure what exactly is causing this, but it seems to be more than just a coincidence as the larger ones have been around for quite some time.
Hope you'll feel better soon!
Thanks. Yes, it'll be better tomorrow. I haven't quite given up on my (young-ish) co-workers just yet, it's just knowing how it could be (as I had that in my previous job) ... On the bright side - today gave me a few more talking points for the annual performance review that's coming up. 😎
Thank you. I'm sure it will. I already sorted out a few things today and managed to get to the bottom of my inbox, so things should be better tomorrow.
Candle making is so much fun!
Well, congrats again! 🎉👏
@lisihocke.bsky.social My day was quite the opposite of how you described coming back to work after a vacation. I went through several iterations of this bookmark today. 😅
My first day of work after two weeks of PTO has been perfectly summarized by @datgestruepp.bsky.social :
It's worth it, the seeds will be good for about 8 years (tomato seeds store comparatively well).
I do let mine ferment for a bit (couple of days), but not long enough for them to sprout. After rinsing, I dry them on a plate as they are no longer sticky then. I'm afraid the ones in the picture may not work because of the sprouting. Perhaps you could try it again to be safe?
You're not a prude, just being prudent! I just block those. That also removes their posts for me.
Oh no! Hoping for the best! 🍀🍀🍀
Thank you! 🙂
Thank you! ☺️
Thank you 🙂
Thank you! ☺️
Oh, and I just tried to find a new ball of yarn that matched the color of the end of the old one. The sleeves aren't perfectly symmetrical, but that's okay.
Modifications: Some extra rows both for the sleeves and for front & back. Some extra decreases near the cuffs of the sleeves to make them less wide.
Yay, I knitted my first sweater! I've been casually knitting for many years now, but never dared to try again after a botched first attempt that got frogged and rebirthed as pot holders. Wool: Schoppel Reggae ombré Overdose Pattern: Schoppel Sweater „Luna“ by Irene Lindörfer (slightly modified) 🧶
Hope you'll feel better soon!
Good luck! As a German, I only know the Continental style, though I've seen the English version in videos. Therefore, I can't answer your question, though I also use the pinkie when I crochet, if that helps a little. ☺️
Congrats! 🎉
Well, it's an abbreviation for Büstenhalter (literally "bust/bosom holder") which is so very old-fashioned that you hardly ever hear that. That one does have a few more letters. 😂
No worries, I had guessed as much, but my brain still jumps to bra first. 😂 For frying, I actually use slightly underripe tomatoes for best results (when they have just the first hint of color, but still look green). Nothing for kids or to serve often, but very tasty!
Have you tried different ways of wrapping the yarn around (different) fingers? For me, once around the pinkie works best for some reason, even though I was taught going around the index finger instead.
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It always takes me a second to get what you mean when you write "BH" (which is the German equivalent of "bra"). 😂 I can't ID those toms, except for green zebra perhaps?
Had a great time at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen the other day. They really are doing their best to provide large and appropriate enclosures for the animals. The animals are free to hide whenever they feel like it ... or to play pranks on the visitors. 😂
Aw, thank you!
I'd rather have the US get rid of him without the war in Europe spreading to other countries though.
Seems like they were too scared (or too tired) to look close enough. They did say that they couldn't see anyone there. 😅
Thank you 🙂
Hope you'll feel better soon!
And now you've made me smile, too. Thank you! ☺️
Me too - if that's the piece of news to report from Germany, we're good. 🤣
A German slug makes international news! Love the statement by the police. 😂
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Looks great! It's such a high maintenance plant, so nice to see you're getting your reward. :)
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Oh no!
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear about your pole beans. Yes, it's a challenge - last year was the exact opposite for me. All bean plants had some kind of plant sickness and they hardly produced anything.
Thank you!
Thank you :)
Thank you! I've never seen any this nice in my garden. They're easy to harvest as well.
Thank you, we will. :)
Lovely green beans this year (after a crop failure last year). Sown late in early July, this is the first harvest. 🌱
I run callous-free, but I don't run nearly as much as you do, so hard to tell.
Maybe I should've become a tester instead of a software developer after all - I keep on finding the weirdest bugs without even looking for any. I just ordered my meds. During check out, everything was suddenly multiplied by two. Good thing I double-checked the total before I hit pay. 😅
Those are wise words indeed!
Bwahaha. 🤣🤣🤣 Note to self: Take lotion to the next appointment. Today, my new doctor had the gall to tell me I was "so very healthy" just by looking at me.
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Thank you, that makes me feel less alone in this. 🙂 I mean, they're right - it's often easier to go fast than to stick with doing a slow run. Most beginners run too fast and some others never do easy runs either. BTW, I've been overtaken by someone walking their dog before. 😅
I've been replying to your deleted post about this... Would you like a dm instead? 😅
Wow, these look amazing! I just harvested a few beans, but their pods were completely dry and thus boring to look at.
They are! The plant was cute from the very beginning.
Thank you, I'll have to check if I can find these over here!
Now I'm wondering how many onions I grow - I honestly have no clue! Not this many, surely, but still ... I love to grow (and eat) them as well. Yours look nice - I don't think I've seen a pink one before, only the dark red ones.
I can imagine! Thankfully, this blackberry is a thornless cultivar. With the wild ones, you end up scratched on top of stained sooner or later, haha.
Thank you. I live in a city, but near it's outer limits, so there is a bit of nature to be had nearby while we can still use public transport to get anywhere we need to be. (Which is crucial for us since we don't own a car.)
Thank you. 🙂
I must have missed that somehow when I purchased the seeds.
Still, that's better than this! I'd guess there's a norm for the height etc. in Germany - the public benches are all very similar.
Where I currently live, they seem to have dropped them at random in the forest. Most face a bunch of nettles. Some a bunch of brambles. There are nicer views to be had, but no benches there.
True! I froze them, though.
Do you feel the third section falls into this category as well or did the author at least stick to sensible suggestions? (Face cream makes me doubt that a little.)
Thanks for the review. I'm a little allergic to the "DIY" stuff that is often propagated in such books. It's not minimalist if I need to buy a ton of stuff from different online stores to make a product that I can buy a decent version of and it is not minimalist at all to make stuff no one needs.
Congrats! 🎉
The final color is a nice red. 🌱
Of course! Just send me a dm when you have the time and feel up to it. ☺️
Or even simpler: Only in butter if his taste is more like my granny's (I still love carrots this way!).
If he isn't opposed to raw carrots: Finely grated together with an apple (also grated), mixed with a little bit of sugar, lemon juice, and a small amount of cream as a dressing (let everything sit in the fridge for a while before serving cool or at room temp) makes a nice "salad".