Theoretically I can apply for italian citizenship but they've started going right wing as well :-(
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Theoretically I can apply for italian citizenship but they've started going right wing as well :-(
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I really enjoy those too but not doing great this year. It's one of my struggling plants. It has grown but is smaller than usual, it's set several fruit but also smaller than normal and only one has ripened with lots of cracks.
thank you!
Check out the size of this garlic clove (from the farmers market). Finally something appropriate for when a recipe calls for 1 clove 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't ask about my water bill 🤣🤣🤣
Same here with heat waves but I got lucky. My plants seemed to have been 2-3 weeks behind in my area, so they had set fruit but a lot needed ripening. Cue heat wave.
My favorites for flavor have been -Vin Jaune (orange heart/plum type) - sun gold cherries - principessa borghese plum/paste - Beauty King heirloom Disappointments: sweet million cherry, oregon spring slicer (both plants just wan) and a sunset bumblebee cherry that won't set fruit. 🌱
#TomatoSeason in full swing here! 🌱 Would love to hear folks favorite uses! We've been doing greek salads, tomato sandwiches, roasted cherry tomatoes, "moonblush" (overnight mostly dried) tomatoes, tabbouleh, cherry tom's & ciliegine mozz salad, and use in cooking too.
The "product varies in size by store" kills me. It's not just the nicer stores. Even Winco and Fred carry identical items in slightly different sizes. eg Laundry detergent and softener. I swear it's a cabal to make it hard to shop around. Everything becomes a calculation to compare cost.
Plenty of businesses were fine with the Reich in Germany. No one ever defended democracy by putting profit first.
infuriating.
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There's always been a strong anti-intellectual strain in America, but the internet / social media allowed it to both grow and be explained.
Thank you for the chuckle!
Even before I read the follow up I guessed the first pairing wa epic because Champagne goes with everything even when it doesn't.
And kids won't read or write?!?!
God Bless Nishta Mehra for introducing me to the joy of Peach Tomato Basil salad. It marries the best of summer together in such a lovely way. Garden tomatoes & basil (& chive cause I like it), Hood River white peaches, s & wp, evoo, and bit of white balsamic to set off the sweetness.
Very well designed and manicured. Hopefully some of those plantings are natives! But there's also enormous beauty in wild and chaotic gardens, especially when intertwined with nature. I've learned to love that, and in ways I find a fully designed, tidy yard a bit artificial.
It's so well made comparatively that I can't be irritated it's not classic SW format or feel. Versus to the Obi Wan series, I'll take Andor hands down. I just wish they put similar quality into all their endeavors.
You love what you love and it's also what you do. A great circumstance.
Amen
And it's buried, but of course this guy is a GOPedo. Because every GOP accusation is a confession.
There is no more traditional GOP. And she's the perfect face of the turncoat trying to pretend not to be.
Inordinately proud of @finderdoug.bsky.social publishing his first novel!!!
Blessings upon you.
Physical inactivity seems like a very broad umbrella as well.
yes - and not humid and not constantly festooned with mosquitoes
Of course today makes me a liar. It's 70. Happens sometimes after several days of 90+.
Heard. We get heat waves (just finishing one now) but they end and we drop back to 60s or lower by morning.
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Post deleted, but sounds like them.
I made that mistake more than once! It's hard to remember to check at Dark O'clock without coffee.
Are we sure it will? Because it's been a long time since Kent State with a few incidents in between and endless officer involved shootings and we haven't reached that point yet
fascinating
To be fair we settled for all the grey because the house gave us 95% of what we were looking for (including a great 1/3 acre lot) and we knew eventually all the grey could be changed though it might be a ways down the road.
Our house is light grey with black doors (ugh!) but was done 1-2 years before our purchase in '23, so it doesn't make maint or $$$ sense to repaint house yet. We WILL be painting the black doors our previous house color to at least give it a pop. The color looks much brighter irl.
ooooooh. lovely!!! Love that it's local tree wood. :)
Full credit to @finderdoug.bsky.social on those butcher block countertops. We got the slab and he did all the work to cut, bevel and stain them.
We want to partial reconfigure here so there would be some new cabinets (only a couple) and minimally a new section of countertop if not a full replace. I'm hoping painting makes me like the current countertop more!
Love butcher block! We did own own staining (food grade) for these walnut countertops ourselves in our last place when we did a mini-reconfigure. Sadly it was for the sale - one of those wished we'd done it sooner!
These kinds of changes are always fulfilling - inevitably you end up wishing you'd done it sooner! We'd do a makeover now if it was in the budget... that will have to wait a while. Paint is cheap. Cabinets and countertops are not!
gorgeous
I am jealous of the courage to go bold. I am good at bold accents (eg furnishings and pillows and such) but shy away from it on walls. Admittedly I am not great at visualizing, and it's easier with the more muted / pastel tones.
very bold! This is our countertop. The sparkles always look darker in photos.
Thank you for my external validation! 🙃
Well it's not yet, lol! But eventually. Looking forward to your pictures also!
The countertop is one of those sparkly quartz types. Not my fave but it was recent and in good shape. The sparkles have a tendency to look silvery / grayish, painting the cabinets green will hopefully bring out that more "sea glass" type tone in it.
these are screenshots from the paint manufacturers. The second one was what we painted our prior bedroom (and will again here). It looks less yellowish irl.
came here to say this.
Eventually those will get changed. And the white everywhere walls will be painted. (here's to knowing our colors from the last house!). Debating on painting the white kitchen cabinets one of these colors. (maybe bottoms only).
When we were home shopping I saw SO MUCH GRAY. For the life of me I can't fathom why PNW homes went so in on the gray trend. Absolutely hate. We had to settle for (lightish) gray LVP flooring and carpet in the home we bought. But at least it wasn't cabinets, counters, or walls.
Socialism in its official capacity.
It just looked so orange/coral in the previous pic.
Do they normally lose so much color that fast?
My oregon blue tarp is currently under my seasonal (adult size inflatable) pool.
GOPedos.
Thank you for sharing the info - I honestly hadn't seen and appreciate it.
To be fair JD would have to cross the street in any city to avoid non-crazy people yelling at him and his family.
outback
It's a terrible combination of sad, frustrating and infuriating when someone you care about is truly down the conspiracy/qanon hole. You know they will not listen to any rational information, logic or data. They are basically lost to you.
sending *hugs*
Knowing this city it'll be back soon and in greater numbers.
I can't believe your perfect son was denied his cracker.
infuriating if so.
Every state with a liberal majority should gerrymander the F out of their maps to counter this. They chose war. Who cares if they file lawsuits? For the record, the current TX maps which were already ridiculously gerrymandered are still under litigation.
Oh no! Hope you get that sorted out soon.
I gotta wonder why aren't rich liberals bankrolling their stays? i get they have 2nd jobs, bills, homes, etc etc but all of that can be managed via money. If it was the GOP you know they'd have some sugar nazi paying for crap ala Harlan and Thomas, offering up the estate for them to stay, etc.
They are making shit up. Just like their overlord. And we all know it's bs and would eventually be dismissed but that doesn't matter as long as it gets them the immediate result. And there's little hope of telling them to eff off and ignoring them since they have the enforcement on their side.
It's rare enough for people to do it, almost unheard of for corporations. Just like most won't stand up against the admin because their priority is always profit and not people. No one ever saved democracy putting profit first.
I believe in redemption but it requires true repentance. This means clearly admitting mistakes (not just DEI etc but also lying, blaming theft for stores closing when it was bad financials, and more) and demonstrating reforms.
you need to speak to @finderdoug.bsky.social about what he inherited from my father.
But I'd willingly take if I were there!!
Think I'm a bit far from your hood 😉
If you figure out the trick let me know!
I am with you! I tried to make yogurt after I left TX since nothing is as good as @blueheronfarm.bsky.social's goat yogurt. After several failures I gave up. Never got anything approaching yogurt. And if I have to strain off half the batch as liquid it's a waste of money.
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boooooooooo
And it would be worthless. The point of a Dyson sphere is to build it at a diameter where people can survive and you can use the energy. Pointless to make it large enough to surround the solar system.
They have the absolute gaudiest taste. It's awful.
That just rationality.
Only a few have ripened but I'm looking forward to the coming tomatopocalypse!
Mine were like that before 2 days of trimming.
It's a Sea of Tomato Stakes. 🌱 (we use trimmed branches for a lot of it, we save the paid stuff for key uses like trellising, otherwise it'd be a fortune in bamboo and cages).
Not Enough Stakes For My Tomatoes: A Gardeners Tale. 🌱
ah so the ratio is cooked squash to cooked rice. Just trying to get a reference point :-)
2:1 ratio how? Eg if I use 1 cup uncooked arborio rice, stir in 2 cups squash?
So much TX politics ptsd. Honestly if they do this I am all for blue state retaliation and fix it later. I don't like gerrymandering in principle but you don't survive bringing a knife to a gunfight. I'm willing to feel guilty later and make amends in this case.
Kinda felt like it might be inevitable from the time there was no immediate enforcement of court rulings.
we ate embarrassingly large portions. #noleftovers
Jaune. Oh autocorrect.
My Vin Jayne has come in gangbusters so we did fresh tomato pasta last night. Basil, chives, and pancetta. One of summer gardens delights.
Agreed. Also because of the accelerating freight train of wealth inequality.
sometimes ya gotta let people try it on their own because that's the way they need to do it.
Stunning color. We get figs from our neighbor's tree, as the branches hang over our fence. Beautiful green ones with lush pink interiors but nowhere near as vibrant as those!
