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Just a rock-licker who loves all things sci-fi, boardgames, and growing my own food, especially heirloom tomatoes.

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That makes sense, he was really undersized compared to the rest.

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It might be! That was one of the varieties I planted this year, though the cloves I put in the ground looked like normal shaped cloves, just scaled up a bit.

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I had the exact same experience with the elephant garlic, they took forever to sprout, long enough that I actually dug one of them up to check that they hadn’t been eaten or something.

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You’re right, they’re just making a joke, as till also refers to how farmers prepare soil for planting crops.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dd514ce5-dd52-448d-84fe-2f1a4e7790e8.jpeg

For some reason I can’t add this to the main post, but here’s the pie and ice cream before serving.

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Yum, love a good fried rice! I think that recipes which use up leftovers while making you not feel like you’re eating the same thing for the Nth meal in a row are essential tools in a home cook’s arsenal.

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Aww what a sweet baby. I’m sure he appreciates the comforting after the vet <3

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Sure does! Another little standard issue cutie

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Yes! We call those her leg warmers too :D

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Hey no aesthetic shaming my food!

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That’s true, it’s just that they use savory as a descriptor, when I found the end result to be more dessert than main.

They’ve got a version that uses onions and much less sugar, so maybe I’ll try a mix of onions and cabbage to get that caramelization. Or just apply the sugar as a glaze on the bottom before the bake, so that it’s a layer of sweetness, and not sweet throughout.

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I’ll confess I do this with some regularity. If I unwrap a piece of cheese and see it’s moldy, well I’m not tossing a nice hunk of aged gouda in the trash! I’ll slice the mold off, then do a sniff and nibble test. If it still tastes moldy, keep slicing until it doesn’t.

I’ve done this since I was a kid, so who knows if it’s actually safe, or if I’ve just spent decades rolling the dice and getting lucky.

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Maybe a beef belly cut that’s been smoked and thinly sliced, similarly to regular bacon?

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I know right? My first thought was put a heating pad on the windowsill, and the cat will be much more likely to choose that spot.

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I’ve come to learn your brain is really good at subconscious processing of things that don’t quite make it to conscious awareness. Some part of your brain saw the cop and the deer and was trying to alert the rest of you.

I had that happen once when I was out hiking alone doing geology research. I reached this area of the woods and was suddenly overwhelmed by this feeling of TIME TO LEAVE. I tried arguing with myself that there was still enough daylight to check out an outcrop I could see in the distance, but the feeling got so powerful, I finally gave in and called it quits for the day.

I realized while walking out, that with all the little noises of the quail and other animals I’d been hearing all day, that spot in the woods had been silent. The next time I visited the area (and not alone this time), I found a cave right behind where I’d been standing, with fresh mountain lion tracks. Who knows, some part of me might have seen a mountain lion in that cave and was doing everything it could to tell me to get the fuck away!

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When it’s finally his turn with the brain cell.

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I got it from this shop on Etsy, but it looks like they’re out of stock :(

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What a cutie!

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Yep, I bought the telescope for $70 and separate solar filter for $20. Can dm links if you’re interested.

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I drove from southern California to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico for it!

1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains (www.cnn.com)

As thousands of people remain unable to leave the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated their campsites with ankle-deep mud Saturday, authorities say they are investigating a death at the event....

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They’re also at the lowest drainage point for that whole valley. Plus, the properties of the lakebed make it so that water is very slow to soak into the ground, so it’s going to take a while for things to dry out.

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I curate the communities I follow to only be nice, hobby-related things, so when I’ve had enough of the all feed, there’s plenty to see without the horror stories.

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Hah, the number on my bank account sometimes feels like it’s just pixels.

But most valuable to me would be old irc chatlogs with people who’ve passed. It’s been years since I’ve felt the need to pull them out and read them, but I’m happy to know they’re there.

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Some of us embrace the crumb life.

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I tell her she’s a pretty kitty all the time ^-^

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I love Townsend’s videos, and learned something new. Always thought Welsh rabbit contained actual rabbit, rather than being a cheese sauce on toast, now I’ll have to try making it!

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There’s a blast from the past. I had to look the guy up, and seems like he does motivational speaking now.

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Yep, and he’s probably the guy responsible for the nibbles higher up. They love my tomatoes, and become absolute terrors in my garden this time of year.

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Perhaps try dehydrating the paste into a powder? Don’t know how much flavor charge you’d get, as that’d probably volatilize some aromatics, but could be worth a trial run.

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The sign of healthy soil! I live in a dry area, and buried my lawn with about a foot of mulch, and I find it funny when wood-loving mushrooms pop up overnight, within a day or so they’ve been dried into little pseudo-rocks.

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Yep! I wanted to kill the pervasive bermuda grass without RoundUp, so I used ChipDrop in late 2021 and got something like 70 cubic yards of mulch piled on my front lawn. Gave a little bit away, but used most of it to bury the grass around my front yard garden, which is about 1,750 square feet in total. Here’s a before and after.

Annoyingly the grass is so persistent, it’s still poking up through the mulch, but by pulling those stolons when they appear, we’re slowly winning a war of attrition. I don’t use the mulch on my raised boxes or where I’ve planted in the ground, there I use straw, but I run drip lines under the straw so it really shouldn’t matter for water infiltration.

I have noticed a massive uptick in the bugs in my yard, the mulch is decomposing fast and is loaded with worms, millipedes, grubs and beetles, which has brought a lot more birds around too. I also noticed that the tomatoes I planted in the ground adjacent to the mulch took off way faster than those in my boxes, despite the boxes having been filled with the same soil from the front yard (excavated for a driveway expansion), and lovingly amended with excellent compost.

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[Image description: two rows of young tomato seedlings planted along the edges of an arched trellis. The closer row is planted in a raised bed, and is noticeably smaller than the farther row that is directly in the ground, despite them having been planted at the same time.]

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You sure can walk through it, it’s tall enough my 6’ fiance fits standing underneath. We usually only barely kiss freezing a few times in the winter, so I haven’t bothered to use it to try to keep things warmer. I weave tomatoes over it in the summer and peas in the winter.

I need to take an updated photo (the arch is fully covered now), but here’s a before/after of pruning and weaving this year’s tomatoes on it after they went wild when I was on vacation in May:

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Hah, that sounds like me! I started a few communities in places where I knew I could supply some OC, and so far its been mostly just me posting my stuff, but I’m stoked whenever I get comments!

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I’m subscribed to both! And I’ve tossed a couple butts your way already ^-^

The York Fire has burned over 82,000 acres through the Mojave National Preserve, making it the largest wildfire in California so far this year (www.nbclosangeles.com)

Just awful to think of all those Joshua trees burning. Like so many desert plants, they are incredibly slow growing and need just the right conditions to spread. With climate change, I doubt many of these areas will ever return to the same ecosystems.

The Shoe Tree along Highway 50 in Nevada (lemmy.world)

I sadly never got to see the original shoe tree, but the tradition has been carried on, and I wrote a note on an old pair of Vans and tossed my contribution up. Though beware, after tossing I looked down at the pile of old shoes and saw a snake starting to move under one layer directly beneath my feet!...

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