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  1. Dirtmechanic

    Garden humor thread..

    grammar naughtzees! Old high school student complaint.
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    Somehow, It's Funny that Way

    The symbol for the sound of silence?
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    Spring Daffodils

    Baby ferns remind me of mornings. The way you can uncurl from a warm bed into a really good streeetch to start your day.
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    Spring Daffodils

    daffs are gone here. Now it's the time of ferns.
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    Spring Daffodils

    ...and more to come. A weatherguy was showing some stats where the number of reported 'nados is near the Alabama annual high mark already but then said some might get connected into longer tracks which would lower the number. I wonder where weather watching ranks against all other Alabama sports?
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    Word of the day

    Today's word is "Yarden". This is to differentiate between "Garden and "Garden" which are both currently mis-used to denote landscaping and vegetable growing areas of activity. Guess what Yarden means yet? I saw this morning that the New York Times is saying that "Synswer" is TWOTD, to...
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    Spring Daffodils

    It was very warm and snapped off to the lower 20s in early spring. That nipped most of the buds. Even the roses are just now coming out.
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    Spring Daffodils

    We call those tulip magnolia sometimes. Alas they and the daffy have bloomed and faded already down here.
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    Garden humor thread..

    Its real.
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    Garden humor thread..

    Or weed eater projectiles.....
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    Thinking of a Move

    I went to a biker party at Eagle River. I was just a fresh out of high school grunt but had made friends with a carpenter on the jobsite for the Eagle River school. Is it still still there from 1984? Anyway he and some equipment guys had dug a pond out big enough to float a wood fired sauna he...
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    Thinking of a Move

    There be megalopolises. North Carolina is part of a big one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Atlantic_megaregion
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    Favorite online catalog?

    I know its heresy but I wonder if big sites like TEMU have seeds. I doubt they would be organized about it but their vendors might.
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    Home Repairs

    Common plastics like epoxy around hot things can be a problem. Around 200 degrees they fail. They weaken well before boiling though. Hot water over time is a slow cooker. The silicones and so forth found in the kitchen work against this problem and there are high heat resistant sealants that...
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    Black eyed peas

    Use 1 lbs bag of dried peas for the correct paste texture.
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    Black eyed peas

    And that taste is special imo. It has a history too. https://recipes.net/side-dish/beans/pleasing-bollos-recipe/ Mine are 1 lbs dried bag 1 spoon salt 1 spoon garlic and 1 cowhorn pepper. Fry a teaspoon sized ball of the dough which you ran through a food processer after soaking and cleaning...
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    The Earth's core has paused.

    I am always trying to get a handle on longer term future weather, and this article was published Monday, making me wonder if anybody can point to a relation to weather in the 70 year cycle being discussed. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01112-z
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    Home Repairs

    There is a caulking mastic product called Dow 995. It comes in white, is stickier than polyurethane if that is possible, is both a structural and impact resistant adhesive we use to make hurricane resistant coatings stay put on glass while storms seek to destroy the walls. It is expensive for a...
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    Coffee

    Oh my girl is a noodle queen, but i think I have to fool her as to where the noodles are being made. Thats okay, i like a soft environment in which to hold my bride. She wants to be bossy, but only so much.
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    Coffee

    I understand. I just suddenly developed a need to make ravioli. Well -pasta of all types really. Searching out 00 flour on Saturday morning has odd behavior written all over it.
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