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[Marie2020]

People mixing up lose vs. loose drives me batty. I know there are several others that drive me similarly crazy but I can’t remember them off the top of my head.
Edited to add: board vs. bored

Spell check drives me crazy. You don't need to mis-spell it does it perfectly well for you

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Spell check drives me crazy. You don't need to mis-spell it does it perfectly well for you

Ain’t that the truth!

 

[flowerbug]

Spell check drives me crazy. You don't need to mis-spell it does it perfectly well for you

you need to kick your spell checker hard because it's often using "too" for "to" and vice versa.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

you need to kick your spell checker hard because it's often using "too" for "to" and vice versa.

It also has some pretty odd ideas about what is and isn't appropriate capitalization. For example it has no problem with me writing lima bean, but the moment I shorten it to lima it used to demand I capitalize it because, according to its database, the only lima is the city in Peru. (it has since seemed to correct this problem).

And someone needs to tell them there is more than one acceptable spelling of some words. It insists I use "cowry" even though I have always written "cowrie" (maybe it's an American versus British spelling thing).

 

[Zeedman]

People mixing up lose vs. loose drives me batty. I know there are several others that drive me similarly crazy but I can’t remember them off the top of my head.
Edited to add: board vs. bored

Better bored in the gourd, than gored by the boar. I'm glad I'm not an English teacher; I'd rather twist words into a pretzel than attempt to teach such an incomprehensible language.

The problem with spell check is that it often substitutes a word with something completely out of context. As long as we've been together, you'd think it could better anticipate what I want to say. It seems only DW is good at that.

And speaking of context... if the sign by a driveway entrance says "Semi Entrance", does that mean I can only pull halfway in? Good Grief! (And just who thought up that oxymoron ??? )

 

[flowerbug]

It also has some pretty odd ideas about what is and isn't appropriate capitalization. For example it has no problem with me writing lima bean, but the moment I shorten it to lima it used to demand I capitalize it because, according to its database, the only lima is the city in Peru. (it has since seemed to correct this problem).

And someone needs to tell them there is more than one acceptable spelling of some words. It insists I use "cowry" even though I have always written "cowrie" (maybe it's an American versus British spelling thing).

i can't stand things telling me how to spell. it gets in the way of typing and if i'm wrong i hope it's not too mangled that people don't understand what i'm trying to say. at times i come back later and see where i've screwed up my spelling and so i'll edit and fix it. if you see me regularly misspelling a word give me a slap upside the head. there are certain words i almost always have to look up. separate is one of them because i always think of it as seperate which it isn't... there's plenty of others i probably mangle too. and don't get on me about grammar. she's long gone.

 

[flowerbug]

Better bored in the gourd, than gored by the boar.

good gravy!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

An interesting link, and something which I would be interested in if it were legit, I would follow up on it, but the few customer reviews (of zero germination) are not encouraging. If you have good results with the seeds you ordered, I might review that assessment.

I just noted that my seed seller in Romania has them as well (https://www.etsy.com/listing/115869...51&click_sum=c27f64e8&ref=shop_home_active_39) Maybe they'll be better (bearing in mind, I haven't actually PLANTED anything I have bought from them, so I can't confirm their seed viability either.)

That longan-like fruit may have been the Filipino lanzones, Lansium parasiticum. The fruit of the two species are very similar in appearance, but lanzones tend to be in tighter clusters. During a visit to Toronto many years ago, I had a chance to try both side-by-side; the lonzones were sweeter & very enjoyable. Like you, I find longans to be unpleasant, although DW will eat them (they are being sold now).

I'd have said maybe, UNTIL I looked at a picture of the fruit online. While langsats (I'll use the name I am familiar with) look a bit like longans from the outside, they don't look ANYTHING like them from the inside. Langasts appear to have lobes of fruit; longans (including what I saw then) do not. I might see getting a langsat confused with a wong pei (which also looks a lot like a longan from the outside, and DOES have lobes) but not a longan.

The local Oriental market actually does carry a surprising number of tropical fruits... although as to be expected, more expensive than they would be in big-city markets. Besides what I've already mentioned, they've had cherimoya, rambutan, litchi, durian, small breadfruit, persimmons, dragon fruit (both colors), sapodilla, and occasionally something neither DW nor I recognize. I am pleasantly surprised, and fortunate, to find this much in a smaller city.

I see all of those pretty frequently, except the breadfruit, which I have only seen a few times (and I live in a pretty heavily Latin American/Caribbean area, so you'd think I'd see it often if it was readily available.) And I've only found SEEDED breadfruit once, at a local Indian grocery store. Never got to grow the seeds alas (it turns out that breadfruit seeds have to be planted IMMEDIATELY after being removed from the fruit, let them sit overnight (like I did) and they ferment and die.)

You didn't mention mangosteens, which I also can find pretty readily. I can't GROW them though, unfortunately, as all mangosteens that come in seem to come in frozen (as does most of the durian).

If you ever find a fruit you can't identify, shoot me a pic, and I probably can (besides a lot of experience, I have a LOT of books on tropical fruit.)

DW grew up in the tropics, so when selecting jackfruit, her judgement reigns... and I overrule that at my peril.

Well, I can't really argue with THAT!

And, to be totally honest, my tips on picking good blood oranges are really more along the lines of telling one type from another, since it actually makes a difference to me ( I CAN eat Moros, but I CAN'T eat Tangiers (too acid). And since Sunkist (the major supplier of them to the supermarkets here.) doesn't differentiate and sells both kinds together* I had to learn.)

It's sort of the same story with limes (regular limes, not key limes). If I need limes, I know that what I am after is Creole limes (as opposed to Persian or Tahitian limes), since they give the most and best tasting lime juice. But since they are all sold mixed together as simply "limes", I need to be able to tell them apart (look for slightly smaller size, rounder shape, and peel that is lighter green, smooth, and shiny.)

Oh that reminds me, I found a BRAND NEW citrus at my local "farmer's market stand" (actually a year round permanent farm stand, but they DO get in good produce year round.) They had something called "Red Mandarins", which, as far as I can see, are a cross between a tangerine and a blood orange. Not at all bad (of course, after eating four out of the five I had gotten and finding no seeds (and therefore assuming them to be seedless) I didn't bother to visually check the fifth, and, of course that one DID have a seed (which I bit into, and which I would have much rather saved and planted.)

*Though not in equal quantities. Usually they will be a whole huge pile of Tangiers with ONE or TWO Moros mixed in. My best guess is that Sunkist is primarily growing Tangiers, but keeps a few Moro trees in the groves to act as cross pollinators (maybe Tangiers are self incompatible.)

 

[digitS']

And then, there is "blood orange gin."

Too early to be talking about hard liquor?

Okay, that is fine with me . I was doing a little exploring about brown rice tea after DS mentioned being served that at a Buddhist monastery during New Year's celebration. Led to roasted barley, popular as a tea in Japan, Irish whiskey ...

Steve

 

[baymule]

Good morning y’all. I’m officially moved. Got my dogs and sheep moved on Friday, 3 days ago. My BYH friends from California are leaving this morning to go home. A BYH couple from the other side of Crockett came over yesterday and strung sheep and goat wire. We had already set the H brace to hang the gate on and pounded T posts. I have to run wire at the bottom of the fence on one side, it is one foot off the ground, so I gotta close the gap. Lots more to tell y’all, I’ll catch y’all up later, but I’m here now.