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@Oxford i just have to say i'm always amused at your handle as you are in Switzerland. i'm always doing doubletakes. :)

if you are speaking you are exhaling humidity ... if you are writing you are also likely still breathing and thus still exhaling humidity. i'm sorry, my pedant is off the leash...

i got the trench dug and some weeding done, taking a few minute break before going back out. breeze is picking up and that will be a big help but i'm not sure how much of this heat i'll be able to tolerate. yesterday i lasted until almost 1pm. today would be nice to finish this garden so i...

today will be an earlier repeat of yesterday, working on a garden to get it put up for winter but also to head off yet more grass invading it. somehow it is getting so much grass in it. it is a very fast growing and sets seeds quickly type of grass. i did 1/3 of the garden yesterday, getting...

likely this will be frost on the ground for us. Wednesday Night Clear, with a low around 36.

no cosmic squirt gun or newspaper up there... and speaking of newspapers as a kid we never got swatted with something so mundane as that but instead there was the wooden spoons - eventually we got too big for those to be very effective and i do remember quite clearly Mom chasing my brother...

looks delicious to me too. that's about how i like to cook turnips. :)

when i was doing more seed winnowing i had meshes of different sizes to let the seeds fall through and then if there was a need to do another round of winnowing i would do the wind drop method on a clean sheet, usually there was a region on the sheet where most of the seeds would land that i...

RIP dear Bucket Lady...

picked some dry beans (and some not so dry but they got picked anyways) yesterday and am sorely tempted to shell them because of hints of what i'm seeing and also because i need to get some flats combined to give me more room for more flats. it was warm enough to chase me inside after a few...

if every valley applied selection pressures for long enough you can certainly have a different looking variety and that they are all going by the same name would complicate things. it would be quite a project to collect them and to grow them out and document the differences. :)

looks good to me in either form. :)

sprawl is one habit of beans for sure as i have seen it here too. no wrapping around anything to climb, just there...

very beautiful kitty and plant combo...

the delayed digestive effect may happen later, but starting with a smaller portion is usually a good idea when introducing new items to the system. which is what i recommend with dry bean cooking too for people who aren't used to eating many of them. just add a few spoonfuls to a meal and then...

all yours ma'am as i would be quite ok with a smidgeon of chocolate frosting on some graham crackers (not sure what you call those other than bicuits over the pond there...). i think i'm down 5lbs and can afford some more ballast this morning.

recent contemplations still remain uncertain about the actual existance of dark matter -- which to me is a dark matter itself...

well is fixed, we have cold water again, $150. which is much much less than a new well pump. :) it was a rubber seal that had broken and was leaking, he had a replacement with him. hopefully this is it for a while...

can't really ask for a nicer day here, 70F, sunshine and a breeze with humidity of 44%...

just came in after weeding the north garden and putzing around. perfect day out there. :)