Someone on the town crew was out with the boom flail mower, mowing on the sides of the road. Ostensibly, it’s to keep the drainage channels clear and to reduce plants from reaching out into the road. Guy mowed my entire front row of ferns, skipped some lilies, then mowed down my flowering and decorative grasses. At one point, he must have lifted the boom to avoid an Iris, but then brought it back down on another flowering grass in the middle of my front gardens. They’ll survive, but my front garden is going to look destroyed for a few weeks at least while they recover.

In more positive news, we had some friends and their son visit on Sunday. My wife took the other ladies around to walk in the gardens at one point while I was cooking - I found out later that we’re part of the inspiration for some folks who are looking to start a sober living space!

There are something like twelve common names in english, it was introduced to me as “oregano brujo” (wizard’s oregano). It’s most strongly oregano in its aerosol phenols but when I’ve used it in meals (usually in a slow cooker) it’s got notes of the thymol that come through.

I really love that awkward phase! Their adult colors start coming in, and they’re super adventurous.

Coleus amboinicus -> Plectranthus amboinicus and I’m back to having no coleus, I’ll never forgive

So I didn’t spot any other girls frequenting the greenhouse, which leads me to believe they could all be hers. Our two boys are ‘chocolate’ and ‘pied’, so with her ‘pied’ genetics they could all be hers and the colors might be crazy.

Generally speaking the yellow bits will be light and the brown parts will be black or brown, with browns and sometimes green or an iridescent purple being kore common on the yellow ducklings.

She bit me a little but a few of them weren’t hand shy at all and I scritched a few duckling bellies today

600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that’s about it

I bit the bullet and ordered some shirts to wear while I’m working the market stand, and I’m hopeful that they make everything more cohesive. Logo is the front, catchphrase is the back:

I helped a friend out of a bind this week, and tomorrow I’ll be helping another friend start to transplant his garden from his old house to his new one. Hopefully this heat dome doesn’t ruin our efforts.

Friendly reminder that lightning bugs need tall grasses present in addition to wildflowers and leaf litter. You can also improve their survival rates by removing artificial lighting or even just setting any safety lighting (like motion activated lamps) to their shortest “on” duration. Another obvious step is to avoid pesticides.

https://www.fws.gov/story/save-fireflies

They can get pretty gigantic. They don’t all grow to that size, but a rhubarb plant that’s been in a spot it likes for a few seasons can be massive. Since the stalks are the edible part. We use those leaves as a chop and drop mulch to smother and cover weeds

One of our market friends is a mom & pop bakery, and she asked this past weekend if we had any 😂

I agree, it’s amazing

At first I had a little trouble but then I saw the telltale “V” of ripples in the water. You might have wanted a different picture but I think you captured the mood perfectly.

First and foremost, I appreciate how patient and helpful you’ve been; thank you.

That’s how I’ve been doing it for a while. Two years at least, as that’s when I first bumped into the pictrs limitations. I’d done it before on other message boards but made full use of it since landing at Beehaw. As of yesterday it started giving me the album links instead when following the steps as you’ve outlined.

The alternative mentioned by Blaze and seconded by PenguinCoder does what I need very conveniently

An all around good egg, who often pops into threads just to be helpful.

Agreed. Most of what kept me using the service was familiarity and the behavioral inertia that brings, but making sharing to message boards difficult (even comparatively) is a deal breaker for me

The only url I’m able to get through the app is

https://imgur.com/a/7sSZfrH#fAh9k4C

Interesting. I made another attempt this morning but all the links are to the site and not directly to the image address

I attempted that, but the long press options don’t include the “copy image address” for me. And yeah it seems like this latest update is really pushing the site so they can serve ads.

Self-hosting a service is not all that complicated, but requires some commitment.

Lol I run a small business and have a sleep disorder and a nine month old, any bandwidth I have is at a premium

Wholly agreed!

1. that IS easy enough even for me

2. I can’t express how honored I feel seeing you reply, it’s like a rite of passage