I forgot to mention - one of my favorite summer treats is fried zucchini flowers. I don't know how to harvest them, apparently you have to be careful WHICH ones to pick (male vs. female?).
Also, don't let your zucchini grow too big in the first place, the big ones tend to be bitter. If they are more bitter, I like @deetoo 's suggestion to make zoodles. Then the sauce can compensate for the bitterness.
It means a lot to me that you mentioned me and thought of me.
Honestly it's been tough, but I never give up.
I am learning more and more that revisiting the past is valuable sometimes, but it is also looking at skeletons.
Every day I let myself find joy and happiness where it presents itself to me. I am lucky to have you all, my family of origin, my work, my pets, and of course, my extremely supportive boyfriend. He is my rock.
Also I LOVE zucchini bread!
Anti vaxers? Harumpf. They'll eat hot dogs & McNuggets, vape, drink energy drinks, but the won't get vaccinated because they don't know what's in it?
Anti-maskers? Wash. Rinse & repeat. They don't object that the counrty club or upscale restaurant require a jacket & tie, the golf course requires a collar, almost every store has the policy "no shirt, no shoes, no service," but did they get their knickers in a twist over these?
Methinks they doth protest too much.
@jeanne-mayell , I read a good piece on the people who refuse to vaccinate the other day (don't remember where) that basically said that most of these people have chosen to identify with their group (church, friends, politics) and group identity is more important than any nebulous health benefits, especially if they have been primed to discount potential benefits to begin with. (by watching too much Sean Hannity or being fed too many anti-vax posts on social media to cite just two examples) The logic of their position is not the logic of the cost of getting sick or the danger of spreading an illness to friends and family but the logic of being ostracized from the people they identify with.
When your neighbor's daughter is having a fight with ALEXA... Poor kid keeps yelling at Alexa to play Taylor Swift. Alexa apparently wants to play her own thing. It is a battle I tell you. That child keeps getting louder and louder and Alexa is ignoring her in that calm irritating way. I can feel her pain. Alexa and I have had similar battles.
Dear little girl, Alexa will do whatever she wants when she is in one of those moods. The only control you have is to tell her to stop.
If you need something to smile about, here is another uplifting video of flowers blooming to breathe into your being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Uw2DJ9Md8
@luminata I love your post in the Time Crystals discussion post, and I love the article too, but I'm left feeling like Cheedy after hearing about Jeremy Bearimy, which - if you have never seen it, is the greatest, most hilarious 3 minutes of television ever produced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFm9ClqlGuo
Seriously will make anyone's night who hasn't already seen it, and if you have, it'll make your night to watch it again. The Good Place really was the greatest show!
(If you got an email saying this was in the Time Crystal thread, it isn't a glitch. It was. And then i deleted it and posted here instead to keep the topic of the thread focused there)
Jeremy Bearimy,
That was such a great moment! Loved that show. It was great pandemic binge watching time for me last year.
So, science has proven cats are lazy!
( Let the dog vs. cat debate begin!)
When given the choice between a free meal and performing a task for a meal, cats would prefer the meal that doesn't require much effort. While that might not come as a surprise to some cat lovers, it does to cat behaviorists. Most animals prefer to work for their food—a behavior called contrafreeloading.
Well this might explain the findings.
Why cats prefer to freeload is also unclear. Delgado said the food puzzles used in the study may not have stimulated their natural hunting behavior, which usually involves ambushing their prey.
Ambushing is definitely cat behavior.
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-cats-free-meals.html