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
Who remembers Pandemic Bingo in 2020?
I had hoped we were done with it for 2021 but should have known better when Jan. 6th happened.
So I thought it would be a good time to revive Pandemic Bingo 2.1. Humor is the best medicine right?
Some things that could go on Pandemic Bingo 2.1 include:
Cicada Apocalypse
Vaccination Jab Celebration Selfie
Rediscovering Shopping in person
My Pillow Guy
Bamboo Ballots
Cyber Ninjas
Free samples back at Costco
Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack
Texas Big Freeze
Baby It's Hot Outside
~And then we have some nominees that made news today~
Murder Hornets 2.1
( Again?? Yes, they'er back) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/13/murder-hornet-seen-alive-in-washington/8120961002/
3 volcanoes erupting at the same time in Alaska?
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/three-volcanoes-are-erupting-time-alaska-rcna1672
Add your nominations to the list! We have months to go.
@jeanne-mayell about the giant zukes- maybe you could slice them up and batter them w GF Panko crumbs, and then fry them. It might even work better w the big, tough ones, because they could end up being crisper, and less soggy than the young tender ones.
I guess i have fried food on the brain, ever since my Tempura dream- but i just saw where someone said that if we could just deep fry the vaccine, and serve it on a wooden skewer, most of the South would be vaxxed by now. Hehheh. It's only funny because it's true.
@unk-p I love zucchini dipped in batter and fried. Well, yesterday I took some of my vegetables to neighbor who is new and after she took all she thought her family could eat, she told me about a fresh food soup kitchen one of the churches in town was running. So I gave her the rest because they happened to be serving that night. And that was how I emptied out my backlog of watermelon-sized zucchini.
But there will be more in a few days, so I will try baked stuffed zucchini and batter dipped fried zukes. I could even cut one in the shape of a tie.
I am now hungry! If I wait 15 minutes I can literally eat a midnight snack.
But I have will power. I think.
Yes, I do
@lovendures At the exact moment you wrote that you were hungry, I was in bed and could not sleep because I suddenly was hungry. As I've said many times here, we are all connected. Since I need to gain, not lose weight, I went to the kitchen and had a mug of hot milk and almond butter smeared on gf toast. I hope it made you feel better. Then I slept like a baby.
Seriously? I wasn't hungry about 15 minutes after I posted. You probably had just eaten. I had not. haha
@lovendures ? anybody knows that.. as long as there is a human servant for the cat to command...the cat thinks "Why ..should I go out and hunt to eat or survive when I have trained my human minion so very very well?" Mine have trained me well... ten minutes to 5pm? Oh.. there you are my human.. yes... I , and the other cats..require our canned meat now - yes.. I know you serve it at 5pm... we are working on training you to move it up to 4:30 .. remember how we got it moved up from 5:30 ??? Why, yes.. I am sure you do.... oh.. and don't think you 'll sleep in late tomorrow.. you know we eat our breakfast at 6am sharp. That is all now.. you may go."
@journeywithme2 lol! @lovendures Cats are not lazy! How many dogs do you know that have their own rock band? https://youtu.be/Q5Oko13Le44