Plans for today (2025)

Barriehie said:
Make a loaf of bread for sure. Was going to cut some bamboo for my tomato plants but it's too wet with it raining all night. Been raining everyday for a week! That's okay since my fruits and veggies are booming!
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Took a different way home from Dollar General and prayer answered! The county was trimming a ROW and it was all bamboo. Didn't have to cut any or get stuck. 👍

I can trim these off and lash them with the tops in the middle so I've got the fat ends to drill and place on the stakes. Then I can tie up my tomato plants! 😁

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Barriehie said:
Took a different way home from Dollar General and prayer answered! The county was trimming a ROW and it was all bamboo. Didn't have to cut any or get stuck. 👍

I can trim these off and lash them with the tops in the middle so I've got the fat ends to drill and place on the stakes. Then I can tie up my tomato plants! 😁

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So long as it’s properly dead, the bamboo horror stories in this county are awful!
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Finished reading the dissertation, would anyone like to hear about biophony, geophony and anthrophony along with some super dry technical explanations of how to create sounds?
What, no takers? I am surprised :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Anyway at least I can go and get some lunch now, or I suppose at 16.20 it’ll be linner!
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What??? No spectrum analyzer on your phone to analyze motor noises?

Pippi snoring...
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Getting on a train shortly (that’s a novelty) to go to Brizzle and meet the youngest son who submitted his dissertation last night.
He wants to get himself a sewing machine and we might get some lunch out or I might just pick up some nice bits n pieces in Mark’s, he said he would love scallops. Depends on how tired he is, very tired from what I’ve seen!

He doesn’t know I’m going to get him a much nicer machine than he can afford, one that should hopefully do him for many years (unless he reaches advanced level) as way of saying “Congrats son, you made it!” The sun is shining and I’m looking forward to it 😊
 
I just cut down a hand of plantains from the back garden. They've been growing since the middle of February, but I just wanted to wait until the first one turned yellow to cut them off the tree/plant/stick/stem, whatever it's called :laugh: (the banana is, botanically speaking, a herb).
The lad who helps in my garden wanted to cut the hand off at the beginning of April (probably because, where he comes from, they're eaten green, added to soups and stews, etc.) but I said no, let them grow bigger.
And they did. I nearly bust a gut getting them off the tree - about 25kg dead weight. I cut them into smaller hands, and as you can see from the picture, each plantain weighs about 300 gms (about 10½ ozs).
NOT cutting them down wasn't an option, unfortunately. The birds just lurrrvv a ripe plantain and, if I'd left them there, I'd have had none.
I'll try and keep a few of them but will probably give most of them away.
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karadekoolaid said:
as you can see from the picture, each plantain weighs about 300 gms (about 10½ ozs).
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Just a point here, because I just noticed. The stretch marks on the two ripe plantains are not stretch marks at all. They're claw prints from the birdies desperate to get a beakful of plantain!
 
karadekoolaid said:
I just cut down a hand of plantains from the back garden. They've been growing since the middle of February, but I just wanted to wait until the first one turned yellow to cut them off the tree/plant/stick/stem, whatever it's called :laugh: (the banana is, botanically speaking, a herb).
The lad who helps in my garden wanted to cut the hand off at the beginning of April (probably because, where he comes from, they're eaten green, added to soups and stews, etc.) but I said no, let them grow bigger.
And they did. I nearly bust a gut getting them off the tree - about 25kg dead weight. I cut them into smaller hands, and as you can see from the picture, each plantain weighs about 300 gms (about 10½ ozs).
NOT cutting them down wasn't an option, unfortunately. The birds just lurrrvv a ripe plantain and, if I'd left them there, I'd have had none.
I'll try and keep a few of them but will probably give most of them away.
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I like plantains! Most around here don't know what to do with them.

Today was a check day so took Pippi to the bank where she makes the rounds of the back offices and then comes out to see the tellers. Rebekah always has a ham slice for her and Sierra, the GM, always has a small dish of cream out for her cat but Pippi always gets it. Groceries, gas, liquor, and the list is done.
 
Only had 1 milk left, and wanted 1 or two other things.
Just got back after buying half the shop, and realised I bought 3 milks, silly me - they can only stand up in the door compartment (holds 3), so I have to try shoehorn the last one in somewhere.

That's me needing a rest, my liver is feeling odd too, but that's better than painful. Did I mention I have focal fatty liver? Most people get it evenly spread throughout their liver. I gotta be different / just plain awkward, I have a 3.3 x 1 x 2.1 cm lump of fat in mine :rolleyes:
 
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