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@Idoubtit Politely inform them that you've moved on. I had this happen with a website I ran for a bunch of years. Then I got burned out. People are pretty okay when you tell them you felt like you needed to do something else.

I think the girl who lives across the street is crushing on me right now (whenever she is outside when I am outside, I catch her stealing glances). I think her live-in boyfriend has figured this out, because whenever she is outside, he is always watching her. And, if you haven't figured this out by now, I work outside but mostly I watch everyone. So, everyone is watching everyone else.

People are weird.

The cool weather bed has a growing space 44 in length, four feet wide. Put in four feet of flower buffer to make it look nice at parties, and you've got five sections of eight feet with three rows per section. What plants to grow (the chef has requested Falstaff Brussels sprouts), and how to stagger them are the questions that will baffle generations of my progeny.

@IndignantBastard Incompetence.

Yesterday, there were two eggs. #robinlife #gardenlife

This is great. All of it.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nevertheless-he-persisted-tales-of-masculine-perseverance

Robins made a nest in the garden.

@DaveHiggins Yeah, that sounds a lot more irritating than pulling herb roots. I will say that today settled the question of whether I'm taking the kid to dinner Friday, or grilling the leg of lamb in my freezer.

@DaveHiggins Heh, when I was writing up the post, my first thought was that I needed to make a Mint connection. But, Linux Mint is not nearly as irritating as real mint. Doesn't go with lamb nearly as well, either.

Mint is easy enough to weed ... find the root and yank. But man, does it spread fast. Beware!

@wrongroot Know what else is great about having kids? If you're too drunk to walk, you can have them run to the corner liquor store for you.

@Twitter Go to Hell.

@wohali Yes, brining is great. Marinating for a short time? Also, good. Marinating a long time? Same flavor effect as marinating a short time.

If you can't trust the advice of desk chairs in your landlord's storage garage, what hope have we?

As we move into grilling season here in northern hemisphere, it's important to remember that recipes calling for an overnight marinade are full of shit.

And now on Naked and Afraid, a grown-ass man gets outsmarted by an iguana.

@howfar Yeah, it's a restaurant garden. The chefs were excited to have fresh growing. I'll try to swipe my own after first frost.