OMG my child gave me one of those when I visited her in St Paul back in 2021.

Our R mayor won reelection. I guess people really like watching old-boys networks creating "market rate" housing" while the riverbanks fill up with tents. Also, he denounced T*&@%p, so the local Rs can feel good about themselves again.

I don't read a lot of memoir, but within the past year I read Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain (1989) and loved it. I wouldn't say it had an original structure, but something about it got to me.

My veg garden is mostly feeding local critters. Someone is nibbling all the young cucumbers to stubs, and a brazen chipmunk picks cherry tomatoes then eats them on the deck in full view of me and the cats.

Are they hiring?

Those are the almonds that inspired me.

I'm finding myself cooking out of this a fair amount recently. www.americastestkitchen.com/collections/...

I was just thinking today about how much I love/d Laura Ingalls Wilder's books (talk about problematic in hindsight), and now you have me trying to remember what Tom Robbins-era me dove into. Asimov?

I was taught by a department store bra fitter when I was a teenager to hook at the front and twist back. She said it would fit better that way. I've done it that way ever since.

Forgot my alt text: small skunk with a very wide stripe forages on a front lawn.

I spend much of my winter walking around yelling at people in my head about this sort of BS. One of my favorites was these neighbors who clearly don't get along too well. Not nearly as impassable as your example, the pettiness of it almost made me laugh.