“But I need to be productive”— the world’s terrifying, keeping yourself well is important for future productivity

“But I can’t just eat a bunch of junk food”— you need saturated fats to make cholesterol to make cortisol to run a healthy stress response, eat that ice cream because science says so

Dry stone (or drystack) construction is a method of building with stones without any mortar to bind them together.

Common in Switzerland, they often last hundreds or even 1,000+ years.

The left wall supports train tracks.

Curious? Read this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone

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Has anyone found a viable defense against wild turkeys in the garden besides putting my entire garden in a wire cage?🌱

#Japan has cat cafés.
It also has cafés for model-train lovers.

But when the two meet, watch out.

You get the dreaded Godzilla-scale railroad-wrecking cat.

🌱Has anyone had any success growing vaccinium ovatum (evergreen huckleberry)? I'd like to try a few as an informal, edible hedge.

🌱What's the best spill-over-the-stone-wall plant for a NE facing wall in Zone 8?

Lobelia is on the list already...

Has anyone ever successfully won the war against grass?

Just cleaned out another border that was invaded with the Evil Green Stuff.

So it looks like we need to replace our electric range soon. Have glass top ranges gotten any more durable or should we stick with the coil type electric range?

wondermark.com/c/1062/ This kind of behavior -- the comic is the origin of the term.

So, what are we all stocking up on to get through this next patch of "interesting times"?

Toilet paper? Or is that too 2020?