This is my next tattoo. I’ve got one on my left forearm of C. americanus in the same botanical illustration style, this one will be going on my right arm (my daughter is Juniper)

I can’t really tell you about your situation, but my wife and I did the math for our ROI on a set of roof mounted panels by assuming that the power company would continue raising rates. We averaged the delivery increases and generation cost increases over the number of years we had been in our home, then ran that annual increase over the lifespan of the panels. Rather than being a twelve year break even point it worked out to about seven. In our case, Maine has okay laws about net metering so check what your state and municipality’s regulations about it are. Look at your overall financial picture. If you can’t do it without a loan, shop for your own loan rather than just taking the installer’s.

To answer your question anecdotally, this past summer we were very happy to only pay our grid connection fee of $18 monthly while our neighbors complained about $300 (or higher) each month. You might not hit your full generation needs, but you might make enough of a dent to make it worth your investment

We do wood chip paths and the weedy growth gets chopped up a bit and tossed on the paths. We’ll weed like that all season - walking on the paths break everything down further as we go. If the winter is wet and warm we’ll use the paths as a fertilizing mulch the following year. If winter is cold and relatively dry we’ll use it after another year

Planting perennials & daydreaming about next year’s veggie layout and rotation. Hearing “aren’t your feet cold?” because I wear sandals until there’s snow on the ground

The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation by Dirr and Heuser

Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph

The last episode of Sliders had the main character and troupe finally make it back to their original dimension after 5 seasons - Quinn runs up to the gate at his mother’s house exclaiming that he knows this gate and it’s been squeaky forever, only to open it with no squeak. Demoralized, they all walk back into the dimensional gateway and leave. As the gateway closes, Quinn’s mother runs outside - calling to him that she finally got the gate fixed but nobody’s there anymore.

How is Sliders not the top of this list, let alone even on it? I haven’t seen the show since it went off air 25 years ago and that last scene and fade to black still haunts me to this day.

Almost any time we’re mentioned as a state

Tbh I sometimes wake up with a crick in my neck and do this to work it out

They always do, in spite of me asking them to stay tiny and fluffy

I really love that awkward phase! Their adult colors start coming in, and they’re super adventurous.

No you don’t

So I didn’t spot any other girls frequenting the greenhouse, which leads me to believe they could all be hers. Our two boys are ‘chocolate’ and ‘pied’, so with her ‘pied’ genetics they could all be hers and the colors might be crazy.

Generally speaking the yellow bits will be light and the brown parts will be black or brown, with browns and sometimes green or an iridescent purple being kore common on the yellow ducklings.

She bit me a little but a few of them weren’t hand shy at all and I scritched a few duckling bellies today

600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that’s about it

They can get pretty gigantic. They don’t all grow to that size, but a rhubarb plant that’s been in a spot it likes for a few seasons can be massive. Since the stalks are the edible part. We use those leaves as a chop and drop mulch to smother and cover weeds

One of our market friends is a mom & pop bakery, and she asked this past weekend if we had any 😂

I agree, it’s amazing

At first I had a little trouble but then I saw the telltale “V” of ripples in the water. You might have wanted a different picture but I think you captured the mood perfectly.

Oof, yeah. I would be feeling the same way