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Things are getting rougher for Jews in Austria, too. Crazy world. Rob

I have read that an AI search uses a lot more energy, although for a casual browser I'm not sure how significant it is. Another way to get around it...

I never cared much what a flower looked like as long as it smelled good to me!

Now you have me thinking I need to start some, but the high school is having their plants for sale in late April, so I will wait until then. I got...

Since I like to save seeds, I no longer buy or plant hybrids unless it is a veggie that grows well here.

Looking through the seed websites yesterday I NEARLY ordered a couple of the hybrid sunflowers that are so charming, but I stopped myself. I stopped...

That would be nice. I’ve never had them naturalized, but I had naturalized Larkspur in my city Gardens and hope to get that established here as well....

I post the links to Obama White House reporting to show the through line from 2010 to now in thin skin controlling White House occupants. Now, we...

I’m cleaning out bookmarks and in doing so ran across these links to articles about the Obama administration and its relationship with the media....

A previous resident of this house must have planted cosmos seeds. Every year, they pop up in my meadow area and create a sea of chaotic color.

Xfinity has a reputation for being expensive. If you get an initial deal, it will increase immediately after that offer expires.

You are all making me think I need to get started with some seeds. I usually don't have any luck at all, but am always game to try. Thanks for the...

Interesting that the Xfinity just made it into my neighborhood, but is still more expensive than my current provider. I was hoping it would be...

The prison they are sending the supposed gang members in El Salvador is appalling. It was established to hold over 40,000 prisoners from the El...

Back to deportations. There is a Venezuelan community in Miami that voted heavily for Trump and local news was interviewing people. They were...

Last year I tried growing a few plants from seed in my mudroom, which is northeast facing and unheated. I didn't hold out much hope but wanted to...

This thread reminds me that I have a list of annuals I really have to get ordered: the euphorbia snow on the mountain at least one kind of...

DH thinks I am nuts when I look for seeds or cuttings everywhere I go. I just did a dumb thing and signed myself up to be on a garden tour in August...

I remember you are really good with seeds. I am not.I scatter annuals directly into the ground, hoping they will come up, but pretty much leaving...

Just ordered the Verizon 5G home internet. $55/month. Much cheaper than the Xfinity.

Thanks! Good to know I'm not too wacky...lol.

Me too. I love growing plants from seeds and have them all over the house. I love watching the soil move as the little seed heads poke out.

Yes, it certainly sounds like we enjoy the same reading! The NYT articles are meaty, but they’re shorter than the Economist! I get more out of the...

Good deal on the NYT! I was able to get a good rate for WSJ by trying to cancel, and then they gave me the same discount of $4/month. Maybe I should...

That makes total sense, of course! I hope all goes well.. true that 2 years is a lot of time with limited mobility.

We're big users/supporters of our local library, too. Plus a lot of those cute individual libraries have sprung up all over our town. I have about...

Yep, I hear ya! Hate food waste, too--it's too expensive to waste, isn't it? I try to keep certain pantry/frig essentials in stock that I can use...

The Economist is the one I really like, but it can’t be gotten free anywhere. I got it through library until two years ago, but then Economist...

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Tradd, we get Wall Street Journal and New York Times free through our public library. We also can get magazines such as consumer reports, The...

LOL. I get it. Then maybe keep a little notebook or something and just write down the amount, keeping a tally of what you save. Reach a certain...

I don’t use cash. I’m the queen of Apple Pay!

I assume you stop there on the way to somewhere else, so you are in your car? Maybe put a jar in your car and every time you drive buy without buying...

Ah, so we differ on the draw of a rose.

I love my McD’s in the am. Sausage McMuffin. Yum. Trying again to cut them out, for both health and cost reasons. Wish me luck. Didn’t go this...

Also increased car insurance deductible from $250 to $500. I’ll save about $65 on car insurance that way. It renews next month.

I canceled my WSJ and Economist subscriptions. WSJ was $4/minth but I like NYT much better, which is staying - $4/monrh. Economist at a discount is...

My brief take on bikes in early England was that a lot of rural farmers and residents were poor and did not even have horses and wagons in the late...

Ah, I stand corrected about my idea of bicycles in the UK. I’ve been there many times. I just don’t remember bicycles being that big of a presence,...

I agree that bicycles were, and still are for the most part, really big for utilitarian uses, not just pleasure-riding. In the Netherlands, too, the...

Cleaning out my food cabinet. We have a severe food shortage at the food banks here. Started cleaning out my food stores and have a nice box of...

I don’t know, the David Austin roses are known for their fragrance so this one probably does. Fragrance isn’t that important for me, I’m looking for...

Do they have a strong fragrance? That's my reason to buy one! I had a wonderfu rugosa rose, raspberry but it eventually succumbed to the Maryland...

Congrats on not taking anything!! It's hard when it is right in your face and free for the taking. Good job!

Bicycles were absolutely *huge* in the UK for many decades. Might be worth a visit, talk to some folks there, look at some city/transport...

okay---any time i hear about cats being in harms way, i get really, really upset! Yup. So yeah-0--you kids w/catts need one a them underground storm...

Yes you ARE to be congratulated for not hauling any of their stuff home with you! I have a new, and heavy, dutch oven. I wonder how long I will...

Had two CRV car loads full of my neighbors stuff for the thrift store that no one wanted . As they are moving they have destashed big time. I’m...

“Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas,” written by Jennifer Raff, has some excellent discussion of the state of this sort of thing. It is a bit...

I did read it. He has a valid point for sure. My favorite environmental writers, Derrick Jensen and Lierre Kieth have had their speaking engagements...

Shut down of critical thinking and persecution of wrong-think by universities of their faculty has been a measurable problem since at least 2014. ...

Kay, sorry about your sister's far and animals. Glad the cat showed up! Hoping for quick healing for the horses.

I know the Institute of museum, and library services as a publishing house. It’s not something the general public ever comes into direct contact...

Yesterday he signed another one of his unconstitutional EO's, which dismantles 7 more agencies, including these, according to the Hill: "The...

Kay, that's awful. I have had horses and this has always been my nightmare scenario and what scares me about getting them again. Down in South...

I have been buying books on Thriftbooks. I used Amazon to buy and send my grandson his birthday present, though. Just bought my son's birthday...

Yes, we are losing a whole generation of scientists here. The structure that supports learning and growth is being dismantled. I will check out the...