My winter garden is over, except for the fennel and mojito mint (I leave it in there and just pull it up occasionally, it plays pretty nice) and a couple of lettuces.

Starting seedlings of jalapeno, butternut squash, eggplant, tomato. Later on will plant okra, a container of Stokes Purple sweet potato, and mini watermelons. Basil. The citrus made flowers but it seems late, winter was oddly cold this year.

Zone 10

What variety of peppers? It doesn’t freeze here, but jalapeno (my favorite) are annuals. The little bird peppers that grow on a bush just keep going forever.

Sure, but happy satisfied people aren’t usually the ones who progress humanity forward in art or sport. I wouldn’t describe it as neurodivergence, but do think it’s the people who have a need that most of us don’t.

I don’t really think so, unless you have a very broad definition of neurodivergence. In which case, yeah sure most all art is made by people who are not balanced happy individuals, now too. If you don’t have that black hole of need inside you, you don’t need to fill it.

HG Wells

Jules Verne

Mary Shelley

L Frank Baum

Heinlein

They seem like regular minded people just brilliant. I don’t think of anyone as a “normie” though, my definition of normal is either it has to be broad enough to encompass a majority of the population, or it’s meaningless because nobody is identical to anyone else, all broken in our own way and strong in our own way.

Isn’t that in tornado alley? I wouldn’t dare. It’s like a giant trailer, any tornado will be drawn to that like a magnet.

Very cool. I think I’ll wait for the red maples we have to get a little bigger then see if I can train some vines up them. I saw that live plants of it are available near me.

Thanks, that helps. We are 10a, last few years have been quite mild winters but this year it already has been cold twice (40f) overnight and it’s not even January.

This is gorgeous. Would it be too wet for it in west central FL? Will it grow from seeds?

Well 6 of my 7 plants were lost in the hurricane, so you have grown an infinite, incalculable % more pineapple than I’ve managed. It does look delicious.

We are here for you at [email protected] if you would like to drown your sorrows in something delicious.

I think that the important thing to remember is that just because something gets you off, that doesn’t mean it’s a good way to run the world.

A feminist Dom makes sense to me, they are getting off on the control but only with someone who enjoys it, think lots of those guys get off even more on seeing what it’s doing for their sub.

They are a 2 hour drive from us so not extravagant trips. But I am so grateful to my mom for taking my kids with her when she traveled to Europe. Even though she never did anything like that with us, she would invite her grandkids one or two at a time to wherever she was going and her rules were “one bag, you carry it, no whining”. They got to see places I haven’t yet. Very extravagant and I wish she’d taken her own kids on trips like that!

Time also plays a part.

When I was staying at home with my kids and poor as fuck, 4 people living on $15k, if there was gas in the car I could just take us spontaneously to the park, and my city has free music performances on some Thursday nights, if I have free time I can just make a last minute decision and go.

So now I have a good husband who earns $ and a good job, not rich but certainly more affluent than at any time in my life, but I am much less rich in time. Job takes a lot of it, more responsibility overall and less flexibility.

I don’t think spontaneity scales with money, it scales with free time once you have enough money. And that “enough” is not a lot.

Marcus King ROCKS and he is not good looking. Charismatic as fuck on stage too.

I think there is about the same proportion of good music to bad as there ever was, you just don’t hear the bad music of the past because it didn’t last. Survival bias, I think it’s called.

A Welchman?

4,000 square feet for $169K? For that price you could renovate the inside, and for a rectangular box it has some interesting angles going on.

I can’t imagine a school that would teach only 5 literature books, my kids did more than that EACH year and even the terrible incomplete education I got in K-12 here when we were the bottom of the barrel state in the bottom of the barrel nation in terms of education involved more than 5 books a year.

My kid who dislikes reading and wants to go into trades, even that kid has read more than 5 books voluntarily outside of school, and certainly more than 60 in the course of their education so far. I can’t imagine all of them being boring - I read some of them too, if my kids recommended them to me - Brodek’s Report was one I remember reading after my kid had to buy it for school, it was so good.

I just thought your " I read books, five of them at least" had to be a joke. If my kids here in the state of Florida have to do more, I can’t imagine any educational system requiring only a few.

5?

OK you have to be trolling.

Well, if you mean literally, a little boredom is good for the brain.

If you mean why should we strive to make kids have a good vocabulary, it’s so that they can communicate with others and be able to understand the world better.

If you mean why should we strive to make kids appreciate art, it’s because art is good for kids’ brains, for everyone’s brains.

If you just mean you can’t force all kids to be into the same things, yes, I agree. But all should learn math, reading at an adult level, comfortably, sciences, art of some sort, and physical education of some sort.

You aren’t better off just always doing what comes easy to you. Forcing your mind and body to do things that are difficult is what makes you stronger and smarter. The learning difficult books that you disdain so thoroughly will make it both easier and more fun to read, eventually, but also just trains your mind to handle language better.

Twelve is such a great number. So divisible.