Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@BarneyDellar

dude has drip.

@Retreival9096 @lapis

This happened with phones too for a bit. Though I think they are getting over it now.

But I'm still not getting a new phone. I'm mad.

@ira

It seems geosmin is the compound the gives soil a smell, though there are many others, like a complex perfume.

Geosmin is produced by bacteria and humans are very sensitive to it. In small amounts it's pleasant, but too much and suddenly it's not. Consider how blue-green algae can smell gross. This seems related to how we decide if water is OK to drink.

The threshold where you can detect this compound is tiny.

@ira

Discovering how worms can make soil has forced me to come to terms with the fact that when you are in a forest and smell the wonderful wet, fresh but earthy smell of good soil it is probably some mix of fungi and worm poop.

But I suppose the human brain is set to process those smells as clean and nice since roots dug from such soil are nutritious and there are few pathogens that can harm us. While other kinds of waste are naturally repugnant.

@ira

Yes we have worm compost, vermicompost and I love it. I especially love how it smells. Which is what worried me most when getting started. "would it smell bad?"

I'm very selective about what I put in the worm bin only vegetables, very little starch and in small consistent quantities. NYC has industrial mass composting that takes everything from bones, to fat, to bad cheese. So, I sort the food waste, keeping the easy to compost raw greens and veg and letting the city do the hard stuff.

@MCDuncanLab

Like most artists he just has paintings ... laying around. It is very annoying in a way.

@DocAtCDI

Charles Henry Turner

@Photo55

We found four of these caterpillars one year and I took them to school to keep as pets so the students could see them build their chrysalis.

This meant that there was a time when I went to Zabar's to buy organic broccoli raab for bugs.

My mother must never know of this.

(They loved that fancy broccoli so much. )

@MCDuncanLab

One of my uncles is an artist, not famous one, but he's made MANY huge oil and acrylic paintings. Landscapes of Pittsburgh and the steel mills a portrait of my grandparents. I've been trying to get the information about what each artwork is, when it was made on the back ... because it's good work, and someday I will not remember.

@iwein

The phrase "dirt cheap" makes me wince. Dirt isn't cheap. It's really hard to get enough dirt around here.

It's not like you can steal it from the park.

@iwein

I have so much worm compost. Really too much, I struggle to find things to mix it with so it's not overwhelming my plants so kale or cabbage maybe a good idea.

(And the inedible leaves will help build the soil I think. I'm like a person on a spaceship up here. leaves and grass for composting are precious to me. I need MORE BIOMASS)

@pms

You see this is the danger of social media you see some guy with an amazing cabbage and can't get past the idea of cutting it in half. Who wouldn't want to have a cabbage JUST like that one?

(I would be very proud to have one the size of an apple.)

And I recognize your advice is more practical if we expect to get a few meals out of the garden. We grow the most expensive vegetables in the world up here.

@Ailbhe

Well then it's not generic maybe?

What is it? That "Chat" poster with the black cat? If so that is understandable.

Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage.

This is my favorite kind of short "content" just seeing someone proud of their work who wants to share it with the world.

I wonder if I could grow a cabbage in a pot in our roof garden? I've never tried anything with a winter harvest before and it seems like a missed opportunity. Time to learn about cabbage root systems and planting.

@anja

Most cats seem to love it when you talk to them. Even though they have no idea what you are saying (and do not care to find out.)

Dogs often seem to strain, trying their best to understand. Cats? #picatheCat sees herself as an *expert* conversationalist.

You talk, she listens, responds: this goes on for as long as you can stand it. She seems to get more out of conversation than most people I know... despite only really understanding at most three words. ("Pica", "food", "birds")

@Ailbhe

I don't think you'd call it generic? Maybe?

@golgaloth

Do you need to read the first book first?

On the other extreme you have advice about "serious art collections" where people have paintings worth thousands of dollars.

Some of my art is worth thousands of dollars TO ME. Just because no one has caught on yet that drawings of ants are the highest art form, well it's not my problem and it means I can afford the best art.

I'm certain the concept of changing art seasonally is obvious to some of you. But it was not obvious to me.

It is a thing in very traditional Japanese interiors: to have a seasonal alcove with plants and art that you change. That way you have enough space around them to really enjoy them. But, that seemed way too advanced and minimalist for me.

Yet, I'm also tired of the Victorian picture wall look. Nothing has enough space to really shine. I'm an obligate maximalist with a minimalist soul.

I've read a lot of interior design advice about how to display framed art. How to hang it at the right height, size, how it fits in the room. Good stuff.

The popular advice even suggests "get art that you care about, avoid mass produced generic prints" but *none* of that advice says anything about managing a modest "collection" they all talk about art like its disposable and as if you'd get rid of art you aren't using. (like it's some generic mass produced print )