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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


aurelia - May 18, 2013 1:29:30 pm PDT #22872 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Oh, I am sorry - t, but I have faith in you to get those five points next year.

Agreed.


Connie Neil - May 18, 2013 1:52:53 pm PDT #22873 of 30001
brillig

It took me til now to think to look this up.

Yay! I can stop trying to figure out which Central American town that is with the Spanish and the tropical coastline!


Juliebird - May 18, 2013 1:55:19 pm PDT #22874 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Both probies were a no show and a ton of vols didn't come in, I'm assuming because it was overcast, but there was no prediction of rain. I was disgruntled at first, but we still got a ton of work done. Spent the afternoon in the greenhouse propogating more Coleus (Wild Lime!) and got shamed yet again by kids in a birthday party tour asking for Venus Flytraps.

So I called up our vendor, and they were in stock! Scooted out early to make the trek, and what should have been a five dollar purchase wound up over a hundred dollars. Whoops.

My new passion is definitely all the many and varied permutations of Coleus and picked up onesies to use as stock plants and other fun things that I'll either use at work or at home. Some fun plume Celosia in yellow and a hot orange. I'm starting to think that if I need a second career that isn't as physically draining, I should start looking at nursery production.

It's a sickness, really. I'm pinching, belatedly, the Coleus back and the stems are long enough to shove into plug trays, so hey! free new plants! I can give them away to coworkers and plant up my own yard if I decided to be a good doobie and not sell cuttings of patented/trademarked plants.

To think that I used to hate Coleus.


Calli - May 18, 2013 2:09:09 pm PDT #22875 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Coleus are lovely! (Coleuses? Colei?) I have a couple of types in a pot on my front porch--one lime green with a bit of pink and purple and one a bronzey purple with bits of green. They look great growing next to one another.


Juliebird - May 18, 2013 2:26:17 pm PDT #22876 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

There are still Colues that I despise. Inky Fingers is ridiculously easy to propogate and grows like wildfire, but the dark purple with the fringe of green looks ugly and boring to me. I've found that dark-leaved plants, while technically interesting and awesome, visually turn into dark pools of shadow in the garden. I'm a chartreuse gal, brighten that shit up! I'm a big fan of Sedona (which is finicky) and Wasabi (so much bright green!). I even did and experiment with a few Helychrysum cuttings that seem to be doing well (got them shoved under the greenhouse benches so they don't get stressed by the sun and heat).


Juliebird - May 18, 2013 2:26:18 pm PDT #22877 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

There are still Colues that I despise. Inky Fingers is ridiculously easy to propogate and grows like wildfire, but the dark purple with the fringe of green looks ugly and boring to me. I've found that dark-leaved plants, while technically interesting and awesome, visually turn into dark pools of shadow in the garden. I'm a chartreuse gal, brighten that shit up! I'm a big fan of Sedona (which is finicky) and Wasabi (so much bright green!). I even did and experiment with a few Helychrysum cuttings that seem to be doing well (got them shoved under the greenhouse benches so they don't get stressed by the sun and heat).


Fred Pete - May 18, 2013 2:54:59 pm PDT #22878 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

0.17 km without Google after seeing a sign for the Farmacia Vallarta! 6465 points!


§ ita § - May 18, 2013 3:20:29 pm PDT #22879 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's not like I'm running short on notecards, but these are very appealing: [link]


Matt the Bruins fan - May 18, 2013 3:24:16 pm PDT #22880 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Man, I killed maybe 20 flies this morning before work, and another 5 after getting home. Every time I kill what I think is the last one, another startrs buzzing around a few minutes later.

If they're attracted by something dead in the building, I hope it's out where somebody will find it and not something like a pigeon or mouse in the walls.


aurelia - May 18, 2013 3:29:40 pm PDT #22881 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

It's not like I'm running short on notecards, but these are very appealing: [link]

Heh. I want those.