Oh, JZ, I'm sorry. And what everyone said about you being the center here. ::hugs you::
And Bev, I'm so sorry about your BiL!
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jan 15, 2018 4:31:07 pm PST #21062 of 30002
Because books.
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2018 4:37:11 pm PST #21063 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Fruit of osage orange trees
Does anyone else call these hedge apples/hedge balls? I didn't realize they were from osage orange trees until a year or two ago.
seed pods from sweet gum trees
Which are known in my house as "ding-dong balls," because my mom has a goofy nickname for everything you can think of. (Honestly, though, they should just be called "You Will Break Your Ankle, Puny Mammal."
sarameg - Jan 15, 2018 5:15:21 pm PST #21064 of 30002
Some sort of maple-y tree? It also drops leaves late, which is a pisser. I'm mid Atlantic, remember.
sarameg - Jan 15, 2018 5:20:31 pm PST #21065 of 30002
Google indicates sweetgum.
I hate them. And their helicopter flowers. Pretty tree when they aren't bad neighbors, though.
Steph L. - Jan 15, 2018 5:21:16 pm PST #21066 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Google indicates sweetgum.
Ding-dong balls!
dcp - Jan 15, 2018 5:22:19 pm PST #21067 of 30002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Probably sweet gum [link]
Five-pointed leaves, great Fall colors, seed pods are a nuisance. The pods burn well, but not hot enough to make good firestarters.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 15, 2018 5:32:28 pm PST #21068 of 30002
"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
I managed to cook a couple of more or less perfect hard boiled eggs to go in my ramen and salad tonight; came out of the shells without tearing, and the yolks were neither rubbery nor coated with that slimy greenish patina.
-t - Jan 15, 2018 5:36:17 pm PST #21069 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We always called those gumballs.
Sorry about your BiL's diagnosis, Bev.
amych - Jan 15, 2018 5:38:30 pm PST #21070 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Gumballs here too. Or alternately, "ouch wtf did I just step on".
dcp - Jan 15, 2018 5:45:41 pm PST #21071 of 30002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
We called them stickerballs.. Osage oranges were sometimes called horse apples.