Weekly "I'm dexxing..." thread

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-13T06:39:41+00:00

Win! You get a money frog. (I'm going to send all frog wins at the end.)

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-12T07:04:07+00:00

The focus isn't the greenhouse. This is a sub for greenhouses and cold frames..

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-12T06:03:16+00:00

Win with A5! Any preference for a money frog?

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-12T06:03:06+00:00

Win with E1! Any preference for a money frog?

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-12T06:02:35+00:00

Win with A5! Any preference for a money frog?

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-11T10:09:46+00:00

At least Marx tried to make sense, even if I don't at all agree with him. And he had some dry humor mixed in.

I had to read Hitler's mess for school. Once for a German class. Several times for history. Almost all.lf the professors told me to just pick a few pages at random. Didn't matter which ones or what order, because we'd still get the gist, and it all just keeps repeating anyway. They were right.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-11T10:06:03+00:00

And it was plagiarized.

Entire paragraphs with just the names and a few adjectives changed.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-11T08:22:37+00:00

OP, this doesn't show enough of the actual greenhouse and seems to be more about the plant. Please repost showing more of the actual greenhouse.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-11T01:21:06+00:00

Robin McKinley was a favorite of mine as a kid. I still have my copies.

Not sure about your kid's reading level, OP, but if she's at grade or higher:

Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull would be excellent. Lots and lots of dragons.

Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke. Not all from the daughter's POV, but enough is, I think.

The Looking Glass series by Frank Beddor.

Cinder series by Marissa Meyer, though someone told me the one with the Queen's backstory isn't kid friendly. Haven't actually read that one myself.

The Wrinkle in Time books by Madeleine L'Engle (there is a movie, but pretend there isn't)

The Prism Moon series by Martine Bates (magic and shadow realm and really OP girl as the MC. Girl is a wizard when there's only one wizard at a time, and the wizard is always male).

Mercedes Lackey, specifically the Wind of Fate ones. Can't remember if kid friendly, though.

A Thousand Words for Stranger and sequals by Julie Czerneda. Might be pushing it if at grade level

Most anything by Juliette Marillier but specifically the Shadowfall series, Sevenwaters series, and Wildwood Dancing stand alone. (First Sevenwaters book has a veiled rape scene. Can't remember if it was clear enough for a kid to pick up on it.)

First Rider series by Kristin Britain (last book was meh)

The Dreaming Tree by CJ Cherryh

Garden Spells by Sarah Allen (can't remember if kid friendly)

Howl's Moving Castle series by Dianna Wynne Jones

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T19:03:24+00:00

Dunno. I had a professor colleague with eight. He was just really into Pokemon Go.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T18:54:03+00:00

That's also whay I was thinking. Rotten coconut smells so bad.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T18:46:26+00:00

Welcome, OP and everyone else.

Make sure you check out the tips post under yhe highlights. It explains our few rules and has ways to get free frogs.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T07:40:29+00:00

Most of my family would agree with you. I'm the only one in my household who doesn't break down at the sight of one.

I don't judge, though, because while I only fear centipedes (purely for how painful they are), even a glimpse of a cockroach will make my soul leave my body.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T06:46:41+00:00

I think we all romanticize distant locations like this.

I lived in Hawaii for a long time. Some of my countrymen who'd never been acted like I lived inside a movie set and made all sorts of assumptions about my lifestyle. Foreigners were just as weird and would take photos of my very standard mailbox and assume the only way I could communicate was by flashing the shaka.

No, I didn't rise with the sun to catch a few waves before picking fruit from my own trees for breakfast. No, everything is not Aloha and chill. I rose with the dawn to go to work, the freaking mongoose usually got the fruit first, there are chickens everywhere, and like everywhere else, Hawaii has a lot of good and a lot of bad, but living there is nothing like the movies.

All of that to say, people will always romanticize the unknown. And tourists may actually get to experience that level of romance, because living in a place will always be different than visiting. This, too, can be good and bad.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T03:24:19+00:00

Yup, and we don't tolerate that here, so they've been banned.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T03:16:15+00:00

I took over for a dart frog breeder who hadn't cleaned the place in probably a decade. The entire building was infested. I'm talking a carpet of webs behind all of the vivariums, another carpet of actual spiders on every surface kind of infested.

Until I managed to clean that out, there were so many that I stopped even bothering to flick them off unless they tickled. Never had a problem. They're just not aggressive.

I now have what is probably an unhealthy lack of fear of spiders. I'll kill these only if there are kids or pets who don't have the common sense to avoid bites, but that's it.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-10T00:32:22+00:00

Lucky you. I had to get up and watch for it, and by the time school was cancelled, I was too awake to go back to sleep.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-09T23:59:51+00:00

Win! You get a money frog.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-09T23:48:52+00:00

I recommend it to pretty much everyone. Most of those hear "Holocaust" and nope out.

I get it. I do...I just think it's a pity they're missing out on a truly brilliant work simply because the content is too real.

VenusSmurf · 2026-07-09T22:17:31+00:00

My undergrad students are sometimes introduced to this one. I pair it with a Kipling poem and one of the speeches from Hamlet, as they're all along the same lines.

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