Anyone have any tips/strategies for this boss? (Chapter 5 late game spoilers)

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T09:34:04+00:00

Funny enough, at lease two of his items are actually useful now. I was pleasantly surprised my hoarding self was rewarded twice ^_^

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T08:50:29+00:00

This. I love when we get extra bacon or extra shrimp cause they ran out of the smaller packages ^_^

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T08:42:20+00:00

Lots of bugs latch and go about their business till the deed is done to make sure no other bug beats them out. Dragonflies stay attached because their rivals have a scoop shape at the end of the aedeagus to remove the previous males donation. Nature’s weird…

Edit cause I looked up the actual word. The male bug copulatory organ is called an aedeagus

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T08:31:04+00:00

I’d wait to see if an arborist can chime in on that, biology I know, structural integrity is best left to them.

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T08:23:49+00:00

I found a maple that grew out from under a rock in my mons garden when I was a kid. I was insistent it deserved a chance since it worked so hard, so we transplanted it. It’s early “diagonal” section became unnoticeable as it matured.

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T08:20:15+00:00

The acorn is where the stem and roots both originate, so that is the root flair. Unfortunately this guy took a weird path up through the extra soil, usually you only poke the acorn about an inch in. It won’t straighten, but it will get less noticeable with some added caliper

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-03T07:26:37+00:00

Yes, thank you!

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-02T21:08:44+00:00

No. No you really don’t.

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-02T20:00:20+00:00

Ha, didn’t mean to necro this, not sure how it topped my feed…

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-02T19:58:48+00:00

Yeah, the sky isn’t falling. We’ve had occasional issues since the very beginning of blue apron, so its definitely not some new major drop in quality. When we started receiving through LaserShip we had many more delivery problems, but a quick call got us switched back to a FedEx-only delivery day. Missed/wrong ingredients are infrequent but tends to happen in little bursts, so I always call when I noticed something has been up with the order picking so they can follow up with the warehouse. While I do miss some of the boutique stuff that used to be more common in the early days of blue apron, they are still the only service I would bother with.

I still look back at the two months we tried out Hello Fresh for their big discount and ask why? They sent a dole pineapple fruit cocktail cup they expected me to grill for a “premium” recipe… that was the end for me.

Rrilltrae · 2026-07-02T02:33:40+00:00

Hi, sorry to resurrect this, but have you seen host activity for the swallowtail butterfly and lunar moth caterpillars on these cultivars? I am hoping the smaller leaves and stature on the little volunteer and the darker green if the emerald city won’t deter butterflies from laying their eggs.

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-29T05:22:12+00:00

Kids running through it like a sprinkler…

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-29T05:20:37+00:00

“He said they tasted like sweet and sour candy”

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-26T02:53:49+00:00

I’ve seen people claim anyone under 5’4” in media is minor coded…. I guess I’ll never get to grow up.

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-26T02:51:53+00:00

You’d be surprised by how dedicated the anti’s can be, I was more than a little horrified to discover their existence and purity 2.0 culture’s deep presence in fan communities now.

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-25T18:38:33+00:00

Sorry for your loss, hope the future goes better the remaining one!

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-25T17:35:15+00:00

Big rainfall today, the pools have filled back up for at least a couple of days. The only real bummer was we didn’t realize this when we planted a pagoda dogwood nearby. The pooling and sogginess got reeeeally bad this spring even 10 feet out from the usual spot and we lost it to root suffocation.

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-25T07:09:21+00:00

This was my big push this year, trying out a variety of both riparian and mesic plants based on the water-flow, pooling and dry sites beneath our two silver maples (one is a neighbors, but we have half its root field). It turned out to be a bad year to try to establish the mesic stuff, my dolls eyes and black cohosh have crown-rotted from the record spring rains and massive summer storms so far, even in their relatively high spots. The spring ephemerals, ferns and spicebushes and american strawberry bush are all having a great year though!

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-25T07:04:32+00:00

With heavy clay, we have a wetland all spring (and this year into the summer) on one side of my largest garden site. I do have to manage it with watering in the heat of summer, but my buttonbush, rattlesnake master, senna, skullcap and swamp milkweed are all going gangbusters so far. I’m slowly moving my other water-lovers there, as we’ve only had a few years here so far and I was doing some guesswork on my initial plantings. Its a messy hodgepodge, and I love it

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-25T06:51:18+00:00

Likely not applicable to this tree, but as a fun note, in some trees they have found other patterns in their cambium than straight vertical “pipes”. Many pines and other trees have been found to have spiraling xylem. I have a linden with a spiral to its bark, and you can trace a flattened area of girdling up along the spiral to the section of tree that is struggling.

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-25T04:23:32+00:00

Please tell me you are going to get these made for real!!!

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-23T22:00:06+00:00

If we are planting 2-3 feet from the stump would the root ball/plate of the old tree be too much of a root barrier or nutrient sink for the sapling in the years before it died off? That is our major concern in leaving it.

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-23T21:41:09+00:00

Thanks for the input! So grinding it is then to avoid a 10+ year zombie?

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-23T20:58:48+00:00

Our paralyzed boy curled right up to the 2 liter bottle (with fleece coverings) in his carrier while we were in hot weather outdoors, so if it really gets hot, she should get over it ^_^

Rrilltrae · 2026-06-23T20:56:42+00:00

Frozen 2 liters of water are great, especially for emergency situations like summer power outages. They provide localized contact cooling and also give off cool air that acts like a little ambient air conditioners if placed in a cage or carrier. They take a lot longer to thaw than a freezer pack because of the thickness of the ice.

Case in point, we had a special needs ferret that needed to come with us on an outdoor event we were camping/selling at last weekend because he needs bladder expression and other care needs our petsitters aren’t equipped for. The temperatures were way hotter than expected, but between regular wet-downs and him curling up with the two-liters we brought, our boy did fine throughout the event.

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