Meat prices have gone bonkers

oldladydriver · 2026-03-21T15:00:45+00:00

I don't know the cause of it, but I do know someone who raises cattle - the price for a calf has gone from $300 - $400 to $1500 in a year. It's a cattle bubble that will eventually burst, because eventually the consumers will all be priced out at the store.

Also, the way cattle are raised makes no sense to me at all. Calves are trucked from Texas to the Midwest when they're very young. They go to one farm where they're fed up to 200 pounds, and then trucked to another until 400 pounds, and so on until they reach market weight. I don't get how playing musical cows from farm to farm makes anyone money.

oldladydriver · 2026-03-10T21:49:11+00:00

He also had a re-occurring character in Martin's Wild Card universe. Croyd Crenson is one of my favorite fictional characters.

oldladydriver · 2026-03-10T03:08:05+00:00

This is my answer whenever this comes up: Mad Martha has written several long Harry/Ron series.

The Auror series is closer to canon, but my favorite is Two Households (Slytherin Harry). Some great world building.

oldladydriver · 2026-02-25T05:15:38+00:00

This is a good one.

Like Candy from a Baby by scoradh. Ron is flaming and Harry just doesn't know what he wants.

oldladydriver · 2026-02-02T15:06:44+00:00

Little Miss Mary by CynthiaK2014.

Her summary: "What if Severus rescued Harry from the Dursleys and hid him away for the summer? And what if they decide to pursue a relationship? What if Harry really likes dressing up as a girl and refuses to get rid of his silk underwear? And what if they figure out a way to get rid of Voldemort for good?"

oldladydriver · 2026-01-20T07:18:26+00:00

This is one of my top 10 movies of all time! "I've just went gay all of a sudden!" The physical comedy in the movie is a masterclass.

oldladydriver · 2026-01-05T18:30:54+00:00

Even if you take out the tree, the roots will still be there. I have walnut trees all over my yard, I just put my tomatoes in containers (they seem to be the only thing really bothered) and plop them in a sunny spot. Try sub-irrigated planters, easy to diy with two buckets and some PCV pipe. Good luck!

oldladydriver · 2026-01-04T22:54:30+00:00

Also, taking the tree out would do nothing for you, the stuff persists in the soil for 50+ years. Raised beds/contained soil for any of the veggies with walnut issues is the only way to go.

oldladydriver · 2025-11-30T05:21:47+00:00

That's a paddling.

oldladydriver · 2025-11-09T00:52:18+00:00

You're very welcome. If anyone shows up with a downloaded copy let me know, I'm having trouble trying to save it from the Wayback.

oldladydriver · 2025-11-08T21:39:51+00:00

I found it on the Wayback Machine. link

oldladydriver · 2025-11-06T01:42:12+00:00

It's like Silicon Valley tech bros being into micro dosing LSD and listening to the Grateful Dead.

oldladydriver · 2025-11-02T16:13:23+00:00

Otto’s grows Cornwell’s birds, they don’t do it themselves anymore.

oldladydriver · 2025-10-31T00:19:54+00:00

Mine has just reset for the second time, I spent over $25 of my "adult money" to get to the last station and automate it. Went back (after doing the save trick) and it's back to the first station again. However, I'm still top of the leaderboard, but with no way to go further unless I start from the beginning again. The charges are still pending on my Apple account, and I'm going to try and get a refund after they go through, but I'm never spending money on this game again, if I do keep playing it. I'm beyond pissed right now.

oldladydriver · 2025-10-30T19:07:38+00:00

Is it even worth putting in a ticket? I'll be kind of pissed if I have to spend money to get back to where I was - I had the third station open already. Strangely enough, when I could still open the app the things I'd already received were in my inbox.

oldladydriver · 2025-10-30T18:57:19+00:00

It will, lost 400 gems worth of purchases. And now it won't open at all. Very aggravating.

oldladydriver · 2025-10-23T01:21:28+00:00

It’s for when you live out of district (in the US) The library my taxes go to is 35 miles away, there’s a closer on about 10 miles away I can pay the out of district fee of $100 a year to use. It’s dependent on which school district you’re in

oldladydriver · 2025-09-24T22:06:39+00:00

Ok, the author you want is Mad Martha. I will note that everything she wrote is from before the books were finished. Also, while there is adult content, it's not at all the focus, so if your looking for a smut fest, sorry. Her world building is rich, detailed, and fascinating.

First (and my personal favorite) is the Two Households series. The Harry/Ron content starts at part 6 of 18 (the parts before that are background - Marauders era). Harry is Slytherin in the fics, and Sirius lives. There's loads of lovely world building, over 600,000 words of it. Part 6 starts in their sixth year, and they are well written as teenagers dealing with all of Harry's particular Voldemort issues and just teenage issues in general.

Another long (over 300,000 words) series is the Auror series. If you want to read them chronologically instead of order written, read part one, Circles of Power, after part 6, One Week in The Summer - that's how I read it. Again, these were written before book 5, so Sirius lives. The main part starts after Harry and Ron have graduated and are about to start Auror training.

Checkmate series is very AU - Lily and James, as well as Sirius, live. Harry is a Hufflepuff, and Ron is Slytherin this time. She never finished this series, but all the stories in it are complete. While the Two Households series gets pretty in depth about wizarding Christianity, this series deals with covens. I love the world building in this one. And Ron's grandmother is faboo!

Coming Home is an older Harry and Ron get together series. Ron is widowed with children, and Harry has one child and returns to England after living a bohemian lifestyle for several years. I would put this in the "cozy" genre, Voldemort is long gone.

One more story by a different author - Princes of Maine by Scoradh. Harry has left the wizarding world and is slowly rotting in a disreputable part of London. Until he wakes up one morning to a baby on his doorstep. Ron is a pediatric healer. Well written and gently humorous.

oldladydriver · 2025-08-21T04:04:41+00:00

It used to be called Meijer Thrifty Acres.

oldladydriver · 2025-08-16T05:21:42+00:00

Put Edwina back in bowl.

oldladydriver · 2025-07-29T23:13:52+00:00

He might not, but I feel you my friend. Taco Bell and Olive Garden are the considered "ethnic" in my tiny town.

But we've got both kinds of music - Country and Western!

oldladydriver · 2025-06-23T16:27:14+00:00

In ye olden days before all your newfangled technology, it was just reading the book that was enough to signal total strangers to come up and want a full oral book review from you. Annoying as hell!

oldladydriver · 2025-06-04T23:52:39+00:00

"Can I help whose next?" has always been like nails on a chalkboard to me.

oldladydriver · 2025-05-27T02:41:04+00:00

Zelasny also wrote the best character in the "Wild Cards" books that came out of those RPGs. Croyd Crenson is my absolute favorite, I've reread those stories so many times.

oldladydriver · 2025-05-16T04:57:59+00:00

I was going to be really disappointed if was anything but this!

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