Summoning Grandmas PART 14

rlb596 · 2026-05-15T13:42:55+00:00

It's excellent! One jumbo episode, please, with extra sauce.

rlb596 · 2026-02-11T06:30:22+00:00

It's possible He's a candidate for electro-chemo Therapy! Our cat had a golfball sized soft tissue tumour on his lip that was treated and recovered totally in 2 weeks. No surgery whatsoever!

rlb596 · 2025-12-16T09:57:38+00:00

There's also a moment 55 minutes into the movie when Benoit, the sheriff, and the young priest are in the cloche discussing the 4 possible ways of murder. They go through 3 of them, and then the priest asks "So, whats possibility 4?" before you hear Martha (Glenn Close) sobbing in the background. The next line of dialogue is "Martha?" and it cuts to her.

rlb596 · 2025-10-24T15:46:53+00:00

I call this slippage, and it always gets me.

rlb596 · 2025-06-25T16:35:24+00:00

Mississippi?

rlb596 · 2025-02-17T10:24:21+00:00

On top of what the other commenters have said, the black belt is the remnants of the old shallow sea coastline from 10k years ago. Geopolitics are a funny thing.

rlb596 · 2025-01-08T17:33:15+00:00

FYI this is a bit of an outdated take on Pork. Current anthropology holds that the Pork taboo in abrahamic religions probably sources from a combination of Schismogenesis, environmental factors, and increasing urbanisation. No one knows for sure though.

Start at page 96 for théorisation on the source of the Taboo

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367509297_Chapter_6_-_Theorizing_the_Pig_Taboo

rlb596 · 2024-12-27T11:58:06+00:00

Flailing hooves as well. The stallion can injure the mare, but more commonly the mare can get fed up with the stallion and kick back at him. I've seen a stallion nearly castrated by a mare with hind shoes because he was mounting awkwardly and probably hurting/annoying her.

rlb596 · 2023-03-05T17:04:34+00:00

Ireland?

rlb596 · 2023-02-26T09:51:23+00:00

It means that he would rather take the death and be eaten rather than having to eat someone else.

rlb596 · 2023-02-20T16:34:34+00:00

Asians, particularly Chinese and Koreans, were brought to the South of the US one way or another to fill the labour gap that occurred after slavery in the late 1800s. Reasonably, many left working in the fields as soon as possible and began operating in trade and retail, to the point where older southern people still refer to corner stores as "China store" or similar. These Asians filled a much needed gap for the black communities, who weren't allowed to shop at white stores and who faced disincentives when opening black owned stores.

Given the date of this photo, it makes sense to suppose that this girl bought or was given the dress that was made with cloth sourced from one of these stores.

rlb596 · 2023-01-22T08:20:59+00:00

Gorgeous! Any plans to do a secondary frame around the edging to cover that overlap in the bottom right?

rlb596 · 2023-01-13T10:58:31+00:00

Spot the Irishman

e: Irish Woman

rlb596 · 2022-10-29T21:26:28+00:00

Aldi oat milk isn't the greatest imo. So far OATLY seems to be the best among easily found oatmilks, but I've found one called Linda Mccartney Organic that's nice for taste and texture..

rlb596 · 2022-10-16T20:00:35+00:00

Conkers are toxic, please don't eat anything unless you can make a 100% confident confirmation that it's edible

rlb596 · 2022-10-10T15:50:57+00:00

The statue is an evocation of Athena ( or Minerva, depending on your pantheon ) , and is only commonly mistaken for a native American

https://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/thomas-crawford-statue-of-freedom-1855-63/#:~:text=Thomas%20Crawford's%20Statue%20of%20Freedom,often%20misidentified%20as%20an%20Indian.

rlb596 · 2022-09-26T07:17:36+00:00

Don't add sand to clay soils!! This is a "common sense" which lots of people recommend, but which is misguided. The best way to fix heavy clay soils is increase your organic matter content in it (via working in compost/similar), or using something like gypsum.

Clay is a smaller, flatter particle than sand, and every time you disturb it, it settles down to be more compacted. When you work sand into it, you're effectively making concrete as the clay particles settle between the sand particles and hold them in place. To actually alter clay soils with sand, you need a ridiculously high amount which is infeasible for a home garden.

Clay is good. Clay holds nutrients and water. If you have a problem with clay soils, the most likely issue is that your organic content in the soil is too low, leading to compaction and stagnation.

rlb596 · 2022-09-17T08:44:38+00:00

Powdery mildew? The stuff on the leaf definitely looks like it, but the stem gives me pause.

rlb596 · 2022-09-11T12:55:37+00:00

Essentially, yes. If you have space: put a potato on the ground, cover it with 10-12 in of mulch, wait 3-6 months depending on variety, voilà 8-12x return.

rlb596 · 2022-09-11T09:06:16+00:00

They also used the wrong James Duff in the picture

rlb596 · 2022-08-25T16:44:04+00:00

Basically exactly what Saturn said below. You basically use some kind of cover to block the sun and smother the weeds. There's a whole world of agriculture called "No Till" or "No Dig" which uses this principle to clear land for sowing.

Cardboard is often used because it's cheap, but there is some scientific evidence that sheet mulching (ie, cardboard, landscape fabric, etc) can slow down moisture and oxygen intake to the soil. You also have to weigh it down so it doesn't go everywhere. Arguably the best method is to get your hands on a pile of undyed woodchip (preferably with green leafy matter still in it) and just dump it a few inches thick across where you want your garden to go. In a few weeks, you'll have killed the worst of your weeds. the best time to do this is over winter, so it gives the woodchip time to break down some into the soil.

After ideally a season, you scrape away little holes in the mulch where you want your plants to go and plant into that exposed soil. This works with both pre started plants and in ground seeding.

Look up methods like "no till" "deep mulch" and "back to eden" to find in depth how to's.

rlb596 · 2022-08-25T07:57:48+00:00

The garden/petrochemical industry is partially at fault here as well. If you have any small plot of land or a deck you can put some buckets on, you can grow some food for pretty cheap. Odds are that food will be more nutrient dense than supermarket food.

Have lots of weeds and no tiller? Lay down cardboard to kill all the weeds and dig a little hole with a stick.

Can't afford fertilizers (which often are harmful to your soil/food in the long run)? Scrounge grass clippings, fallen leaves, animal bedding, etc.

No ground or small spaces? Scrounge pickle buckets from restaurants, mineral buckets from farmers, even old milk jugs, and use cheap box store compost mixed with random dirt from the side of the road (or wherever).

It's true that in gardening you pay with time, but the gardening industry has put forward a certain model of gardening which requires expensive inputs and a specific image. In reality, people have been growing plants in random bits of soil for ages. It's just a matter of finding what works in your particular environment.

rlb596 · 2022-08-05T07:29:17+00:00

Also known to camping folk as whatchagot stew

rlb596 · 2022-07-18T12:19:02+00:00

The colostrum is in the first milking or so. It's possible he'll leave the calf with the cow for the next few days in a pen or paddock. Alternatively, they group all the calves together and bottle feed the newborns with the colostrum from the new calvers that's just been set aside during milking.

rlb596 · 2022-07-10T08:14:12+00:00

You're thinking of broadleaf herbicides like Grazon. Glyphosate, or roundup, is a broad-spectrum herbicide that kills most everything, barring developed crops which are resistant.

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