I had the exact same experience with the elephant garlic, they took forever to sprout, long enough that I actually dug one of them up to check that they hadn’t been eaten or something.

It might be! That was one of the varieties I planted this year, though the cloves I put in the ground looked like normal shaped cloves, just scaled up a bit.

That makes sense, he was really undersized compared to the rest.

You’re right, they’re just making a joke, as till also refers to how farmers prepare soil for planting crops.

Maybe we need more Christmas songs that are suitable to gloom of Seasonal Effective Disorder.

Yes, 100%. I’d like to see more songs about the dark cold that sucks rather than pretend with “merry and bright.”

I got it from this shop on Etsy, but it looks like they’re out of stock :(

I drove from southern California to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico for it!

Yep, I bought the telescope for $70 and separate solar filter for $20. Can dm links if you're interested.

Trypophobia, something about those kinds of holes… *shudder*

I love Townsend’s videos, and learned something new. Always thought Welsh rabbit contained actual rabbit, rather than being a cheese sauce on toast, now I’ll have to try making it!

Maybe some non food gift, like a bouquet of flowers? Or a gift card to a local movie theater or other non food activity?

There’s a blast from the past. I had to look the guy up, and seems like he does motivational speaking now.

Yep, and he’s probably the guy responsible for the nibbles higher up. They love my tomatoes, and become absolute terrors in my garden this time of year.

I think it’s a beautiful scene, but I know desert landscapes aren’t everyone’s cup of tea.

You know I thought about deleting my account, but with a combination of nostalgia and the hope that some of my comments would still be useful led me to decide to just leave it in stasis.

So far, pretty much everything I’ve posted on Lemmy has been new OC, but I think I’ll start scraping and reposting some of my old reddit posts eventually.

I used to comment a lot more than I would post back on Reddit, but I’ve been putting in an effort to try to build up communities here, both my own and others. So I’ve been scraping all my old pictures to find useful content, and as a result, have more posts than comments.

Is there a way you can try to get on Vyvanse? You sound a lot like where I was at 6 months ago (constant burnout, never able to recharge, executive disfunction with every task).

It took a couple tries to find a therapist who would listen to me (and hearing the horror stories, I know I was fortunate), but being on Vyvanse has been night and day. It has its downsides and isn’t some miracle drug, but it’s allowed me to get to a place where I don’t feel like I’m constantly drowning.

Oh definitely still glad we visited, the whole area was still breathtakingly beautiful. I really want to come back one summer and spend more time hiking, hopefully with more sun!

So jealous you had good weather! I was just there at the tail end of May, and we had constant rain/snow/hail. The locals said it was really unseasonably cold weather.

Varies depending on the site, sometimes it’s gasoline, or solvents, or heavy metals or PFAS. As for how it happens, accidental or deliberate releases. I’ve found military documents from the 50s that say the official place to dispose of used motor oil was a pit they’d dug in the ground.