Sometimes unusual combinations are great, like brie with sushi ginger. I imagine the cottage cheese works well with the spicy hot sauce and horseradish, and the umami of the pork.

Great pictures!

Here’s hoping they make a liar out of you soon! If possible hang it where it’s somewhat sheltered from above. By branches or an eave or something. You want to think “it would be awkward for a hawk to swoop down. But a hummingbird can finagle its way in here easy-peasy. And I can reach to refill it as well.” Being shaded will also keep it cooler so it will last longer.

The simplest possible drip pot. Unbleached paper filters. No timer, just on/off, and I took off the little spring piece that enabled you to steal a cup during the dripping and ruin the pot. Just wait, and empty the dishwasher in the meantime. I grind my beans for 12 seconds and use filtered tap water. But the beans are good imho, from Groundwork.

Sorry but that’s supposed to have 2 pointers, one at each extreme. Having one in the middle is too “normal.”

I feel bad for her husband. Bone cancer, and now she’s gonna be around him all the time.

You’re not gonna find the First Lady at Mar-a-Lago, she might accidentally see her not-yet-late husband there.

That section she fell into is quite deep. It also has enough algae and dockweed to look like grass and be extremely slippery. And she couldn’t swim. So even if she didn’t hit her head, or get trapped or choked by weeds, the fact that she drowned isn’t suspicious in itself.

Renaming a thing because of a new thing has been a part of the evolution of language forever.

With specific regard to “artificial” and your example…Just yesterday I saw the title of an article about Football FIelds: Grass vs Turf. So apparently the artificial kind is now just “turf.” Luckily we already had “grass” as a synonym for actual turf. Although in some contexts we need to specify “actual grass” as opposed to cannabis.

Usually when an artificial item comes along, the original item is then described as “real.” Real flowers, real vanilla, real diamond (a misnomer but still) real breasts, real Christmas tree…

But of course in this case they’re looking for the initials to be A.I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym

Yes! Thank you for this!

I think you’d have a hard time finding anyone who did grow up in the age where underwear didn’t have elastic, either men or women. Which raises the question, why don’t men’s underwear have bows? Unfair!

An excellent choice!

(@) there I rolled it up for you

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Poor thing, I hope she also eventually got spayed. And treats!

I’m thinking tax write-off rather than money laundry

Beautiful news, Eskarina. So happy for you!

Any relation to Eskarina Smith, born in the smithy of the village of Bad Ass on the Discworld?

Agreed.

You know when you’re a little kid and you think, “I’m gonna have a pet shop so I can keep all the pets” because you don’t really grasp the selling part? I’m getting the vibe of “I’m gonna have a needlepoint shop so I can have all the pretty threads and stuff.”

Oh my bad.

https://alchetron.com/Saint-Ursula

Since the price on the package (or advertised online and on TV) is for the item alone, it stays the same regardless of the tax. This enables people to bitch about the separate amount going to the government with greater precision. At the moment, my Republican customers can bitch about the percentage going to “immigrants and homeless” while my Democratic customers can bitch about the amount going to “genocide in the Middle East.” Add in tariffs and now they’re still mad about the high cost but they’re not mad at me.