Hi, friends!
How is your Monday going? I hope it’s a good day.
The title is freebies because I realized I have some volunteer tomatoes coming back in my beds. Can’t go wrong with more tomatoes, right?
Do I know which varieties they are? Either a lemon boy or a black cherry tomato. Well, could be both since there’s several volunteers coming in. I will thin them out in a week or two I think. It’s definitely not a thing of they survived last winter, it’s rather that I was too lazy to clean out the beds last fall and some tomatoes dropped and decayed.
Last year around this time a lady in a local facebook group posted that she had thinned out a ton of copper river irises and they were in a box free for the taking. Copper river irises are a native to Missouri species and are fine in standing water, which is great because much of my back yard could probably be a marsh. I picked up over a dozen rhizomes and planted them. This year I even got a few blooms and they grew in nice and thick.
On my walk today there were all kinds of stuff marked free in front of people’s houses. Shoes, kitchen utensils, books, a little table, plastic containers….
My next door neighbor has put out free food for freeloaders. Those damn birds, they’re going to become socialists.
There’s an awesome lady a few streets over who actually put out tables of free food for people who needed it. She started during the beginning of the pandemic when everything was horrible. She organized that into a mutual aid network and then eventually started a nonprofit. She’s fucking amazing.
Typically around here the free stuff goes out on yards on Fridays or Tuesdays. Tuesdays I think because trash day is Wednesday so people go looking for salvageable stuff the night before.
Our sugar bill is so high that we claim our hummingbirds as dependents.
Mrs Butcher is a sucker for free shit on the side of the road. But not just any free shit. No sir. It has to be really big and really heavy. I’m fact, the harder it is to fit in the car and the less room we have in the house the more she wants it.
I had an aunt like that. Any bulky random thing on the side of the road that she thought she could use in the yard or put in a garage sale? You bet your ass she was taking it.
I hope it’s a big heavy copy of something you already have but never use. Because you never know when you need multiples. Especially when it’s something you can buy for $3 from a thrift store anytime you want more.
My wife will pick up any plant pot that says free. From small to giant, plastic to ceramic, we have it!
Does she ever put plants into them or is it just to clutter up the garage and/or shed?
She uses them or gives them away or throws them away & searches for more. We have too many plants though she is starting to make all her friends & neighbors take plants too.
I can relate. And now that we’ve got a pickup truck, I can only imagine the stuff we’ll be picking up.
We had lots of creeping Jenny over-winter and even seed and grow around the pots.
I’ma snitch some of the Rhubarb here at Dad’s building before I head home tomorrow😉
There’s a GIANT crown of it, and the shoots are so big that you can TELL it hasn’t been picked regularly in years… it’s a lot taller than any of the other rhubarb I’ve seen around here, annnnd the shoots are more than 1″ in diameter (most is only 3/4″ or so, right now!), soooo that says that the plant hasn’t been picked much at all, the last few years😁
Hells yeah get that rhubarb!
i planted a couple sticks in a pot of soil a couple years ago for shits and giggles….and now i have a 10ft tree…wearing the pot it grew through as decoration
willows are a weed i swear
if i’d known it would grow straight through the pot….i might have placed it somewhere a little more strategically….oh well
It’s wild, when you see the storm that blew by ya earlier in the day, hit the national news….
and to see poky little Forada** in The Grey Lady is just sorta mind-blowing!😳😲🤯
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/us/tornado-minnesota-forada.html
Luckily, it’s looking like no one got hurt too seriously–just property damage… although that’s bad enough, since there’s not really any “extra” housing to pick up the slack out here😕
**FWIW, it’s pronounced “Fer-AYY-duh” (said quickly, so it all mushes together, with the emphasis on the middle or “ay” sound😉) if you’re local.
“Alex” short for Alexandria–is said like Alec the Baldwin-brother’s name–not like Alex Trebec… we SPELL it like Trebec’s name… but no one who’s *from* this area pronounces it like that!😉😆🤣
It’s the easiest way to see if someone knows this region… and pity the poor, new, weatherfolk from “The Cities” trying to give the NWS warnings live over the air, their first year or two in MN if they didn’t grow up here, because they WILL hear about it!!😆😂🤣🤣🤣
Can they say Alex right, do they say “Forada” properly, and do they know how to say Osakis? (“Oh-SAY-kiss”, not “Oh-sock-iss” or “OH-sah/suh-kiss”😉)…
Minnesota has all SORTS of tricky names–Ely (EE-lee), Shakopee (SHOCK-uh-pee), Edina (ee-DIE-nuh), Monticello (mon-duh-SELL-low), Montevideo (mon-duh-VID-ee-oh), Lowry (l-OW-ree) “Low” is said like “wow,” with the emphasis on the “ow”, Pequot Lakes (PEE-kwa-t…with the “kwah-t” rhyming with “hot”, Brooten (BROOT-n) etc.
We’ve got lots of place names that either came out of Native words (Dakota/Lakota, or Ojibwe) or from other places, but which then got absolutely butchered, by the “long o” “d fot t” and eaten–last-consonants of multiple generations of German, Polish, Czech, & Scandihoovian settlers😉😄😂🤣💖