@wtg Your anemones are pretty! Ours are pink, but they don’t bloom until later, and they bloom on very tall stems above the foliage.

Gas at Costco is $5.09/gallon today, and the sign at the Shell station was turned off so who knows? I think it was $5.53 yesterday. I can’t imagine being a Lyft/Uber driver in this economy.

@Daniel said: I've been seeing video after video of USDA Organic labelled fruits and vegetables (bananas, for example) being gassed with industrial chemicals, etc. WTF. Organic foods can be sprayed with natural pesticides. Examples commonly applied as sprays include: Pyrethrin Usually sprayed directly onto crops for insect control. Neem oil Often sprayed as a foliar treatment on leaves. Copper sulfate Typically sprayed to prevent fungal diseases. Sulfur Often sprayed or dusted onto crops. Bacillus thuringiensis Commonly sprayed onto plants so caterpillars ingest it while feeding. Organic farming is not “no pesticides.” It’s more accurately: “restricted-input agriculture,” with emphasis on approved natural/biological substances, crop rotation, soil management, and integrated pest management before chemical intervention. In practice, some organic crops — especially fruits vulnerable to insects or fungus like apples or grapes — may receive multiple spray applications during a season. Conventional farming may use fewer sprays in some cases because certain synthetic pesticides are longer-lasting or more targeted.

We’re still down. AFAICT many other places are as well. Hopefully it all comes back online with nothing missing… It has been very disruptive, to say the least!!

Ticks bring disease. I'm sorry. We have garden variety flies in the kitchen. It could be the maid who bags and double bags when needed all of the garbage and hauls all of it in push carts to the dumpsters a mile away quit unexpectedly last week. Good help is hard to find. I just found a newborn (and I mean probably born about yesterday) garden lizard hiding in a blanket on the porch. So cute! ️

Piano virtuoso with a great sense of humor: Link to video

@CHAS said: Festus is in the French part of Missouri. This is wrong. Festus is the sidekick in Gunsmoke…

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@bernard And for a reason!

Well, HR departments have legal ways to effectively blacklist what would seemingly otherwise be excellent job prospects with the effect being many people can't even get called in for interview and have no way to tell themselves the reason why. You don't need AI to mess up your job prospects, although I don't doubt it does it's fair share of damage.

@Big_Al said: I hope the mention of therapy suggests that Mr. wtg is progressing in rehabilitation from his stroke. He is recovering some use of his right side, though it is slow going. He can walk short distances with a gait belt, foot brace, quad cane and a helper person. His balance, strength, and endurance are all improving. He has a few things that hold him back, namely torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders and a pretty arthritic back. The arm wasn't doing much of anything until last week. He is now able to move the arm just a little bit in certain directions when doing some of the OT exercises. That was pretty exciting as it indicates that his brain is figuring out how to get that right arm to move. Progress! Thanks for asking!

The Spirit shutdown has left a small regional airport in my area - Arnold Palmer Airport in Latrobe, PA - entirely without commercial air service as Spirit was the only airline flying out of there. They still will be serving private and charter aviation as well as a flight school but are urgently seeking another carrier who might fly from there. At one time, they were a USAir regional destination. Big Al

@DougG I have the same wish. @Lisa 's daughter is doing research in this field, I think. Haven't seen @lisa around recently; I wonder if she might have info....

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@AdagioM Great resource. Thanks for posting it!

MrsTuner has one of the magnet battery packs and she uses that to extend her use when it's not easy to plug in. Way easier than the corded battery packs I have floating around!