I've read of other people seeking out heirloom varieties of apples. One gentleman in West Virginia has located nearly one hundred by exploring old, abandoned farmstead in the state.
I was glad to read that they have successfully grafted specimens of that apple. Given the gnarly appearance of that tree, it would be uncertain if it would survive for much more time. The article did seem to suggest that the variety is not extinct in France.
We had an apple tree on the family farm that sprouted as a volunteer from a place we piled vegetable scrapes. It was a yellow apple and made some of the best-tasting applesauce. My father tried to propagate it by grafting, but with now success. Eventually, that tree died so its apples are lost, except in memory.
Big Al
@pique said in The loneliest color of paint:
Anything but black, gray, or white. … (They are not color. They are the absence of color.)
Well, spectrographically, black, gray, and white are the equal absence and degrees of equal presence of all colors.
I’m the 60s/70s The Beach Boys music I heard playing on the radio seemed kind of bubbly and fun but ignorable. I listened to a couple of tracks from Pet Sounds today, and yes, there’s interesting stuff in there, especially the vocal harmonies.
I think I must have died in a car accident in a past life. I am the most nervous driver alive--when someone else is driving. Now, put me in my drag racing machine on the West Side Highway, and watch out! (I used to drive my 72 Chevelle with the slant six in the city back in the 80s)
To make more of the content visible, as opposed to being blocked behind the controls.
Won’t know if that will make the controls harder to find until trying the real thing, I suppose.
More lack of planning by the administration. This deployment is all for show….another TrumPotemkin village….
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/national-guard-california-photos-20368334.php
Oh, and she said she is going to a conference in Europe soon. She received a questionnaire asking what she will be doing, who will she be meeting with, and will she be collaborating with anyone. She said she's never gotten anything like this in her 43 years in academia.
@Nina said in Joann is closing:
I'm not sure if the change has to do with the rise of cheap clothing, fast fashion, or just lack of time.
All the above, I suspect. And more... I wonder if it's still taught in high school? When I was in high school girls and boys could take home-ec class where sewing and cooking were taught. There was shop, which boys and girls could take that taught basic woodworking and metalworking. We even had drafting classes. In elementary school we were taught how to write cursive.
Having experienced these classes growing up it makes me sad to think that some young people don't have the opportunity. I made Christmas stockings for my siblings and a neck tie (70s bright colors) for myself. It was fun and extended school learning beyond the boundaries of solitary studying.
