@Mary-Anna I have to assume you've seen this book https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/agatha-christie-poisons-book/

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V is for Venom--the science of Agatha Christie's poisons -
Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?Yes we have a solar panel. The squirrels chewed through the cord on the first one and the company replaced it for free.
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?We just added a nijer feeder and the bird cam captured RATS last night. We will be taking down the feeders.
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?We get the avian kind. Again, I hear them all the time but never see them. (Sense a pattern?) We thought we were putting oranges out for them, but those seem to be for the squirrels instead.
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Inside a women's ICE facilityWow. Everybody should read this.
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?Cool bird. I've heard them but only seen one at a distance.
Saw my first Monarch of the year today. No picture.
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?I thought houndiepaws (dog #2) was going to go right through the closed kitchen window when our resident garden bunny taunted her yesterday.
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?Had a concert from this redwing blackbird at our favorite ice cream place
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?We're ready for the Monarchs.
Native butterfly weed -
What’s cookin’ good lookin?My favorite is cheap fish steaks in Louisiana hot sauce. We didn't used to get them in our grocery store so thecomputerdude would order them in bulk from Amazon and give them to me for Christmas.
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AI coding tools - time savers?We're being encouraged to find uses for AI at work. I find it frustrating and the iterations seem to take longer than just doing it myself, usually.
What I find it useful for is initiating when I'm procrastinating. It creates something I have to fix, and before you know it I'm off and running.
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What’s cookin’ good lookin?Apron or no? Not usually
Towel hanging from apron?
On oven handleBench scraper? Or scrape cutting board with knife? Blade up or blade down?
All of the aboveGarlic in with the aromatics or just for the last minute for fear of burning?
Last minuteJarlic? Frozen garlic?
JarlicCountertop trash bowl when chopping?
Paper lunch bag on the counter. When I'm cleaning up, I put in the freezer. When it's full it goes into the compost tumbler outside. No fruit flies in the house this way.Mis en place?
RarelyClean as you go or all at once?
As I goWhere do you stand?
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?This chipmunk in the red twig dogwood had his eye on me for awhile.
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?@Bernard
Daylilies here too.
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What are you doing?@ShiroKuro I think it's a New England thing. Our previous town didn't have curbside pickup. It had a relatively wealthy demographic and maybe they didn't like to see the trash cans on the street. Instead everybody put their trash into their Lexuses and Mercedes and hauled it to the transfer station themselves. The garbage was then "transfered" to various processing plants.
My new blue collar town has trash and recycling pickup at curbside. And half the people drive oversized pickup trucks. But there is no dump or transfer station where you can take stuff.
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Texas FloodsFEMA exempted Camp Mystic from its flood plain maps based on appeals (from owners?).
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When a REAL ID isn't real enough -
Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?@wtg I hope it isn't too late for me.
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?Wild bergamot/bee balm/monarda fistulosa
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?This little guy has made a little hollow under my red twig dogwood. He likes snipping off the stems of plants and leaving them without eating them. So, you know, basically an a$$hole. Good thing he's cute.