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So, I almost walked into an 8 ft rattlesnake this morning on my way to the garden. Bobby quickly dispatched it with a 9mm carbine and a shovel. I don't like killing anything, but this is the 2nd one we saw and well, years ago I had a cottonmouth kill my sweet cat and I suffered through a scorpion sting, a man-o-war on my back and a black widow bite. I am a magnet for deadly creatures, LOL. My brother got hit by a stingray and says he literally "walked on water" better than Jeebus before passing out on the way to the hospital. Wild Florida isn't no joke and every year both tourists and the "Florida Man" seem to FAFO.

If you're a magnet for deadly critters, you'd probably be wise to stay away from Australia!

Or you should go to Autrailia and you can ball them all up like a Katamari.

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I made some lovely ramen.

First, I diced and stir-fried some beech mushrooms with diced zucchini, shallots, and a couple serrano peppers. Then I boiled the ramen, threw in two eggs and waited a couple of minutes for the eggs to finish cooking, then combined everything in a bowl with some green onions on top. Truly amazing taste. Very nutty and savory while also spicy (I dunno if it's the seasoning packet, but it fooled my taste buds into thinking I was eating pork). I highly recommend. And the ingredients are very inexpensive.

Hydra009 wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 6:57 pm I made some lovely ramen.

First, I diced and stir-fried some beech mushrooms with diced zucchini, shallots, and a couple serrano peppers. Then I boiled the ramen, threw in two eggs and waited a couple of minutes for the eggs to finish cooking, then combined everything in a bowl with some green onions on top. Truly amazing taste. Very nutty and savory while also spicy (I dunno if it's the seasoning packet, but it fooled my taste buds into thinking I was eating pork). I highly recommend. And the ingredients are very inexpensive.

Yeah, I would love that. That reminds me, I forgot to start green onions this spring, but I have some chives.

I saw some colorful fish in the pond, so we grabbed a dip net and in 5 minutes we had an African Jewelfish and a dalmatian molly for our empty tank. That's $25 worth of fish right there. Also got some little shrimps.


People have been releasing their aquarium fish for years and birds distribute fish eggs all over. They are actually becoming more and more cold tolerant as well. Life will find a way.

Cassia wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 11:44 pm

Hydra009 wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 6:57 pm I made some lovely ramen.

First, I diced and stir-fried some beech mushrooms with diced zucchini, shallots, and a couple serrano peppers. Then I boiled the ramen, threw in two eggs and waited a couple of minutes for the eggs to finish cooking, then combined everything in a bowl with some green onions on top. Truly amazing taste. Very nutty and savory while also spicy (I dunno if it's the seasoning packet, but it fooled my taste buds into thinking I was eating pork). I highly recommend. And the ingredients are very inexpensive.

Yeah, I would love that. That reminds me, I forgot to start green onions this spring, but I have some chives.

I just grab a bunch of green onions from the store, chop off what I need and replant them. They grow like crazy, and I have green onions for a year.

aitm wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2026 9:34 pm

Cassia wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 11:44 pm

Hydra009 wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 6:57 pm I made some lovely ramen.

First, I diced and stir-fried some beech mushrooms with diced zucchini, shallots, and a couple serrano peppers. Then I boiled the ramen, threw in two eggs and waited a couple of minutes for the eggs to finish cooking, then combined everything in a bowl with some green onions on top. Truly amazing taste. Very nutty and savory while also spicy (I dunno if it's the seasoning packet, but it fooled my taste buds into thinking I was eating pork). I highly recommend. And the ingredients are very inexpensive.

Yeah, I would love that. That reminds me, I forgot to start green onions this spring, but I have some chives.

I just grab a bunch of green onions from the store, chop off what I need and replant them. They grow like crazy, and I have green onions for a year.

Have you ever tried Egyptian Walking Onions? I guess they are perennials and seem like something interesting to grow.

Why are they called walking onions?

Are they like banana trees?

theantithesis wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2026 1:40 am Why are they called walking onions?

Are they like banana trees?

Kind of. Besides small in-ground onions, they produce edible bulbs on the ends of their stalks that eventually lean over and plant themselves. Would be cool to see them "'walking" in a time-lapse film. Gardening is a fascinating hobby because you get involved with botany, chemistry, meteorology, entomology, and even the cosmology of seasons and lunar phases.

It is also easy to understand why farmers often looked to the skies for a little mythological help. Unfortunately, that often comes with ignorance. The best growers are always going to scientific in their methods.