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[which_chick]

Okay, people. Last chance for things to be taken along (or not) to the Ben function tomorrow.



cousin_sue, would you like some (sturdy, aggressive, quite flavorful) mint roots suitable for growing into mint tea or mint juleps or mint sauce for with lamb? Free! Easy to grow! Will happily survive the trip in a ziplock bag if paired with a couple of damp paper towels! For best results, grow in a large pot. On a concrete pad.)

Anybody in the vicinity: Free spirea bush, no thorns, no pests, not sickly, not especially tasty to deer, makes innocuous, unscented small white flowers in early spring shortly after daffodils. Remains nicely green from then until fall. A neat shrub that does not need to be pruned, cleaned of dead flowers, or raked up after. Will not freeze to death in the greater Philadelphia metro area. Currently about two feet tall.

not_your_real: I have a free cat skull for your significant other. Nobody we know, mind, but it's clean (been boiled in a strong bleach solution) and not-gross and he enjoys such things. Shall I bring that, or is he not allowed to add to his bone collection anymore?

Anything else I'm missing, forgetting, or otherwise clueless about? Speak now or forever hold your peace. I've got to go buy walnuts because the pecans I thought were there are not there. Buggerit. I probably forgot about using them up last year.

I also got the twelve raspberries planted after the rain quit this afternoon. The ground was sodden all the way down the shovel blade (YAY!!) and it appears that the area I chose for the raspberries had actual dirt. I'm not used to being able to just sink the shovel with one foot. I didn't even have to leap upon it with all my (considerable) bodyweight. The mattock never moved from its location against the chimney. Anyway, the raspberries are all planted. They probably need more room than I gave them, but since I do not expect them all to live, we shall wait and see on that front. Due to the wet, though, I didn't get anything mulched. I have to come up with some sort of undergrowth control solution for these hyar raspberries because I did that with the old ones and it has worked well for about eight years now. Weeding amongst raspberries is NOT fun and I don't want to have to do that if I don't have to. The old raspberries (black, more vine-like and less cane-ish) are trellised in a tidy line and the ground behind them is mulched behind with small pieces of cheap-ass wood paneling laid flat and covered by pine bark lumps that I didn't have to pay for because they came from a great huge pine tree I had cut down when I moved into the house. You can't see the paneling, just the bark clumps. I'm thinking that the new raspberries need a similar solution, covered with attractive bits of bark from the woodpile. (I rake up and burn the woodpile bits most years and I might as well find something useful to do with them instead. Covering up the barrier mulch (which will be whatever I can find that will work and be free) on the raspberries would use up the woodpile bits and they would make a pretty attractive cover. I am aware that they make black "landscaping cloth" and sell mulch by the bucket loader load but none of that crap is free. I like free and if I bought mulch, I'd still have to find something to do with the fucking woodpile bits, y'know?)

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They are amazingly quick reads. Not that I've been sleeping much, mind you, but they still go quickly. I've finished the two-in-one volume Kzin loaned and have plown (plowed/blown) through Warrior's Apprentice, the volume of short stories Borders of Infinity and The Vor Game.

It is more like two hours than one, but you're correct about the general time frame. And they're fun. I could do with some fun.