Moderator TaleSpinner Posted July 27, 2021 Moderator Share Posted July 27, 2021 20 minutes ago, malefactus said: No. I have a black thumb. If it is green & living & I touch it, it will wither & die. I admire flowers from a distance. I kind of figured you are more of a mushroom guy. You should try one of those mushroom growing kits. 5 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper_the_2nd Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! Yeah, nah. My wife likes gardening, but I do not. (I grew up on a farm with a giant garden. I got my fill of gardening by the time I was 15...... Plus I'm a tall person with a bad back. The ground is a long way down.....) My contributions to gardening generally consist of lugging things and occasionally digging a hole or moving a rock from said hole. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VitM Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! The squirrels have recently eaten most of our sunflowers, so we cut all those back. We've just planted some nasturtiums and chamomile, so we'll see what develops there. Our Muscadine vine is growing strong and might produce grapes in the next 2 years (hopefully!). 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicalFeline Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 2:47 AM, Glitterwolf said: QUESTION July 26th. What is the strangest / coolest animal you have actually petted/held? I know I already answered this, but I just remembered that my sister got to touch stingrays a couple years ago, which was really cool because they're her favorite animal. Which I can almost get behind, except for when you're looking up at them and their demonic mouths show.... But from above they're okay. 8 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! NO. Just.... no. Plants and I don't get along. 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Khan Artist Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 8 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! Mumsy did all the gardening this year. Usually I grow seedlings in the windows because they face south, then they go to the farm. We had a garden when I first moved in, but my landlord seeded it back to grass; I worked up north and wasn't home in the summer anyway. I am very proud of the pruning I did on the willows at the farm last year. If there is a crappy chore I enjoy, it's pruning. I really like pruning. There is also the Love Tree, a mayday that I bought years ago for Mumsy for Mother's Day. Mumsy makes me put wood shavings in little buckets and spread them around her flower beds, that's my contribution. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezler the Polychromatic Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 9 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! I managed to snag a few things from the garden centres this year, last year had been a wash. I think my strawberries have all petered out, but my tomatoes and peppers are growing fine. 9 hours ago, WhiteWulfe said: Wait, we have rays at the mall? O_o Snakes, turtles... A lot of turtles apparently... Sharks... Fish... I don't see rays listed. They do have a penguin meet and greet apparently... They had them 8 years ago, things may have changed since then. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 10 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! Lady C had some very pretty flowers going but the deer seemed to enjoy them for a dinner! 4 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWulfe Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! Sure do! Bonus Sir Forscale included too! Spoiler They're from Ikea, never need to be watered or trimmed, a rather handy perk. As for the two blocked out cubes, it's stuff that's too hot for Twitch / not appropriate for Discord or forum posting I used to have others (in the living room, where we have actual light), but we had this weird white fuzzy stuff come through the entire area and it took a huge toll on indoor plants (as well as those outdoors). No, it wasn't snow, was a weird white fuzzy stuff that clung to everything. Used to have a planted fish tank. I've been tempted to get one going again, but there isn't exactly anywhere in our current setup I could put one... Edited July 27, 2021 by WhiteWulfe 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoramel Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 12 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 27th. Do you have plants/flowers that you're proud of? Show pics! I do! But unfortunately my garden is currently surrounded by an impenetrable wall of building debris. It's doing pretty good despite that. My tomatoes aren't getting too out of control this year and seem to be producing well. My leaf lettuce all bolted but I managed to harvest quite a bit of it before that happened, and my pepper plants are going like nuts. I'm going to have so many hot peppers this year. There's at least 4 dozen habaneros on one plant and they're roughly the size of a child's fist already. I've even managed to get about 4 pounds of green beans out of our little garden so far. I do have some photos from earlier in the year. Here's some pictures I took a few weeks ago of some Purple Coneflower and some Scarlet Bee Balm... And although I didn't plant this I like to take at least a little credit for this. It's a Tamarack tree (a state listed endangered species around here) in a restored bog/weak fen complex I've been involved with since 2016. The goal was to restore the natural water levels in the bog after someone tried to drain it in the 40's and then to figure out how to reintroduce the Tamarack back to the area after some nuisance species were removed. Grad students have done all of the actual planting, but I show up every year and discuss the position and success of each planting with the project manager and make recommendations. So I'm a little proud of it regardless. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragoneye Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 On 7/26/2021 at 2:47 AM, Glitterwolf said: QUESTION July 26th. What is the strangest / coolest animal you have actually petted/held? Assuming living animal... I got to play with a lion cub, he was going on special exhibit at the museum I worked at. We got to entertain him while they prepared his cage... suite? Absolutely adorable with giant paws he hadn't grown into yet. If you are wondering anout the living statement... I worked in fossil prep, so I've held some pretty cool and unusual dead animals. 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted July 28, 2021 Author Share Posted July 28, 2021 Question July 28th. How handy are you in and around the house? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManvsMini Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 28th. How handy are you in and around the house? There's nothing me and duct tape can't fix. I'm ok with minor things. Leaky pipe? Might be able to fix it. Need something glued together? I know to use more than just superglue. Painting houses? Can do (though I hate getting on the roof). Something electrical?... I draw the line there. I don't know anything about that, or engines. So, I'm probably only a 3, maybe a 4 out of 10 on a handy-ness scale. 7 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparrowMarie Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 28th. How handy are you in and around the house? I feel like I'm pretty handy. Grew up with my step dad being very handy and some of it rubbed off. I probably can't do plumbing and definitely can't do electrical but I have been known to fix a thing or two around the house occasionally. 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malefactus Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 28th. How handy are you in and around the house? I am pretty good at arranging to have someone who knows what they are about to come in & fix the problem. Doing it myself is an invitation to disaster. 3 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted July 28, 2021 Moderator Share Posted July 28, 2021 2 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Question July 28th. How handy are you in and around the house? I know how to fix minor things, so I'm not completely useless. I do understand electrical stuff a little bit, which is more than enough for me to know to call an electrician. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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