K Kaba

Upon his bare head
the sun shines very brightly.
The glare hurts my eyes.

It's not just the genes of an individual or population being a good match for the local environment.

There are genes that are passed to offspring with the switches turned on or off.  A generation or three in a new environment will nudge those switches to be more compatible with the new environment. When your starts come from neighbors or volunteers or something that's grown locally for a couple generations, you're getting seedlings that have more of those epigenetic switches flipped to be compatible with local conditions.

If you're managing a landrace and want to add new genetics, it's worth taking in all the first generation survivors, and likely all the second year ones. It's slower, but it'll give you a larger pool of genetics to work with. And if your local environment has a multiyear pattern (occasional drought, or freezing but only some years) it'll help catch any genes in the mix that might help with that.

I had some of those sears tuffskin jeans as a kid. My knees could be skinned and bloody, but those things didn't even get a scratch. I'm not entirely sure they weren't made of some eldrich hide or something.

I've experienced plenty of auditory and olfactory ones. My general rule is to tune in ones that are helpful and tune out ones that aren't. If it's frequent, it can really help to have a trusted person or a good dog around to check if they experience it too.

If they're repeatedly urging you to do awful things, or if your dog is telling you it's the devil? It's time to get some help. Becoming unmoored from reality is dangerous to you and yours.

If they're telling you the gate's unlocked, or the chickens are loose, and it's right? Helpful.

Fevers, headaches, sustained pain, poor sleep for long periods, dehydration, ear ringing, droning background sounds, long periods of silence - there's lots of situations that can induce them or make them more common. And that's before you get into the rare stuff like tumors or oddball infections or tooth fillings picking up radio signals.

The added baking soda's a good idea. If your water is a bit on the acidic side, that'd counter it.

Lunches here tend to be collections of what's available, deviled eggs definitely show up when there's hard boiled eggs around. If it's a party situation, I assume 2 to 4 halves per person depending on the crowd. For big parties, my eggs box holds 36 halves, that's the most I'm bringing somewhere.

If I make more than one flavor, I make sure they're visually distinct. Different colors of yolk paste, different toppers like an olive or pepper ring, a bit of dill leaf, a pinch of a deep red spice powder.

Flavor note - add a little bit of something vinegar to the yolk paste, It can be pickle juice, the vinegar in a mustard or other additive, or a splash of whatever you have around. It'll make the flavors you add pop and background the heavy yolk taste a bit.

My mother called them "iced tea spoons" but I prefer to use my grandpa's term for them. "The long-uns"

When you're trying to get the goodies from the bottom of a tall jar, nothing beats a long-un and a fondue fork.

Art supply shops can be dangerous to the wallet!

People do often have always and never colors. That pile of black tubes might make for good trade. People into pastel or high saturation colors might be delighted to trade away their ochre colors.

Sounds like your pigs have been recruiting!

For me it was when pyrex changed their formula. I was used to anything with that name being like the chemistry set glass, but the new stuff wasn't. I poured some water into it and BANG it was in bits.

Food grade silicon melts around 250C / 480F. I'm guessing things get hot in your kitchen?