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Medlar harvest.
Medlars are the last fruit to ripen in early to mid November. They have to stay on the tree until they turn brown and start to decay. Otherwise they're rock hard and inedible. They undergo a process called bletting which looks like they rot. But it is not microbial infection that turns other fruit brown and spoils them, it's an enzymatic breakdown of the fruit without fermentation. The bletted medlars turn into a brown paste that tastes just like apple pie. Very sweet. They can be eaten like that off the tree but they contain a lot of hard seeds. We cook and run them through a purée sieve to separate the seeds. The result is a brown paste that can be cooked into a jam or kept frozen. We make medlar tart out of it but also use it as filling for Christmas cookies or pancakes. One of my favorite fruit that barely anybody knows about.
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Host finally made the medlar tart for Easter. It turned out very well. The medlar filling is the brown layer between cake and cream - obviously. Ground roasted hazelnuts (bought) on top. We also have our own hazelnuts but they ripen in summer and were long consumed.
I wanted to slice the cake part into two disks and add an additional layer of medlar filling between them, but it turned out too thin and started to crumble. Doesn't matter, it was still great. The taste is really unique. Like apple pie but with more flavor and more sour.
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Lots of plums this year. Not the usual oblong purple ones who suffered from drought, but the greenish-yellow round ones. I just learned this is called a greengage in English. This is Reine Claude d'Oullins from France. The fruit are about the size of a large egg and very sweet.
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Beautiful mullet plants grew from birdseed, zero water, technically a weed, so my business partner chopped them down so they wouldn't spread.

Even a zen master like myself has moments of weakness. She got mad at me for "freeking out" about a weed.

She's done this sort of thing before.

However, this is a good example, I ask myself why I was upset, simply that this very healthy weed brought me joy.

Attachment is the root of all suffering.

So instant calm. So I ask myself, what happens when she does it again? Nothing.

I'm good now. Joy comes from within, you can't have it without.

Old me would have ruminated and held a grudge. How barbaric.
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Why does your 'business partner' (is she bestie mom?) weed your yard? My father loves doing this and he has an Alice-tier aversion against certain plants he just weeds out wherever he comes across them. Be it my garden, a total stranger's or a public park. He's also autistic about removing all even remotely brown leaves, often severely damaging the plants by ripping them off. He genuinely wants to help, but he helps whether people want or not. And he really gets mad if you tell him to stop, because then you're an ungrateful bastard. Well, he's almost 90 and isn't going to change.

Me, I would never freak out, but I would definitely ruminate and hold a grudge. Touching other people's property without permission is not acceptable. I'm not Alice, who holds grudges and maintains death lists for the most minuscule reasons, but still...

I like being attached to things. Lack of attachment leads to indifference. And indifference leads to communism. Or buddhism, which is just as bad. Buddhists are hypocritical liars. So tell me, where do you draw the line? If a nigger steals a large sum of money? Burns your house down? Rapes your girl friends? Will you remain calm and tell yourself the attachment to all this was your fault? I would go another route and say it's not about you, but about society. You shoot the looting rapenigger not (only) because he hurts you, but because he hurts society. This is why you have to punish wrongdoing from the perspective of general prevention. For the same reason the wacky weeder must be confronted with her deed. Not because she ripped out a weed but because she did something in another person's property she was not asked to. And enabling such behavior brings us one step closer to anarchy - or communism.
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Bestie mom (BM) is my age, we went to undergrad together. Business partner is like 20 years older, or 15? I forget. Business partner does 55% of all the work for my private business, BM does 5% probably more, there's also another part time employee that only works summers so I can do other projects. 

She's always weeding my flipping yard, cutting my good grapes so they don't fall and stink, pulled out something else, forgot, annoying. My private business sometimes spills out into my house but we also use her house and in the summer it spills over to another house. She doesn't want to see weeds or smell wine from the rotten grapes. It's been an ongoing discussion for years.

Lack of attachment is not indifference, you can still like and appreciate it, but it is just as valid to appreciate the good as experience the bad, neither reaction need be controlled by emotions. the emotions can exist fully, they should and do; feel them, experience them, let them pass. It becomes automatic for most things. I know there are things I haven't gotten over yet, some things I can't begin to unravel. This is just how it is. But it has gone from 99% uncontrolled (2018) to 99% controlled. (2021 ish) though there are also weak moments, being tired and hungry, uncomfortable or in pain all complicate things.

Somehow I don't believe you wouldn't freak out.

> Will you remain calm and tell yourself the attachment to all this was your fault?

I'm not your spiritual guide, I don't know how to address this level of misunderstanding or where it's coming from, but no. I am not a pacifist cuck.

> It's about society

Externalizing is good coping, but ruminating about things you can't fix isn't. If you can honestly say you've done everything you can, then rest on that and live your best life.

Wacky weeder is fine, I am a weed sympathizer and so we're somewhat both wrong.

The house I live in is a common workspace, so it's technically shared space even if it's mine. I invited the intrusion and there are certain rights by others even if they're somewhat quirky but never did I say I was enjoying those weeds, so I was wrong to 'freak'. Still enjoying weeds is kinda quirky so it's fair.

Communism and Anarchy... You do know I'm, part liberal progressive right? If it was up to me, we would have a tribal society where you work or you die. Kinda communist really, but one without any slackers or invalids, no crazy people, no obesity etc.

Everypony loved, everypony equal wasn't lost on me even if it's cancer. The question is all about implementation and control over corruption, which likely requires an authoritarian dictatorship, but whatever. Better that then oligarchy like now. Communism only works in theory as we all know. I wouldn't mind it, just not as a second class citizen.
Huh? I was certain I posted here yesterday.
We don't like weeds in Singapore but also not people freaking out. If there's something in your garden (providing you have a garden) that bothers others, usually a friendly chat resolves this. More of a problem are people who leave pots or dishes that gather water and serve a breeding ground for mosquitos. You'll get in trouble if you don't fix this. But it's more than a cosmetic problem and disease prevention.
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Speaking of which, I need your help, Tamamo! We've got a ton of tiger mosquitos here and I don't know how to keep them in check. I need some traps that work. We tried building some but they only caught a few fruit flies. Is there anything that works?
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Catching adult mosquitos isn't very effective, you gotta hit the larval stages. There are expensive traps  that work with scent and even CO2 to simulate a human, but results are mixed. We don't deploy those, not worth the cost. Sorry, but there's no short-time solution except fumigating everything which is probably verboten in Germany.

Most important is to eliminate any standing waterbodies as breeding grounds, no matter how small. Use BTi to kill larvae in ponds. Then deploy ovitraps that target the females laying eggs. Buckets of water with BTi but you gotta replace it regularly or you're breeding even more. I think I already sent you an instruction for building a more sophisticated ovitrap from the CDC.

It's already September, how long do you have modquitos?
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Meanwhile we have mosquitos basically all year round, even in winter as long as it's not freezing. Ah well, I was afraid of that. I'll try to nuke everything with BT, but I fear this will be verboten soon as well because it harms aquatic organisms (duh, that's the point). You basically can't buy any pesticides here as a private person. For now one of host's countless loicenses is enough, but I wouldn't count on it.

Did you know that killing insects is also verboten here 'without due cause'? You could theoretically be fined for swatting a wasp.
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Even the bugs win in Germany. You used to be barbarians dude. Neutered, silenced invaded and cucked, there is no Germany right now.

But when the pendulum swings finally, will there be any hope of returning Germany to its former glory? Only time will tell.
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So, it's been 75 god fearing freedom units *at night* for two months and suddenly September rolls in, usually our warmest night month, it's 60. That's insane because usually we don't see <60 at night until October and that's damn close. The mosquitoes do not come out under 60 Freedoms. Those liberal communist terrorist blood suckers stay home. Tbf, this summer I haven't seen one, we had a dry spring and it hasn't rained since March so it follows, there's always a few though but under 60, never.

Anyway our ocean temp is supposedly 80 but that's bullshit because there's no way we'd get 60 at night with 80 water, no fucking way.
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Good for you, the mosquitos here are active as soon as it's minimally above freezing.

It was so dry all year that there barely were any mosquitos until August. There still are next to none of the local ones who depend on extensive rain that floods marshes as breeding ground. But we have a problem with the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). The fuckers can breed in the smallest amount of standing water and are active during the day. They also carry diseases like Dengue.

I've set up 5 diy-ovitraps in the garden now and ordered a scent-trap and BTi. Looking at the hot weather, I don't think mosquito season will end before November...
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Even California will just mass spray dangerous chemicals to keep mosquitoes at bay. They send out advisories when they're spraying. They also put traps up and all our waterways have mosquito eating guppies seeded in them.
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Unthinkable on the Germany. You can't even use BTi outside of artificial waterbodies because it's harmful to aquatic life. And aquatic life is more important than people. Same for releasing non-native fish that would eat the larvae. Strictly verboten. There's some monitoring with traps but that's it. We'll see if that changes once the mosquitos start transmitting diseases. For now the threat is hypothetical but it's only a matter of time.
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No, no diseases for now. They're just annoying because they're day-active. There's the absurd situation that there are tons of mosquitos during the day, but none at night.

o far the traps haven't really caught much.Neither the ovitraps I spiked with fly paper, nor the bait trap that mimics human scent. Host is magnitudes more attractive for the mosquitos than the bite.

Well, Summer will be over on Wedneday when temps are supposed to from from 30 to 20°C and stay there. This should prevent the Aedes from developing. Until then I'll kill as many as I can. And next spring I'll be prepared.
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Nice bird with silly name.
Birds are completely disappearing here. Haven't seen anything noteworthy in ages. Even the crows are getting less and less and we don't have street pigeons at all. The only ones thriving are wood pigeons who originally were migratory forest dwellers who only came to central Europe in summer and remained very rare in cities. Now they live here all year long in the suburbs and increase. They don't form flocks and are solitary and very shy. Much larger than common pigeons.

The other is the collared pigeon, originally from Turkey. They expanded NW due to a genetic mutation which determines the course of migration and arrived in Germany after WW2 but remained rare. Now they're also increasing. Like the wood pigeons, they're not pests and generally don't bother anyone because they only form very small flocks. They also make nice coo-COO-coo calls and are generally well-liked. But that's it. No spectacular birds here at all. You'd think climate change would bring us southern treasures like Orioles or Bee-eaters, but nope.
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lol the niggers did that after storming ceuta. they caught and ate all animals they could find .
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Damn, it's the hottest September I've ever had in this area, it was 100-105 freedom degrees with a dewpoint approaching 80, this is Florida weather. Prior to this, the highest temperature I ever felt here was 99 in 2005 and not this humid. I was in the heat the last two days and it was just so much sweat pouring down my face, a constant drip that wasn't fun. Night temperatures have been mid to high 70's as well which is absolutely unheard of.

2027 is already projected to be the hottest year on record, so this isn't even as bad as it will be next year. 

Without AC, it would be unbearable. 

All those fools with their chemtrail theory, where are you now? I don't pay what I do for this temperature here, this is ponderous.
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Welcome to my weather all day every day all year round! Ok, 105 Freedom Degrees is extreme, it's usually around 90 here. I guess it's because of El Nino? So far there wasn't much impact here but we're expecting unusually hot and dry weather for the coming 'winter'.
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I'll take 90 with high humidity, I had ice packs in my pockets, fully drenched clothes, and there wasn't enough cooling, I was sapped in this. There's some mud on the ground that normally would dry in a day, it's been three days and it's still not dry, there's no capacity in the air. 

Even then, 105F high humidity in the shade was bearable, in that sun it was like being baked alive. The wind did nothing. 

Looking forward to next year where it is projected to be worse with a 94% chance.
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I vaguely remember you doubted the extremely high ocean temperatures just a few days ago...

Meanwhile here it's suddenly become autumn, Dropped from over 30°C to 17°C max during the day, 11°C at night. This sucks, I miss summer already. Can't you put some of your heat in a parcel and send it to me pls?
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Nah, we have cold upwells, it can be upper 70's in one spot and 20 feet out there's 55. So this temperature and moisture is certainly coming from the south, where that 59F night came from is likely a cold upwell that happened and faded.

We have hurricane remnants and monsoonal moisture that has crept further North in the last 20 years, it won't be cooler until October at this point, it's been crazy. 

Very happy my AC is working. It's on 100% now for weeks.
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I have no idea how people managed to exist here without AC. I guess you get used to it? But you can't be productive in this climate without cooling.

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Streptopelia decaocto
I found out we're also supposed to have a very similar dove here that's also Streptopelia. I didn't even know. Never seen one. But it's uncommon.

I did see a colorful Pink-necked Green Pigeon up close today, they're very common but usually high up in the trees in parks.


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