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All of a sudden, my lunch feels more inadequate than usual.. Sounds great.. So when are you shipping that out?

 

Good luck with that. It goes quick.

 

Ok gang, are you ready to be creeped out this morning?

If not, Don't Click This Link.

 

OMG... I love it Micah... creepy yet very satisfying. I will have to make one this weekend! (just what I need, another way to procrastinate!)

 

Just let me know.

 

You'll never see Bob Ross the same again, will you?

 

There's ink everywhere! The vicious fountain pen shows no mercy.

 

Actually.... that is close to the way I see him on a normal day. He is just calmer on TV because of "happy trees".... without the "happy trees", I see him being just like the link presented....

 

It is a little scary how easy that image is to accept, isn't it?
eek:

 

for added fun, just move your mouse around and watch him follow it.

 

Good afternoon all.

Can you believe this is the first chance I've had to get on today?

I slept some this morning (trying to get myself adjusted to days for a few), then showered, shaved, and went to the barber shop to get the noggin mowed.
Then I came home and got started on my container garden out on the patio.
It's frickin' hot & humid here today, with just enough breeze to give me a fit when I was trying to get the plastic laid down where I was going to put the pots.
But, after much fussin' and cussin', I finally got it done.
I've potted two Big Jims (kinda like poblanos), three Long Red Slims (cayenne), two Rooster Spurs, two Habaneros, and one Charleston.
It was... oddly satisfying.
Now if the damn things will actually grow and produce, I'll consider myself a halfway decent gardener.
:happy102

If these suffer some catastrophic failure in the next week or so, I still have some left in the seedling tray that I can fall back on.

 

Of course... how do you know it's real if I don't provide evidence?

 

Alton Brown is my hero.

I've gotten into container gardening a bit myself. It's a little tough here in Texas because it gets so hot and dry in the high summer. Make sure you're prepared to water them every day when it gets hot. Bigger pots are better and use mulch on top of the soil, both of these details will help with water loss. At least capsicums are fairly tolerant to being dry, but it can make the peppers hotter (have fun with the habaneros ). I already have to carry about 4 gallons of water out to my balcony every other day, but I'll have eggplants, squashes, and lettuce (and a lot of ornamental plants) by god! (And hopefully my grapevines will grow ok in their pots.)

 

When I was a kid (too young to be allowed to use the stove) I learned to put a piece of cheese on a slice of bologna and shove it in the microwave. As long as you don't cut the bologna it makes an awesome bowl filled with melted cheese (and enough grease to make the grown up version of me gag ). This technique, of course, works better on the stove top.

 

The soil I'm using is rated for good moisture retention so I should be ok in that respect.
I'm going to let them settle and grow into their new pots for a bit and then add a little more soil (it's probably going to compact a lot with the first few waterings).
And yes... I'm sure I'll be watering them every evening.
Luckily it's a short walk between the balcony and the kitchen sink. :happy102

Speaking of hotness of the peppers, I'm a little concerned that the habaneros are going to cross pollinate with the less hot peppers and make them all hot as the blue blazes

 

Hehe, the cayennes will probably be ok as they're pretty hot to begin with. Now the poblano type would be one heck of a shock if you're expecting a mild pepper in a chile relleno or something.

I grew up along the border about as far south in Texas as you can get. There are a lot of wild chile piquin plants down there (the birds "plant" them along all of the fence lines.) The tiny peppers tend to be the most primitive and among the hottest peppers around. The chile piquins are definitely in that class. I gathered a bag of them from my grandmother's yard before heading back to school one year. I used them in some stir fry, but didn't actually eat them directly, only let the flavor meld into the rest. Well, one of the peppers found a hiding spot in my rice. 5 minutes (or was it years) later my senses were almost normal again.

 

Does anyone here Reddit?

 

Wow, is it dead in here today or what?