fresh shelled crowders and lady peas simmered in homemade stock. they turned out well, but the old church ladies would have to tease me for not shelling them myself
This is by no means a comprehensive list, but if you want to know more about why some ingredients are in your pet's or livestock's feeds, this is the article for you! If requested enough, I'll go into more detail on grains and the like, later.
The garlic makes this bad for dogs, so really you could only feed this to chickens and pigs.Photo by ThermoPro on Unsplash
Knowing the ingredients to a livestock feed or pet food is a good start to knowing if it’s nutritious. The quality of these ingredients can vary a lot, though. For instance, alfalfa can have between 15 and 25% protein content. That’s a big gap! It all depends on where the…
Alrighty listen we’re just gonna skim over the weirdness of the lyrics sometimes we’re just gonna skim over it sssssshhhhhhh~ get that fucking fedora out of here I see you.
Based on a portrait of him from about 1683, with my own spin on it!
Probably most people aren't familiar with the Duke of Monmouth, but living a few miles away from where the infamous battle of Sedgemoor (the last battle fought on English soil btw!) took place means I've known about him for basically my whole life! (there's also a local legend that Queen Victoria pulled the blinds of her carriage down when she was travelling through the area because of how the Somerset people had supported the Duke lol) He was an illegitimate son of Charles II and attempted to overthrow his uncle (James II) by inciting a rebellion across the West Country but was unsuccessful and ended up being executed for treason...
But recently I discovered that there was a rumour that after he was beheaded, they realised they didn't have an official portrait of him, so they stitched his head back on his body and had him 'sit' for a portrait lol
Have to say that this is totally untrue, of course lol (there's several portraits done of him prior to his death), but it's such a bizarre and gruesome detail I couldn't resist including a hint of it in my painting here!
2. How similar is your s/i to you? Are they a carbon copy, completely different or a mix of the two?
A lot of my S/Is are just straight me with a little idealization and a little warping due to just the nature of growing up somewhere different.
For my Mario S/I, he's a lot smarter than me, which isn't to say irl me is dumb, just not very good at retaining information, or using it to further a conclusion. My Mario S/I is, and is also very passionate about learning about the new world he lands in. (I like to think if I got isekaied I would be too but who knows)
He shares my special interest in Mushrooms, a lot of my taste in games, Bulling as a Love Language, Generally Chill Go with the Flow personality type, Fear of Bees, and a handful of other small traits that I don't wanna list too long.
He handles a bad situation way better than me. Like I said he's better at rationalizing and drawing conclusions, he's a lot more calm in a high stakes situation, good at talking something down, and reacting quickly to chaos.
For example in the events that'd be eventually rewritten as Paper Mario, Emile was the one to throw Luigi out of the castle, as he hung behind to find Toadsworth. He talks Bowser into instead of shoving him in the prison in his own castle to instead let him stay in his own room is the castle, and spends the rest of the game slowly sneaking all the trapped Toads out of said prison and back to his room until Mario storms the castle and saves them. I could never do all that, but he could, because he's cool under pressure and smooth with his words.
Side note this is also how my Mario S/I gets top surgery; He takes a very neutral stance to most schemes Bowser does, so when he was brought to Bowser for sneaking around the castle, and learned he had the Star Rod, he asked if he could get a wish, sense that's what the thing's for anyway. Bowser agreed as long as it wasn't something stupid like "I wish Mario had the power to defeat Bowser". "I wish for Top Surgery" is considered a Selfish wish by the Star Spirits and would never be granted, but Bowser did it, cause why not. He loves a selfish wish and is very Trans Rights
11. Does you s/i have one outfit they're always seen in or multiple?
He does have multiple outfits! Like Mario and Luigi he has all kinds of fits for different activities, not sports he doesn't do those, but like, Casual Wear and such. I actually drew us in a bunch of outfits you can see Here!
Though also like Mario and Luigi, I do typically just stick him in the Overalls look, for consistency sake. Either that or the basic Sona outfit of Big Orange Sweater
Oh! But actually a while ago I drew him in a few of my favorite Power Ups from the Main Series, I never posted it cause the image was more long than wide, and the sketches were pretty Eh in my opinion, but I'll post them now just for the sake of putting out all my art, even the stuff I'm not the proudest of.
The main concepts are his eyes and freckles change color to match the power ups, though he doesn't use them all that often sense he's an Adviser and not typically in any kind of direct line.
I feel like I may be accidentally selecting for hulls on my field peas that are harder to see.
A lot of cultivars of Vigna unguiculata* have hulls that turn purple when they're mature, but before they start to dry out. Purple hull and pink eyed peas are two common varieties like that, and it makes them real easy to spot for harvesting. Other kinds stay green, or maybe just go a little paler/yellower when they're ready, and those you have to hunt for among the leaves.
I don't know what varieties I started out with, but there's at least two normal-sized kinds in the mix, and hull color varies among them both. I never get every pod picked at the optimal time, but the ones I miss dry well on the vine, so I just pick them when I do find them, and put those dried bean in a jar to plant next year. Which means, as far as my unnatural selection, that the ones that don't turn a convenient color when they're ready have an advantage. They're more likely to get 'selected' for propagation (i.e. forgotten & then found later), as long as they produce well enough to be statistically significant in the seed jar.
Beans are pretty stable over the planting generations, as they mostly pollinate themselves, but they do produce crop-outs from time to time (like my exciting new fat variety - I'll do a post about them soon), so the color may drift over time. I've been growing these from my own saved seeds for ~10 years, and at least some of them are still purple (maybe half? maybe less), but then I don't really know what I started with, so idk if they've changed. I could start taking more notes, I guess.
*This species includes all the field peas, cowpeas, black eyed, purple hull, lady peas, Sea Island red peas, and a hundred other cultivars of similar beans. I call all those field peas, as a general term. Yardlong beans are also in this species, and some other Asian varieties I'm not as familiar with. Crowder peas, too.
Now, some people (and google) seem to think that crowder peas and field peas are the same thing, and they're wrong. Similar, yes. Closely related, yes. Cooked about the same, also yes. A crowder pea might even be considered a type of field pea, but not every field pea is a crowder. They crowd together in the pod, see, and it changes the shape of the pea, leaving an indent where the next one pushed up against it.
It was a gray day but warm enough for just short sleeves:
Our succulent planting is hanging on but did not enjoying a week of freezing overnight temperatures:
We’ve had a lot of hawk predation at our bird feeders so we’re leaving this mostly dead stand of blue salvia up to provide extra cover for the song birds:
It is dead now but this is how thick the pumpkin vine got:
Picked some collards for tonight’s dinner:
This is probably the biggest cool season planting we’ve had to date:
Plants largely unfazed by the freezing overnight temps -
Yellow field pea:
Pincushion flower:
Cilantro:
The lone warbler is back. These three photos are as close as it would let me get:
Barking at the dogs next door:
All shagged out after a long bark:
Tonight’s menu:
My queen’s handiwork:
Except for my side dish, dinner was in my queen’s hands. My job was to keep the sink from getting too cluttered up with dishes. I also diced all the onions needed for the meal & grated some cheese:
There is the thing, though. (link for those you want)
That doesn't answer the question AT ALL.
Like I've chewed on leather before, I'll admit that. But I'm also autistic and need a lot of mouth stimulation. Just Why would he just??? Eat it?? Like, I know leather is technically edible. I think less so once it's tanned. I just can't think of a single reason why someone would eat a shoe? Or why someone would think Childe would do that.