[luanneclatterbuck]

Turns out gardening is kinda my jam. I plotted out a little corner of my yard this year for my first proper garden, just to see what I could do and how much I liked it. I’ve pretty much exclusively been a container gardener up to now. Next year I’m already planning on converting an entire half of my yard into garden space. My jalapeño plant has started going nuts and the peppers are giant (I’m trying to leave more to get more ripe but this one was too tempting). I got my first ripe habanero this morning. My bell peppers are fat and happy and I’m going to leave them to get as close to red as they can get. I have more tomatoes than I know what to do with (salsa, freezing some for chili and sauces later, and the man is a tomato fiend so he gets a lot). I’m almost afraid of how many white pumpkins I’m going end up with. Onions and garlic are thriving.

I keep a little basket hung by the back door so I can harvest every day. It is so amazing to watch these plants grow and produce, and then to pick and eat the food I grew myself? Just the most wonderful thing. It’s so therapeutic and fulfilling.

I know I’m not special or unusual in being affected by gardening. I’m just glad I’m part of that club now. 🤗

[luanneclatterbuck]

Y’know. If it’s pushing midnight and I’m driving the posted 55 in a work zone on the interstate, and you come flying up behind me and ride my ass, THEN aggressively flash your brights at me over and over like a fucking manic? Guess what. Now we’re all doing 49.

[lostinhistory]

‘We genuinely have too many potatoes, I cannot stress enough’: 42,000 pounds of free taters headed to Denver

Twenty-one tons of potatoes are up for grabs at Potato Palooza on Monday.

The nonprofit’s set to receive a donation of 21 tons of tubers this weekend from suppliers in the Midwest. Hoping to get the starchy vegetables to people in need, the nonprofit will host a “Potato Palooza” event on Monday in Park Hill. “Anyone is welcome to come. They can bring tote bags, wagons, you could back up your pickup truck if you wanted to,” Hissong said. The event is 9 a.m. to noon at the Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, 6090 East 39th Avenue, on July 27.

This is the dream

[wobblefloss]

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People near Denver, Colorado.

Potato alert. Potato alert.

Free food. Unlimited free potatoes.

Potato alert.

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This concludes this broadcast of the emergency potato system.

[amassofhumanity]

If only @luanneclatterbuck lived near Denver. 😊

[luanneclatterbuck]

ON MY WAY.

[luanneclatterbuck]

Our current view

[miamaimania]

“Choupatte” (2014) ❋ Claude Lalanne — patinated bronze

[luanneclatterbuck]

If these two had a baby

[ponyinarope]

If David Byrne was a puzzle piece.

[luanneclatterbuck]

This is some real glitch in the matrix shit… I’m waiting for a table at a restaurant. I open tumblr and this is the first post. And IMMEDIATELY upon seeing this, Psycho Killer came on.

W.

T.

F.

[luanneclatterbuck]

“Mickey” by Toni Basil was playing on the kitchen radio, and I started singing it but with “Quimby” replacing the titular name. My kid gave me the ol’ “ugh mom 😑” about it because I was singing to a cat, and I was all, “No! Wait!” and said I had something even better, then played the song Toni covered. And then I was all, “HA! Mom WINS!”

[luanneclatterbuck]

“I’m so fuckin bored”

[luanneclatterbuck]

There’s been some room/furniture rearranging in my house and someone else’s house, so I temporarily have a mattress and box spring leaning against my dining room wall. Quimby has claimed it and I’m going to feel soo bad when they’re eventually moved. He gets to lounge at human head height, which is higher than he can get anywhere else in the house, so it’s just heaven for him. He’s here like 80% of the day.

[petiteclover]

Eddie Vedder at Mural Amphitheatre in Seattle | 1991

[luanneclatterbuck]

I had Mexican last night and had some leftover tortilla chips and I *thought * I had some salsa. I was going to do a quick and dirty chilaquiles for dinner and was devastated when saw I didn’t actually have any salsa left. Then I realized I *grow* salsa so I raided my garden 🙌

It turned out to be a weird color, but that didn’t bother me because it was AMAZING.

And a few things from outside today : bell peppers, amaryllis,

…and - my lone little volunteer pumpkin sprout I found in my yard this spring and was transplanted to my garden and is GIGANTIC wound up being from a seed from my favorite pumpkin I got last fall! It’s a weird, grey/white deal with a flat top and I’m so excited. I may end up with dozens.

[luanneclatterbuck]

I noticed a hole in the sleeve of my knit cardigan once I got to work. I noticed it around a coworker and she said, “the gal at the mall does a really good job with mending and fixing clothes.”

Me:

Does she not know who I am?? How proficient I am with a needle? And that I’m also a gramma from the Great Depression at heart? And that I have a designated mending pile at home and that I regularly fix things?? That I have DOZENS AND DOZENS of completed pieces of fiber art and I’ve sold internationally??

Lady, the thought of me taking a sweater to a tailor in the mall is about as silly as paying someone to scroll tumblr for me.

[luanneclatterbuck]

She had a mini sewing kit in her desk! So I got to show off my skills (although it’s not my best work, but literally no one but me would ever notice).

[luanneclatterbuck]

I noticed a hole in the sleeve of my knit cardigan once I got to work. I noticed it around a coworker and she said, “the gal at the mall does a really good job with mending and fixing clothes.”

Me:

Does she not know who I am?? How proficient I am with a needle? And that I’m also a gramma from the Great Depression at heart? And that I have a designated mending pile at home and that I regularly fix things?? That I have DOZENS AND DOZENS of completed pieces of fiber art and I’ve sold internationally??

Lady, the thought of me taking a sweater to a tailor in the mall is about as silly as paying someone to scroll tumblr for me.

[luanneclatterbuck]

This may be the most ridiculous, elderly internet user thing I’ve ever posted, for at least three reasons, but here. Have a picture I took of my tv because there was a Quimby cat on my stories (Knots Landing).

(I may have audibly gone “eeeeeee! It’s a Quimbo!”)

[luanneclatterbuck]

I crocheted a chicken coaster for my coworker that gave me all the plant babies.

[luanneclatterbuck]

I got a ton of babies planted - mostly from the cuttings a coworker gave me, and some spider babies from the giant plant at work that nobody else wanted so I had to take them.

Then I brought in a bunch of veggies from the garden and made a hot sauce (so good - these peppers were a great mix) and a lil homemade hamburger helper type dish with more veggies and leftover meatloaf and corn from the other night. I added a spoonful of the mash from the hot sauce making and it was so good I froze the rest in an ice cube tray to use as spicy lil flavor bombs in future recipes. This might be the first thing I add to my recipe box on some new (old) cards that a very thoughtful person brought over yesterday.

And I had some cream in my fridge from a recipe earlier this week and wasn’t going to use it for anything, so I made some butter out of it.

[deresjot]

(via Pin auf We shall see)

[luanneclatterbuck]

As someone who has fallen on ice and broken both my tailbone and a kneecap (two separate falls), a staircase like this in my home would deplete my Xanax supply very quickly.