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Nerd alert.

This is an American chestnut tree. They’ve been blighted for abt 100 years. So my wife and I joined the the American chestnut foundation.

Our species-saving strategy is a powerful combination of traditional breeding and biotechnology. The primary goal of our scientific research is to develop American chestnut trees with sufficient resistance to two deadly diseases: chestnut blight and Phytophthora root rot.
They gave us chestnuts to plant and our tree hatched! This guy was planted last fall.

My wife is a crazy tree lady. She rescues baby trees from jobs she’s on and brings them to our house or farm to be planted.

Here’s is a red oak. Also abt 6 mos old.

This is a Douglas fir. My wife found it in a customers yard as a tiny sapling in a flower bed abt four years ago. Brought it home and this has tons of new growth. If you’re super nerdy you can see see the Fibonacci pattern in the new growth facing you.
 
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
3:55 PM EDT Monday 20 May 2024
Hot and humid conditions expected Tuesday. A hot and humid airmass is moving into southwestern Ontario. Maximum temperatures of 31 degrees Celsius are expected Tuesday with overnight minimum temperatures near 21 degrees Celsius. Slightly cooler temperatures are expected Wednesday as showers and thunderstorms are possible through the day. As a result, the hot and humid conditions are not expected to reach heat warning criteria.These conditions pose a health risk when you are not used to the heat. Everyone is at risk from heat, especially older adults; infants and young children; and people with chronic illnesses. You are advised to 1) drink plenty of cool liquids before feeling thirsty; and 2) keep cool by dressing for the weather and spending more time in a cool place.Hot and humid air can also bring deteriorating air quality and can result in the Air Quality Health Index approaching the high risk category.Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@ec.gc.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
In effect for:
  • Windsor - Essex - Chatham-Kent
We got a bit of hail but the worst of it by-passed us
 
I learned to cook for a large family - and even larger groups.
Cooking for 1 has always been a challenge.
Cooking one single, individual ear of fresh sweet corn?
Felt really weird.
(Not as weird as some of the looks I get for buying just one ear at a time)
But so delicious!! 🌽
Sweet corn is amazing! I live in corn country (I think that makes me a child of the corn), and when it’s in season I am in seventh heaven.

I could literally walk out my back yard and pick corn—if it wasn’t for a grumpy farmer with a shotgun, or stumbling on one of OM’s “buried little treasures”…. 💀
 
I learned to cook for a large family - and even larger groups.
Cooking for 1 has always been a challenge.
Cooking one single, individual ear of fresh sweet corn?
Felt really weird.
(Not as weird as some of the looks I get for buying just one ear at a time)
But so delicious!! 🌽
And nothing weird with buying one. At the end of the day it’s no one’s business, AND, you get a yummy corn cob! Win/win
 
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