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*Linux is like Ice Cream* ❤️

optoutproject.net/linux-is-lik

Like ice cream, the #Linux operating system 🐧 comes in different flavors.

Imagine you'd never tried ice cream before, wondering -- Do I go for Vanilla, Strawberry or Chocolate?

Yes, the afficionados have their own crazy flavor combinations 🍨 and are proud of them. But you don't have to do that. You can just start with #Vanilla or #Chocolate and that is fine. 🍦

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I'm telling y'all, it's important to just hang out with the plants in the garden and look at them.

I was just spending time with the vanilla vine whose flowers I've been attempting to pollinate, feeling bad that the pollinations seemed to not have stuck. I was looking at the withered flowers wondering if they would fatten up or what? (because some of the flowers fell off, but some withered and stayed on the plant.) when I realized that some of the withered flowers were actually attached to green tubes! 😱

So in pic 1 below, here's what's happening:

It's an inflorescence (I think that's the word) where flowers come in one or two at a time. So the bud at the left and top have not yet opened. On the right behind my hand is a flower that I recently pollinated and that's withering. Most of the yellow-green "sticks" are places where flowers used to be, but have fallen off. Then at the bottom, you see three pods that look like fresh green beans, and I believe these are pods that have gotten pollinated and are growing! The pod in the middle still has a dried flower at the bottom.

Once I realized what I was looking at, I realized there were a bunch of other pods on the plant (see pic 2).

So I looked up when they should be harvested and it turns out they get harvested before they dry on the vine: vanillery.com/ripe-green-vanil

The pods are so sneaky! They totally look like the rest of the vine, so a dumb predator (like me) wouldn't notice they were there, allowing the pod to mature and release its thousands of tiny seeds. Such a smart plant.

So yay! If I hadn't just been spacing out, standing in the garden, looking at the plant, I might not have ever noticed 😱

#plants #gardening #nature #hawaii #vanilla #orchids @plants

Looks like this vanilla vine might be flowering soon. This is exciting because it's almost in reach and I will try to hand pollinate. Every other time I've seen vanilla flower, the flowers have been 30 feet up in a tree 🤷

Time to watch some videos on hand pollinating vanilla.

I have been trying to persuade one of my bf to restrain me more. And restrain my in different spaces.. like a lamppost ..
But showing him photos of handcuffs is not getting
anywhere

Nigella.comVanilla Layer Cake with Ermine IcingThis is the sort of cake you’d find in an old-fashioned diner of your dreams: a majestic creation, frosted with fluffy, super-sweet buttercream, just made to stand aloft and enticingly on the counter. The Ermine Buttercream (often less alluringly known as Flour Buttercream) is a revelation: before you even get on to the butter, you start off by making a roux with flour, sugar and milk, and although I know that the idea of a gluey flour-paste doesn’t sound immediately appealing, trust me that it creates the most divinely light and moussy buttercream. Since this roux must be used completely cold, I advise making this part first, then actually finishing off the buttercream when the cakes have cooled. And those of you who are inclined to be disparaging about the idea of adding vegetable shortening to a cake should know that this is what helps create a gorgeously fluffy sponge, best eaten on the day it's made, though no hardship after. For me this cake is all about its pale vanilla splendour, but I admit that were I making this for a child's birthday party, I would add a vulgar note with a confetti-covering of sprinkles. Indeed, at Christmas, you could scatter over festive red and green sprinkles — and it’s a wonderful alternative for children and others who fail to see the charm of fruit cake — but I still can’t help thinking the simple, snow-covered effect of the unadorned icing wins out. I know this looks like a dauntingly long recipe, but nothing about it is complicated, I promise you.

Honestly I can't believe that "Chocolate or vanilla" is even a question that gets asked. The answer should always be BOTH. (Heck, throw in strawberry while you're at it.) These are flavors that are 200x better when combined than on their own, full stop.

What I want to know is, *who's making you choose just one, and why do they hate America?!??!??*