We have considered painting the car. It’s just shows that the market doesn’t have any real options.

Our house is over 100 years old so we have painted with historical colors which are jewel tones or various colors. People always comment about how nice it looks and I’m like it’s because we have color in there. You can do the same with your modern grey house

We were looking used car earlier this year. At the dealership there was one beautiful green car that was a different model then we wanted but was discounted because “it was a weird color”. We looked for a few weeks to find the car we wanted to a color that wasn’t white or black. We couldn’t find one so we went with white.

Welcome to the wonderful world of herbalism. Plants make tons of beneficial (and to a lesser extent harmful) chemicals for animals like us. Plants can’t move so they use chemical to both deter and attract animals. Something like a fruit is supposed to be eaten which distributes the seeds so plants load them up on attractive chemicals (mostly sugars) so animals want to eat them. Since we all (plants and animals alike) share similar biochemistry it’s simple for plants to make hormones that we also use. Some of the presence is “intentional” and some is not.

To answer your question every fruit and vegetable has beneficial quantities similar to what you mentioned. The wider variety you eat the better.

I’m going to guess baby bonnet?

I’ll start with academic before moving towards social. Depending on your major, class schedule and highschool your freshman classes will vary between so easy it’s boring to the hardest grind of your life. So get into good habits for all your classes by attending them all and spending the time you need on each class which won’t be consistent. Find where you can study. I was a my room only person but I know lots of coffee shops and library people.

As for social life go in with an open mind about everything. You will meet lot of different type or people with different hobbies and things they enjoy. Try some clubs, sport teams, geek life (fraternity or sororities) and anything you find interesting. Especially the first few weeks go tag along to things and invite others with you. You won’t know who you will vibe with or what group you will want to hang with. This is especially true amongst freshmen. Remember that everyone is nervous and that is what drugs and alcohol is good for. Try them slowly with people you can trust and look out for your friends.

Edit: if you have a history of depression make sure you take your meds and any other tools you use. You will be under lot of stress (both positive and negative) and it’s easy to stop some of these habits. They are important to keep up

I have three accounts currently. One on piefed, one on a regional lemmy account and one for porn. Nothing wrong having multiple accounts to see what you like

piefed.social is the flagship and largest. Try it out and see if you like. If you don’t like it try another one. I have been loving piefed.social after leaving midwest.social

This kind of bonnet? I think you can do it

I have had good luck with my passionflower tincture. It’s nice to have some natural remedies to help in top of everything.

Also it’s way easier to dry a whole section than individuals parts. Chop it and dry it

Leaves and flowers and it will only my medicinal if it’s a native version of Passiflora incarnata. But to harvest:

Harvest the long vines when they’re begining to flower and haven’t yet set much fruit. Let the vines sit in the shade for an hour to give the insects time to crawl off and inspect the vines for caterpillars. Hang to dry or prepare immediately as medicine

*The Healing Garden Juliet Blankespoor (pg. 346)

Passionflower is a useful herb to have. Taking it as a tea or tincture to help with relaxation and better sleep.

I would just extend what I am trying to do with my yard to make a food forest. So some more perennial fruiting and nut trees and perennial berry bushes. Really try the permaculture thing with lots of little harvest instead of a few big ones.

I have been loving growing herbs both culinary and medicinal. My yard gets enough to craft remedies for my should but it would be a great way to make some cash if you get some perennial herbs set up for regular harvesting and drying. I might try to sell calendula but I would really need to get good at starting from seed. But there’s money in that.

I have started getting some unsolicited Linkedin messages again about job offers instead of try out new AI software.

For sure. There is fun in both open ended and tight story structure. Player driven is way to get player input to both and make sure player choices matter. I agree with being on the same page

Gamergate was one of the worse events in the last decade or so. It was the start where the worse parts of the Internet started leaking into the real world. Awful time

For my longest running campaign I told my players that the world will zoom in with details when you interact with it. So I started with a 5 or so big hooks and they looked at a few of them. Others they ignored. I did ask them what few ideas they were interested in doing and built it from that.

One of their ideas was to have one others players father to get arrested. That ended up being a huge plot point that I never considered until they mentioned it. Player driven campaigns are the way to go

This is the way. Keep it simple and clear

I started DMing in my own custom world to begin with. Its kind of freeing because you can just make EVERYTHING up and not have to worry about existing lore or cannon. I few things I would suggest is do a session 0 where you talk about your campaign and place the characters into the world. You can finalize building characters in the day and talk about the world that you are all jumping into.

Before your sessions 0 communicate out what you inspiration might be including specific references to media if applicable. For my first campaign it was “generic forgetten realms / dnd lore with more planar holes”. Some other campaign pitches I have done are “cowboys and aliens”, “U.S revolutionary war as seen by Hamilton in Dnd”, “The Seige” and “Young world with big monsters”. I am currently playing in a dnd campaign that was pitch as “animals as characters in a is redwall meets, Princess Mononoke meeting breathe of the wild campaign”.

So keep it simple, give specific references to inspiration or theme if appliciable.

For the first session have a single hook and a single winnable combat ready. That is all you really need.

I want more muppet movies, especially myths.

You’re totally right. I was giving advice about zone 4b/5a where I live (classic internet gardening advice about different zones). If you live south of here you have much more growing seasons for cooler weather vegetables in Autumn and winter crops. We just don’t with a first frost in mid-october and hard frost a week or two behind. We only get salad greens with the short time between too hot and frozen.

I did forget about bulbs. Go hard for bulbs to get yourself ready for spring.