What I'm Reading This Week #24
Sup y'all! Welcome to flop sweat season (and Friday!) I hope you had a good week and stayed cool. I had to wave the flag and pull all of the 'impatiens' I grew from seed as that is not the plant I apparently bought. I'm still going round with the people I got them from because dammit, I want a refund. So I had to go to the nursery and get regular impatiens to replace the ones I pulled. It's already nicer to see actual color instead of looking out everyday and wonder WTF they're going to turn into other than some rando plant with a thick, juicy stem. Not that the ones I got look a ton better as they too are leggy. I don't know what the deal is with that. I also grabbed some chives half off to plant with the zinnias to keep the aphids at bay. Who knows if it'll actually work or not, we'll see. Now let's see: 9 Foot Exercises to Try at Home (I've been doing these over the last week and oochie owie for my weak azz feet...
Yeah Nebraska takes the cake there. That was the worst smell I have ever experienced and I have driven past farms in Texas that were almost as big but didn't smell like that, so I don't know what is going on there.
ReplyDeleteThat was heinous.
DeleteI went to college in Greeley, Colorado. Meat packing is a huge industry there, and back then the feedlots were practically in city limits. Plus some of the processing itself is a smelly business. It wasn't bad all the time, but depending on the wind and what they were processing there were days when "the smell of money" was overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteThe smell of money, indeed!
DeleteI went to the Coors plant in Golden Colorado when I was 18 or 19 and the smell of the hops and all they do there was SOOOOOOO bad. To this day if I smell anything remotely like that, I get sick to my stomach. Oddly, cereal places and the Nestle place out here have a similar smell, just not as strong.
ReplyDeleteUgh, I can't imagine! Sounds like I don't want to anyway!
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