I only want to live in peace & plant potatoes & dream

Absolutely inexplicable sign at a hardware store??

May I present the best apple:

...to a giant rat...

...to a warthog with rizz...

...to some sort of scaly gremlin creature...

...to a kindly gentle bear.

Disney really perfected this aspect of the fairy tale.

Find more info, and credits of all of the paintings/illustrations here:

"Beauty and the Beast" (Chichester Featival Theater, 2017, Puppet Designer: Nick Barnes)

"Beauty and the Beast" (Synetic Theatre, 2023, Puppet Designer: Zana Gankhuyag)

La belle et la Bete dir. Jean Cocteau 1946

The Czechoslovakia Adaptation is called, "Panna a Netvor" (aka "Virgin & the Monster").

john d batten (1904)

eleanor vere boyle (1875)

warwick goble (1913)

w heath robinson (1921)

The faux quilt blanket that I have been working on all spring is finally finished. It is going to be a gift for my best friend who is getting married.

It is knitted in brioche with breaks of garter stitch. It has really been a labor of love as it took 3 and a half months or about 250 hours to complete. I have never before attempted a project of this size. The knitting gauge is tiny, as it is made on 2,5mm needles in fingering weight wool yarn. 360 stitches per row.

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs. 

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”