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David Sobotta
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It was just one tomato.
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Writer, former director at Apple, current VP @ WideOpen Networks, former cattleman, currently herding four tabby cats in NC's Piedmont as I preserve what I love through photography and words. Love fishing & hiking
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David Sobotta
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It was just one tomato.
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David Sobotta
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Someone protect us from AI.
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A serious plate of Cherokee Purple deliciousness.
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We're empty nesters, our Carolina Wren babies have left the nest.
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Tough summer, it is easy to be worn out before you even rise to a challenge.
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Endless summer with temperatures in the nineties extending as far as we can see & little rain in that future. Happy to only be tending a small patch that can be watered. Have learned to leave the dying blooms and seed pods on our perennials. Birds appreciate it. We will break fifty tomatoes today.
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David Sobotta
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Did some math on our new to us 2023 Honda CRV-Hybrid. We have driven it 568 miles since we got it on June 1. We have used 15 gallons of gas for an average mileage of 37.8 MPG. Very pleased with the car, love the lane change warning system. Gas savings of 8 gallons over driving my Acura MDX.
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David Sobotta
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Those who have lived around sulfur butterflies know that it is rare that they spread their wings. This is one of my favorite photos, a sulfur butterfly in a hibiscus behind our former home at the coast. #butterflies #hibiscus
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David Sobotta
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Goose says rumors that the heat have driven him from his office on the screened porch are just that- rumors.
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Beautiful things in sky that help your mind wander until the heat reminds you that this is a hot summer. Even still hot at 8PM. Picked enough tomatoes to get us to 47 this year. That's actually pretty good because except for two tomatoes, all are from 5 of 6 plants. Nearly half way to goal of 100.
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The vegetables are revolting against the heat. I am not sure what this Early Girl is saying, but I suspect it is not good. #gardening #tomatoes
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I had a fried baloney & cheese sandwich accompanied by tomatoes. In truth it was a tomato sandwich with token baloney and cheese. Keto sandwich thins have little bread flavor so you get a full dose of tomato deliciousness. A Cherokee Purple came up in the rotation. They're the best #food #tomatoes
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Another heat warning, shall we have the yard cut this week or not. That's the question besides when will it rain again.
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Merlin, our tabby Queen of Heat. She laughs at heat warnings and Goose as he scampers inside to cool off. #tabbycats
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Anyone think the former guy knows nothing about this? He has become a vessel for all the people who want to destroy our country and make it even easier to suck money out of the populace. Gift article wapo.st/45YzoWP
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David Sobotta
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Supreme Court has several political hacks who care more for party than the constitution or the country. wapo.st/4cuYzTq
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Gift article, I think the earth is cooking. Anyone who doubts that humans have contributed to the earth's warming has mush for brains. The east coast air is unusually humid and those of us in NC are no strangers to humidity. When we were kids we survived without air conditioning. wapo.st/4cxEDiL
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My wife sliced up our first Early Girl tomato. Not bad for the B-team.
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Here is our greener yard. It is easy to generate reports from CoCoRaHS data, rain yesterday, since 6/1 and since 5/1. #weather
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The yard already looks greener. We'll be on the road to recovery. I am a member of the Community Collaborative Rain, Snow, and Hail Network- CoCoRaHS.org for short.Go to be part of the people who collect information every day.
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Always hope for tomorrow. I knew it was going to rain, a neighbor washed his car and another after six dry weeks started watering his yard. Rain was in the cards.
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We finally got some rain, It rained where they said it would rain. We got something over an inch of rain in the gauge in the two plus hour storm. The rain we got this afternoon was more than the 0.77 inches we got in the whole month of June. Goose decided it was a rest day.
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Hot day yesterday, we fell back on our Southern upbringing for dinner-leftover white-half-runner beans, a bite of potato, cornbread and a Boxcar Willie tomato. They're unique because all the seeds fall out and they end up looking like a pepper. We have not decide about Boxcar Willie as a regular yet
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The odds of a storm were looking good last night. We ended up with 0.02 inches of rain. Hopefully, a better chance today, but I have already watered the garden because I am not counting on any rain.
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So hot (97F) that we set up a sun umbrella to keep our baby Carolina wrens.
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Staff meeting was canceled due to excessive heat and cats that needed to nap. #tabbycats
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Pretty skies tonight, but still oppressive outside and still not a drop of rain. Picked our first Cherokee Purple of the year that weighed over 1 lb. It was eighteen ounces. I also picked our first two Early Girl tomatoes. We are up to a couple dozen tomatoes, with the main crop yet to hit.
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I usually put too much on & it dribbles down into the grill. I guess I over compensated, but I was multi-tasking cooking the French fries inside and the burgers outside with what looked like a storm threatening. I am the cheese lover in the family, the rest thought that is the way it should be.
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David Sobotta
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My wife made this "double chocolate" banana bread as our 4th of July dessert. I am pretty sure the only contact a banana had with this was to be dragged through the batter before being discarded.
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Our family has a long tradition of grilling out & I have long been the person who does the grilling. We had hand cut, homemade French fries. I double fried them so they would be crisp when we ate them. The plate of tomatoes has Boxcar Willie tomatoes on the left and Cherokee Purple on the right.
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Gift article from Washington Post- wapo.st/45TULbz
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Google tells us that it feels like 99F. There is a good reason for that. The porch thermometer reads 100F. Going to be hotter tomorrow. I am watering the garden to cool it.
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Happy small town America, 4th of July, few flags flying in our subdivision but ours. Goose is concerned the future. My wish- one year from now we still have freedoms to celebrate and & are still free to celebrate. May those who are willfully trying to destroy our country get the infamy they deserve.
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Goose would like to apologize for his frown in his 4th of July photo. He was about to cook as we make our way to the mid-nineties. He recovered nicely once inside. #tabbycats
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Interesting article, a Fourth of July gift. I saw some glaring examples of this in business like Apple doubling down on the ill-fated idea that the only way to get into the enterprise was to sell iMac kiosks. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/o...
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I have talked to Goose about it and he wants to see if they want to join the Tabby Cat Alliance, the defenders of democracy.
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We have a new garden pet, a baby rabbit. Apparently he/she has a taste for marigolds and the two plants in the front show definite signs of nibbling. We'll see if we can live and let live. The bunny should have been here last year. We had marigolds that went nuts. They could have used pruning.
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The true star of our garden, little blue stew grass which I hope will be a foundation plant for my planned backyard meadow.
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SCOTUS decided that Pres. Truman’s seizure of the steel industry was illegal. Justice Jackson’s opinion “With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law.” From: the Library of Congress.
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Not enough resistance.
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With the improving weather, the tomatoes are going to get another shearing. They're still blooming and this weather will let them set fruit that we will enjoy in September. The new improved weather is like we were moved 1,000 miles north. Now we just need rain! #gardening
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He can be asleep in the storage room upstairs and I can open a can of tuna and he is in the kitchen before I finish pulling the lid off.
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I don't think Goose appreciates what scanning a document means. I told him I needed to scan something. All I got was a very sleepy glance from him. #tabbycats
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David Sobotta
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Goose says he has the scanning needs of the office all covered. #tabbycats
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The essence of gardening, planting something and watching it grow. We planted Angelonia on May 13. Sometime after that we added Marigolds. Six weeks later it is looking nice. #gardening
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"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens." --Thomas Jefferson: Note in Destutt de Tracy, "Political Economy," 1816. - unless you have a corrupt Supreme Court. The founding fathers are spinning in their graves tonight.
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First casualty of last week's relentless heat is our squash. The plant was not healthy so I took it out. We still have enough in the fridge to have another casserole. Tomatoes have slowed but there is going to be an avalanche. There are over 14 in one picture and over 40 in the other. #gardening
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Fish pictures? Some of my most memorable pictures are fish ones- especially ones that I took on a trip to Alaska in 1970. There were plenty of productive gravel pits in those days.
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None of ours care for corn. The only human food they live is the juice from a can of tuna. I once had a cat that loved potato chips.
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The Southern Feast made it to the table. White-half-runner beans and corn, new potatoes - cooked on top of the beans, a beautiful pone of cornbread, our tomatoes, and my version of Ina Garten's Turkey Meatloaf. The good news is we cooked enough for at least a couple more meals.
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