This is the 10th one of these flowers Slash has stolen and brought home.
Here is number 11…
Here’s his third catch of the night.
And that second photo is his face right after I told him “People on the internet love your flower catching skills, Mr. Slash!”
Guess what Mr. Slash is up to tonight?
And, he’s back at it again tonight.
He got another one, and he is proud of himself.
He brought in another one tonight.
Thank you, Mr. Slash!
He is so beautiful 😭
He’s aware of that, and loves being told that. 😛
Sometimes, he will hold my hand when I ask him about the flowers.
He brought these two flowers in last night, and decided to pose for me when I put them near him to take photos.
Plot twist! He brought back a hibiscus tonight instead of the usual ones.
He must be feeling more tropical.
He’s back to the normal ones now…
Even when it’s raining, he still decides to go and find these. Good thing for him that whatever breed of cat he is, he has remarkably water-resistant fur!
He had a very busy night while everyone was asleep last night…
He had a busy night while I was watching SummerSlam.
He gave us one more last night, bringing his total from last night to 6! That’s a new one-night record for him!
Mr. Slash’s flower hunting adventure master post keeps on growing.
He was back at it again today.
And two more from last night…
Thank you, Mr. Slash!
Such a good kitty!
He is!
I wish Oreo brought me flowers instead of birds, lizards, mice, and squirrels 😂😂
Mr. Slash even wanted to hold hands after giving me this one.
He’s a special cat. 😀
He was asleep this morning after bringing me this one last night…
Two more gifts from Mr. Slash tonight.
Please tell Mr. Slash I love him.
Feeling sad? Have a big fluffy kitty bringing flowers to his people.
down the block is a person who is inexplicably losing all the flowers in her garden
@thoughts-of-an-x-factor did you ever find out where Mr. Slash got the flowers from? I’m so curious now!!
Oh! I’ve explained it before, but I know some people haven’t seen the explanation, so here it is:
Mr. Slash has made friends with an elderly woman who lives about three houses down from me. He gets the flowers from her garden. They are Camellias, so they grow, and fall off the bush by the handful, and he goes over there at night, and takes every single one from the ground, to bring back to me.
So, when I said he was stealing them, it was somewhat inaccurate. It’s actually more like he’s helping an old woman clean her garden up, and giving me gifts at the same time. She knows who he is, and where he comes from, and knows what he does.
This is delightful, and what a beautiful cat he is!
Researchers have argued that pointy eggs are common to cliff-nesting
birds because they roll in a circle and are less likely to tumble off an
edge. Or that asymmetric eggs pack together more easily and would allow
females with large clutches to incubate their broods efficiently. Or
that spherical eggs are stronger and less prone to breaking, or use the
least amount of shell for a given volume, which would be useful for
birds that can’t get enough calcium in their diet.
“There are a
lot of hypotheses, but no conclusive explanation or theory,” says
Stoddard, who’s an evolutionary biologist based at Princeton University.
“It was a good puzzle.”
To solve it, Stoddard teamed up with L. Mahadevan,
a biophysicist at Harvard University who has studied “how leaves
ripple, how tendrils coil, and how the brain folds, among other things.”
He realized that all eggs could be described according to two simple
characteristics—how asymmetric they are, and how elliptical they are.
Measure these traits, and you can plot every bird egg on a simple graph.
They did that for the eggs of 1,400 bird species, whose measurements
Stoddard extracted from almost 50,000 photos. It was the resulting graph
that revealed the left-field nature of chicken eggs.
What do you get when you marry two of Earth’s most dramatic natural events, lightning and volcanoes? The answer is a “dirty storm,” an infernal melange of lightning, magmatic fire and ash. At the Volcán Calbuco in Chile, photographer Francisco Negroni captured these pictures.
So I just got a text; apparently my father just dropped by the house, handed my husband a large box full of slightly under-ripe peaches, said “For the love of god take these I was picking up windfalls and I have another bushel at home” and left.
The joys of having parents with a fruit orchard.
In a couple days once they ripen, I’m thinking peach pie 🙂
Would you like: A: my recipe for peach habanero bbq sauce B: my recipe for peach raspberry cordial C: my recipe for peach fritter quick bread?
PLEASE
A: Peach Habanero BBQ Sauce
12 habanero peppers remove seeds, or keep them in for an even more extreme heat, chopped
Saute peppers, peaches, onion, and garlic in oil until softened and onions are starting to brown. Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Puree with an immersion blender. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and sweetener. I usually have to add a little extra sweetener.
B: Peach Raspberry Cordial
1 gallon Mason jar
1+ pound raspberries
Lots of peaches
Sugar
High proof vodka
Vanilla bean
Take mason jar, pack as tightly and as full of sliced peaches (skin on) and raspberries as you can. Insert 1 split vanilla bean. Top with sugar, fill jar with vodka. Shake well 2x daily for 3 weeks, then let sit for 3-4 months on a dark shelf, shaking every week.
C: Peach Fritter Quick Bread
Brown Sugar/Cinnamon Mixture:
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Bread Loaf
2/3 cup white sugar
½ cup butter softened
2 eggs
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
½ cup milk or almond milk
3 peaches, peeled and diced, mixed with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Old-Fashioned Creme Glaze
½ cup of powdered sugar
1-3 tablespoons of milk or cream- depending on thickness of glaze wanted
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a 9×5-inch loaf pan and spray with non-stick spray or line with foil and spray with non-stick spray to get out easily for slicing.
Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl. Set aside.
In another medium-sized bowl, beat white sugar and butter together using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until blended in; add in vanilla extract.
Combine & whisk flour and baking powder together in another bowl and add into creamed butter mixture and stir until blended.
Mix milk into batter until smooth.
Pour half the batter into the prepared loaf pan; add half the chopped peach mixture.
Sprinkle ½ of the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture you set aside earlier, on top of peach layer.
Pour the remaining batter over peach layer and top with remaining chopped peaches, then the remaining brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
Lightly pat peaches into batter; swirl brown sugar mixture through peaches using knife or spoon.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, approximately 50-60 minutes.
To make glaze, mix powdered sugar and milk or cream together until well mixed.
Let cool for about 15 minutes before drizzling with glaze.
If you make the raspberry cordial NOW, you’ll have it in time for Halloween. What colour is raspberry and peach together? ORANGE. Add frozen blackberries to the bottom of the glass. A little lemon balm as a garnish. BAM! HALLOWEEN DELICIOUSNESS.
FUCKIN’ HEL YOU’RE A GENIUS
It’s Peach Time ™ again, everyone hit @systlin up with your favorite peach recipie!
It’s also time to bring up the annual Georgia Vs Pallisade stype peach debate again: is a Peach supposed to be Firm and Delicately flavored or is it supposed to basically explode with syrupy juice the second you bite into it?
