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Tue Aug 4 06:00:01 EDT 2020 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 15 mph. Twenty-minute walk in the morning. Cool and cloudy. Work ---------------------------------------- - Order printer for WN Done. - Review Dell invoices Done. - Follow up on stop file Done. - Pull updated backups from routers Done. - Check on Hazel Park email Done. - Review Newegg invoices Done. - Work on lockbox utility Done. - How do we send resident communications in Entrata? Help Derek. No. - Follow up with Jennifer about DNS No. Meditated for ten minutes during lunch. Working in front of an open window is really nice (even with the occasional construction racket). Home ---------------------------------------- - Work on txt2pixelartsvg Vacuumed, washed dishes, wiped down kitchen counters, watered plants. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53432877 > Centuries before even the man from Del Monte said "yes", the country's must-have accessory graced the table at the very richest aristocrats' social gatherings. > But the scaly sweet was too valuable to eat - a single fruit was worth thousands of pounds and often the same pineapple would be paraded from event to event until it eventually went rotten. > Later, a roaring trade in pineapple rental developed, where ambitious but less well-off folk might hire one for a special event, dinner party or even just to jauntily tuck under an arm on a show-off stroll. > The orangery at Hanbury Hall has carved pineapples on its roof, but only the very wealthiest could afford a pinery. > Johanna Lausen-Higgins, from the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, says early attempts at cultivation were made in orangeries, which had been designed to provide frost protection for citrus fruit during the winter months, but they did not provide enough heat and light for the tropical pineapple. > "Heating in glasshouses during the mid 17th Century was provided by furnaces placed within the structure, but fumes often damaged or killed the plants," Ms Lausen-Higgins says. > "Later, 'fire walls' were heated by hot air rising from furnaces or stoves which required constant stoking with coal. This was a dangerous method and many early 'pineries', as they later became known, burned down." > These pineapples were expensive enough to warrant security guards, and maids who transported them were considered to be at great risk of being targeted by thieves. > The 1807 Proceedings of the Old Bailey show several cases for pineapple theft, Dr O'Hagan points out, including that of a Mr Godding who was sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia for stealing seven pineapples. > Because the ever-aspiring middle classes were anxious to get their mitts on the fruit but could not afford to cultivate or buy them, canny businessmen opened pineapple rental shops across Britain. Companies began to cash in on the fruit's popularity and as with many crazes, the market for pineapple-themed goods exploded. > "What was once considered a luxury fruit could now be found cheaply on stalls and barrows in most cities and towns across the country," says Dr O'Hagan. "At this time, working-class people eating pineapples even became used in satirical prints as a visual metaphor for the problem of progress." > The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall has traditional pineapple pits, heated by decomposing manure. As in times past, growing the fruit is labour-intensive and time-consuming - it takes about seven years to grow a pineapple. > The gardens estimate that restoration and maintenance of the pit, fine-tuning of the growing methodology, and the man hours to look after the fruit means "each pineapple probably cost us in excess of £1,000". > Once the pineapple was on the menu for ordinary people and therefore off the menu for the nobility, the upper classes sought new ways to distinguish themselves from the masses. > Did they learn their lesson from the short-lived status and money-sucking nature of the pineapple? Maybe they could have invested in precious gems or impressive property. > No, they didn't. Dr O'Hagan says the truly wealthy then set their caps at another luxury and difficult-to-grow food. > Celery. D&D adventure: stealing pineapples or catching pineapple thieves (or some faddish fantasy fruit). Or stop someone from implementing a new technology/magic that would devalue the fruit by making it more available. https://www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/comments/i3iubt/lost_in_the_sauce_dems_have_proof_nunes_received/ Jesus. If true… what? Traitor or that stupid? > Makes me think the Russians knew what they were doing. > > After all, what's better at destabilization than helping one side and making sure the other side knows? > > > The Democrats, literally and figuritively, have the receipts. > > > > > It never ceases to amaze me how stupid these people are. > > > > > > > Democrats first learned that a Derkach sent Nunes anti-Biden materials when they were inadvertently sent the DHL shipping receipt. Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: cucumber, banana, coffee Lunch: egg and avocado wrap, orange Dinner: Cheetos

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