What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....

[esteban]

NO PHONE. MY DAUGHTER WASHED IT. I LOVE HER. SHE WAS TRYING TO HELP. BUT SHE WASHED MY PHONE.

I am naively holding out hope that my phone, which is currently entombed in a container of rice, will dry out in two weeks and work fine. Or three weeks.

I would take a pic, but my phone has been my goto camera for years.


GODDAMMIT.

It's dead. You're f*cked.

Go with a samsung this time.

Samsung can suck my left one. I had an iPhone 4 (you know how old that is?!) and it was showing a little age but I was perfectly content, knowing I'd upgrade this autumn. I WAS SO CLOSE.

So close.

On the positive side, I cut down a huge branch from the neighbor's tree without breaking my own fence. Or going to the hospital. It was essentially a miracle I didn't break the chain on my chainsaw during the fiasco.

But why did I recklessly hack down the titanic limb?

BECAUSE I HATE THE THOUSANDS OF BERRIES THE MULBERRY TREE DEPOSITS ON THE SWINGS FOR MY KIDS. Thousands and thousands of these damn berries everywhere the kids want to play.

[Necromancer]

If you'd eat the berries or turn 'em into jelly, you wouldn't have that problem. 

[esteban]

If you'd eat the berries or turn 'em into jelly, you wouldn't have that problem. 

The amount of labor involved in making preserves scared me off years ago. Also, the sheer mountains of sugar required!

But, now I'm curious to see if these damn things are edible by humans. The birds friggin' love them.

Also, I have tons of Black Walnut trees. I single-handedly feed hundreds of squirrels, courtesy of these friggin' trees.


I HATE WHEN A PERFECTLY PEACEFUL CALM IS VIOLENTLY SMASHED INTO OBLIVION BY A BLACK WALNUT PLUMMETING ONTO THE ROOF OF MY HOUSE/CAR.

It is the emotional equivalent of a gunshot mere inches from your ear whilst napping.

I reckon I could do domething with black walnuts, since I get bushels of them, but, to be honest, they are a complete mess (horribly overpowering perfume stench of the fruit, which promptly turns into a slimy black jelly after falling from tree. Honestly, this stuff must have been used as a BLACK DYE back in the day. I've stained so many clothes whilst doing hardwork.

I literally hear squirrels chomping on walnuts all day.

[Necromancer]

This time of year, I eat mulberries almost daily on my bike rides.  They're tasty, but they'll stain your fingers and lips with their juice.

[esteban]

I use Mountain Breeze Aquanet to keep my hair out of my eyes when I am hiking on the trails surrounding Hidden Valley Ranch, N.J.   

[MrBroadway]

This time of year, I eat mulberries almost daily on my bike rides.  They're tasty, but they'll stain your fingers and lips with their juice.

For the longest time I thought those were blackberries. To this day, I can't figure out the difference from the look of the fruit.

[Necromancer]

You can tell from the stem: blackberries have little leaves at their base (like a strawberry) and mulberries don't.

[esteban]

This time of year, I eat mulberries almost daily on my bike rides.  They're tasty, but they'll stain your fingers and lips with their juice.

Ha! I did not know how edible these were. Of course, I know about the staining properties of the damn berry. Between mulberry and black walnut, I have nature's finest dyes.

[Mathius]

I use to eat Mulberries all the time as a kid growing up in the country. I loved them. They're a nuisance though. If you get one Mulberry tree growing in your area (our neighbor has one that's almost a century old) then it will spread its children all over the place for miles. But, the locals seem to love the little buggers as they named a town after the tree.

[esteban]

This reveals how ignorant a lot of suburban folks are about nature (I know much more than average suburbanite, but surely it's limited compared to folks who routinely have direct experience in rural areas).

[HailingTheThings]

RUSSIAN HACKERS.

I hate them with the passion of 1,000 Fred Phelps.

I found how they were getting into my precious DoxPhile this time, though.  Damn russian hackers...

what.

[roflmao]

 

[TR0N]

Bills,bills,bills this summer it's all ways some thing that needs repaired 

[HailingTheThings]

People saving pizza for you only to have your friendo help himself to it. lol

[esteban]

You can't just wipe the inside of a window. You gotta clean the outside, too.