The Washington Post has a list of online educational resources

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/04/28/parents-guide-education-resources-coronavirus/

If you get paywalled, I find that their paywall is easily bypassed by refreshing and then hitting esc right as the text loads. Or you can clear your cookies or open it in a new browser window - the WaPo paywall is a joke, is what I'm saying.

Over at the HS forum they're talking about meat

because of course they are.

Anyway, one poster made an illuminating comment on modern farming that I think everybody could benefit from:

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This is excerpted from a longer comment.

I think... I think I'm going to start spending a lot more to primarily get heritage breeds from small-scale suppliers in the future.

My order of chile crunch and chile crisp has come!

(Chile crisp is the original, Chinese product. Chile crunch is Mexican inspired, whatever that means, and also all natural, which I know means no msg. The original DOES have msg, if this is a concern.)

Verdict: The chile crunch is very good on bagel chips, the chile crisp is good on white cheddar popcorn. Nomnomnom.

Jenn, despite being there in the room as I placed this order, was annoyed, commented that we have more hot sauce than many grocery stores, and declared me "a menace". You know who else is a menace? SPIDERMAN.

Related thought: Is the spiderman theme song 20 seconds to sing?

Finally, finally, finally putting in the beds

Rather belatedly, but the only thing I get excited about in the garden - peppers and tomatoes - doesn't like going in the ground too early, not in NYC.

After peppers and tomatoes I like herbs, and after that anything else edible. I appreciate flowers... in other people's gardens. I can't muster up much enthusiasm for them in mine, though, unless I tell myself they're there for the pollinators and even then it's just nothing special.

Anyway, I only have one goal for this year, which is to utterly demolish all ragweed. With that in mind, I told everybody I don't care what they put in the beds, so long as they let me prepare them so as to maximize our ability to kill the ragweed. Consequently they didn't get a single variety of tomato I would've picked out. Oh well.