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[unicornduke]

 I got home from work and discovered we have new neighbors. The catty corner downstairs apartment now has new people in it and they have a dog! Looked like some kind of sheperd pit mix maybe who appeared delighted to watch me unload my truck. 

I asked my parents to save me any hubbard or butternut squash they had left from the season, expecting a couple. I now have 8 more decent size hubbards that I had to find places to hide so Jade wouldn't see them. It's a little much to have them piled all over the place. I also got 6 butternuts that I can leave out because they are small.

I think I'm working from home tomorrow, I have a dentist appointment in the afternoon and sleet predicted for the morning commute time. I'm sure it will be fine but I need to get a hold of my boss. 

Probably time for sleep

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[dragonlady7]

Why do you have to hide squashes from Jade?? I'm sorry if it's not funny, i'm just envisioning, like, ridiculous squash subterfuge because either she'll ravenously devour them or she so strongly disapproves of them. Squash under the floorboards. Squash in the rafters. Squash in the air vents. Squash behind the cupboard kickplate. Squash suspended behind the wallboard from a removable light fixture. Squash hidden in baggies in the back of the toilet tank. IDK, where do you hide squash when you have a small hoard?? LOL.

[unicornduke]

lmao it felt like ridiculous squash subterfuge tbh. there's only so much room in the living room/kitchen where I'd normally stick them and I think she gets irritated that I leave baskets of things around in the way. Currently I'm also hiding a half bushel of potatoes in my room too. I've got squash and potatoes piled on my chest freezer and a basket next to it full of squash and a half bushel of carrots that need to be topped and processed sitting near the dog's stuff.....I've got ten pounds of potatoes that I tucked onto a shelf in the kitchen stuff closet

I figured a bunch more big ones would piss her off if I stacked them in a giant pile, which would be basically in the walkway to the bathroom.

At this point I definitely feel like I'm hoarding produce. And I am.

[dragonlady7]

Time for a secret compartment. A false back to the closet.
LOL I'm glad that it's not something tragic, like that she's got an irrational prejudice or something. I was also amused at the thought that she sees hubbard squash and just loses her mind and eats it all, or something.

When you don't have much space, homesteading is mostly produce-hoarding, I think, which is why I think it's super-super hilarious when I read these "I'm gonna build a tiny house!" posts where people are like "and then I'm gonna raise all my food in my garden so I don't need much fridge space or pantry cuz I'm just gonna pull it out of the ground" and I'm like THIS is a person who has NEVER grown food EVER IN THEIR LIFE.
It would be keen if someone could breed, like, any plant ever, that would bear fruits one or two at a time for months on end. I'm going to go dig myself precisely four potatoes, harvest one tomato and two cucumbers, and pick exactly one quart basket of beans, and then do the same every other day for the next six months, and this is going to actually work. What would that climate even look like???? Oh and also I'm going to get a cow that gives a quart of milk a day and takes weekends off! Perf! Who needs a root cellar or a fridge? Ha!

[unicornduke]

I was thinking about it, like, I'd love something that produces fruit or pods or whatever, every two weeks. It's not possible but that would be perfect. Maybe a tropical climate???

I think those tiny house people eat leafy greens and that's it. Which is actually a vaguely achievable goal in that kind of growing ideas.

[dragonlady7]

Leafy greens, ugh. I would poop myself to death in under a week.
Maybe you could do that with like, two kale plants too. i didn't realize but you can just cut from kale a little at a time forever. i can digest kale, but lettuce is the devil.
but like. what else are you going to eat. and where are you going to cook it???? you can't even stock up on dry beans, they take up too much room in your pantry. The more I read the more I think these people are crazy.