Tiny lettuces and some other things I meant to tell you.

Including advice for dogs on the fourth of July

Let’s start with the tiny lettuces.

Did you know you can grow more lettuce from the sliced off and disembodied bottom core of a head of lettuce just by putting it in water? Yes. It works! It’s a delightful thing with no down side…perhaps even the pay off from a lifetime of forcing yourself to eat salad.

There are multiple videos about this. Here is one:

And HERE are MY personal kitchen grown lettuces…sprouted from the part I was throwing away simply by putting it in water. I’m not sure why I am so thrilled with this. Perhaps because, as an occasional gardener, it has usually been close to impossible for me to see any real lettuce growth before all the animal and insect restaurant patrons who live in my yard stop by for a snack.

These are just sitting everywhere on my kitchen counter, happily resurrecting themselves.

Okay, true…I no longer have any counter space. And also I appear to be unable to stop planting these every time I get to the bottom of a head of lettuce.

For my encore, here is Bok Choy. SAME THING! It’s vegetable resurrection! “Why hello little bok choy! Welcome back to life for the second time!” I also heard you can do this with celery.

This is a bok choy bottom about 3 days after I put it in water. I actually saw some growth the very next day.!.

Thank you. Thank you. I am a proud parent.

And now for my second act:

THE 4th OF JULY: A DAY (or two) OF TERROR FOR DOGS

Every year at this time, I hire a canine lecturer to come by my house and explain the 4th of July to my dogs, again, so they do not think that the whole country is merely setting off explosions in order to cause them unfathomable terror. But this year, finding a reasonable explanation for celebrating the 4th seems a lot harder than usual. Here are some excerpts from this year’s lecture.

Anyway, I had to agree with him. I seriously have no idea what the 4th of July is supposed to stand for any more except another day to take off work and eat hot dogs and wonder how we got here.

A THIRD THING:

DID YOU EVER WONDER WHERE ALL THAT POP PSYCHOLOGY FLOODING OUR CULTURE WAS TAKING US?

I mean, BESIDES making Season 4 of The Bear so packed full of epiphanies about self growth that I’m not sure I’m into the show any more….

Well….it’s all been leading here.

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ANYWAY, if you are proceeding with any of traditional 4th of July festivities, I hope you enjoy yourself but also remember that your dogs think all those explosions mean its the end of the world. So try to find some way to convince them that it isn’t. And when you figure it out what that is, be sure to also share it with me.