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A prize in each box!1 comment

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 week ago: Over here at the Triffid Ranch, we get our share of value-added items in the mailbox. Several times, … more →

Tags: I'm living in my own private Tanelorn, fused silicon diffuser, Thorlabs

Very, VERY bad ideas

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 11 months ago: For those unfamiliar with The Pitcher Plant Project, I heartily recommend spending a few hours going … more →

Tags: projects, I'm living in my own private Tanelorn, czarina, Dark Gardening, Bog Gardens, Sarracenia

A pressing need to buy some land3 comments

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: One of the many reasons why the Czarina and I are coming up on ten years of successful marriage is b … more →

Tags: Swimming in Strange Waters, I'm living in my own private Tanelorn, czarina, Greenhouses, some guy

"I Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Thing."

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: The weather has been strange in North Texas, but not as strange as it was last year. That said, we … more →

Tags: Hard Science, Swimming in Strange Waters, observations, Dark Gardening, Sarracenia, Hemidactylus turcicus

I get by with a little hemp from my friends

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: One of the greatest gifts I’ve yet received in the past ten years is the collection of friends … more →

Tags: Hard Science, Personal Interlude, Introductions, Triffids, head explodey, Road Trip, cristate, thistle

It's amazing what you can get done on a three-day weekend

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: You know, most people spend a three-day holiday weekend lazing about, or puttering, or maybe getting … more →

Tags: Hard Science, triggerplants, head explodey, Sarracenia

Extreme Scot Frugality, Demonstrated

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: I’ll admit that, for someone my age, I have precious few freakouts over the times changing. If … more →

Tags: Publishing, projects, things to do in Dallas when you're dead, Dark Gardening

Peering upon Hello Kitty hell

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: So far as I can tell, and as far as the chronicler of Hello Kitty Hell can attest, almost nothing in … more →

Tags: projects, Dumb ideas, observations, Hello Kitty, Meet The Feebles

Ensuring marital bliss, one aneurysm at a time

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: The end of January, particularly this January, can be the most cruel of times for Texas gardeners. T … more →

Tags: czarina, Statuary, Dinosaurs, Road Trip, Dark Gardening

The definition of insanity

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: Okay, so last year’s seed experimentation didn’t work quite as well as I’d thought … more →

Tags: projects, green harlots, Roridula dentata

I'm living in my own private Tanelorn

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: In the incessant kvetching about Dallas weather, I should bring up that we have a phrase for it: … more →

Tags: I'm living in my own private Tanelorn, Magazines, Dinosaurs, head explodey, Joey Box, Cleaning

Thursday is Resource Day: Making Jack Skellington Proud

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: Dallas still hasn’t seen any snow, but it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Well … more →

Tags: projects, Thursday is Resource Day, Halloween, pumpkin seeds

The Drooling Sundew

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: Contrary to the opinion of random passersby who want to come by at all hours “to look at the p … more →

Tags: Hard Science, projects, green harlots, observations, sundews, Chocolate, drooling like Pavlov's dogs, Day Job

"Today on Handyman's Corner..."

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: Things are getting interesting at the Triffid Ranch, so apologies for a lack of immediate updates. T … more →

Tags: projects, czarina, darlingtonia, display cases, heliamphora

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: Don’t get me wrong: I like Halloween. I like Halloween very much, and as far as I’m conc … more →

Tags: czarina, Dark Gardening, Halloween, Crassula

Things to do in Dallas when you're dead

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: The rest of October is going to be relatively quiet for the Triffid Ranch, but things start livening … more →

Tags: nepenthes, Weekend, Shows, things to do in Dallas when you're dead

Cynosure

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: Last weekend was an interesting accumulation of events. If I’m not careful, their repercussion … more →

Tags: projects, Garden Shows, Panoptikon

"Time for the Time Lord's secret weapon: duct tape!"

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: The Czarina’s birthday was the Saturday before last, and for her birthday, I bought her (among … more →

Tags: czarina, Nepenthes pots, Here comes Regretsy

Keeping busy in the heat

Texas Triffid Ranch wrote 1 year ago: I have friends and cohorts from outside of Texas who have to ask me, every once in a while, “w … more →

Tags: I'm living in my own private Tanelorn, Joe Christ, water retention crystals


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