Aw man, I mixed them up! I meant Tom Brown, whoops!

*Every farm* used to have 3-6 varieties though!

Also if anyone doesn't know about John Bunker, he's truly worth the wikipedia rabbit hole!

We used to have apples for cider, apples for baking, apples for storing and snacking...this and the insane reduction in bird populations are my most "we used to be a proper country" opinions

Literally how we all got our news! I watched some of the world’s most important moments breaking news on MTV! It was a one-stop shop! I watched the Berlin Wall fall on MTV!

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I'm so glad you're here!

A great way to get me to never shop somewhere again is to force people to smile/greet at me.

Tbf I haven't been to target since January and have no plans to return, but way to seal the deal I guess

I did in fact get a street mattress once in Seattle, but it was like 2006 and I didn't really know about bedbugs.

We hosed it down with febreze and called it a day

Dear Stephen,

I love you.

Cordially,

Rowan

There are videos on youtube of people making it into pigment and the grinding is only step one, it is a deeply laborious process!

Lapis is my favorite mineral and just a whole chain of great trivia!

For most of human history all the lapis lazuli in the world came from one mine in Afghanistan.

Somehow I like even better that it wasn't just him, it was a village duty that got passed around. Sometimes it fell to Samuel freaking Beckett 🤷🏼