chest colds and root vegetables
Having managed to evade the WisCholera, I have instead come down with a less immediately unpleasant but rather exhausting chest cold, which was passed along to me by the local friend who criticized my tomato-growing methods a couple of weeks ago. We went out for ice cream shortly after I got back to town, at which time we had the following conversation:
here's luck: The garden went crazy while I was gone. Even the parsnips have finally sprouted!
local friend: What are parsnips?
here's luck: ...
local friend: Are they like turnips?
here's luck: No. They're like carrots. White carrots. More conical than cylindrical, and very sweet.
local friend: Huh.
here's luck: They're delicious! They're even more delicious after a frost, actually; the best parsnips are the ones that have been left in the ground all winter and dug up in the spring.
local friend: Are you planning to do that with yours?
here's luck: Most of them, yeah.
local friend: So, like a parsnip gulag.
here's luck: I just keep walking riiiiight into these, don't I.
local friend: At least you're oppressing the white vegetables as well as the red ones.
here's luck: Yes. Now I'm Stalin and the BIA. Perfect.
here's luck: The garden went crazy while I was gone. Even the parsnips have finally sprouted!
local friend: What are parsnips?
here's luck: ...
local friend: Are they like turnips?
here's luck: No. They're like carrots. White carrots. More conical than cylindrical, and very sweet.
local friend: Huh.
here's luck: They're delicious! They're even more delicious after a frost, actually; the best parsnips are the ones that have been left in the ground all winter and dug up in the spring.
local friend: Are you planning to do that with yours?
here's luck: Most of them, yeah.
local friend: So, like a parsnip gulag.
here's luck: I just keep walking riiiiight into these, don't I.
local friend: At least you're oppressing the white vegetables as well as the red ones.
here's luck: Yes. Now I'm Stalin and the BIA. Perfect.