u/Minute-Society9746

I took the advice of the council. In addition to shaving it off the top, I grew a little scruff. Much love to everyone!

Edit to add: I'm completely blown away by the love, my dear internet strangers! Thank you so much for the upvotes, positive comments, and general love. I have also reassured my wife I have eyes only for her.

I've gotta say it's been a rough couple weeks - I got punched in the gut (figuratively), and punched in the head (literally). This outpouring of unexpected kindness is healing. I hope every one of you experiences the same joy you gave me.

Back in June we had some tomatoes but now we’ve got tons of flowers on healthy vines but no tomatoes at all. In Northeast Florida. Might it be a lack of pollinators? Problem with fruit set? Any ideas are welcome.

Edit: thanks for all the helpful thoughts! I do love this community. The majority opinion is heat, and the constant rain isn’t helping either. I will patiently wait until mid-September and hope they hang on that long.

A few have commented that the vines are perhaps too long and the leaves (especially near bottom) are too dense. I welcome additional words of wisdom on those ideas. Thank you!!!

Seen on the side of a building on a street downtown (not an alleyway). There may be others, but this is the only one I’ve seen.

It won’t win a beauty pageant, but it sure is yummy! I used my usual bread pan despite there only being 1.5 cups of flour in the loaf from my wheat harvest so it was wider than it was tall, but it rose just fine and tastes amazing!

For anyone curious, I planted red winter wheat in NE FL last November. Harvested in May, dried the shocks, then threshed and winnowed. Milled in my coffee grinder (thanks to a comment from a previous post), autolysed for over an hour (thanks to another comment from a different post), let it rise for 3 hours, baked, and here we are! Incredibly labor-intensive process from planting to eating. I learned so much and also have decided I will never try to grow my own grains here in suburbia again!

In northeast Florida. Found these powdery white creatures all over my hibiscus today. What are they, are they harmful, and if so - how do I get rid of them?

Thanks!

This car was bought on Craigslist as a stopgap after my wife’s car was totaled. We have many regrets - smells like smoke inside and has some minor blemishes. One blemish that has gotten worse is this “crack” in the paint. We want to get rid of the car ASAP but this blemish will reduce its value. Pretty sure paying a body shop to fix it properly will not pay for itself when selling. Any recommendations for what to do as a stopgap, or just leave it alone for the next person who buys it off of us. It’s a 2021 Hyundai Sonata, we have no garage or carport. North Florida summer is upon us. Any good ideas are very much welcome!

We made pesto with it. Yum!

I milled the 9.6 oz of red winter wheat I just harvested and got 8.5 oz fine flour (sifted through a very fine mesh sieve). Just under 1 oz was rather coarse and wouldn’t get any finer. Looking forward to a loaf borne of months of labor!

Last fall decided to try my hand at red winter wheat to make use of a raised bed over winter (in N FL). Yield was just under 10oz of wheat. Don’t plan to do this again, but would love to make a small loaf out of this. We have a pretty small kitchen and my wife doesn’t want me to buy a device we’ll only use to mill this small batch once. Based on that, I would welcome creative recommendations for how to get this batch milled so I can make something yummy from home grown flour.

Edit based on a good comment: if someone near Jacksonville FL is willing to mill this for me, I’ll trade you a bottle of my homemade mulberry wine!

Headboard foot came loose. The large threaded insert is supposed to be lodged tightly inside the bed frame, to screw the foot into. What is the sturdiest and most permanent way to get that insert back in and secure?

Thank you!

I am remodeling the master bedroom of a house built in north Florida in 1960, but the part of the house that the master bedroom is in was added in the late 1970s. After pulling the carpet up and removing the floor molding I found the following surprises:
Curious looking floor tiles, wafer thin and a “dull” sort of brittle. Some popped off easily, others won’t let go even with the scraper. Anyone know what these are?
A couple patches of super thin drywall? I have never seen drywall this thin and thinking of removing it (guest bedroom on the other side) and replacing it with 1/2 inch drywall. Why was this used and is this an appropriate use of it?
Patch in slab. Wondering if they had to put in a new sewer line and when they poured in the new concrete to seal it they just didn’t bother to do a great job to level the floor?
Looks like water damage. I know the roof was damaged 3 years before I bought it and they fixed the roof, but maybe didn’t see (or didn’t care) about this?
When I bought the house I saw some ant mounds in the house and sealed the holes they entered from. Looks like they left some mess under the carpet padding.
Any ideas, thoughts, advice, or feedback would be welcome!

Edit: Thanks for your expressions of concern over asbestos! I had a hunch that this was a possibility, so before I started as a safety precaution I was wearing a respirator with OV filters. I should mention that I saw that many of these tiles were crumbled and broken when I pulled up the carpet padding, and appeared to have been damaged quite a bit when the last set of carpet tack strips were installed.