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@KenHemmerling Well, I'm glad you got your laptop.

I'm extra glad that it will be Apple reps going after UPS to track down the mis-delivered one, and not you!

@transitionalaspect It depends on the seeds: how fast they grow & how much frost they can take in spring. (see my follow-up post) This was a bit of a late start for me, sometimes I'll get the smallest seeds in dirt mid-January.

For outdoors, planting time depends on a mix of weather & microclimates around the garden, but the three veggies I mentioned can all take some freezes, so they go in as soon as the ground is thawed. I have enough seeds of those to replant if they do get killed off by an extreme spring cold snap.

If you've been thinking about starting your own garden, here's what you can start indoors now even in the Canadian prairies:

Flowers that won't mind early spring frosts (I plant them out in pots in late April):

• violas / pansies (these will be just starting to flower when they go out, 8-10 weeks after starting indoors, and will keep flowering until fall if they never dry out)
• lobelia (likewise)
• petunias (make sure they're an open-pollinated variety where you get a decent number of seeds per packet; hybrid ones can be $5-10 for 10-20 seeds!)
• snapdragons (pay attention to how tall the variety you pick will get, based on where you want to plant them)

Frost-hardy veggies that can benefit from a head start indoors:

• onions
• celery
• parsley

Other slow-growing plants:

• begonias & coleus (frost-sensitive shady plants, won't go outdoors until the end of May)
• perennial flowers & herbs (mint & thyme this year)

I'll start faster-growing frost-sensitive veggies in early March, including tomatoes & basil.

Last week was the start of gardening season here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (sort of)

I filled up a bunch of trays (mostly old clear plastic egg cartons) with potting soil last Wednesday, when the outdoor temperatures were close to 10°C. Didn't actually get the seeds into the trays until last Friday. They're now on the shelf in front of the big south-facing window, except for a couple that I've left on the porch to experience a week of day-night thaw-freeze cycles (which help trigger germination in some plants that are native to places with cold winters).

The chrysanthemums were the first seedlings up & at 'em, 4 days after planting. But a week in there are now lots of little growing green things heralding spring.

Outdoors, real winter temperatures are due to return next week (highs in the minus teens, lows in the minus 20s). We're still nearly 2 months from any outdoor gardening — I usually get peas, spinach, and radish seeds into the sunniest garden in late March or early April.

#garden #YEGgarden

@linux_mclinuxface Going the long way 'round (and round, and round), are you?

@senanthic (Also, apologies if your "I wonder what that means" was supposed to be read as dry sarcasm & I just got all explain-y on you with my eager nerdy take.)

@senanthic Our brains are always in a balance between focusing on our current activity and being aware of all the other things that might need our attention. ADHD meds are supposed to shift the balance towards the first (ideally without forcing your brain to block out physical stimula).

So it sounds like for your brain, these people are always in the background as possible threats or surprises that your might need to deal with soon. Even when they're not around, you're still processing past & possible future interactions. And that the meds are actually working to turn down the volume of all those "just in case" thoughts.

From a psychological perspective (and noting I am not a psych[iatrist|ologist]), maybe it also would help you to be aware of these thoughts as planning/threat management — as opposed to focusing on the emotions they cause — so that when they do intrude you can more intentionally tell yourself "Yep, but they're not here & I can't do anything about it now, so I will deal with them at X time".

@mjbarton Meteor or space junk, I wonder? @sundogplanets would know how to find out.

@mattwilcox It is. But the confusion is not even unique to the English language. In French, dîner can also be either mid-day or evening meal depending on what part of the world you are in. (In Canadian French, souper is more commonly used for the evening meal.)

@mattwilcox @sundogplanets That would be a "bedtime snack".

(And as a Canadian, the idea that "tea" is the main evening meal definitely is hard to wrap my head around. While "tea" is not commonly used here as part of the daily meal schedule, the primary definition would be a beverage and a light bite mid afternoon.)