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My cats now do exactly as the comic, but I used to have a pair, Max and Minnie (Max/Min) and if the water was too low in the glass, Max would stick his paw in, but Minnie knew that the way you get water out of a glass is to knock it down. So she would just knock it over and lap up the puddle, no glass was safe.

I am very good at cooking now, like whatever I want to make I can AND I can take whatever we have and make something good, and I enjoy it, and people comment on it and want me to cook for them. Hobby level good, I would say. Food and drinks both, always something fermenting over here, and I love making cocktails (obviously).

For personal physical comfort? Between 23-30 (75-85) with plenty of rain & humidity, not dry air. Am ok with hotter as long as it's not too dry.

For the world? Well down here before the warming the summers topped around the same they do now, just fewer days of it, so almost 37C, with daily afternoon thunderstorms, and winters were longer (not long, but longer) and likely to have a few days below freezing most years, so I guess for emotional comfort I'd take that, thanks.

Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett are touring together, I have seen both and they are great performers but what I am most happy about is the way they are showing the link between country and R&B. What you like is probably not as far removed from what he likes, as you think. Music is a river.

Who doesn't like Sly & the Family Stone? What the heck?

Yes, actually. My process is in the pinned non alcoholic thread on !cocktails@lemmy.world

In short, I make a very sweet lemonade with cinnamon and pour it over the peels, the lemon seems to help the flavor a lot. And yeah flies love the fermenting fruit stuff.

Cherokee, performed by Kamasi Washington, is one of my favorite songs and I don't usually like jazz like that. It is amazing.

There was a catechism on Reddit whenever some 20 something guy would say he hated country music:

Jason Isbell

Sturgill Simpson

Tyler Childers

I can't remember all of them, I do like country music now I found the good stuff, but hate what's on the radio for sure, it is truly awful music. My husband has come around because of what I listen to.

None of this is to convince you! There is a wide wide world of music, you will not run out even if you are afraid of twang. Your comment just brought me back to the earlier Reddit.

(ETA I was just listening to Sound & Fury today, I like Simpson's country stuff but LOVE that rock album, start to finish it's so good )

Homemade tepache #1

Homemade ginger beer #2

Diet Coke/Coke Zero is my #3

I do a "dry July" so look for interesting things to drink, non alcoholic cocktails (meaning non intoxicating, I don't worry about trace amounts) and found the friend zone, I made the syrup and the kvass, but threw the strawberry tops in there instead of trashing them, I make tepache a lot and this is similar, the fruit and sugar ferment naturally. The drink is great, sweet but complex, I have served it to other cocktail people and they liked it too.

Original kvass I believe is made with bread and more of a beer taste, I have only done the fruit ones.

Be careful with mango - I made a mango soda with ginger bug and it was slow to ferment, I left it in the fridge. Forgot about it for a couple of weeks. Opened it and it exploded out of the bottle. Thankfully it didn't break but we found mango soda on the ceiling of adjoining rooms, it really went all over.

Opened the other one in the lawn, facing away from me. Tasted the little bit left in the bottle and my goodness it was glorious. All lost. Sugary and acidic juices can take a little while to get going but once they start, it's usually about half a day here on the counter or couple of days in the fridge. I do use thick glass swing top bottles, and open them daily now once it's done.

Strawberry kvass in my fridge right now, yum. Fermented and fruity sodas are amazing.

I am less than a mile from the hospital I was born in. Like some middle ages peasant.

The city grew up with me, or I grew up with it; when I was young there was not much to do and it was quite violent. Through my life it has become vibrant and safer, not that I had anything to do with it. Now there is so much to do, beautiful parks, concerts, downtown came back to life.

I have visited other places, for months at a time before I had kids, and shorter trips after. But here actually is home, it's funny. I wouldn't have dreamed it when I was a little kid.

In the big picture, if it's a voluntary choice I agree. But personally I do think there is an ideal time for most people, and that it's between 16 & 22. Old enough to be sensible about it, but young enough not to be set in your ways of singlehood.

But average is average, not everyone is average, some people never want to have sex at all, and obviously nobody should feel pressured to meet some arbitrary deadline.