Just this one segment is like this. The whole rest of the plant, including segments further down the branch are normal.

Hadn't heard about this guy

The two arms are sprung so that as you push on the handle they separate, and then return to position.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/1465735

Probably all I'm going to get too, the plant isn't looking good 😭

Probably all I'm going to get too, the plant isn't looking good 😭

My house is pretty new, 5 years old. It has interconnected smoke alarms in every room (11), as required. I believe they are all First Alert brand.

We have been getting false alarms from them about every 3 months. Most of them are in the middle of the night which isn't fun for me, and really terrifies my kids (6 & 8).

There is no apparent cause, no cooking is going on, no dust. They go off for a while and stop on their own. Some of these are CO detectors, but we had the Fire Department come out when it happened one time and they tested and everything was fine.

When they are going off, I can't find the one that is causing it because they are all going off. However, on these the "ready" light blinks red if it has been triggered in the past, and every one of the units has triggered based on that. I actually permanently removed one because it triggered 3 times in one night. I thought it was a bad unit, but it just happened again at 5 this morning with a different one.

Nobody has died in this house, so I'm pretty confident it's not ghosts (/s)

Anyone have suggestions?

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/838499

Simple brown sugar brine for about 4 hours (forgot to start it before bed), then coated with melted butter with Penzey's Mural of Flavor and Galena Street.

225° for 45 minutes with Sam's club "Competition Blend" pellets in the box. Then 350-ish (max I could get out of it) for about an hour and a half with no smoke until breast was at 160°

Used the drippings for gravy for mashed potatoes.

Tenderized pork tenderloin, double breaded with seasoned flour and saltine cracker crumbs.

Went to Worlds of Fun on Thursday. There weren't any lines, so the 8yo didn't have time to worry about what it was going to be like. He said he was done with roller coasters the rest of the day, but he'd go on one again sometime.