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[sab]

I nabbed this from jenavira and I would appreciate it if you all would respond. For we are all Friends, here. You can even tell me something I already know.

To wit:

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.

ETA: my mood, because elke_tanzer asked so nicely, is now appropriately quixotic.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I have only one plant, a lemon tree, which I got as a sapling (a gift from a friend who had grown it from a seed), but now it's almost as large as I am. It doesn't bloom yet though. I'm actually not sure whether trees you grow from seed in the lemons you buy are even viable that way at all. At least its leaves smell citrusy.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Good question! How do you make new lemons, though, if not by the seeds from other lemons? And if they're (the "they" who does things like this, natch) going to the trouble of making the seeds of commercial lemons non-fertile, why not just engineer a seedless lemon?

I'll bet it makes lemons. It just might take a couple more years. What climate are you in? Do you live in a land where lemons are indigenous?

[ratcreature]

I think with commercial fruit trees you often have to do this procedure, in English its called "graftage" (?) I think, before they bear fruits, but I'm not sure.

And lemons are most definitely not indigenous here. I'm in Hamburg (Northern Germany), i.e. 53°N is the latitude, and though the Gulf Stream makes the climate much more pleasant and mild than, say, Southern Alaska, it's still a bit too far North for lemons.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a hothouse is in your future. You could grow orchids. And have mysterious window-steaming sex. AND murder.

I've always wanted a hothouse.

Plus, you could graft (indeed the right word) your fruit trees and grow Lime-mons, and make your own Sprite.