I come from a long line of vegetable gardeners. As a matter of fact, we just planted 4 rows of potatoes, 18 heads of cabbage, 18 broccoli sets, 9 brussel sprouts, red onions & white onions today. My whole family helps & it is awesome. 

We also can & freeze our produce. We do that as an extended family also. Great way to bond and it's cool knowing exactly what's in your food. 

Ding dong, Joffrey's dead! I knew it was coming, and it was still awesome! The husbeast has been saying for three seasons now how much he'd like to see Joffrey dead, and I had to bite my tongue every time, LOL! Some random thoughts:

- I know she's a scheming, conniving ambition hound, but I love Margaery Tyrell. The look of disgust on her face when the troupe of little people was performing, her attempts to distract Joffrey from harassing Tyrion...love it.

- Speaking of the little people, it was awesome seeing the faces of the guests and noticing who was laughing and who was not. The nots were just who you'd expect: Varys, Tyrion and Sansa, Lady Olenna, Oberyn Martell.

- And Oberyn, being outright rude to Cersei and Tywin! /cheer

I feel the same way. I've been around guns all of my life. I also have my permit and I hope I never have to use it, but I feel good knowing I have a fighting chance if I need to defend myself. 

I would love to have a vegetable garden, but unfortunately I have no areas in my yard that get sunshine for most of the day. I've tried a couple of times to do some minor container gardening on one level of my deck, but back when I was at my highest weight I didn't really have the energy to keep up with anything. I'm hoping to try a few containers again this year.

I do love looking at seed catalogs and planning gardens, though!

That's too bad. I thought this thread was a good example of people being able to bring opposing views to the table and yet have a civilized discussion.

That's not weird, at all.