Lock your doors and lock your cars. Zucchini season is here in Nebraska.
I showed a great deal of restraint this year and only planted two zucchini plants. Okay, I planted three, but I broke one off shortly after it went into the ground. In past years, I’ve grown as many as six.
No one needs six zucchini plants.
We’ve already made a boat load of zucchini bread. We freeze it and give it to the Ranchhands’ teachers for Christmas.
Fried zucchini is yummy but you can only eat so much of that – at least according to blood cholesterol levels.
Zucchini pickles, cinnamon pickles, are always a hit, but we only eat a quart or two of those per year (one large zucchini).
I’ve given away a few, but everyone has zucchini to give away. Most people are polite and will take one, but no more.
The one group that is always happy to take extra zucchini?
The chickens. Bonus, the hens give them back to us in the form of eggs.
Have a great Monday!
Frosted Flakes
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Casey Thompson is playing for himself and Nebraska football, yes, but also Native generations before him and ones ahead of him that can still be inspired by what is possible,
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Mark Whipple has made Scott Frost more comfortable standing back. Yet the Huskers’ success may boil down to the spots that were once automatic, Sam McKewon writes.
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KOTV – Husker practice report
Frost hasn’t seen NIL cause any disruptions in Husker locker room
Nebraska has seemingly excelled so far at wading into the (some-would-say) murky NIL waters, with presumed starting quarterback Casey Thompson publicly speaking in the spring about the Huskers stacking up well – and then some– to competitors.
SPORTS!
Ancient Maya May Have Turned Their Dead Rulers Into Balls For Popular Game | IFLScience
Certainly beats sticking them in the ground.
Newcastle United’s Saudi Ownership Prompts Debate Across Premier League – The Ringer
Last year, Newcastle United, the deeply beloved and perpetually mismanaged team from North East England, was taken over by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Now fans are finding themselves in the middle of a debate around money in the game, and what a foreign country wants with a Premier League club.
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Where has realignment taken college sports, and where could it be heading in the future? Our writer roundtable tackles six pressing issues.
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In what was billed as the last race of her professional career, Allyson Felix finished second Sunday on a 100-meter track in downtown Los Angeles.
Cheers And Jeers For The Sports World For The Week Of August 1 Through August 7 | Digg
Time to give a thumbs up and thumbs down to everything silly and wacky that happened in sports this week.
Joe Namath’s legendary mink coat up for auction – WPXI
Here is an auction item that sports memorabilia collectors will enjoy. Joe Namath guarantees it.
The Weekly Dump
Diabetes Could be Cured Using Healthy People’s Poop, New Research Says
Experiments found microscopic organisms transplanted into mice stopped the progression of the disease.
‘No poop July’ jokes are all over TikTok. Some doctors urge users not to try it for real.
“No Poop July,” which reemerged on TikTok this month, has been a joke challenge since as early as 2020. Some doctors urge users not to try it for real.
I would hope that all doctors urge people not to try it, but we do live in weird times…
Reading Makes You Smarter (Mostly)
The ejector seats that fire through the floor – BBC Future
Some aircraft from the early jet age proved too dangerous for normal ejector seats. The solution? Seats which fired through the cockpit floor.
Stray Dog Crashes Couple’s Wedding – and Becomes Part of Their New Family
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Why have so many of these wheeled vessels met a watery grave? And what happens to a bike once it has changed terrains?
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Utah man arrested after stealing excavator, digging up grocery store parking lot in Salt Lake City: police | Fox News
A Utah man stole an excavator from a construction site Saturday in Salt Lake City and drove it to a grocery store parking lot where he began to “randomly” dig, police said.
Then There’s This
Do not try this at home. Seriously, don’t.
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