So I'm getting rental applicants for my upstairs apartment now.  A young woman called with an unknown restricted phone number.  She has two young girls neither of which she has custody of.  Now this is New York state where a BM has to be practically a Jeffrey Dahmer to lose custody.

She has no rental history and looks like she is renting With Friends but trying to Airbnb or look for a substitute roommate at her current place?  Her social media a few years back shows her youngest a toddler at the time in a full arm cast. Red flags!!!

No in person summer school  in NY which all 3 ferals attended annually.   And how is turning in up to 50% of classwork considered "proficient?"

Again, the under-25 set are dangerously unprepared and unqualified to face real life.

do this when they call?

https://youtu.be/Xo3ietZq6tM

Mr. Not so neutral, who is one of Chef's older half-brothers and for YEARS tried to convince Chef to grovel at the Girhippos feet for "the sake of the skids" (TM), called while I was enjoying a nice hot tub in the snow.

Garden thread:

Oh my gawd the WEEDS!!! Ok I neglected my asparagus bed last fall.  Yes I cut down the dried stocks earlier this year as well as pruned the raspberries.  But what was really shocking was the entire bed approximately 8 feet by 30 feet was covered in narrow Leaf plantain also known as Buckhorn plantains!!! 

I weeded the entire bed out and put down straw.  The asparagus it's starting to come up now.  I have something called Creeping Charlie, pigweed, lambsquarters, Canada thistle and a few other weeds that I have forgotten their names to.