hate mail

Happy Easter – complete with “hate mail”

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He is risen! He is risen, indeed!

A happy and blessed Easter to you all!

We got to enjoy our basket contents as our traditional Easter brunch, and it was quite lovely.

Not everyone is in a joyful mood, though. I found this in my pending comments today.

No, I am not “approving” it.

Bogna
11h ago

Your pictures say “view on Instagram” so there is nothing to view. This blog is crap

For those who have been following my image heavy blog for a while, you already know this, but for those newer to this blog, I have a bit of an issue.

I have an old WordPress plan that is no longer available. It gives me my domain name and 15G of storage space. I am currently at 98.9% full.

I could upgrade my account to a business plan, which would give me 50G of storage space and a whole lot of bells and whistles I don’t want or need, costing more than twice what I’m paying per year now. Or I could buy – well, rent would be the more accurate term – 50G of storage space and be paying even more than the cost of a business plan, on top off how much my current grandfathered plan costs per year. None of which is in budget.

I’ve looked at a lot of places where I could store image files with the intention of embedding them here, but none of them have worked out for one reason or another. The only one that has worked out consistently is to post things to Instagram, then embed them into my posts, the same way I can embed videos. The problem with that is, sometimes the images/video don’t load and people have to click on the space to go to Instagram to view them. From what I understand, though, if you don’t have an Instagram account, you can’t actually see them. I could be wrong on that. Of course, if someone has blocked me on Instagram or something like that, they won’t be able to see it. Nor would I be able to see anything of theirs.

The thing is, this is a function of Instagram. Something I have no control over. This is something that happens on the viewer’s end. Everything is working just fine at my end, and I have no way of knowing when or if it will work for any particular viewer at any given time. Most people know how these things work well enough to get it.

My angry visitor here doesn’t seem to understand that and has declared my blog “crap”, simply because they apparently can’t click to view on Instagram. I have no idea why they can’t view the images on my blog through whatever device or OS they are using. Apparently, they aren’t capable of clicking or tapping on the “view on Instagram” link that shows, instead.

So they chose to diss my blog, instead.

They have only succeeded in giving me a good laugh.

Happy Easter, Bogna! I hope you have a better rest of your day.

The Re-Farmer

Oooh! Hate mail!

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Bahahaha!!!

While working on garden analysis posts to be scheduled for later, a couple of comments showed up in my dashboard, pending approval.

I won’t be approving them, but I just have to share them with my regular visitors.

I just love it when people make fools of themselves sending hate mail. Check this first one out.

Randy
3 hours ago
Pending

Analyzing our 2024 Garden: peas, beans, carrots and greens

You must be a total rookie gardener.

The first thing to do is keep the deer out of your garden. FENCES are your friend. Why on earth would you allow cats access to your garden? Can’t you afford a litter box?

There is a site called All America Selections (AAS). Go there to find varieties that work. Most things I grow were AAS selections, I have only been burned by AAS varieties a couple times.

When it comes to seed viability the smaller seeds last the longest. I keep carrot seeds for 5 years or more and they sprout while pea seeds only last for 2-3 years.

Hint: a good carrot variety is Scarlet Nantes, an AAS recommended carrot from the 1930’s, a consistent reliable producer, make sure you thin them or you get crap as you will with any carrot that isn’t thinned.

Green beans, yuck!

Cleary, this is someone who hasn’t read anything else on this blog, or he wouldn’t have said what he did about the deer or the cats, for starters. Nor any of the other stuff, to be honest.

Randy, I don’t know how you found this blog (interesting that your user name is not linked, so you get to barf all over people’s blogs, and no one can follow you back to your own profile or blog – what a coward!), but you might want to actually spend some time reading it before making judgmental comments. Otherwise, you’re just making a fool of yourself.

Actually, you’re making a fool of yourself, just writing trash like this.

Also, do you really think that I’m going to read some random person saying “Green beans, yuck!” and think, “oh, no! Some dude on the internet doesn’t like green beans! That means I need to stop liking them or growing them!”

Seriously. Get over yourself.

Oh, and then he left this comment, too.

randy
2 hours ago
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Analyzing our 2024 Garden: peas, beans, carrots and greens

You are a total fucking idiot.

Einstein said the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. You kept planting beans so the deer could continue to feast on your beans? STUPID!

Gardening is hard work and you don’t work hard to feed deer you moron! Put up some fences you dope.

Also, why would you create a blog to tell the world how stupid you are?

Wake up and die right.

Oh, Randy, you precious little snowflake. So stunning! So brave!

Thank for the laugh. You have no idea how much you’re embarrassing yourself.

The Re-Farmer