I personally find peanut butter and jelly don’t work together at all. But I love a good open top bread slice with butter and jelly/jam. My favourites are quince, plum, raspberry and black current jam.

Hey, I’ve realised that everybody mentions their country in the title except US Americans. It would be cool if you could add that.

Great picture by the way and crazy that you still have snow there. What was the elevation roundabout?

Plus it explains like the reader is kinda dumb

Some years ago I stumbled upon this Norwegian artist (I’m not Norwegian). This is a very beautiful song.

Eva Weel Skram - Evig Eies

Actually when I lived off grid for 80 years, we used 7 AAA batteries on a rotation and recharged them by rubbing them on our wool sweaters, so those guys are totally right.

If you may ever feel an interest towards collecting your herbs, apple tree leaves are a tea that’s totally slept on.

Oxidise/ ferment them like one would black tea by freezing them to burst open the cells. Then thaw them and roll them in your hands into little balls or cigars. With enough pressure so that water comes out (your hands will turn yellow from the juice). Then rest these balls for a few minutes under cover, roast them quickly in a pan (not until it smells toasty, just to lose some moisture quickly) and dry.

I can give you one more that can make me seem either a lot superior or a lot inferior in the tea snob world.

• Loose leaf
• Collected and fermented by myself
• But it’s not from the tea plant, it’s herbal tea

If it’s a national holiday to you, at least tell us which nation.

I don’t know if this is a misunderstanding or if you’re deliberately using an additional second meaning for comedic effect.

But @ChaoticNeutralCzech meant ‘stans’ as ‘central Asia’ because of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgisistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Recessive isn’t always bad. In fact, many (maybe all) genetic traits have a dominant and a recessive information.

For example peas. Let’s say there is a gene for colour. The dominant variation of the colour gene carries the information “green”. Let’s call this gene c for colour. Then there is a recessive variation with the information yellow.

We’ll write the dominant information as capital C and the recessive as lowercase c.

Now there is a pea with the genetic information CC (one from each parent). That’s a green pea.

Then there is one with Cc (father green, mother yellow). But you see the pea and it looks just like a green pea. Because the green gene C is dominant and the yellow c is recessive. You don’t know, that this is a mixed variety.

If two seemingly green peas pollinate each other, but under the hood, they are Cc, then they might produce a cc yellow pea.

For a lot of genetic information that’s not a problem, they are just different characteristics and not harmful.

But if you have B = your blood coagulates normally, and b = your blood doesn’t thicken, you just bleed out and die when you have a paper cut…

Then inheriting b from both of your parents is a terrible fate.

This happened in the House of Saxe-Cobourg and other nobility in the 19th century.

Edit: the last part is actually a bit more complicated, but the explanation of dominant and recessive still works.