Brian Engler

@growhighlow.bsky.social

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Vegetable breeding enthusiast • Olympic hopeful • Regenerative Ag groupie • Fractional Warm Body • Special Envoy for the Shield of West Seattle

The album cover for Sesame Street Fever.
A Weekly World News headline reporting that Jimothy is now dating. Sydney Sweeney.
Sherlock Hemlock, detective.
A 17-second video of a thunderstorm in Seattle, Washington. We don't often get them here.
A squirrel nibbled tomato perched on an arbor 10 ft away from the tomato plants.
A cluster of Himalayan blackberries. One near the center is ripe.
Two feet, the left is wearing a very long leather dress shoe, the right a very stubby pair of Lems.
An image of my Bluesky driver's license
A screenshot of an unsolicited text message encouraging me to buy into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs
A weather report for Washington DC for Sunday showing a high chance of rain
*Gestures to my unmown yard* "I'm choosing to let my yard grow wild to help the pollinators." *waves at a stack of dirty dishes* "This too is for the pollinators." *trips over a pile of dirty laundry* "Pollinators."
A screenshot of David Bowman from "2001 A Space Odyssey" with the caption "My God it's full of Spandex".
A Venn diagram: Group one is labeled "Jokes that require the audience to know Kid Rock lyrics" Group two is labeled "Jokes that work on BlueSky" The two groups do not intersect.
A bluesky error message reads: "We're sorry, but your search could not be completed. Please try again in a few minutes."
A picture of a honey bee on a borage flower
This is a screenshot of a Team3 in progress, a troll or bot responds to my comment with some trite nonsense about blue cities being anti-energy and authoritarian so I respond with the most insipid Russell Wilson quote I can find.
The cover of the DVD for the movie Dude, Where's My Car?
Baby miner's lettuce volunteers.
A large planter full of miner's lettuce and a little bit of dead nettle.
1997 Eagle Talon TSi AWD in a very dusty garage.
Manu Ginobili, a.k.a. "Air Balki"
The view from my kitchen during a snowstorm in West Seattle on March 13th
A screenshot of a Google search for the words "is lizard person hyphenated"
A drunken raccoon passed out on the floor of a bathroom.
A pack of cigarettes made from the devil's weed
A Neverending story meme: the horse is sinking into the swamp but it shouldn't give up hope because "The Dow is over 50,000"
Superb owl pregame
A screenshot of the delivery map for my Amazon order that contains the antenna that I need to guarantee that I can see the super bowl. If this doesn't arrive in time then I may have to put on pants.
Broncos QB1
Herpes the raccoon
A picture of the top two racks of a rolling tool chest that are open to display their contents, which consist of several different brands of tinned fish, mostly sardines and sprats.
The gold striped 2025 selection that was both pretty and tasty. Unfortunately it was prone to blossom end rot. :-(
A diagram showing the origin of the word caffeine from the French word café meaning coffee.
A picture of the front cover of the book. A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Pat McManus
Indiana 38 Alabama 3
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for the high five depicting all four stages of the ritual: 1. Up high. 2. Down low. 3. The victim misses 4. The perpetrator (with optional finger-guns) declares the victim to be "too slow!"
A planter on my deck that is full of miner's lettuce and dead nettle seedlings.
The album cover art for The Cult's Sonic Temple, which was released in April of 1989.
A chat between myself and a friend. Me: I want to experiment with partially hydrolyzing some of the pectin to reduce its viscosity. Not just for this but for baking bread too. Her: How do you partially hydrolyze something? Me: You hydrolyze it but not fully
The box score from the Giants Broncos game where the Broncos scored 33 points in the fourth quarter.
A planter covered with volunteer seedlings, the vast majority of which are miner's lettuce seedlings which have very narrow leaves so the soil kind of looks like a furry Muppet.
A picture of an antifa frog done in the style of Shepard Fairey's HOPE image of Barack Obama. Instead of HOPE the caption reads HOP.
A picture of the founder of Antifa.
A wooden fence covered with ivy, the ground to the right of the fence is covered with a foot-thick layer of ivy trimmings.
A conversation between a native of war-ravaged Portland and myself. She confirmed that kombucha supplies are indeed getting low.
A raised bed with a Tristar strawberry plant in it surrounded by 3 white cafeteria trays full of terracotta pots. In each pot is a strawberry runner that is held down by a piece of broken terracotta pot.
A screenshot of my Fitbit sleep screen from yesterday showing an hour long nap towards the end of the Seahawks saints game. I don't remember the nap happening. I just nodded off.
An optical brix refractometer reading 7.2ish% brix
Strange Planet magnetic poetry that reads: "beacon thighs increase moral fracture"
Semi-random Strange Planet refrigerator magnets poems: mild/poison, joy, love, unconsious, feels+pain/regret, never/again+deception & crave, pleasant, damage, through attempt+ing, offspring.
A set of refrigerator magnets that reads "Your vibrating jitter liquid expert!"
A close up of a tomato from candidate plant 3 from my Moskvich x Chocolate Stripes breeding project. It is a quintessential red slicing tomato. Like seriously it looks like the tomato emoji.
A photo of a clay pot filled with soil that a squirrel has knocked to the ground.
A raised bed with tomatoes in it that has two cattle panels horizontally on top as a trellis for the vines. Around the edge of the bottom panel is a thread of jute twine soaked in chile and peppermint infused linseed oil. Clipped around the top are pieces of honeycomb paper soaked in the same oil that are drying before being wrapped around the tomatoes.
A candidate tomato from my Moskvich x Chocolate Stripes breeding project that was cruelly ended by a marauding squirrel.
A bed full of white alpine strawberry plants, Fragaria vesca.
Pictured is the stacked tomato trellis design that I've been working on. It consists of two chevrons made of pallet wood that support the sides and two additional pieces that support the end with the trellis itself being made of cattle panels that are mounted horizontally on top of one another. So far it's been working very well. I have ideas for how to improve it for next year.
Squirrel damage on a small green tomato in my Moskvich x Chocolate Stripes project. To the right of it is a similar tomato that is undamaged, currently.
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