kellan_the_tabby

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Sandy hit pretty hard - I live near the Jersey Shore. The flood came four feet up the walls of my ground floor. It destroyed a bookcase full of cookbooks in my kitchen, and all my kitchen appliances (my landlord had them replaced) and most of my living room furniture, including the baby-grand piano. That was the saddest part. (The furnace is on the second floor, which is weird, but it wasn't affected by the flood. And most of my books, and all our clothes and such, were also on the second floor.)

It was the salt in the sea water that killed the aloe (and the watercress). Watercress is the only vegetable that I don't find too revolting to eat, and I make a lot of stir-fries, so it's easy to mix it in with bits of meat and ginger and soy sauce so I hardly know I'm eating a vegetable. I thought it would be a good idea to try to grow it hydroponically, but it took so long to get a handful of sprigs. I really have no aaffinity with plants (except for my favorite now-legal greenery).