The question I pose: Whose roses are those?

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:33:30 -0800

What are the ownership boundaries of plants in a rented/shared household? Beauty and the Beast role reversal!

I live in a house modified to be a duplex, beneath my landlord. The house has some flowers in the front and back yards and 8 kinds of fruit trees, avocado trees that yield hundreds of dollars worth of fruit annually. It's all pretty overgrown and tended once annually by day laborers who tear all the weeds out.

My front door faces the rear yard, and has a porch area of its own, around which we have added some potted and boxed plants. One of these is a box of roses and jasmine beneath my bedroom window. I have a water timer set up for these boxes.

My landlord cut off a bunch of my rosebuds! Like, all of them.

Is this fair, given that we are allowed total access to the fruit and flowers he has provided, or is that part of the $1,350 we pay him per month?

I think there's not really any way to broach this issue productively, I just want to know whether this is weird or what.

Mastering egg cookery - best way to poach an egg

obiwanwasabi — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:47:41 -0800

What's the best way to poach an egg? Should the poaching water be deep or shallow, boiling or simmering, on the heat or off the heat, covered or uncovered, acidulated with vinegar or lemon juice or unacidulated, salted or unsalted? Should the eggs be room temperature or straight out of the fridge? Cracked straight into the water or slipped in with a teacup?

And while you're here, what's your favourite way to serve poached eggs?

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The question I pose: Whose roses are those?

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