mini daffodils!
25 Apr 2025 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneAll our mini daffodils were in bloom last weekend before the holiday!
This morning it hailed briefly though. 😩 It's over already and the sun is back out. The hail was very tiny, like Dippin Dots icecream or smaller, and the flowers seem fine though.
Also the grass is finally up, so our yard's background color is green and not brown. That was not the case last Sunday.
By the way,waxjism didn't know what Dippin' Dots were, so I suppose it's a purely American phenomenon. If you're a foreigner too and also don't know, I highly encourage you to do a web search (esp. photos), because the idea is incredibly weird and silly and, now that I think of it, extremely American. But basically it's icecream that is made into masses of tiny individual spheres, smaller than a pea but bigger than a grain of couscous, by means of flash freezing in liquid nitrogen. They are sold from kiosks and at fairs like street food. They are not any different from other ice cream, they are just little balls for no reason.
This morning it hailed briefly though. 😩 It's over already and the sun is back out. The hail was very tiny, like Dippin Dots icecream or smaller, and the flowers seem fine though.
Also the grass is finally up, so our yard's background color is green and not brown. That was not the case last Sunday.
By the way,
waxjism didn't know what Dippin' Dots were, so I suppose it's a purely American phenomenon. If you're a foreigner too and also don't know, I highly encourage you to do a web search (esp. photos), because the idea is incredibly weird and silly and, now that I think of it, extremely American. But basically it's icecream that is made into masses of tiny individual spheres, smaller than a pea but bigger than a grain of couscous, by means of flash freezing in liquid nitrogen. They are sold from kiosks and at fairs like street food. They are not any different from other ice cream, they are just little balls for no reason.
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Date: 26 Apr 2025 09:32 am (UTC)"Dippin' Dots was founded in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1988. Jones began the company in his parents' garage.[1] It was originally invented as cow feed when Jones, who specialized in cryogenics, was trying to make efficient fodder for farm animals.[7]"
There is freeze-dried icecream made for astronauts, or has been, I guess? I've eaten it in little blocks from my childhood space museum in Huntsville. That's probably the sort of serving size they were using.