Hot day, feels like 91 degrees, even in the shade. But still walking around. Drinking plenty of fluids.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
I just so happen to have leek tops that didn’t make it out to compost yet. Going to start this!
I went to check my beans in the garden, when a rabbit raced away. As I started to chase it, the fox raced out from the shed and in the same general direction. I told to catch that rabbit! The foxes have denned under the shed some years. The rabbits like the flower beds and the raspberry patch.
The Black Stallion. The ship burning was the main thing I remembered from that movie for years. While I love campfires and lit candles, I still get twitchy about leaving them unattended to go to the bathroom.
I can see this more in the Amazon market place, where the point is to fill up pages and make a quick buck. Or some of the radio dramas on certain apps. A coworker has read some history books that make him wonder if someone just threw dates and facts into an AI…
I caught the office cold and am using all my parents’s tissues. I hope they don’t catch it.
Right! I’m glad I was under a tin roof, rather than a tent, but it was loud.
Car appears fine.
Wading through the overflowing creek near the entrance.
Went to MD Sheep and Wool Festival today. Got trapped in a sheep barn in the middle of a hail storm.
Merry Mayshine peonies have started blooming!
First time mowing the yard this year. Set it high to miss the violets. Bumper crop of violets this year. (Photo from a hike.)
Vegetables you can grow cheaply and in sufficient volume to meet your needs (in MN & maybe elsewhere). 1. Chives (common or garlic) They survive winter easily, and nothing eats them. Over the years, it will spread by seed and fill in to form a patch.
Some tips as someone who loves food, has a bunch of health-related food restrictions, and has been food insecure for ~3 years 1. If you can afford it, a Costco membership is the best possible investment in not starving. $5 rotisserie chicken + bulk frozen vegetables have gotten me through so much.
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. - Robert Frost
Hey, pro-shutdown people. You know those feds (and contractors) you care about? They don’t get paychecks during a shutdown. Some feds still have to work, but won’t get paid till the shutdown is over. And it is easier to say fed jobs aren’t important in a shutdown. Just fyi.
Yes! I have been waiting for this!
I demonstrated my art for a group of martial arts practitioners and really went deep into the qigong. Everyone felt it and appreciated what I embodied. #qigong
And beans are not a complete food, you would need some other veggies for the rest of the vitamins and amino acids.
I miss my garden. Winter is here in earnest, temperatures are well below freezing.
