Stuff done recently-ish:

1. Applied for a federal direct subsidized student loan. I think, if all goes well, that I can get an associate degree by the end of 2018, which means I will not be ruinously in debt and should be able to pay the damn thing back early. *crosses fingers*

2. Put a hold on my mail over Christmas.

3. Harvested four peppers ( Read more... )

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I am too tired to do the full-on crossposting thing with embedded images tonight. So tonight I will just copypaste the text; you can click the links to see the photos on Tumblr if you want. (And maybe tomorrow I will fix the images. *sigh*)

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Part 1: SquashSo I think my squash have been struck by some kind of disease/parasite? Anyway, the ( Read more... )

Three of my squash plants have produced/are producing actualfax squash. This is very exciting! (I suspect I will feel differently later in the summer, since I am already starting to have "oh no, I need to think of something to cook with all of them..." forebodings, but for right now let me revel in the squee, yeah ( Read more... )

Basically, aside from the continuing problem of marauding squirrels and their tendency to chomp everything because they forget they hate the taste of peppers, everything is going very well.


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I am just going to skip last week entirely. Please forgive me.

I am also not going to crosspost the photos tonight, because I am very tired. Please follow the links to view the pictures on Tumblr. (I may edit the photos in tomorrow. Or maybe not. We'll see how I feel.)

ETA, 7/12/17: Pictures are now embedded. :)

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I don't feel like embedding twenty-four images, so I'm just going to copypaste the text and the links. Click on the links to access the Tumblr posts, and then click on the images to see larger versions with captions.

Okay? Good. Here goes.

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Gardening update: Friday, 30 June 2017I took photos of my plants on Wednesday the 21st, before I left ( Read more... )

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Over the past week, my plants have suffered depredations from passing animals. (Probably squirrels.) They bit the stem and leaves off poor pepper B5, knocked over pepper B3, and made a serious gash on Tan's exposed stem.


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