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Last night's step outside for the stars included one faint meteor and maybe a satellite flare. I'm not sure: i saw a flash that i thought was the blink of an airplane light but just once. I have begun to suspect that sometimes my glasses refract the lights from some of the neighboring outbuildings in the woods when i am looking up, although that ( Read more... )

Woo-hoo, I am the champion: i have all my Dad's apple device on the same Apple ID that has all his history, turned on MFA, synced his keychain (ie: apple's password manager, more or less), changed the email address that manages the account to his address instead of my mothers (an account no one has really looked at in YEARS). Getting the Apple IDs ( Read more... )

Happies:

Tickler that it was time to order the pecan trees. So i did. And they will be here the week of 10 October.

Condition of enoughness was to get back on the metaphorical horse of the to-do-list thing. And i have done it. Tomorrow's is set to write at least three thank you notes.

Very happy to see a new season of Shetland is available. ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why but i feel totally exhausted. Some personal interactions, i think, one at work, one with Christine. I am very happy that my colleague - who has be in the cruel, slow lay-off because she cannot work in the office the three days a week because she is primary care provider for her elderly, stroke survivor mother --she has a job! With ( Read more... )

Yesterday's irritability rather spun me all afternoon. I blame the prednisone. But no coughing, yay! Also blaming prednisone for less snacking control ( Read more... )

From early in the week, and observation through the window from my work desk:
The green wall and canopies of leaves have gone up. New shadows have my attention as the tulip poplar's shade moves across my view like an hour hand. And shade's absence, where we cut back a tree months ago so sun could be lavished on the squash trellis: the inky spot is ( Read more... )

The nearly-invisible potential asymmetry of journal relationships hits me this [Sunday] morning as i carry a concern about someone who probably doesn't know who i am. But i carry it on.

I met a ZZ plant at Lowes on Saturday: i'd heard of them from
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During lunch break yesterday, i picked stevia then leaves from the wild passionfruit plant and the wild-ish Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, narrowleaf mountain mint, and a variety of my cultivated mints (lemon balm, tulsi, and spearmint). Stevia and the passionfruit leaves were dehydrated. Stevia leaf is just stunning in its sweetness: it's very similar ( Read more... )

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