( I FINALLY got my second vax day before yesterday, and therein lies a tale... )

( My first set of plant babies have almost all sprouted now, and most are doing well. )

I had wanted to post this sooner, but my phone refuses to cooperate with the post page, and text entry is a nightmare. I eventually realized I could have typed it up in my text editor app and pasted it in after I was happy with my editing, but...well, the laptop is out again now, so.

( Last week I unaccountably received an invitation to schedule my first vaccine appointment. )

Today I found the first tiny cotyledons for some of last week's sowing!

I had thought there were just three thyme sprouts, but a good squint at the fullsize photo reveals lots more than that...

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After many, many years, I am gardening again this year.

I had recently heard about using milk jugs as mini greenhouses, so I started saving jugs back in February. I was simply thinking about a more protected early seed starting container that would make hardening off for planting a little simpler and safer, but apparently for hardy plants they can ( Read more... )

It was a lovely, sunny, warm day today, so of course I went out into the backyard to see how the crocuses are progressing. (In unrelated news, I have new phone and tablet wallpapers. ;)

There's a small but quite dense patch of crocuses right on the edge of the flowerbed against the porch. I contorted myself madly to get a nice, sunny shot of them ( Read more... )

I'm not saying this guy is my newest YouTube obsession, but then again, I'm not not saying that...

7 Things Introverts Need in a Partner

Not just for partners; these principles are super important for being good friends too.

"So the introvert needs someone who can help them get out of their comfort zone, not so much drag them kicking and screaming out ( Read more... )

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I kinda wanna see this with the kittens video...

Immigrant Song Cover in Old Norse 700 A.D - 1500 A.D (BARDCORE or SKALDCORE?)

( Lyrics in Icelandic behind the cut )

MiL put "spinach" on the menu for tonight, but I know FiL prefers creamed spinach, so I decided to give it another go, since we actually had some cream in the house for a change (the inlaws use skim even in coffee!). I specifically wanted something saucy, because the rest of dinner was going to be pretty dry.

Creamed spinach was not a thing for me ( Read more... )

My mother-in-law is always trying to come up with new ideas for what to cook for dinner, and sometimes it comes down to reading weekly institutional menus in the newspaper and trying to imagine what an entry actually is. This week she was inspired by "chicken bruschetta". Well, that sounded like cold open-faced chicken sandwich to me, and with ( Read more... )