whelp, i'm not sure what i expected, overall, from Covid 19 ( Read more... )

well, i KNEW if i just kept trying, LJ would eventually wake up and let me back into this account. YAY PERSISTENCE ( Read more... )

i'm listening to the European Parliament talk about Ukraine, the Spanish representative is speaking, and she said something that sounded very similar to my name. I'd just been listening to the German representative, catching maybe every fifth word, and i've been peeking into Spanish (for my fanfiction story) but the Spanish is still making no sense ( Read more... )

realized i hadn't updated here in a while, so... here ya go.

(1) work: taking off for some reason. 9 appts last week, 9 appts this week; 6 already scheduled for next week.

(2) garden: starting to come back to life. almond is blooming. peach tree right behind it. pears, too. Russian comfrey, sage, chamomile, lots of stuff going green. flowers ( Read more... )

apparently that huge mouse i rousted out of the front-center middle bed had made herself absolutely at home in my garden. i accidentally uncovered a nest this morning; at least three baby mice tumbled out as i was weeding. i put them back as best i could, and tried to softly pack in some dirt and plants around them. they had fur already, but their ( Read more... )

through it didn't *quite* go the way i envisioned, i have now bicycled around Onondaga Lake. clockwise, which i feel was a good energetic choice for today ( Read more... )

i saw two Great Blue Herons, a red-tail (who flew right toward me and then right over my head) and a bunch of fishing birds who i couldn't identify - they looked too big to be gulls, but i don't know that they were raptors - on my sixteen-mile bicycle ride. and got home just before it got dark.

now, loud thunderstorm going through...

anyone who's ever visited here knows our backyard is the Penn Station of animals; we've had everything from rodents to foxes to weasels to every sort of native bird. we feed, that's part of it. but we separate feeding the larger birds (late fall through winter into late spring) and the hummingbirds (late spring through summer into late fall) ( Read more... )

Brigid confirmed her magical status last night ( Read more... )

i've hiked The Cliff Trail (the faery trail) in Harpswell a half dozen times this season already. each time it seems like i've had better and better luck with wildlife (and 'other') visitations ( Read more... )