Garden successes so far:

Sweet success cucumber gave me my first cuke today and is loaded
Sweet cherriette was the first ripe tomato, bloody butcher were the first consistently ripe tomatoes, though those were seedling flowers. I'm guessing exserted orange will be the next and the green grocery store cherry is setting lots of fruit.
Amyrilla tomatillo ( Read more... )

This was supposed to be the last day of the high-level heat. Most places in the province beat their previous all-time heat records, most on two consecutive days; in some cases the new record was over 10C higher than the previous all-time record. Lytton broke both the Canadian all-time high temperature record and was also hotter than Las Vegas has ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my first true day off in awhile, waking until sleeping with no required interactions with people all day. I followed the geese around for three and a half hours, talking to them quietly. I worked on goose breeding pens. I listened to podcasts and a youtube thingy. I made cornbread. It gave me space to enjoy myself, and also to think. ( Read more... )

Peppers were planted a couple days ago. Tomatoes, eggplants, and tomatillos were planted today. It's a little early but I have big pots.

Geese are getting better at going in for the night, as are the ducks.

Thea keeps jumping the fence to chase lynx 2.0, which is just fine with me. I let her back in and tell her she's a good girl.