probably the only place where i can easily find my yearly tomato plan lists ( Read more... )

And i have baked my final cookie of the christmas season. The list ( Read more... )

So there was recently a fun type of "getting to know you" post on Mastodon about the kinds of game consoles you used over the years (all of the major ones lol, but we never owned a Game Cube). And it got me to thinking about the first game that ever developed a CHOKE-HOLD on me which was Tutankham for the Atari. And it wasn't even a really good ( Read more... )

Getting my (adult) brother a huge Lego castle set has been the absolute highlight of my early "black friday" Christmas shopping experience. Oh. also finding out that when you get your husband that "Feck Off you Fecking Gobshite" Father Ted memorial coffee mug that the company will put that on the international label as "Fecking Gobshite" >___

::sings:: (with apologies to Deniece Williams ( Read more... )

I honestly haven't seen either movie in a smooth decade, but i do recall that Hackers was directly responsible for the worst haircut i ever managed to give myself (in the middle of the night).

(also update - i finally found my poblano seeds in w/ the tomatoes where they should not have been - ugh ( Read more... )

So i have to brag about this - our compost that we worked on all last year. It's fucking AMAZING. K did the first turn of the year and we got what would have been maybe 2 bag's worth and top-dressed the areas of our yard we use for vegetables. We actually have quite a lot more mature compost still in the bin but the weekend wasn't enough to work ( Read more... )

and it's all "Слава Україні!" :D ( Read more... )

It's snowing out tonight, and everything is windy and cold and white. Beneath the snow though, the earth is working. the microbes, the leaves decomposing, the seeds freezing their protective coating off so it can break and let the water and sun in when it comes. The Earth is doing her shadow-work .... the hard growth where everything looks the ( Read more... )