My bottle gourd had its first bloom yesterday! It’s a lighter flower, seemingly closer to the bloom of a poppy than a cucumber or squash, but it was there, and a little bee was rooting around in it for...
JFC I hate AI phone attendants. My GrapheneOS phone was not working, and I had to call in to Verizon which took ~15 minutes before I could even get to a human. Not sure what caused the issue, but...
I think we figured out what Lucretia was screaming about the other night – When I was watering the catnip pots, which were placed outside the screened area on the deck until they grow big enough for the cats,...
While making my tea this morning I heard birds – a lot of them. They were right outside the kitchen window chattering away in the enclosed garden area. I peeked out and what I saw startled me a bit...
the past few days have certainly been a whirlwind. The weekend was somewhat chaotic getting all the last minute preparations finalized. The Roku TV I picked up to replace the one that had bricked during an update, bricked during...
Got the hydroponic strawberry planter setup and working yesterday. It took a bit longer than I thought it would – I ran into a challenge I wasn’t expecting and ultimately will be changing the design a bit – but...
My entire routine is a mess – with my wife away on her trip, my cues are missing and I ended up staying up way later than usual (it also didn’t help that I had 3-4x the amount of...
Way late today, but we had to rush out early to get to the city, make a couple stops, then take my wife to the airport, before I had to run more errands. Everything went smoothly, and I got...
Late to write today, but I was pretty productive already, and now I’m slowing down to make sure I don’t push too hard so that physically I’m miserable tomorrow when I have to run to the city. I did...
It is crunch time – and I also realized today that my grandson is arriving the day before my wife returns, so I’ll need to make two drives to the city in two days. I still have a bunch...