The Gray Gardens next to my mom‘s house is actually having their porch redone, which shocked me! I feel like they were fully at “feeding raccoons Wonderbread in the attic” so this is a welcome improvement.

Rabbit rabbit

Perhaps a few NYC Ned Walkies pics from my 24 hour business trip as I cool my heels at JFK. There are pups in it! 🧵

Turkeys gather in this yard in the evenings. They get a running start down the slope and fly up into the trees to the left to roost for the night.

Amazing moment when a monarch visited every zinnia in my patch 🥰 #FlowerReport 🌱

🚨🚨 news 🎉 "the official #Novavax finder site has been released! This is probably one of the best places to find Novavax JN.1 in 2025-26" per @friesein.bsky.social on Twitter Link to Novavax finder website: www.nuvaxovid.com/vaccine-loca... Link to src tweet in next post (in case you care)

Big superstition day for my Ratty Red Sox hat that's old enough to drink and almost able to rent a car.

Dilly #cat lounging on the most recently completed quilt.

Annoying paradox where Ed Markey is getting pretty old but Massachusetts is such a one-party state that only shitty people want to primary him

So exhausting..

From a walk yesterday morning

Peaches and Dreams dahlia in my backyard garden is making me forget my cares today. #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling 🌱

I don't know if I've earned the cred for any of you to believe me BUT the best BBQ in New England might very well be at Burnt Ends in Auburn, ME of all places

Almost got lured into the woods

This move is costing me a fortune in Stripe fees from U.S. Substack subscribers who are angry I've moved from Substack and are initiating Stripe disputes & taking their sub fees back. I feel like I'm going mad. They wanted to support Substack, not my writing? I still think I did the right thing.

Mailed two letters on the same day at the beginning of September and they both came back to me as undeliverable three weeks later. Two different addresses, both correctly addressed, very frustrating.

i made a helpful reference

/ U GOT SUM FREE WATER THIS WEEK / BUT WAS IT ENOUGH? / UR COMMONWEALTH IS ALL ABNORMALLY DRY / W/ SUM AREAS EVEN IN DROUGHT / & BESIDES A SLITE CHANCE OF RAINBLOBS SATURNITE / U HAVE NO RAINBLOBS ON UR HORIZON / U NEED 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

Costco has novovax starting next week

Every tree is a thousand solar telescopes.

Bluesky: do you have an elderly loved one with a land line? 1/3

This afternoon's walk

Starbucks is closing over a dozen store locations in Massachusetts. Here's the list.

I love a stripy binding 🩷 #Quiltsky

Finally it’s Friday! Here’s a rose for getting though the week. This one is called Quietness. Have a great weekend! 🌱

Cuomo could never.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

toyboata fans, plot a course for worcester mass

This morning's sunrise

Tell the children, there was a time in US history when folks actively sought out the news of the day, instead of finding ways to avoid it to preserve their mental health.

🌱 Thats my Mexican zinnias with blackberries and plums foraged near my house.

That makes MY day 🥰 I wish I could magic wand you a bunch more donors because we could have a whole group of folks feeling a tiny bit better in this stupid & cruel timeline 💕

I tossed in some bucks, boosting for visibility 💕

I am the kind of person who will let you know you’ve sent an invoice to the wrong email address. Mother Earth help me because there is now a SMITHS Dry Goods & I have been BUSY replying to folks who do not actually possess the attention to detail they probably claimed on their job applications 😑

I think the secret to our marriage is we are a never ending improv team yes/ anding each other in a constant attempt to make the other laugh

So the war of 1812 was when the US wanted to stop England from impressing sailors into their navy by ignoring us citizenship so we invaded…Canada? Okey doke.

tuning out is an option

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

"I stand in full solidarity with the Palestinians. What's happening in Gaza is a genocide. As a candidate if I pull back on Palestine, I've already lost" This caught me by surprise and made me teary. We need more people like this, please!

So in love with my marigolds rn #FlowerReport 🌱

After the sunset there was this hole in the clouds where you could still see blue sky. Plus, fingernail moon.

Treadle sewing machine, 1914 Singer

This is a fantastic health breakthrough.

it's absolutely fucking crazy that "retroactively legalize Watergate" and "exclude Black people from literally every area of public life" are the two primary a objectives of the chief justice and yet he is never reported on like the vicious gutter racist he is.

I was so glad I got asked about prospective nonprofit clients who only want to pay me if they get the grant, because actually nothing makes me spicier

After the Telehealth appointment mom (91) said to me “How does the nurse know I’m not AI?” 🤣 #caregiving

Zinnia I grew from seed 😍 #FlowerReport 🌱

Please, not Moulton. I know this is the worst timeline, but, please give us something of a break.

At lunch I realized mom was processing her own health care trauma after-effects as well. This time hers dated back to a surgery my sister had in the 1960s where the doctors just straight up lied to my mom. So this crap really lingers.