Um… I did not know this was a thing.

Not happy with the binding, but the piecing came together well!

It's snowing! Guess I will give the veggies another week to chill indoors

Too many worries; need a mental health hour, at least. Might try to finish binding the quilt today. Might just walk around looking at all my plants and try not to think about creeping bellflower.

Truth coming out of her well to shame me personally

I should get a hobby that doesn't make me curse so much. I mean, I have a bunch. It's just that they all make me curse quite a bit.

Look at this perfect baby, I love him very much

You can tell I'm a little burned out on quilt-making because I'm cutting corners, assuming that I remember things I don't actually remember. So now I need to redo the entire binding, which I meant to do last weekend, but didn't.

The vegetables probably need to get transplanted this weekend, which means I'll need to make a plan this week for actually getting my vegetable plot set up. (Should I have done this before now? Perhaps! I was waylaid by creeping bellflower!)

"Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic" is one of those all-time insights for me - I am devoted to the distinction between plastic and garbage.

Just walking around my back yard with the photo ID app going "yup, that's invasive. And that's invasive. And that's also invasive."

Tempted to investigate how expensive it would be to get a professional to deal with the absolute disaster situation of my lawn, except that I very much fear that my giant purple hyssop would get mowed down.

"Leave me the f*ck alone, my love," might be the most cat-person-coded sentence I have ever said.

"I assume that the rabbits are eating my foxglove beardtongue" - sentences that make me feel like a witch in a cozy fantasy novel

When there's a book that you've been intending to read forever, and you finally decide to jump into it, and it's immediately delightful, so good that you want to be embarrassed that you haven't read it yet, but you can't because you're so glad you still have a couple hundred pages to read -

My swamp milkweed came back after all! And all it took was enough rain to flood all my neighbors' basements. (Not mine, I have a sump pump)

I have been semi-continuously earwormed with Defying Gravity since the beginning of the year, even though I didn't see either Wicked film. (I did see it on Broadway, but in 2008!) Inexplicable. Unless it's my subconscious telling me that I should try defying gravity.

Roll to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world

I have now received no fewer than 3 emails from Old Navy because someone else bought something at Old Navy on Saturday and they put in my email address when they signed up for rewards. I immediately unsubscribed, they said they would take 10 days to take me off the mailing list.

Annoyed with myself because I didn't have a relaxing weekend; but I did spend an hour weeding and ~5 hrs on the longarm, and I guess you can't have it both ways.

@decassette.bsky.social Can't reply to that other thread, but there definitely seems like there's a fantasy of idealized father hood and becoming a Good Man - but combined with a rejection of suburban mundanity and constraints on freedom.

Definitely deserve Shake Shack for finishing that quilt top

The lure of baking muffins becomes ever stronger precisely when I have other things that need to get done.

True love: In the middle of the rainstorm, the cat slinks out from under the dresser, Meows, And slinks back under.

Still have about 2-3 hours of work to finish piecing the quilt top. Optimistically booked myself some time on the longarm machine - I will need a big refresher on how to load a quilt, but hopefully can get done this weekend!

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Wait, is all the Ancient Aliens stuff just straightforwardly the fault of self-proclaimed superfascist Julius Evola?

Plant ID app will identify Creeping Bellflower and be like "This plant looks healthy!" Yes I know it looks healthy, that is the problem

Disney is building an absolutely bonkers master planned development in my neck of the woods. New renderings imagines what I think 19th century poppy addicts saw when they looked into an impressionistic painting. www.storylivingbydisney.com/asteria/

I'm experiencing for the first time how incredibly quickly perennials can grow after a year to get established. I would swear this plant was not here yesterday!

My oven has lost its will to make things hot 🫠

Drop everything and listen to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social being interviewed about her new book on the Jewish Labour Bund in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Absolutely riveting history. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Made maple walnut blondies for Student Worker Appreciation Week and the smell is unbelievably good. It's almost enough to make me not regret that I didn't do as much quilting, or gardening, or taxes as I meant to this weekend.

180 half-square triangles is too many half-square triangles when you're on a deadline.

We read Gloria Anzaldúa for book club and it made me sad that there is not more publisher support these days for that kind of book - two languages interwoven, memoir x history x poetry x personal essay, queer and Chicana. Not that it was ever easy to get that kind of book published, but still.

The unfortunate thing about gardening is that if you procrastinate, suddenly you find yourself playing chicken with all the things you won't be able to do once it gets too hot, either because of how the growing season works, or because you don't have the stamina to mow the lawn when it's 95 degrees.

Pink Pony Club but it's on the grocery store sound system while you're migraineously buying groceries so you're suffused with deep ineffable melancholy

7 out of 9 quilt blocks done; hoping to finish the top by this weekend. Feel like I'm behind schedule but there's not that much point in rushing when my batting probably won't arrive for another week.

It’s Red-winged blackbird time at the marshes and waterways. So much shouting! So much guarding of territory! So much fierce birdiness! #birds 🌿

No one talks about the "better squat form -> making cheesecake out of chickpeas" YouTube radicalization pipeline.

Sewed the wrong seam and then I had to rip it out and resew it 😡

Please stop making me subscribe to things. Please let me buy your cookbook, rather than making me subscribe to your recipe Substack Please let me buy your sewing pattern, rather than making me pay $156 a year for your club. (The monthly subscription doesn't include past patterns!)

I am being served 300 tax preparation ads an hour by YouTube, and I'm still going to wait until April 13th or so to say "Agh, I haven't started my taxes!"

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Talked myself into attempting tomatoes, but crossing my fingers that I can do it cheap.

I love the Beginner's Delight block purely because it's called Beginner's Delight and it looks like THIS. www.quilterscache.com/B/BeginnersD... That's like if you had a recipe called Beginner's Delight and it was beef Wellington. Anyway, I have a LOT of these to sew this weekend.

This must be what it feels like to do perfect eyeliner.

When Fake Meat came out I thought, "I already have so many @isachandra.bsky.social cookbooks, I don't really need another," but it turns out that I absolutely DID need a recipe for parsnip lobster rolls.

Belatedly realizing that it's a whole lot harder to hit the gym when I already did 30 minutes of my favorite back exercise (digging out creeping bellflower)

Ditch lilies - you can wait. Creeping charlie - you can wait. Creeping bellflower, my true nemesis, has re-emerged, and I will not stop until I have gotten rid of every last little leaf.