One of my closest friends helped me with my party, I’ve known her since kindergarten. To have someone know you for almost 40 yrs, to have seen every version of you and loved them all is a blessing I don’t take for granted.

So blessed, so thankful to have made it through another year. Excited about what’s to come.

Y’all I’m just now serving the food and I said we were starting at 6:30😭😭😭

My friend put 99 Apples in this sangria which is either a great idea or a terrible one. I’ll let yall know in a few hours.

The good news is my family members have never been on time for anything.

Message to Self: “This moment holds so many blessings. Good things surround me in abundance, and I have so much to be thankful for.”

Things have gone from I have all the time in the world to I’m going to be cutting it close 😅

It’s hot AF outside 😩

I feel so loved 🥰

A birthday bouquet 🥰🥰🥰🥰😍

I didn’t take a pic but this tomato was finally all the way ripe and I just ate it straight off the vine and it was magnificent.

I love when I get to sleep in a bit. Time to get this day started, I have my birthday party to finish getting ready for!

Conniption gin + cucumber tonic 😋

I at least have to stay up until midnight so might as well pour one last drink.

It’s always “when you gonna cook for me/send pics” and never “I’m trying to make you a lady of leisure”.

Every so often I think about when I met my boss’s (at the time) wife and I asked her what she did for work and she said, “oh honey I’m a lady of leisure”.

Poured myself a drink since it’s a holiday and the eve of my birthday.

Y'all won't fight your girl's work husband but beating up wild animals

Dollar Tree decorations for the win

“Who cares” being the response to posting something factually incorrect is hilarious to me.

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This lady is American 🤣😭😆 This is a parody. It’s funny AF but come on yall.

Defending a sexual assaulter white lady on Juneteenth is WILDDDD

Message to Self: “I am learning to trust the wisdom of my own life. The more I honor what feels true and real for me, the more deeply I come home to myself.”

reminder: the first thing they did when they got the news on juneteenth was to try and find family and loved ones. celebrate juneteenth by loving on your people while you have them, and maybe have a red drink while you're at it.

Harvesting the garlic, it’s beyond ready, probably should have done this a few weeks ago 😩

I’m slightly jealous of the y’all with flourishing pepper plants. I’m going to have to visit the garden after dark to see if I can figure out what is eating my pepper leaves.

more updates from the garden:

*tinfoil shiesty on* The whole body deodorant and odor eliminating sprays are an attempt at normalizing less access to water.

The almost 16 yr old wants me to take her to buy supplies so she can make a scrapbook to give to her boyfriend for their 6 mo anniversary. I’m trying to be like 🥹 when really I’m like 🙄.

🤓 The gardening word of the day is [Valvate]: An arrangement of petals or sepals in a bud thus that they are touching, but not overlapping.

Tunde and Alex’s Juneteenth ride was tough and fun. I love their joint rides, they have great chemistry.

Good morning y'all 🌄 It's a great day to be Black and sexy ✨️

Read the article here: https://learndirt.com/learn/how-to-grow-cucumbers/

I should have been asleep hours ago

I brought the fireflies back to my yard, when I first moved back I rarely saw them but after stopping using any pesticides or weed killer plus planting a lot of native flowers, they’re back!!!

It rained and now the fireflies are OUT 😍

I need an anklet.

Let me book this spa session.

forget being a mermaid, i want to be a sea dragon!

While the other 4 living US presidents were in Chicago celebrating the grand opening of The Obama Center, The DayGlo Orange Bumbler-in-Chief was in the people's White House doing.....this

There are exactly three known species of sea dragons, all of which are found only in the coastal waters of southern and western Australia. They are close relatives of seahorses, known for their elaborate camouflage and graceful, drifting movements. This is the Weedy sea dragon

Like eight cops in the hospital with broken ankles.

Whew. That journey back to yourself is FUCKING ROUGH But damn, it’s so worth it.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

And one trainee is dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Cotton, corn & soybeans are the top GMO crops here

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