My hostas are loving all of the rain we've been getting in Atlanta. 🌱

I love Iris season! It's year two for this planting, and they are starting to fill out a bit. 🌱

Anytime anyone sneezes, my dog leaves the room. I think it scares her. What a weirdo.

Morrissey voice: Aphids on my Iris, I know, I know, it's really se-ri-ous 🎶

About to go fuck up some aphids with neem oil.

Fine braising weather we're having here. (Not fine weather for much else.)

My kids have me running a 3D print lab. I have been conscripted really, and will be producing friend and family birthday gifts for the foreseeable future.

Oops, I accidentally left the house wearing Crocs and will now be sporting them to a Michelin star restaurant for dinner. 💀

One: Labubu Two: Labubus Three or more: Lesbubu

I have no idea where my husband originally got this After Dark®️ Flying Toasters™️ tie, but it continues to be my favorite. We are nerds of a certain age, etc.

Rudbeckia h. 'Chocolate Orange' #1 was a late addition to the garden this year and it's lovely! 🌱

I am once again engaged in the Sisyphean task of cleaning out Dekalb County's drainage canal that runs through my back yard. (This thing was built ~60 years ago and constantly fills up with silt/dirt, flooding my back yard and sometimes basement. It's a fucking nightmare.)

I enjoy eating kimchi in the comfort of my own kitchen, but now the whole house smells like farts.

Tomato sandwich season is the best season.

Good afternoon, sunshine. 🌻🌱

In the words of the inimitable Missy Elliott, This the kind of egg that go Frit-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta 🎶

Noooo, my hostas! Fucking deer!!! 🌱

P. R. Diddly-dee. It doesn't sound so scary when you put it like that.

The thing they don't tell you when you're a vegetarian is that tofu is approximately 45x more delicious when fried in bacon fat.

F.R.E.A.M. 🌱

Hosta season is the best season. This one is called 'blueberry muffin' and it has 3 scapes up now (only two visible here). 🌱

RTFM FTW Should have done it sooner.

It's my first season with Irises and I'm pleasantly surprised to see blooms. I'm looking forward to these forming clusters and filling in a bit, for more visual impact. 🌱

I'm nearing the end of an extremely lengthy work project (~18 months, with a presidential election in the middle) and it has been a JOURNEY. Tech debt is the real enemy of the people.

A friendly bee was sampling as many flowers as possible on this azalea bush! 🌱

My first iris of the season has emerged. (In fact, it's my first season with any irises.) This one is called Honeycomb. 🌱

Squash sprouts in the compost 🪱🌱

Proof of life. Back from a fun week of spring snowboarding in Colorado.🤘

🌱 Front yard camellia party. This one typically blooms in Feb/March and has two distinctly different types of flowers. (Unsure if this is an anomaly or a specific cultivar with that characteristic. Theories welcome!)

Microdosing Claritin®️

Proto peaches 🍑🌱

Protons, neutrons... CROUTONS!

Power is out again in Atlanta with the winter storm. But after Helene I got a V2L adapter for the Ioniq 5, so we can at least power a heat source and light. Next, I'm getting a panel connection hooked up.

I'm not sure if there's anything more joyful than kids having a snow day.

A variegated Camellia bud in the front yard is nearly ready to burst. It won't be long now. 🌱

Wrapstravaganza 🎁

6.5 has been lobbying us super hard for "a baby elf" because many of their friends have an elf (presumably on a shelf) at home. "But a baby elf does not have powers, so it won't cause any problems." 🤔

I do not want to be perceived in three dimensions, while physically around many other multi-dimensional beings.

Squash roast, ye merry gentlemen.

Made it home, and once again, I need a post-vacation vacation.

Look at this Mo Willems ass looking pigeon I found in Aruba.

Favorite vacation T-shirt slogan so far: I work out because my wife is hot

Teach me how to query, T-t-teach me how to query... 🎶

It's been so warm in Atlanta that I had to run the central AC both yesterday and today. In November!!! I held out as long as I could. But it's gross, and there are still mosquitoes everywhere.

There's still a Jōro spider party happening in my backyard, and I almost walked into one of many webs. So now you get to see a photo. Hopefully they're catching and eating some mosquitoes, and not just unwitting homeowners. 🌱🕷️

It reached a balmy 90⁰F in Atlanta today, on this, the first day of fall. 🙀

Yesterday I found one tiny, rogue, purple Morning Glory in my yard. 🌱

The kids and I gathered 38 cicada shells from on and around pine trees in our yard this afternoon. We've started a collection.

The Adult Thing™️ that I'm very bad at is going through paper mail in a timely manner. I try to triage important things as they arrive, but often end up missing them. Then it sits in a pile for 6 months, and I have to spend a couple hours processing it. Just found holiday cards from December 2023

Jōro spider party city, in my back yard specifically. 🕸️