This week in Master Gardener: Yesterday was Plant Clinic day! It was actually a very quiet day in the plant clinic, and I spent most of it chatting with the senior MG and reading a fascinating book about weeds. 😛 But here are some of the problems people brought us: 🧵 #garden #gardening #plants

🎶 I don't like computer / any more I used to like computer / like it was before 🎶 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V6_byL8G_Z4

I spent this morning volunteering in the extension rose garden, mostly doing a lot of deadheading. We had some rain last week and then a couple hot days and a lot of the blooms on the hybrid teas have these spots from the botrytis fungus. (hybrid teas are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Good news! The landscape people started yesterday, the last big phase for finishing the new house. Soon the yard will be something other than weeds and rocks and old cattle fencing. Also I will finally have my huge fenced garden area yayyyyyy 😍 #garden #gardening

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_the_cloud/116664920249086298 Sysadmin fidget spinner. (sorry I guess that's not really a wrong answer)

This is a thwonger, otherwise known as a spring-style doorstop. It makes a loud thwong noise if you run into it. The builder chose these for the house and we have not replaced them yet. But did you know that if you shut the teenage cat out of the bedroom at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I am starting to get health care-related scam texts ("you have a health bill that is past due") and I absolutely hate that this is an actual thing in the US, and that it probably works. I also hate that I have so much health care PTSD that I get a little shot of absolute panic every time I get […]

I go to the Ashland recycling center every other week or so, because we are rural and we do not have recycling pickup. At this time of the year everyone is recycling their plant pots. So I am the one carefully putting my paper and aluminum and glass in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Heartache to heartache, we stand

Yeahhhhh peony season 💕 #bloomscrolling

Cato likes fetching, and cuddles, and treats, but what he really really likes is to be wrapped up in an old towel and rolled around the bed for a while. #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

I still do not have a garden! But now I have this kludgy fenced area in which I can put tomatoes in pots, and it will keep the deer away. Many thanks to husband Eric who took a break from mowing the fields to hammer eight t-posts into our concrete-like clay […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This week in Master Gardener I worked in the Plant Clinic, which was FASCINATING! I got to work with a more experienced master gardener mentor to help solve plant problems from people in the community, and provide science-backed advice. So, here are some of the problems people brought to us in […]

I continue to be hugely disoriented that spring weather in southern Oregon is not only late but also really variable, temperature-wise, compared to northern CA. The trend was for warm enough weather and I was really close to planting these tomatoes but then […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🎶 I chose the garden over people cause people annoy me and I am mean If I'm feeling blue I don't need to see friends I just need to see green Oh you think I'm talking money? No I spent all that on plants If you invite me to a public event I'll tell you I can't. 🎶 This is a *bop* and it's been […]

For #Caturday today I am going to talk about Minna, my void cat. 🧵 1/ A few months ago she started acting like she was in serious pain in her hips. She is ten. She has always walked a little knock-kneed but was otherwise fine, until now. Two vets and four […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Yesterday I spent the morning touring Troon vineyard in the Applegate valley. They are doing a lot of experimental/unconventional land and farm practices on a commercial scale (biodynamic, regenerative, permaculture, closed-loop). It was super interesting and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lydialurch/116570207006792944 (Whispering) forest green 😍

My vegetable gardening is a complete shambles this year because I still do not actually have a garden, and yet somehow (s o m e h o w 🙃) I still have plants. #garden #gardening

[CW: Cat nudity] Here is Cato in his favorite nap spot, wedged sideways behind the couch cushions. #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

Rhodie Season 🌸 #bloomscrolling #garden

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

I am back at Noble coffee this morning because the weather has turned warm and their cold brew is _really good_

This got entirely out of hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJSEpNhZAw

Well

I did that thing where I accidentally left the camera app open on my phone while I was walking to my car but I kind of like this series of blues.

We've had a few of these surprise pop-up storm cells since we got here. Nothing in the forecast today until a couple hours ago and then everything lights up with alerts. Intense thunder, lighting, dumping rain for an hour or so and then it passes through and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#caturday bonus: this MAJESTIC FLOOF I encountered on my walk yesterday. I spotted him in the driveway and asked him if he was friendly and he swanned right over and flopped at my feet. 12/10 would butt scratch again. #cats #catsofmastodon

Q: Has Cato grown out of playing the fetching game yet? A: No he has not #caturday #catsofmastodon #cats

Me: wow, that is some weed. Weed: M U L L E I N #bloomscrolling #garden #plants

Applying for this job. I am an award-winning screenwriter and at night my head turns into a burning skull

Today's trail: The steep uphills in the Lithia watershed I've been hiking for months now have been wreaking havoc on my calves, and stretching/foam rolling/yoga/etc is not making them better, so I think I need to do flats for a while. Today I went out on the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You're too close. Back up. #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

Every hike I do on the trails these days is full of increasingly pretty wildflowers. Also poison oak. A lot of poison oak. 😬 #trail #bloomscrolling #flowers

Tree peonies not kidding around, y'all. Just glorious. #bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers #FlowersOfMastodon

Me at the store: ha ha ha Eric: NO

This article is going around and it really is worth your time. "But doing something like this requires you to take for granted that other people are smart, that smart people have always existed, and that very little in the human experience is new. That requires, you know, intellectual humility […]

My car apparently intends to participate in an annoying made-up drug-themed holiday

My hydrangeas are not happy with the three-year drought we’re experiencing. I should have planted anhydrangeas. #gardening

Cato: Play with meeeeeee Minna: fuck off #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

I had to zoom way in so this is kind of a terrible video, but: We had a freeze warning this morning and the pear orchards are all running the enormous frost-preventing fans. Video has audio of the helicopter-like noise they make, which is surprisingly loud […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The lilacs are blooming, I love them #bloomscrolling #garden

I had a dream where I was back in college and every time I did my homework the instructor would say I did it all wrong, or it wasn't good enough, or I did completely the wrong homework. All my fellow students were like "what is wrong with you? It's not that hard." Anyhow I'm behind on my master […]

Your weekly Cato (Catoday!) #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday

RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/116374498392182721 We ran a cypherpunks relay out of our house back in the day and now I'm remembering how sore my back got turning and turning that giant crank on the email machine to send out each typewriter-font message.

This year do I have any prepared garden beds, an irrigation system, or deer fencing for a tomato garden? No, no, and no. Since I have none of those things did I refrain from setting up my lights and seeding 28 tomato plants anyhow? Also no. #gardening #garden

In the new house we have deer, which is not surprising. We do have a LOT of deer (several herds of 15-20), which is slightly surprising. But one of them is white, which is very surprising.

I really did not realize how much anticipatory nuclear armageddon trauma I’ve been holding onto for 40 years. Gen X is not OK

Today’s trail: 8 Miles and 1300 feet of elevation. This was too much trail. 😴 #trail