Flowers! Flowers flowers flowers!

Getting licked by a bee is strange and adorable

My dad hauled in a huge bunch of mistletoe that fell out of a tree. Drove up on the four-wheeler while I was potting some plants like "Want some mistletoe?"

Babysitting nine puppies (and three grown dogs). Get your dogs fixed, everyone! Yes, including that stray that just showed up and might already be pregnant. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR MALE DOG ISN'T NEUTERED. I hate it here.

Bold of any movie to assume I'm going to be able to recognize two different characters when they have the same hair

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Are these... are these monarchs?

My dentist's office is absolutely LITTERED with those tiny plastic Jesuses.

Hell yeah mulberries

Went outside for ten minutes. MOSQUITOES.

Gotta get blood work tomorrow. Please offer good thoughts for my cholesterol.

Birds that I've seen in the yard: rose-breasted grosbeak, cardinal, blue jay, eastern bluebird, mourning dove, red-headed woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker (not sure about this one), brown-headed cowbird, eastern kingbird, ruby-throated hummingbird, some kind of wren?

Took a nap and dreamed I was at my childhood home, and it was pouring rain, and there was a manatee in the creek... being swiped at by a bear.

My boy

I cannot carry a conversation. My mom's at the lake this week, and on the phone all I could think to ask her was what birds she had seen (No I haven't been hyperfocusing on birds lately, why would you ask that). Also, the answer was: crows, herons, and TINY BABY DUCKS

Today I potted some basil and dill and planted celosia seedlings and marigolds in the ground, and I got all sweaty even though it was a very pleasant temperature outside, and now I need more potting soil.

Couple of rose-breasted grosbeaks (I think)

Little flowers in the lawn

I made dinner without a recipe, I feel so powerful.

I got good news: the dentist says my broken tooth is an easy fix, and it won't be terribly expensive.

Drove Mom to a doctor's appointment, and, not to give out my mom's health information, but I think we drove an hour just for the doctor to tell her not to drink carbonated beverages?

I went to a wedding by myself and didn't have a panic attack and was having a nice time in the hotel/city with my mom and the next morning my nephew did his very best to obliterate himself in a car crash.

Repotting some haworthia and aloe and have SO MANY EXTRAS. These things grow a lot of babies.

Appreciate my lizards bruh

I have dreamt more than once about a secret, fourth McElroy brother

I got my mom new kitchen knives for christmas, decided to wash them for her, and cut myself removing one from the dang packaging.

All I did for Halloween is wear an orange shirt and black pants to my dentist appointment. Festive.

I would like to wish you a very happy Halloween. 🎃

I just think creeping cucumber is an incredibly cute plant

Tipsy and missing my cat. I keep thinking she's at the end of my bed. Every time I walk in my room I want to say hi to her.

Canning dill relish and fistpumping every time I hear a seal ping

Two days after my cat died I went to a family potluck where I only talked to two people (about my cat dying), then went home and puked up my guts.

Welp, Tolly has diabetes and is hospitalized

That's it. It's here. Zucchini season.

If this spending bill passes the Senate and is signed into law in its current form, all but the most financially fortunate transgender people will be forcibly detransitioned regardless of their ability - or inability - to produce their own sex hormones. This is a ten thousand-alarm fire.

SNAP makes money! It keeps people from starving! It has literally no downsides! 85% of the country supports it for that obvious reason!

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

The cuts to Medicaid and Medicare will cut hospital revenue dramatically and likely cause facility closures, thereby affecting the availability of healthcare for everyone.

I put together two shelves (one a large corner shelf) by myself except for one brief "hold this" moment. Annnnd I think I hurt my back MOVING the shelves by myself.

Found a friend

I made fig leaf syrup after seeing a tiktok by @blackforager.bsky.social and am in the process of trying to make cookies with it. Will report back.

I seriously admire people who are comfortable molting in public; I always have to hold it 'til I get home.

I bought more plants.

I saw a baltimore oriole in the back yard. Really stunningly bright orange.

Enjoying some cat grass

It is spring, which means I can distract myself with plants. I bought sage, rosemary, and thyme plants, and am growing basil and dill from seed. I've never grown thyme before but I found a recipe I like with thyme, so here we go.

My beautiful cat

they should make a type of confidence that I could be allowed to have