a term heard in recent years has been "rage quitting" a few moments ago i was pondering "rage gardening", which is probably a more extreme version of dirt therapy...
this may be a tough topic for some people here so i'm putting that right up front here, drug addiction...
in scanning the news headlines i came across this article:
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5414476/fentanyl-gen-z-drug-overdose-deaths
i knew things were bad but i didn't know how...
i found out by experiences on the road for several years that i sleep best when i sleep in the car. hotels, tents, visiting friends all have their downsides and it takes several days of being someplace before i can sleep very well.
which makes sense too because spending a lot of time in the...
some plants don't really like to be disturbed once planted. also i'm not sure but they are probably full sun kinds of plants and you may have too much shade for them there? though of course after transplanting you'd not want them in full sun until they've recovered...
the term transplant...
like chumps or chomps...
glad they helped with the aphids. we have so many of the various lady bugs around here that i rarely see any common aphids on any plants. it's the gray-green aphids that show up on crucifers that nothing we have around seems to go after (because we don't grow many of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_grackle
'...When grackles are in a group, they are referred to as a "plague".'
they are a big black bird, rather pretty in the sun, but not very quiet and also not very nice to other birds.
finished planting the ex-strawberry patch and then weeded other gardens and pathways until i was tired enough to call it good for the day. simple day and peaceful and nice outside.
what helps a lot with the peaceful is that the grackles are gone - they've had their babies and left. :)
the...
it can make you stretch your noodle to use some new words or to even make up others... hmm, what would it be for something new and entertaining? new? smootchual. when you meet someone new and the feeling is mutual and you end up smooching... note that both duckduckgo and google come up with...
Sunday i almost finished planting the newest bean garden (which is the ex strawberry patch). i'd grown beans in this garden before, but it has been some years since then. it was overdue for renovation as the strawberry plants were old and weeding it was getting to be very time consuming so i...
with the forecast for evening rains i decided to get back out there and not only get ready for planting but to actually get some bean seeds in that garden. i didn't finish planting the whole thing and don't particularly like the layout i ended up with but it will have to do. what is left is...