Seattle based, UK born human being with a wildly swinging pendulum of interests, not limited to: reading, stationery, geopolitics, gardening, television, film, fashion (not fast) and food.
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Last Notes npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 My Uralskiy Ranniy are beginning to ripen! Except the most red one, which has the mandatory "first tomato gets blossom end rot because I forgot to fertilize properly at the beginning" thing going on (I'll do better next year!!!) and got lobbed into the compost bin. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 If you like a lot of little cherry tomatoes, may I present to you: the Estonian Yellow. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I think I should pick this one 👀 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 She is living her best life. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Well, I guess I'm sitting here forever. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 wait, is that three books written in the 2000s? Amazing 🏆 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I turned on the TV to actually watch the match and Belgium instantly scored. See! The US are shitting it. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 IMO, it speaks volumes that the US decided to put Balogun on the pitch vs bench him and switch him in later (ie: they don't have another starting arrangement they're confident in & think they could lose). npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I've spent all day trying to decide if it's worse to put a player on the pitch because a nuke wielding narcissist intervened in the refereeing, or to win by penalties. Both feel like a curse. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Spiritually, the US deserves to lose today. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Today I am accepting that Lamy's limited edition Violet Blackberry ink that I discovered too late has probably, finally, sold out everywhere, even in cartridge form, and that while I have a few boxes of the cartridges in my possession, to avoid hoarding them and never using them (which is stupid!), I must move on. Solution: order a pile of samples from Vanness from my faves and see what they can do for me in dark purple/heavy sheen. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Adding this to my "Americans should have their cars taken away" evidence file because ???!!!WTF???!!! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Whoa, a new caterpillar is on the big borage plants today!!! This is very exciting - our garden has tons of birds and bees, but very little moths and butterflies in comparison. For anyone that knows these things: is this a Painted Lady? I know they migrate to Seattle around this time. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Still behind! But that's OK! Today I'm starting my worst thing: hardening off. It's mild and sunny out right now, and I'll check on them in an hour, and if it's too much, I have a bit of north shade I can move them to. But they were started in an unheated, west facing laundry room where I kept the window open on most days over the last month, so I think they'll be just fine. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I used my Sunday time wisely and finally got around to swatching the two Kakimori ink samplers I got for Christmas 👀 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 She doesn't even have a wikipedia page! And I only found this book because I browse the book resellers on eBay using keywords like "collected works" and "short stories" and she just happened to come up. I've never seen her mentioned in a list or an article or by a peer from the same generation. But I'm halfway through, and every single story in this collection is a 10 out of 10 so far. Sharp, honest, thoughtful and carefully crafted. How does this happen? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Today in Reading: a truly excellent collection of short stories by a forgotten American writer called Mary Ladd Gavell (1919 - 1967). This is all the work of hers that exists, she was only published posthumously, and she might have been lost entirely without three nterventions: 1) Martha Foley and David Burnett choosing The Rotifier for the Best American anthology in 1968, 2) John Updike doing the same in 1999 & 3) her husband saving everything she wrote for 30 years. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Almost there! I have three extra spaces, so should I have too many Sungold cherries or too many mini beefsteak (Uraiskiy Ranniy)? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Operating under a "better late than never" policy today with regards to starting seeds. It's been so warm recently that I figure that this year will be pretty easy on the hardening off/planting front anyway. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Does anyone know what these clear eggs are? Found in a plastic plant pot, in a damp, dark spot. I put the pot back for now. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I have one part of my hill that needs seeing to in this manner. I have everything I need! The downside: it's a hill, and I have to lug a bag of compost up to start the process. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Try it. Post a picture of moss. See what happens. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 It is deeply funny to me that Mastodon is a place where AI bros cry because they can't get any traction, but a single picture of moss can give anyone, no matter their other content or follower count, positive feedback for the rest of time. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 My Sinuses and Tonsils: damn, we feel like shit??? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 If anyone has particularly strong opinions about tape cutters, I just want to let you know that Jetpens has the Sun Star Cassette Tape Cutter back in stock, and they are truly excellent. For example: they stack. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Update: all plant sale plants are repotted or planted on the Hill of South Facing Doom! I also mulched everywhere that's planted or will be planted. Whew, I'm tired. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I just picked up my order (kinnikinnick, salal and sea thrift) from the King County Conservation plant sale! They're going to sit in these containers until tomorrow, when (squirrels and raccoons willing) I will repot the smaller ones into big containers and hope they grow strong enough for the hillside of south-facing doom in a month or two (or next year if not), and directly plant the kinnikinnick 🤞 $55 well spent. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 oh good god, someone on reddit wanted to use English ivy roots to fill out their new raised beds... 😱 thank christ he asked the internet first!!! (Do not do this!!!) npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 yeah, it's the same over here. I'm wondering if I should dial back or at least rebalance my planting plans. Beans need much less water than tomatoes. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Today in Middle School Nonsense: some kid brought mace to school and sprayed ten kids with it at lunchtime 🙃 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 A week or so ago I came across a subreddit created to "defend" Neil Gaiman with most contributions made by a single account and I thought "huh, that's weird". Today we find out why: now the court cases have been dismissed in the US, it's time for Gaiman to stage a comeback. Because hey, what better time to "make art" than when you've been accused of violently raping and exploiting vulnerable women? What a vile human being. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I don't have much to say today except that I watched the videos, and those videos showed a murder, not anything that could be considered self-defence or justifiable force. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 PSA for anyone looking: Jetpens now has the Diamine Lady Gray ink in stock! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I'm starting to put together my seed wishlist for the upcoming season, so if anyone out there wants to recommend me a company to buy from (I already know of Adaptive Seeds & Uprising Seeds), especially if they have good big tomato & cucumber varieties, that would be awesome! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 oh yikes, that's some pretty bad flooding down in Pacific, WA. A much bigger breach in their levee than the Tukwila one (see: 2m18s). npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Oop, looks like the White River levee in Pacific (south of Auburn, north of Puyallup) failed last night, this time with actual flooding. It really does feel like it's time that this state poured money into updating the levee system. It's not like we didn't know this kind of rain was coming - this winter was forecast to be warmer and wetter. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I did not expect them to just place giant sandbags into the levee breach? I assumed they'd dump some sort of loose filler. Maybe some rocks. The more you know! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Some guys are filling the breach! Go guys! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Via the WaWxChasers livestream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxuXWLLn0s): look at the height of the Green River. That is absolutely flooding tomorrow. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 KIRO7 is also confirming that Southcenter Mall is not at risk, it's just everything east of the Green River, or the South-East corner of Tukwila. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 KIRO7 has a picture of the levee break: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 The local Fox News affiliate has a livestream with updates on the levee break + occasional views of the traffic cams on the freeways: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Man, this sucks, this is BEFORE tomorrow's atmospheric river hits. What is it going to be like on Wednesday??? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 WaWx Chaser is on the way to the levee break. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Damn, a levee in Tukwila just failed. Emergency evacuations are now in place for the southeast of Tukwila and basically everything around the Green River. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 The footage of the Skykomish river at 5:10 is insane. That's guaranteed death water. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Also, there's more rain coming in a few days, and way more next week. Wunderground says 3-7 inches. And temperatures won't be as warm. Happy holidays :| npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Some good drone footage here of Hamilton, WA in Skagit County. They're right next to the Skagit river, and just from looking back and forth from Google Maps (thanks to that big ugly building near the bright blue house), as of this morning they're under 3-5ft of water. Bad times. Most of those people will probably have to live somewhere else through this winter, because I doubt anything is getting remediated there soon. Hopefully everyone evacuated. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 whhhhhhew look at Snoqualmie Falls today! So voluminous! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 The rice is ready, if anyone wants some 🍚 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Looks like the rain and wind start picking up in the next few hours, so I'm going to put some rice on to cook sooner rather than later. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 IMPORTANT FERAL CAT UPDATE: THE CAT IS IN THE LITTLE HOUSE. REPEAT: THE CAT IS IN THE LITTLE HOUSE. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Today in the garden (late fall edition): there's one last calendula flower in my pollinator box trying its very best. We're forecast a frost over the weekend (finally), so I hope it can make it to a full bloom tomorrow 🤞 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I am live from the Dearborn Goodwill, issuing an executive order that no one in this city is allowed to buy a brand new bag for the next six weeks. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Huh. Did you know that Portland, Detroit, Ypsilani, Seattle & Long Beach (WA) have free payphones? They're run by an indie organisation called Futel. You can visit the phone booth, make a call and that will connect you with an operator who will help you connect further: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I also refilled my bird station for the first time of the season! The chestnut chickadees kept staring at the empty cage, so I guessed that it was time. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Huh, I was checking to see if the clover seed I had put down out front was sprouting yet (answer: a little bit) and found an extremely healthy sedum growing on my fenceline? I accidentally pulled a few while trying to remove some grass, and the roots came with them so now they're in the backyard, on the hill. I'm guessing I would be wise to do that a few more times? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 this is a good example of his work: Why My Father Votes for Le Pen - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-my-father-votes-for-marine-le-pen.html / https://archive.ph/L8gaN npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 have you read any Edouard Louis? He writes (autobiographically) about this very issue in France. He's an incredibly gracious person because he absolutely hated the way he was brought up, and the way his family members behaved towards him and others, and could have turned his back on it all, but has instead dedicated himself to trying to understand the underlying motivations and political sabotage of the working class. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 this is why I have a hard time believing in dragons as a concept. Meat farming requires a huge amount of resources, and to dedicate it to maintaining even a single dragon seems risky. And even if you can slot an artificial cattle farm industry into your story, presumably the dragons existed before they were domesticated, so what kind of world was that? And why did humans consider it worthwhile to continue the species vs cull them and free up the resources for their own survival? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Looking at the low temperatures on the forecast and I think tomato season is now officially over. I've been topping and cutting back my plants for the last few weeks, but still have plenty of green fruit on the vine. Today I'm thinking: do I pick? Or do I pull the plants and hang them in the garage (as suggested by a few people on the gardening subreddits)? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 🏴 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Last night I started reading Caroline Fraser's MURDERLAND, an exploration of PNW serial killers & geography, and damn, she is so good. I knew she would be though, because her previous book was about the American reality of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and was similarly engrossing. She seems to only write about subjects she has a deep investment in - with MURDERLAND, she grew up on Mercer Island (the island in the middle of Lake Washington) in the 60s/70s. This is in her blood. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I thrifted ONE Shaeffer nib and every single time I've bought parts for it, I've ended up with extras. Now I have four Shaeffer pens with nibs and somehow: an extra cartridge converter. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 This Staedtler calligraphy pen I thrifted for $4 (with a tin, and 2 of its set siblings, plus working! cartridges and a Schaeffer nib) is hands down the most ridiculous thing to use for writing a chore list. So wide, so kicky. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Good morning from Seattle, where the air quality is worse than ever and the sun is rising like a threat but on the bright side: my kid gets mac & cheese with hot dog pieces in his lunchbox today, and our air conditioning is working great to keep the bad air out. I hope everyone has their air filters going or access to a clean space 🙏 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 There's ash on my tomatoes again :( npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 whoa, so small. Congratulations on your new cactus babies! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Also: I have no idea what this tomato is. I did not buy seed like that. My notes say it's supposed to be a Mashenka? But none of the other Mashenka tomatoes look like this. Answers on the back of a postcard if you've got them. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Quick cucumber harvest today, as I did nearly everything else yesterday and now my dining table is covered in cherry tomatoes: a MidEast Peace and a White Heron cucumber. Lots more to come on the vine too. And there I was, convinced those pots would be too small! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 The harvest before the rain: tomatoes, tomatoes tomatoes and beans. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Tonight's harvest! The beans are really picking up now - the big bed of bush and pole beans all have baby beans that will be grown up beans by the end of the week. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Absolute stunners 😍 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Folks, is this wildfire ash on my tomato leaves? (It's all in the spiderwebs too, just harder to photograph.) npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 I knew I was going to see something weird in the garden tonight. What the heck is this? Google Lens says it's a parasitic bolete? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Looks like KGW went offline, but Pacific Northwest Weather Watch is now streaming: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Russia: always fucking everyone's shit up. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 KGW in Oregon are also livestreaming coverage for the PNW. Estimated time of arrival: somewhere around 11pm. Not great for a good night's sleep. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Agenda Free is also streaming with general updates and news. He can be a bit full on but I've never seen him share anything unreliable. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 For anyone that wants to keep track of the tsunami warnings: Hawaii News Network is livestreaming on YouTube. Mostly focused on the Hawaiian islands but they're dropping general news too. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 b e a n s npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 No blossom end rot on this baby! Never skip fertilisation day! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 It's happening!!! 🍋🥒 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 This is my best "grown from a sucker" tomato plant. No fruit yet, but no nutritional deficiency damage either 👍 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Bean status: growing. No flowers yet though. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Bean updates: doing so well 👀 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Cucumber update: thinned to two per pot, given some bamboo stakes and a little string for training. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Bah, some of my bigger tomato plants (Mashenka) are getting blossom end rot. Disappointing, but at least I know the solution (more calcium), so I'll apply that tonight and hope for the best. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 My hardest opinion is that cities should just remove private vehicle through-traffic from every arterial street until that street has a bus lane, a protected bike lane, a green belt and a sidewalk wide enough for three people to walk side by side on. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 My actual personal opinion of Morris Dancing is that we lost an opportunity when no one decided to upgrade the sticks to swords and make it a true martial art. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 If you're going to Morris dance your way through life, then Morris dance for better transit I guess? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 the Wild Wales book you're reading sounds interesting by the way, I might pick that up as a companion for the (all set in Wales) Leslie Norris short stories. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Louise Kennedy's Trespasses (2022), Andrea Long Chu's Authority (2025), Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) (not sure if I like it though) plus short fiction collections of Edna O'Brien, Shirley Hazzard, Dorothy Parker, Tessa Hadley, Fiona Macfarlane, Leslie Norris and Claire Boyne. Plus a 2019 issue of The White Review, which has a great essay about the global recycling initiative and it's problem with human labour 👍 npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Sunflower update: it grew four heads. More to come. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 This is too many cucumbers. Some must die. Then I'll put bamboo stakes in here and see what happens next. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 The less aesthetic, but just as productive view: beans / beans / tomatoes (including the retaining wall pot crew) and some cucumbers plus extra borage/ tomatoes, beans AND cucumbers. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 *sicko* yes... ha ha ha... YES! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 😱 this is where I google to see whether yellowjackets prey on cucumber beetles and THEY DO! I think that nest in my compost bin might have won themselves a reprieve. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Found a deadstock Platinum Preppy highlighter pen for $9, put in a converter, added some TWSBI orange ink and voila: drama. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f 📖🍅 natalie 🪻🎮 Habitually cramming my fridge with vegetables means it's always soup season.
