Christopher

I let a patch of evening primrose and beggarstick go wild this year and I'm genuinely delighted by how is constantly full of these little guys. Watching them through the kitchen window keeps dishes entertaining.

Wildlife updates. Fall is here. Yes, please keep eating my creeping charlie. Fuck that plant.

Since books are sexy, here's my current reading list. It's gifts from friends and recommendations and me revisiting some childhood reads. Just finished my current fantasy book so time to select a new one.

Well... can't move now.

Welcome to the world, you picked kind of a shitty day to come out though. Should I bring it flowers/breakfast?

Work computer took 5 minutes to save a PDF. In that time ADHD had me scroll here. Pet a cat. Get up to bother my wife. Eat an entire meal. Forget what I was in the middle of doing.

Took the books I have bought and haven't read yet and stacked them and it is 4 feet tall.... So maybe I need to work on the tower of shame. (Doesn't include the digital stuff.)

Getting close.

Sometimes when I'm mowing recognize a native plant coming up and mow around it, creating random little patches of growth in my yard. I've been avoiding this aster for about 3 months now and it finally bloomed after falling over. Worth it.

Dude I got more monarchs than tomatoes at this point.

Just checking in.

I learned monarchs will travel pretty far before forming a chrysalis, so you'll never really find them near the milkweed they are eating. This one traveled 8 feet straight up. Impressive for someone who was born on and lived on their food.

Renting a cabin with the wife for the weekend and the garden here is making me jealous.

It's yellow season.

The face of someone who really loves to eat my blazing stars.

Two years from seed and my potato vine finally bloomed.

Behold my bounty.

I have dozens of caterpillars right now. I'm so happy.

I really appreciate the neighbors morning glory climbing the fence to say "Hi."

I've been thinking a lot about contracts and oaths and everyone in Game of Thrones knows a lot of these oaths are bullshit but the sword and bowing adds a lot of weight. All I'm saying is we should offer our sword instead of signing an employment contract.

So garden is chaos since I've been gone but my evening primrose is finally blooming. I love them. It's also a host to a wasp that cuts holes in the blooms. What's it doing? I don't know! But it's neat so I'm letting the primrose spread for the wasp and it's little yellow flowers.

I can hear him chew from three feet away. Monarchs are not for those with misophonia.

Breaking monarch News! Check out this big one, I'm guessing he's from the first batch that disappeared on me cause he's double the size of the others.

Monarch minute. I check in on these guys every morning while I'm getting my coffee. Only two I've found that have reached this size. I'm hoping more of the other ones have survived and are just better at hiding.

Today's monarch minute, Mom laying eggs, another butterfly's kids already eating my swamp milkweed. I'd consider kids if I could do the monarch approach, dump em in a random yard and take off.

The only way these two will share a bed is if it's big enough for them to not touch.

The sunflowers are about 8 or 9 feet tall. Ignore the smokey sky.

Oh hey, I almost never get all 4 cats in one picture. Enjoy.

Got screamed at by an angry door stop.

These tiny little out of focus dots are the first monarch caterpillars I've seen in my yard. Wish them luck.

A few seconds of some early fireflies.

I've named the sparrow Thunk because without his tail feathers he doesn't fly great and that's the noise he makes when he lands. He's not completely terrified of me and will land on the chair across from me in our little pavilion and hang out. I love him. Then some bonus pics.

Grapevine Skeletonizer Moth. So far the best name I've run into.

Harvested a ton of Columbine seeds, thinking of setting up a plot just for them. I have two bushes to plant, it's starting to rain.

Things I learned as a kid with undiagnosed ADHD, the below (I was in a barrier of churches), and melting ice and snow on the side of the car window made great 2D stages for mental platforming.