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It speaks grimly to the state of healthcare in this country that I’m having a medical test next month and my follow up to discuss results with the doctor isn’t untilMay.

There is no schadenfreude quite like watching your cat step and slip in their own vomit.

October, the month when I hope every time I mow the lawn will be the last.

I mean.

My apologies to everyone who is not enjoying leaf peeping perfection today.

Ten pints of applesauce for the pantry (and they all sealed)! I love apple season.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

If you’re on the fence about getting knee injections, do it. I had an especially difficult time getting them (passed out- twice, needed a cane for a couple days, extremely uncomfortable all around) and a week out, it is already worth it. I’m getting out of chairs more easily than I have in years!

Soup season is upon us!

bootlicking will not save you.

Ooh, the Costco women’s wool socks are slightly different colors this year! Truly the best everday socks for the colder months.

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

I don't know if anyone outside of Canada has been following the saga of the island that appeared then disappeared but there has been a big development. It has re-appeared. And that's the top story on CBC News right now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I am so excited about this I might need to re-read all eleventy billion pages of the book. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of...

Three month zucchini update: it got got by squash vine borers. But I sure did get a lot of zucchini while it lasted, so no hard feelings.

Unless you’ve hiked its shores, swum its waters, and shoveled a winter’s worth of the snow it generates, keep Ontario’s name out of your mouth.

If the universe is coming for beloved queer icons born in 1946, someone needs to check on Cher, Liza, and John Waters.

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Nightmare! At the Wegmans

Between the dehydrator and canning, I’m caught up on tomatoes.

Traffic cones outside dorms means summer is over. 😭😭😭

24 glorious ounces of tomato.

If you’re a sourdough person, make these brownies immediately. They’re unreal. And I once really messed up the instructions and they were still amazing. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/supe...

Weekend garden haul (cherry tomatoes have been accruing for a bit)

Briefly dreaming of quitting my job to become a tomato farmer.

It was a banner day in the garden, between my first Very Large Tomato (1 lb 5.4 oz) finally starting to ripen and a monarch visitor to my milkweed!

What does six years of studying musicology get you? The ability to correctly identify a Piazzolla encore.

I’ve been picking about a tomato per day this week and it’s fun to watch them change colors.

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Why’s it gotta be white men? An evergreen pondering.

On the one hand, I wasted a bunch of vinegar and sugar by not reading a recipe carefully and then stuck said hand in a vat of boiling water (do not recommend!), but on the hand, I now have canned bread and butter pickles (grew the cukes myself!) and pickled red onions.

Why even make a film version of Remarkably Bright Creatures if Michael Urie isn’t the voice of the octopus?!

What we discovered: Police brushed off rapes. Prosecutors bungled confessions or were defeated at trial. Judges overlooked irregularities. And Syracuse University seemed more interested in suppressing news of a rape epidemic than solving it.

I didn’t check my garden yesterday because of the air quality and that thing happened.

Apple Music really, really loves Max Richter.

Two month zucchini update, starting to worry about what month three will look like.

The Urquhart Test, if you will.

I made sourdough focaccia and compound butter with garlic scapes from a local farm.

Exciting garden developments this week include a bevy of cukes that should be pickable within the week, a little baby cantaloupe, three artichokes, and an unplanned peanut. Thanks, squirrels!