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Today there were 4 cucumbers ready to pick.  Yesterday there was one. The plants all 10 of them are all growing like mad.  Most have flowers all over them.  I love cucumbers and do want to make pickles again, but I might just have over planted...
The tomatoes are beginning to ripen up too. I'm keeping my eye on a big Chef's Choice tomato that is almost ripe. There is a steady stream of cherry tomatoes coming off two of the three cherry tomato plants. 
I had a couple of okra pods while wandering around the garden. 
One of the apple varieties is ripe.

It is the perfect time for pruning apples, which I did today after scrubbing the clippers and letting them sit in alcohol overnight. That should have cleaned them of any viruses they might be carrying.  Now I should go down the old orchard and prune the Sierra Beauty down there. That poor tree is full of fire blight, but it keeps coming back every year and setting apples.  It is scary though, I sure don't want that blight up here at the house!

Cucumber beetles have slowed to a trickle.  Hopefully all the hand picking will have made a dent in the future population of them.

I keep planting more stuff, mostly flowers, that have been sitting around in tiny pots.   Ever so gradually the stuff that needs hand watering is diminishing. 
It is time to cull the dahlias and get rid of a lot of them.  Perhaps I should look up recipes for them and just eat them.  Should do some research, I dimly remember that some varieties are tastier than others. 

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13 Jul 2025 08:08 pm
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The Friday Five


1. What was the most sick that you've ever been?
I used to get terrible sore throats when I was young. They got worse every year. The last time I got delusional. When I could afford it I had my tonsils out and I swear I didn’t have a cold for 10 years.

2. What disease are you afraid of getting?
Lyme disease.

3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?
No.

4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?
Yes.

5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?
Maybe for $10,000 but I don’t come cheap.

Space Exploration

13 Jul 2025 09:50 pm
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2. 35-billion-year-old Moon rock found in Africa rewrites lunar history

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry conference, reveals that the Moon was volcanically active far longer than previously thought. With a unique chemical makeup and an age that bridges a billion-year gap in Moon rock samples, it suggests the Moon had internal heat sources that persisted for ages.
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I've been talking about placemaking with a friend, and how to connect the dots with different activities...

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Nominations queries, part two

14 Jul 2025 01:22 am
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Hello again, and continued thanks to everyone who has submitted nominations so far! The nominations period is nearing a close, with a little under two days remaining at time of posting. As I continue approving nominations, I'd like to take the time to clarify a few nominations that have been made since the previous query post.

If you see one (or more) of your nominations in this post, please comment on this post by the end of the nominations period, 22:00 UTC on 15 July (countdown) so that I can approve your tag(s) appropriately. Thank you!

Crossover Fandom
  • Caroline Bingley (P&P)/Any Austen Hero

Before I can approve this nomination, there are three points I would like to clarify: (1) Which version of Pride and Prejudice are you interested in for this tag? (2) Does 'Any Austen Hero’ include the hero from Caroline’s canon (i.e., Fitzwilliam Darcy) or only heroes from other canons? (3) Does ‘Austen Hero’ refer exclusively to the version of the hero in Austen’s original work, or are adaptations included? Would, for instance, Caroline Bingley (P&P - Austen)/Henry Tilney (NA 2007) be a valid fill for this tag?

To ensure that the tag accurately reflects your preferences, please respond to this post by 22:00 UTC on 15 July. In the absence of a response, I will approve the tag as Caroline Bingley (P&P - Austen)/Any Hero From Another Austen Book (Any Other Austen Book).

  • Elinor Dashwood (S&S - Austen)/Any Austen Hero

Similarly to the above nomination, I would like to clarify (1) whether 'Any Austen Hero’ includes the hero from Elinor’s canon (i.e., Edward Ferrars) or only heroes from other canons (2) whether adaptation versions of heroes are included in the tag.

To ensure that the tag accurately reflects your preferences, please respond to this post by 22:00 UTC on 15 July. In the absence of a response, I will approve the tag as Elinor Dashwood (S&S - Austen)/Any Hero From Another Austen Book (Any Other Austen Book).

Emma - Jane Austen

  • George Knightley/Other(s)

While this is a canonical tag, I don’t feel confident that its meaning will be clearly and compatibly understood by all interested participants. Would a tag like ‘George Knightley/Any (Emma - Austen)’ or ‘George Knightley/Original Character (Emma - Austen)’ accurately express your meaning?

Of note, you may adapt ‘Any’ and ‘Original Character’ tags to narrow down the kind of character you mean. For instance, you might wish to specify the character’s gender (e.g., ‘Original Female Character’) or profession (e.g., ‘Any Clergyman’).

If one of these options sounds right, you may edit your nomination accordingly. If none of the proposed tags reflects your interpretation of the tag, please comment with an explanation of your expectations for how this tag might be used by 22:00 UTC on 15 July. In the absence of a response, I will accept the tag as ‘George Knightley/Any (Emma - Austen)’.

Jane Bennet (P&P) & Emma Woodhouse (Emma)
  • Jane Bennet (P&P) & Elinor Dashwood (S&S)
  • Jane Bennet (P&P) & Elizabeth Bennet (P&P) & Henry Tilney (NA)
Before I can move forward with these tags, I would like to know which version of each canon you are interested in. If you nominated these relationships, please leave a comment on this post indicating your preference or edit your nominations to include the appropriate disambiguations [e.g., ‘(P&P - Austen)’ or ‘(S&S 1995)’].

Additionally, it appears that you have listed one of your desired relationship tags as the fandom for this set of nominations. In this case, ‘Crossover Fandom’ is the appropriate fandom tag. When you enter the nominations editing interface, there should be text to the left of ‘Jane Bennet (P&P) & Emma Woodhouse (Emma)’ indicating that it is currently listed as a fandom. Once you edit the text in that slot to read ‘Crossover Fandom’, you may add the previous tag to the first available relationship slot.

If all of this sounds too complicated, no worries—just let me know your preference regarding the version of each canon you’re interested in, and I can sort out the rest from my side.

If I don’t hear from you by 22:00 UTC on 15 July, I will add the following tags to the tagset under the fandom ‘Crossover Fandom’: ‘Jane Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Emma Woodhouse (Emma - Austen)’,  ‘Jane Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Elinor Dashwood (S&S - Austen)’, and ‘Elizabeth Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Jane Bennet (P&P - Austen) & Henry Tilney (NA - Austen)’.

Please note that for technical reasons, if the necessary changes are not made to the fandom, your nominations page may not fully reflect these acceptances. Rest assured that they will all appear in the tagset before the sign-up period begins.

Nominations will remain open here until 15 July at 22:00 UTC. Thanks again!
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Since I drove quite a bit yesterday, and got home at 8 p.m., I stayed up later than usual last night, and stayed in bed until after 7.

I had coffee with cz_moon in my neighborhood today, this time at JCs. (It's smoky out, and SJs had its windows open.). We had a good chat, deciding between us that Everyone Should Study History, as things now are ever more like things that were, if you get what I mean. That's both depressing and hopeful. And the history that's studied shouldn't be in slogan-y soundbites. Including women and people of various colors, cultures and conditions in history as studied isn't 'revisionist' -- it's trying to look more clearly at the past. And the more we learn the more our conception of the past will change. That scares some people, apparently.

I've had a low key day, only now feeling a little at loose ends.

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7/13/2025

13 Jul 2025 05:03 pm
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Fog and wind were forecast for the eastern side of the hills so although I went up to Inspiration Point, I planned to go to Loop Road if it was really bad, and it was. It wasn't great on Loop Road, either, but it's sheltered from the wind, so although the trees were dripping with condensed fog, I was quite happy. I walked out Loop Road to the main road and returned past the recently dug ponds, dry until the next rains, and up the service road to the top of the Little Farm. The northeast corner of Loop Road was really fun, with Western Wood-pewees and Olive-sided flycatchers calling and flying around just too high up for good views; two Nuttall's Woodpeckers, quite possibly and adult and juvenile; other woodpeckers and assorted finches and sparrows. The list: )

I saw the doe and fawn again. I love watching the fawn bounce about. Gamboling.:)

Daily check-in

13 Jul 2025 08:30 pm
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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, July 13, to midnight on Monday, July 14 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33352 Daily check-in poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 12

How are you doing?

I am OK
7 (63.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
4 (36.4%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
3 (25.0%)

One other person
7 (58.3%)

More than one other person
2 (16.7%)



Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
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but it turned out to be a big bag of dog food.

This is... not so great, really.

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13 Jul 2025 07:03 pm
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Given the constant heat and humidity of this summer, the weather's been remarkably unthunderous so far, but today we had an actual storm. Not as bad as the ones in my childhood which were slow-moving and extremely loud: this was barely half an hour. The oddity was that I woke up to darkness and rain-- so much for that 5% chance of they were touting last night-- which had been going on for a while to judge by the puddles: and then the storm started. Luckily it was over long before I had to go out for my massage. Of course the sun also came out and the world steamed. And the sidewalks dried up except unter den linden so yes, the walker's wheels were coated with catkins and seedlings. But there were still puddles at the street corners where I could rinse them off.

I think the massage helped some, but I felt a little off-kilter afterwards. Which can happen, but usually doesn't. Had good intentions of sweeping up the tree gunk on my front path but umm no. We won't even mention the jungle out back.

Otherwise at a loose end, like everyone else on the RoL FB suffering post-Stone&Sky letdown, and in my case suffering post-JS&MN and Damned letdown as well. Yes, three winners in a row is nice (and rare) but what do you do for afters? Um well, I still have the new Points novel to go to.

(I wonder was I the only one who wondered if Abigail had been glamoured in S&S? Though I suppose that she, like Peter, has had some practice in resisting fae and genii locorum who try it on. But also, why is it called Stone and *Sky* when the biggest element around is the sea?)

Media Round Up: Ups and Downs

13 Jul 2025 04:14 pm
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Since it's more than halfway through the year I started to write a reflection on my reading goal for the year: "Read Joyfully" But I found I didn't have much to say about it other than it turns out its easier to engage with new to me fiction when I actually get enough sleep.

However I do have some thoughts on things I've read and watched recently to share:

The Truth Season 3cases 9 and 10 — The last two cases, I’m sad that this is over now! This was so, so much fun! The second to last case featured my favorite costumes of the whole show in show with many excellent costumes. This really a fairly frivolous show but I love it so much! (Content note: the final case involved a dead kid)

Mu Guiying Takes Command ep 1-4— I wanted to love this. It is an adaptation of The Generals of the Yang Family, a story dating back to at least the Ming Dynasty that features women in command of the military. The FL is very badass. However I got fed up with how childish both the leads were acting.

Also this was released in 2012 which isn’t really that long ago but it feels like a whole different era.

Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400 by Patricia Blessing, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Eiren L. Shea— This is a novella length overview of the topic. About 80 pages with a lot of pictures. I liked how it tied together such a big area and a long time period. Zooming out helped me put the stuff I know about (Chinese textiles, mostly Tang dynasty) into a larger context. I read it for the FTH biography I’m creating on Liao textiles.

A Song for You & I by Kay O'Neill— My friend Maureen, who is a children’s librarian, recced this graphic novel by the author of the Tea Dragon Society books in her most recent newsletter. And I’m glad she did because I haven’t been keeping up with recent releases and this was really good. It's a very gentle story that’s kind of coming of age with a lot of travel. One of the characters has a flying horse! The art is really good. I kept stoping to admire the color gradients. Just a very lovely book.

Please Be My Star by Victoria Grace Elliott— Reading a A Song for You & I reminded me that my library has lots of graphic novels and I checked out a whole pile of them including this one. Please Be My Star is a YA romance featuring teens putting on a play. It was very cute though once or twice I got a little too much second hand embarrassment.

Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born ep 1-4— This kdrama sounded so exactly my thing. It’s got preforming arts, tons of women, and crossdressing girls! It’s also very pretty and well done. So I’m baffled as to why after four episodes all I feel about it is “meh”
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I slept later than usual, but on the bright side - actually got a solid 8 hours of sleep, most of it core, but what can one do? Did get 55 minutes of deep, and 2 hours of rem. I tend to be a light sleeper for the most part, either that or this smart watch sleep monitoring isn't as accurate as it may appear.

Thinking of reading "actual books" and not ones on the Kindle for a bit. The books on my shelves are more appealing than the ones on the Kindle at the moment, and I've been in a long and annoying book slump. I was more engrossed in The Fair Folk - a book this morning, than What Moves the Dead on the Kindle. Books also have a weight to them, and they don't annoyingly go blank without notice.

The technology/information age is currently depressing me, I think? Do you feel like people are throwing their opinions at you constantly? Often unedited, unfiltered, and misinformed? It's not just on social media, it's journalistic articles, non-fiction editorials, etc. And via text message. I can't escape it. People stop. I really don't want to know what some random political analyst, political science professor, historian, social activist, journalist, bored academic, or law professor thinks about our current political situation, politics, the Wars (cultural, actual, and otherwise). Yes, I know they all think the world is coming to an end, I just wish they'd keep it to themselves, why depress the rest of us?

I've been jumping around television shows this weekend, not quite sticking with anything?

Watched Andor S2 Ep. 7 last night - the end the second three arc. Each arc ends with Andor and Bix - blowing something up or killing someone, or so it seems. Good news, Bix seems to have taken care of her problem. So Episode 7 for the most part was a satisfying conclusion to the Bix/Andor and Gorst situation, that was hanging over from S1. I adore Andor and Bix.

I got a bit lost in the episode, and had to rewind it and rewatch. Mainly because my attention kept drifting away from it. This may well be a me thing and not an Andor thing, folks. Read more... )

Poker Face - also had to keep rewinding, because my attention kept wandering - I'd play on the phone, I'd play on the internet, I'd cook, etc. It's partly due to the commercials - it's on Peacock and has commercial interruptions, and partly due to the mystery not always being that gripping? This is basically Murder she wrote by way of Columbo by way of person on the run doing odd jobs. Sometimes the mystery of the week is interesting, sometimes not. Like Murder She Wrote and Columbo it likes to utilize old and big time movie stars, some of which I've not seen in a while and are over the age of 70. Ellen Barkin is a very skeletal 70.

Outlander - see previous post. [And now I'm back to it again - and watching S2 Ep.2 - mainly because I'm curious. Also, I like the actress playing Clair and she's written better in the series than in the book. Odd I know, but there it is. Also Jaime is admittedly very appeal - I rather like the actor portraying him. And I find the differences between mid-20th century medicine and 18th century medicine interesting. It's what people do that fascinates me.]

Buffy S3 - Helpless - was surprised at how well written this was. Was going to skip over it, decided not to, and it was rather better than I thought. Not quite as scary, and amusing in places. Also had to keep rewinding, because I kept wandering about doing things while it was on. It's David Fury - who, sigh, "not the nicest human on the planet" is possibly an understatement? (It comes through in the writing - his episodes have an underlying meanness to them that is hard to put my finger on - but is there? I don't think he likes people all that much? And clearly has Mommy issues?) But he's a good writer, got to give him that. And the acting is through the roof. Also, weirdly, I liked Cordelia in the episode, but did not like Willow, Xander, or OZ - who were kind of useless and annoying. Giles...wasn't supposed to be likable, but Head sold it, and made him likable and interesting. Gellar blows me away. She does things in Buffy that she's not done before or since. Jeff Kober as the villain of the week is rather excellent. But Kober always is. spoilers for well anyone who hasn't seen it in the last 25 years )

Damn, this series holds up well. And it gets better as it goes. S3 is much better than S1 and S2, writing wise. The writers finally hit their stride. I can see why Gellar was done by S3 - they worked her to death. She's in every scene, they are all very physical scenes, and she has to cry a lot. She was doing 20 hour days, seven days a week. I think they burned her out, and it's why she's not really done anything great since. They also burned out Marsters. Not so much the others.

**

Took a long walk to get groceries. Used the robot vacuums. Read a bit of The Fair Folk. Meditated. And tried not to let the noise on the internet bother me too much. The birds outside were tweeting. The sun was shining. The trees are green. It's a warm balmy day in Brooklyn. And if I don't think too much and just be, everything is seemingly just fine.

Challenge 196: Blue

13 Jul 2025 11:36 pm
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Challenge #3

Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Mostly fruit and cold things and fair or picnic food.

1. Popsicles
2. Watermelon
3. Strawberries
4. Blackberries
5. Deviled eggs
6. Cherries
7. Funnel cakes
8. Ice cream
9. Lemonade
10. Snow cones

I had 2 cherry stickers, so I did this small collage.

vital functions

13 Jul 2025 10:30 pm
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Reading. This week I have mostly but not entirely been reading more murdery bot: Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, Rapport, aaaand I've also immediately launched myself into yet another quick reread of All Systems Red because we finished watching the TV series and therefore I want The Murderbot Of My Heart Thank You.

However! I have also continued reading about nerves! I have now read the entire first chapter of Nerve and Muscle, supplemented by a bunch more Wikipedia, and I think I am starting to have a better mental picture of how all of this works? I am going into way more depth than required by The Project, really, I think, but I will be happier if I know what's going on at least to the extent that I understand a little more about what it means, physically, when it is explained that some migraine preventives target Type A nerve fibre and others target Type C (which in turn is why if you get partial relief from something that targets Type C it's worth at least experimenting with adding in something targeting Type A).

And I have also made a tiny bit more progress with The Age of Seeds, but... yeah, mostly Murderbot.

Watching. Murderbot! I will concede that "I need to check the perimeter" did indeed get me Right In The Feels. I still prefer my book-Murderbot but I am beginning to acquire a better understanding of why folk love this Murderbot too.

The fanvid Bohemian Like You, by [archiveofourown.org profile] kuwdora, via [personal profile] sholio, via [personal profile] recessional.

Cooking. Several new things! Aubergine larb with sticky rice and shallot salad, lavender & honey Welsh cakes out of the Welsh cakes tourist tat mini-book, coconut pancakes. Now officially over two thirds of the way through East (with another Several planned for this week coming).

Eating. TODAY WE WENT ON AN ADVENTURE TO SEE ONE OF MY UNIVERSITY FRIENDS. I don't understand how it has been somewhere in the vicinity of ten years since I last got my act together to see this friend in particular given the part where, you know, we live in the same city, BUT we sorted ourselves out to meet up at King's Cross today and in addition to talking solidly for the entire duration we had FOOD including:

  • Ruby Violet (maxi moo moo with hazelnut crunch & raspberry, rosewater and prosecco on the grass by the canal; hazelnut & hazelnut brittle, salted caramel & almond brittle, hot cross bun, raspberry ripple, and coffee mocha ripple brought home, those last two primarily for A)
  • for lunch I had a funghi ma po tofu from rice guys, and A had a veg biriyani from somewhere I'm not immediately managing to spot on the Canopy Market trader list
  • from Bread Ahead we brought home two doughnuts -- pistachio crème brûlée for me, and something involving honeycomb for A; I think this is quite possibly the first custard doughnut I have ever eaten and actually liked (though were I to buy from them again I'd skip the pistachios)

... and upon meeting up with said friend, they reached into their bag with an "oh before I forget--" and pulled out a jar of jam, which conveniently gave me an excuse to reach into my bag and pull out the jar of jam I'd brought to give them, so I have swapped one blood orange + cardamom for one cherry plum + vanilla, and I've not eaten it yet but I am very excited about doing so.

... also raspberries, gooseberries, redcurrants, jostaberries...

Exploring. We poked around Granary Square a bit to go with Meeting Friends; we came home with lots of stickers (I also got some washi tape from that first one...), a gorgeous bowl (which she was not charging that much for at the market, goodness), and a business card for Creature Crafts by Nat so I could send their details on to Interested Parties.

Growing. ... I spent a whole day at the plot mostly reading Murderbot? (And did also do some weeding, and some harvesting, and some watering, and some general pootling.)

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As per my usual custom, I provide here a place for folks who have already read the story and want to chat about it to talk to each other, without risking spoiling those who don't want to be exposed to such. Who are presumed to realize they should skip this till they're ready.

Click back to the immediately prior post for all the publication details.

As of today Amazon, B&N, and Apple Books US are known to have the book up. Kobo and Google Play Books seem to be lagging, and there's something odd going on with Apple worldwide versus our Spectrum editions that we haven't sussed out yet. I will update when there's something new to say.




Have fun!

Ta, L.

(As always, word of mouth is the lifeblood of my career, so mentions of the story out and about elsewhere are very much appreciated.)

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on July, 13

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