Well, I lost one to a wasp/something or other before the poor little dude had a chance to even consider being a pupa, let alone a butterfly, and I lost two more to spiders (one a very small spider actually seen fleeing the scene of the crime) somewhere between the point of “J” and “chrysalis”, […]

First, these that I took yesterday and didn’t get resized until today. Not red. EDIT: I cant find the damned tag, but I think it’s Raspberry Summer. This one is (I think) not the Tutti Frutti. EDIT: It’s Ambrosia Kudos. I think this one is. All seven of my Tango plants survived! Hope they all […]

Meh, but in good news, I got a friend delivered to me last night. His name is Alan. This made me slightly pissed off. Retails for $10.98. “Food grade sucrose.” Yes…otherwise known as ordinary table sugar. 12.75 cups in a 5lb bag, 4:1 ratio, 51 cups of solution (actually more, since the dissolved sugar does […]

I took the day off work, and I’ll write the rest later because I forgot to take pictures, but I did take pictures of my birthday present and cake!

It’s Sunday morning, but I took these yesterday. I actually accomplished something yesterday. I cleaned the interior of HKLRSC (long overdue), cleaned the kitchen sink (less overdue, but still needed to be done), and frosted four panels of glass; one of which I fucked up, but didn’t notice until it was fully installed and back […]

The pretty white bell-shaped flowers that reminded me of digitalis or penstamon but were neither are sesame flowers. Annuals, unfortunately, but at least I know what they are so I can plant them again. Whether bees and hummingbirds like them, I don’t know, but I sure do! Fall crocus. Seems weird to see crocus when […]

A couple from yesterday, the rest from today (Tuesday). Midnight Marvel Seems like the green stems have white flowers and the red some shade of pink. Today. I don’t know what this is; it was in the “mixed wildflowers” (AKA floor sweepings) seeds. It’s Rudbeckia of some sort, I think. I’m More floor sweepings, or […]