I had to discard a few pots in my garden to make room for sprouting budgie seeds, and decided to let the little tree or shrub that I rescued from someone's lawnmower and have been growing like a bonsai in a bowl. Joe saw and refused to let me throw it out, said he was rescuing my rescue, and told me to put it in another bowl and take care of it for him(I need the ceramic one to hold the weight of the birds).

Sunny has let me give her kissies 4 times :). Probably she, did reading on color genetics, it's possible to have males this color but less likely. Also, females are more cuddly, this is day 2! Males talk more, and Sky is quite vocal. Have been given permission to install a screen door in the hall to turn that end of the trailer into a couple of rooms they can fly around in, including mine and my daughter's rooms.

My new bird's new bird. We got a tiny travel cage, they'll take turns on who gets the big cage until they are both tame, then I'll put them together :). This is Sunny, so now the blue one is Sky.

"I think Mommy only wanted to get you a bird so she could have a bird." (fuck, they're on to me)

This is Grandpa. He lied about his age to go fight Nazis, so only had an 8th grade education, but the Navy taught him electrical engineering. A firm hired him, treated him well, and was then taken over by people who cut his pay and demoted him due to his lack of an education. He retaliated by making the room sized million dollar computer he was designing for them so complicated only he could turn it on. It collected dust for years. Proud of him.

Got more pearl oyster mushrooms, this time I wanted to try growing from a mushroom instead of spent substrate, only one mushroom came out of the kit, and it's a monster.

Black and white makes everything look cool.
#blackandwhite

One of my fav amber pieces. Has 12 termites in it, but I can't find the pics. The piece is packed in storage.

The ginger I planted last month has reached my waist. The shoots have done the amusing thing of coming up on alternating sides of the "stepping stones".

#gardening #containerGardening

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First indoor ginger pot harvest. This is from a pot I've had going about 8 months. I'm thinking ginger snap cookies decorated with white icing snowflakes.

#frog

The black loop at the right is my new light to fill in the shady spots of my indoor garden. It is plugged into my emergency solar power bank, seen hanging above the window box with my lettuce seedlings, bark hides, and Henry the millipede. The light at the left is my stronger plant light. Now I see if it is strong enough to power the little one :).

My daughter wants a millipede, but I can't afford a new terrarium yet. Then I realized my windowbox lined with lichen covered bark for spider hides would also make a nice spot for millipedes to hide in. Then I went in the yard and found Henry.

Morty, five minutes after being put back in a clean cage with a brand new cave to replace the one she kept tearing up: "I am in a strange, new place. There may be danger. Those worms are probably poison."

psst, @fernfren, I know you don't want to miss the Morty pics :).

She was the sky reflected on the ocean, she was a street kid, she was magic.

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#nonfiction #homeless #memoir #tarot

I am once again thoroughly pleased with my self awareness and how I've realized I might not ever fully learn the guitar, but I will certainly pick it up periodically, and need a cheat sheet for all the stuff I forgot. This thing has proven useful many times. Got the nails trimmed, I wonder how long I'll stick with it this time.

Found more four and five leaf producing rhizomes for the lucky clover pot. Some of the previous transplants have withered, but I had a new five leaf already come up. Some of the new ones are trodden from being too close to the stepping stones, little battered bits of things cherished for their rarity, crushed underfoot. I like the poetry.

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Know how I kept finding four leaf and a five leaf clover? All of these are four leaved, one is five (on my ring finger). Usually when I go digging up roots to transplant I prune most of the leaves off, but I couldn't bring myself to, so they'll be a bit wilty for a while. But this patch definitely puts out a ton of these, one rhizome has four of them in a row!

Celebrating spooky season with spooky gardening. I've been trying my hand at my completely uneducated interpretation of the phrase "herbal topiary" and have been experimenting. Only killed one plant so far. Anyway, I used moss as mulch in this Thai basil by mixing up a clump with soil and spreading it evenly, and the results look good enough that I made my alfalfa into a little bonsai type thing with some of the haunted Cherry st. moss.

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