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Celia is blooming! She's my fav pitcher plant, a weed found in some moss I bought, often does some tequila sunrise colors, thus Celia named after Celia Hodes on Weeds. Now I will be able to self pollinate her, and find clues to her parentage by examining what comes up, as well as maybe get a similar but even more beautiful plant :). I haven't seen a mostly veinless pitcher that produced such color, but I am only a dabbler.

Check me out, about to harvest lettuce for my sandwich in the dead of winter. First time I've eaten it, though I've given leaves to the birdie birds. Micro tomatoes are still green, maybe next time.

I admit to occasionally opening my own video to relax. Spores being released from a pink oyster mushroom. They are bland, compared to the pearl oyster mushrooms, but this, this is so nice.

In the fall I took rhizome cuttings of four and five leaf clover leaves, and I thought I was finally getting a four leaf clover in the pot, but nope. 6. Mutations are so cool.

Awwe, my tiny little micro tomato already wants to bloom. Orange Hat tomato seeds from Baker's Creek.

That's better. I don't think I'll let the men decide how my gardening tools get stored again.

Now that I'm putting leftover bird chop to the worms (veggies and leafy greens with a little seed and shredded paper as a foraging toy), the worms have begun growing their own food.

Found it. I will use this to clear out the overgrowth in areas I then fork the seeds into, before the cold rains begin and the ground gets too hard. All of my gathered wildflower seeds are thrown together, so I do it again in the spring. I'll sharpen it tonight.

I think I'll wear my "I was stoned in Salem" shirt.

My 7 yr old daughter and I fought over who got to hang this in their bedroom, so I decided to stick it in the living room, right next to Grandpa's pic. I've thought many times how the old man must feel about sitting over me in my recliner as I smoke my pipe, just like he did, except my pipe made me goofy. Decided to push his boundaries a little, make him part of the party.

Flipping through old bullet journals and found a page where I started some positive reminders, found one that also lets you enjoy being petty.

I haven't even bought this year's bullet journal, and already I'm sketching birds to illustrate bird food recipes.

Got this to try food art to encourage picky children (didn't work), and now I just need a new paring knife and I will be making fun bird toys :)

Gotta quickly show off the out of print book that was a cherished childhood memory of mine that I'm about to wrap for the kiddo. It's ADORABLE.

Sunny and Sky update (still skittish, so blurry pics). So, Sunny is a lutino parakeet, lacking melanin like an albino, but has the yellow pigment, thus solid gold. This means the cere won't turn bright blue if a boy, it looks a bit lavender, so we're guessing boy. Sky, the blue one, is a yellowface opaline, and maybe also male. His yellow pigment also put a splash of green on his wee little rump. If I bred him with the right female, I might get the "rainbow" mutation.

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Gemma Sarracenia

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