Cut my Pom's hair short for the warmer weather and sent a pic to Joe with, "This strange dog showed up, can we keep her?" And he didn't recognize her at first, lol.

It's amazing how much a low quality sleep video can piss me off. Especially if the issue is due to the picture. I can't sleep unless it's real, moving, and pretty. I know. I said I know they're shut, shush!

Recently wrote something about scraping up moss near a parking lot and realized I have two prized bowls of moss, wait three, that are from near parking lots, also there's the mugwort that was a weed in the hotel garden, the rescued probably juniper, the mutated henbit (white, not purple), the yarrow, violets from various parts of the city, the chickweed, the lambsquarters, the carnivorous plants that were "volunteers" in live moss, not done counting, omgs like half my plants are weeds!

You get the best blacklight pics when there isn’t a hint of any light around, making it the perfect activity for nights full of insomnia. Sometimes I go around with my cell phone and UV flashlight, because my phone seems to pick up things better than either my eyes or the better camera can do. Here’s a few things I found in my sleepy wanderings tonight.

The same effect happens on the microbes responsible for decay, and their surfaces toughen, that they can no longer swim, and they fall useless from the water, and all that falls in the bog stays there forever, unable to be absorbed by the growing plants above.
This is how I get to sketch bog bodies for a coloring book titled "How a Venus Flytrap Digests It's Prey", because naturally, we must know why they need to eat flies (there are no nutrients in the bogs) the end.

This is the same substance that tans the skin of bog bodies, reddening their hair, and toughening their skin to the point that every wrinkle is preserved, while the acidity leeches the calcium from the bones, and the weight of growing moss distorts the bones that have been weakened to cardboard.

In bogs and other mires, sphagnum moss wages a multi-layered biological warfare strategy to (very slowly) dominate an area by starving other plants of nutrients. This warfare includes acidity (causing minerals to bind with each other so plants can't use them), stagnation of water (depriving organisms of oxygen, including the microbes responsible for decay, preventing further nutrients from entering the system), and release of sphagnan, a chemical that tans microbes, and causes bog bodies...

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Came home from a quick run to the corner store to find my BIL being "helpful" and mowing my "overgrown lawn" the MEADOW where my seed bombing mother plants live 😭 . He only got a single strip down the middle, but this is a trailer, so that was a third of it. Sigh. At least he didn't get the bee balm or yarrow. And the violets are getting to be fairly well established. I let him help me mow the front and side lawn, he knows I have fibro and Joe works in NY, can't be mad at him.

I talk a lot about how there's always spiders near my plants, and share a lot of wee jumpers perched on pitcher plants, but they don't do as well around flytraps. In fact, wild flytraps mostly snack on beetles and spiders, not flies, as they grow close to the ground. Anyway, I was making this smaller to share with y'all and I realized there was an uncaught spider hiding on a leaf behind the trapped one :).
#CarnivorousPlants #gardening #containerGarden

I planted a bit of the oyster mushroom mycelium in my window box full of partridge pea (for the morning doves nesting nearby) a couple of months ago, I was under the impression it would take longer to produce, so this was a nice surprise. So, I checked on the pink ones that were a month younger, and they're growing too. Not sure it will ever be enough to snack on, but it should help keep the soil healthy.
#gardening

Nope! I completely wasted my time! The year before last I planted some pink dandelion seeds outside, then saw they weren't doing so well, so I dug them up and brought them inside. I've been treating this wild thing like a prized baby for two years waiting for it to bloom. No worries, I was afraid this might happen, purchased more seeds this year and they're doing really well, and I have plenty of seeds left :).
#gardening

A nuclear cloud superimposed over a head GIF would be amusingly appropriate but I can't be bothered to dig one up.

Watching Bill Nye with the kiddo and talking about atoms, I just paused it to tell her the place they studied the atoms was 50 feet underground to protect the people above and it hit me that I'm full of that potential being made of atoms myself, we are all full of the the thing that is too small for my mind to comprehend on a scale I can also not comprehend, this tiny thing that requires giant machines to study, with the potential to flatten cities, I need to lie down.