It's amazing how much better Bud Light tastes now.

Know how flowers use nectar to bribe pollinators into pollinating them? Not Partridge Pea. Kindly Partridge Pea feeds everyone, using the little brown cups at the base of the stem, these nectaries are loved by ants, and last year I got to watch a few fritilliary butterflies grow up on them, the kind that the ants tend to for their honeydew.
#gardening

Okay, so now Joe's mom doesn't want the dog. There's some weirdness that makes us suspect Joe's dad, because his mom was teary eyed, saying the dog was "too big" and didn't look like the pictures? Like, it wasn't trick photography. Anyway, we have four poms, but this one is adorable and quiet, and she seems to be acting like she spends most of her life in a kennel, but omg we have four!

This month is full of heavy rainclouds that pass overhead, but 0% chance of rain. It's rained maybe once a week, while looking like rain every day. Things are growing okay, the clouds keep the moisture in, I guess. but it's odd weather for the area, and I don't like that.

@Alfred What benefits has Iceland received after jailing bankers responsible for their banking system crash in 2008? What negative consequences have they suffered? How does this compare to the strategy of bailing out bankers?

Just a reminder to anyone who needs it, there is an entire genre of hamsters running through creative mazes on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/NTJAhzRzlRw

Anyway, hope I don't act too oddly as I get loopy from stress completely preventing sleep the next few days. Fucking America.

there was nothing in the news. I did hear helicopters. A neighbor came by and said other neighbors had found bullet holes and a few casings. THEN he tells me my next door neighbor, the weirdo who crawls around cutting all the weeds from his lawn and kills sparrows because they are invasive? Two years ago, he was arrested for bomb making. HAHAHAH. Fuck.

House to myself for the first time in weeks and I can't relax. Last night, there were four bursts of assault rifle gunfire in my neighborhood. It would be in once spot, then a few minutes would pass, then a burst in another spot, like a car went from one street to another, but this is one of those places where there's no through streets, so they were just circling the place. We turned off the lights and hid. My daughter trembled in my lap until very late. So then today,

P.S. - The shy doggie took a few min to relax, but she let me pet her :)

omg you guyz omg, Joe just came into town with a dog to give to his mom (because how can the poor thing live with only one dog), so now he's going to take the dog to his mom, who lives out in the country, and the kid is going with him, and the young adult lives locked in her room so I pretty much have the place TO MYSELF off go the pants wheeeeeeee