Well, the dog jumped in my garden bed and knocked over all my mushrooms, and my guide books have already been purchased and are on their way. I know where this is going. No more mushrooms are going to come up, my barren soil will mock me while I stand nearby, guide book in hand, singing my disappointed songs.

I've always kind of rather looked forward to aging, especially the part where spreading grey will look like spiderwebs taking over my waist length dark hair, until when I dance in the rain during thunderstorms my streaks of grey might flash like lightning, as I cackle over the thunder (before I slip in the mud, let's be real). Unfortunately, the reality of grey hair being a little brittle is settling in, I might look more like Einstein or Phyllis Diller. Meh, that's cool, I guess.

Oyster mushrooms are growing in the outside bins better than they are in the indoor bin on cardboard, where it has been taken over by wet bubble disease. The pink spawn seems healthy, so far, but I decided to grab a bucket of it and bury it in nearly every pot or bin in the garden, just in case.
#gardening

It's weird how I'm joking, and yet she's learned what a spore was today, and a bit more about vaccines.

Today's botany lesson.

You wanna talk about pride? I can't tell you how proud I am of my trans girl. She started hanging out with the little girls when she was in preschool, they would paint her nails and fix her makeup, and I would pick her up and she'd be in a play princess dress, asking to wear the ladybug next. Evidence faded over the years, I quietly waited and made sure anyone who said she was too effeminate because I was a single mom was silenced. That egg didn't crack until she was 18, and I was so proud.

Joe's been a little worried about me homeschooling, so I was pretty smug when I told him the news that our school district is facing some drama with illiteracy rates and a whistleblower got fired, is suing. Apparently the kids aren't being taught phonics, just to memorize words, and they often memorize what the teacher says instead of focusing on the word and associating it with its meaning. My baby is learning phonics :).