It makes sense. The plant is within what the birds recognize as their territory. It's just that I know a lot of people who would have chased the birds off, not wanting wild birds on their back porch. I didn't, and now we help each other. I love my tiny feathered neighbors.

A pair of wrens have a nest in the alcove of my back porch. They were here before we were. No reason to chase them off. In fact, I protected one of them one night when a very windy storm prevented them from getting back up to the nest until the next day.

My cherry tomato plant this year is back there. Every time I look out the window there's a wren by it. No birds have pecked at the plant. I realized this evening that the wrens are guarding it.

@JessLynnStudio It absolutely delights me when I come across someone who knows the origins of "knock on wood"!

@mightymite Definitely introverted, though often mistaken for an extrovert. I can be very sociable and did theater stuff in high school. But it strains me, makes me nervous, and I have to go recharge.

@mightymite I'm autistic and that's pretty much me. I'll gladly tell you my life story, including the life stories of everyone I know, or I hide because someone greeted me.

@MakerWerks I usually play ukulele, but also play a classical guitar and used to play an ocarina. I've been known to dabble with pianos. I never grew out of being noisy...just learned to bring some order to the noise.

@CinnamonGirlE You can just play around with one of these. All the notes are harminious, so nothing sounds bad together.

But I can tell you how to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb". 3-2-1-2 333 222 355. 3-2-1-2 333 32 32 31. Works on these drums, pianos if you can find middle C and count from there, and telephones.

Yes! My drum is here! I'm going to make the whole town wish I never moved here!

They don't complain about the ukulele in the middle of the night, but the sound seriously carries with this drum.

Really...I just needed some water.

To be fair, it turned out the family member I was messaging wasn't awake.

CoSo, I have a question. I need somebody with a geometry PhD, or a quantum physicist, or...I don't know.

Do round things actually exist? Or is it that lots of tiny faces and angles create an illusion of roundness?

@stvnndrw I hope we will prove ourselves to be worth the love Ukraine gives.

@Alfred What made CounterSocial become obsessed with potatoes on Monday, July 3, in our year of fiery chaos 2023?

@Alfred What causes a large group of people becoming obsessed with potatoes on the same day?

@LiberalLibrarian I hope the new job goes well for her!

@stueytheround I know! He also learned to sew way too easily. I get jealous sometimes, but then he loves everything my clumsy, average length fingers make.

Husband wanted to experience nail painting. Okay, I can do that!

Y'all...

He has the nails I always wanted! Wide, long nail beds that make just a little growth look longer. Cuticles push back so easily! Nails are so smooth the polish goes so easy!

I went outside to fill the bird feeder and cry because Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" was playing and it's been THAT week, and... Tiny tomatoes developing on my plant! 💚

The last few days have been really hard. It could actually get harder this week. Like...trauma hard. And every time life takes one of those turns for me, Mister Rogers somehow shows up. I woke up today to a post from Rabbi Danya's substack talking about Mister Rogers and his unconditional love.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lifeisasacredtext/p/the-radical-theology-of-mr-rogers