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Wife'nMom, Geek, AuADHD, superfat, uu. NY -Not NYC -unceded Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ lands.
Too many pets, not enough gardening.
Failed my mammo, lopped off my boobs. Suppressing to survive. Making do with the new normal, whatever turns out to be.
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This is the first time I've been home to vote in person in November in what feels like ages.

Having a 2nd car makes having a poll worker in the family much more pleasant.

The only excitement in my part of the state is the weirdo hyper local party line and the Adirondack measure.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I mean, I do like adding things to my list of garden essentials, but...what does Temu know that I don't?
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Mandatory squash stop.

Also an art-o-mat (slim pickings, went with a random.
No available restock of magical mustard but I did grab a specialty baking sugar and a 1/4 peck of apples. The only variety I remember (stupid chemo brain) is smokehouse. And maybe a stayman?
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yesterday's music was a bit all over the place.
And yet that's the end of the CDs available in the car. (Different ones on the way down.)
So I guess I need to figure out Spotify more (but then also promptly delete it?)

I did a light dabble last week and found myself frustrated by auto play.
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It was like this for all 7 ish hours today and it will be like this for all 7ish hours tomorrow.

I am very tired and nobody can see you cry from overwhelm in the car when you're going 70ish mph in the rain.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Final night with my mom and the archival exploration has gone very retro.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The pears have been inside for about a week and are becoming softer. Sunday afternoon is entirely the wrong time to start buttering them, and yet they can't be trusted to last the week.

Also most of the volunteer compost mystery gourds. I am not allowed to do a giant trashbag spider laying eggs.
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Since cephalopods are cool now, I don't think I'll ever be seeing those octopus socks back in parental basket.

I settled on dumpster fire socks and a faded RBG shirt asserting "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Guess what day it is!

(World Octopus day!)

Ride to school given with a certain amount of teasing.

Followed by watching a perfectly bland and normal looking teen person- no towering hat and no backpack bling- get out of the car ahead and sedately follow mine in.

And they stole the octopus socks!
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Bog slog this morning and spent another hour on a mixed patch of privet and multiflora.

Brought in this mysterious branch n berry found betwixt thorns, assorted.

Finally finished playing with lens suggestions and crushed the berry and the juice is bitter. Alas - invasive guelder rose !
Boo!
September 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Actually caught some nice ADHD videos and Excel tips too.

Restraint collapse!
3 kinds of rest. Maybe the yardwork is a spiritual practice?
Does planting count as creativity? Probably not.

Anyhow, here is a lab snippet. I think it is good.
Lots of other labs not so good. Big die off stress.
September 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The bigger question being what am going to do with the tiny amount of pulp.

Perhaps a pudding.
September 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
House haul and a 4th to go to Canada for holiday times.
September 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Le squee
I got to show @bookreadingguy.bsky.social my favorite shopping stop when careening up the 81 from checking in on southern kin.
Jon Henry General Store
I come for the art-o-mat but stay for the niche local edibles. Not that we don't have apples at home, but pawpaws are harder.
September 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Well. I got the sugar. It was margherita flavored.

And some commiseration and empty words.

And apparently the coverage will shift again next month because it's complicated so maybe I could wait and try again.
September 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Verdict! Subconscious recollection of panko ftw.
Scotch eggs for some what are into that.

Using grilling sausage patties for extreme ease and the air fryer. Turned out great.
September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ortho PA says go to my happy place.
This is why I scheduled the trigger injection for Friday.

That's a lot of lidocaine and stabby stab for feeling jolly without some mmj gummies.

I do hope this one lasts for at least as many months since no more than one more before surgery solution.
August 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A coop so sensible and easy it might be erected in a weekend by a man or boy with basic tools!

(Took us months and buying of many less than basic power tools. )

Known as the PT Woods style coop, the plans are scanned from public domain and are very nominal in functional carpentry instructions.
August 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Well well.
After semi Herculean labors, zee nutella babies are being moved into the slightly refurbished big coop.

Doubled the perches and planned ahead for winter insulation by stripping the old feed bags on the walls and rehanging them with gaps for straw-before mounting board and perch.
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Don't let the door hit ya, summer.
August 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mysterious compost volunteer is looking large and melonish
August 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This one is too mid to break through for lap treats.
She's willing to hang when conspicuous are absent tho. That means secret cuddle treats, or the more mutually satisfying weeding buddy.
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
They don't especially mention that if you raise up friendly hens and or let them have yard access, you will not be able to take your kitchen sink fruit (mm peaches) out to the yard to eat.

Not without sharing and /or being very fast.

Only applies to people fruit. Yard fruit fall is boring.
August 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And then I remembered that not only do I have chickens but also I have a farm share.

So the weird roll bake got topped with tomatoes and hollandaise sauce.

(Leftover egg whites as baby hen snack.)
(Crap that's probably an oncology forbidden sauce. Oh well. Those labs have been pretty decent.)
August 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I have discovered egg noodles for peanut butter noodles and I'm never going back.

I don't trust psa-getti and somehow never stock up on appropriate noodles when in an asian grocery.
August 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM