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Shutdown project day 7: making my combined bathroom/laundry room dreams come true.
This is the only free wall space that has room to hang clothes.
#centuryhome

An arrowhead plant in a purple vase in a macrame hanger next to a grow light with several other plants under it.

Shutdown project day 4: macrame (in addition to working on the bathroom shelves and holes in the wall).

A bathroom with built in shelves.

A shelf on the ground. The walls where the shelf was are gray with small holes and tears. The rest of the walls are white.

Newly installed shelf supports and repaired and painted walls.

A bathroom with shelves in the corner. A tabby cat is sitting on one shelf.

Shutdown project days 3-6: ripped out and repositioned a shelf that was oddly spaced and it turns out held up by finishing nails and caulk. Since I had the spackle out I also fixed the other holes in my walls from previous projects.
#womancarpenter #diy

An acorn squash, a bowl of bell peppers, and a bowl of basil.

A bowl of pesto with a fork in it.

I also picked the basil and an acorn squash that seemed ready. I'm gambling with the rest of the winter squash because they need more time. I dug up 3 of the pepper plants to try and overwinter them.
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening

A bowl full of green bell peppers.

A bowl full of lemon cucumbers and one tomato.

We've got a freeze watch tonight. Picked all the peppers, cucumbers, and one tomato. Still need to pull the green tomatoes. Going to leave the beets, kohlrabi, herbs, lettuce, peas, and winter squash since we're only forecast for 37°F.
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening

You have probably done this... if not, check your insurance formulary and make sure that the medication is on it. Was having similar issues, to me it seemed the doc and pharmacy weren't talking. At doc's office suggestion I called insurance and learned the med wasn't on the list. Gave list to doc.

Protect our Freedom to Read in Wyoming If you don’t like a book, don’t read it – or don’t let your kids read it. It’s as simple as that. Ask the Joint Judiciary Committee to protect our right to read in Wyoming.

Contact the committee members today to let them know that’s a bad, unconstitutional idea. 3/3

An orange wall and white ceiling with holes drilled in them.

Two metal trash cans with a sack of chicken feed on top of one.

A wooden fence with 2 new boards and hollyhocks in front of it.

A wooden fence with three new boards.

Shutdown day 2 projects: put some more holes in my house that didn't result in hanging a plant. I'm starting to suspect the universe doesn't want a plant there.
Put the chicken feed in metal trashcans.
Replaced broken fence boards.

A black and white chicken takes a dustbath next to some newly planted apple trees.

Shutdown day 1 project: I planted my apple trees with a little help from my hens.
We've got a wealthy and a liberty. Both were identified in the Wyoming Apple Project | Home share.google/hAcslAHqvXfW...
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening

We didn't all vote for this.

*you'll have to wait until the government is funded again to go to an NRCS office.

Many plants on a wire shelf and windowsill.

Many plants on a windowsill and on top of a refrigerator.

Plants on a wire shelf with various pantry items.

A plant hanging in an archway with more plants in the background on a windowsill.

Maybe if I bring all my office plants home the shutdown won't last too long.
I don't really believe it will have any sway since calling my reps hasn't done anything either. It's a nice idea though.
#furlough2025 #houseplants

Peppers, parsley, and kohlrabi in a plastic container.

A purple soup with dumplings in a blue bowl.

I grew some stuff and then I made a purple stew (whip, whip, whip, whip). Ok, really it's a soup.
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening #formercampcounselor

A black bunny and a white bunny eating a treat while a tabby cat watches.

Bunnies got a chew toy/treat and somebody is jealous. I keep trying to tell Pete the Cat he is an obligate carnivore and doesn't have the right teeth for chewing bunny toys. He's still not convinced.
#tabbycat #bunnymom

A pepper plant with lots of peppers on it.

A pepper plant with lots of peppers on it.

A marigold blooming.

My chocolate peppers think they've got plenty of time before first frost. Did they not notice it was 40° F last night? Get ripe already! (I've been using them green.)
Also finally got a marigold. The plants have just been growing taller and taller all summer.
#zone5garden #wyominggarden

A building with THERMOPOLIS painted on the side.

A mural on a building of flowers and butterflies.

Soul nourishing weekend. And still, I'm so glad to be home with my cats, bunnies, and chickens and looking forward to sleeping in my bed tonight.

A travertine terrace with a mountain in the back that has world's largest mineral hot spring spelled out in white rocks on it.

A travertine terrace with a pond and mountain in the background.

Finally made it to the world's largest mineral hot spring.
#Wyoming #hotsprings

A black and white chicken with wet feathers.

She's as mad as a middle age wet hen...
Marta gave me a scare this week and spent a day in the dog crate in the barn and another day in the quarantine condo.
She seems to be doing better now and has had a bath to wash off the dried diarrhea.
She's not really mad now that the bath is done.
#chicken

A hand holding a crookneck squash and a bell pepper.

A bowl of soup with yellow squash, tomatoes, and ground bison.

It's getting cool enough in the evenings for soup. Thankful for the north and south American indigenous seed keepers that made this meal possible.
#zone5gardening
#wyominggardening
#indigenousplants

A blue metal raised bed overgrown with tomato plants.

A blue metal raised bed with pruned tomato plants.

The annual tomato massacre has happened. Nights are getting cooler and first frost doesn't seem so distant. In fact two friends outside of town already had frost pockets and lost their basil.
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening

A wooden planter with pepper plants growing in it.

Bell pepper plants with flowers and small peppers.

I still can't get over how much easier it is to garden one USDA zone warmer. I've gotten so many peppers and there are more in there. Though the chickens let me know the cage is not chicken proof last night and ate a few peppers.
#zone5gardening

When you find a bargain on bulbs but it's still getting into the 80s...
Our average first frost is September 23 and in theory could be as early as September 10. I just watered the garden in shorts and a t-shirt though.
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening

Gardening tools hung on a barn wall.

Various tool and recreation equipment hung on a pegboard.

Shovels hung on a barn wall.

I finally hung up my shovels and rakes and implements of destruction! Ok, technically i only have one rake. Anyways, I rewarded myself by going to the hardware store and buying more pegs for the pegboard.
5 year old me would never have thought the hardware store was a reward.
#101yearoldbarn

@natronacountydems.bsky.social have one more official registered voter today. Changing my party affiliation was easy!

Social Security whistleblower resigns ‘involuntarily’ | CNN Politics Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’ Social Security data at risk, the agency’s chief data officer “involuntarily” resigned.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...

A bandshell in a park with speakers and flags set up.

Pops in the Park kicking off the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 season. I love that I live in a place where I can walk to a concert.

A small brownish red pepper, 2 tomatoes, and a knife on a wooden cutting board.

My first chocolate pepper. As advertised, it tastes just like a regular bell pepper. I was so worried I planted too much. Over the winter I'll build up in ground beds of compost so Next year I can plant 3 or 4 times as much.
#zone5gardening #wyominggardening

Symphoricarpos occidentalis (western snowberry) growing in front of a wooden fence.

One of the few things I won in the native plant lottery: western snowberry or Symphoricarpos occidentalis. I wonder how long these seeds have been lying dormant waiting to be given a chance to grow.

A white rabbit and a black rabbit eat wheat grass growing out of a re-used plastic lettuce container.

A white rabbit and a black rabbit eat wheat grass growing out of a re-used plastic lettuce container.

I grew a delicious fresh dinner and they decided the leftover plastic bits of cover was the tastiest part. I snatched dinner back and carefully peeled off all the last bits of cover. Now it's not interesting. Then the automatic feeder rained kibble, so they really don't want it. I tried.
#bunnies

A small purple flower.

A maranta or prayer plant on a window sill.

The last maranta I had died a sad dehydrated death. This one has more than doubled in size in the few months I've had it and flowered. Sometimes, full sun isn't what plants want.
#houseplant