Another garden update: The oranges are coming in just fine. This is about half of the size they will be in December.
25.10.2025 01:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@thiswasfine.bsky.social
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Another garden update: The oranges are coming in just fine. This is about half of the size they will be in December.
25.10.2025 01:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Two passionfruits on the vine
Brief garden update: Passionfruits are on the vine. I am hoping they can ripen before our first frost. We get a much later frost here compared to much of the US.
25.10.2025 01:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah π I cancelled a lot of subscriptions to save some money. I cancelled D+ months before Kimmel and cancelled Paramount Plus. And all I have left now is YouTube and one online course.
16.10.2025 04:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Ah. Okay. Thanks for letting me know. I actually cancelled my prime account. π Whee!
16.10.2025 04:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Organic blueberry ice cream made with cream, whole milk, raw cane sugar, and vanilla extract. Yum!
Yeah. Well. Ice cream is life. I guess?
I made a mess of the counter but itβs all cleaned up now. Well worth the effort.
Oohβ¦ now I am wondering what releasing all of them will do. Since itβs horror, I take it that itβs not a good thing! Creative death scenes sounds intriguing.π€ Is this on Netflix or somewhere else?
16.10.2025 04:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβve never watched it. What is the premise and why is it so bingeable?
16.10.2025 03:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New research could transform the lab study of olfactionβand may challenge a Nobel-winning hypothesis. https://scim.ag/4q3FOgT
15.10.2025 22:30 β π 25 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1I just read this article on The Globe & Mail, and it is relatable to my having left FBβ¦ I donβt hear from old friends and acquaintances as much as I used to. I have become invisible. The trick now is to find my inbetween www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-p...
11.10.2025 14:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh btwβ¦ Report on the optometrist and my bent glassesβ¦ An assistant tried to unbend my frames where they meet the stem hinges as best they could without breaking them, and it is better, but not ideal. I am on a special plan though where they will be replaced & get a new pair in a couple weeks. Yay!
06.10.2025 17:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This. All this. Thank you.
06.10.2025 17:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Manβ¦ I have one hell of a headache. I donβt know if I slept wrong and kinked my neck somehow and thatβs the cause or crappy sleep or something else. But I am about to take the ice cream container and put it on my head/neck instead of eating the contents.
06.10.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Organic blueberry cream ice cream. I halved the 4 cups of blueberries in the recipe to 2 cups, so it has a milder blueberry flavour.
Okay. Confession time. I have made more ice cream, and summer is over. Coulda fooled me, the temperature here tomorrow is gonna be 30 C/86 F. But I guess that is how things roll in California.
This batch is more of an organic blueberry cream. I halved the blueberries from 4 c to 2 in the recipe.
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Famed primatologist Jane Goodall was renowned for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees but dedicated her life to helping all wild animals and the natural world.
02.10.2025 19:00 β π 157 π 19 π¬ 1 π 1Yes. To some degree being busy with stuff and online less chronically is better for my mental health. The only drawback is I miss people I used to talk to more. π
02.10.2025 06:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I havenβt? I donβt know how I would respond to it because in recent years I have developed a reaction to cannabis smoke I never used to have. I suspect cannabis is on my no fly list based on that. Would CBD be? Maybeβ¦
02.10.2025 06:25 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I could use a sedative. Sleep has been pretty broken for a while. Coffee helps, but only so much before itβs diminishing returns.
β¦ Yes, I am still making ice cream here and there, but less often. It was more a summer thing.
I seriously canβt keep up with the doomscrolling these days. I am busy with day to day life. Changes on the horizon.
But in the meantime⦠neurologist appointment tomorrow, optometrist walk in Friday morning because I accidentally bent my glasses frame and now they sit crooked on my face.
Awesome! I really enjoyed the original movies. I am curious how one adapts this for the stage including travelling back in time with the car. βDriveβ into a projection on a screen? Then lift the screen to reveal a set of the past?
02.10.2025 05:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How do you think they compare to Pro 2? I read some ppl complain about the fit, that their ears hurt. Any experience with that? I donβt know if I want to upgrade yet. My 2βs arenβt that old.
02.10.2025 05:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Donβt worry, I am not totally disengaging. I am just putting my focus elsewhere and how best to work for a better future.
18.09.2025 05:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My personal life is also busy on more than one level. Medical appointments. Family related gatherings. Some upcoming travel. And I may not be online as much as I used to be, which was chronically tbh.
18.09.2025 05:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey, hi π Long time no see. I am leaving this message where my friends can see it. Sorry I havenβt been on BlueSky much in the past month or so. Thereβs been a lot going on, and I have been using this platform less. I still want to keep in touch - Iβm not sure how best to do this.
18.09.2025 04:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0MOAR homemade vanilla ice cream!
I confess, I am back on the honemade ice cream kick. Made vanilla ice cream this morning, itβs in the freezer now to harden more. I think part of the motivation is itβs going to be 40 C today or 103 Fβ¦
21.08.2025 16:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Novo Nordiskβs move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but letβs not forget.
Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make.
The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
An Anna's hummingbird in my son's backyard in Seattle.
19.08.2025 23:04 β π 1433 π 115 π¬ 25 π 5A Red-bellied Woodpecker working his way up the far side of the tree.
19.08.2025 23:21 β π 1760 π 145 π¬ 27 π 4White sands New Mexico
20.08.2025 00:44 β π 5237 π 490 π¬ 128 π 27genAI is morally wrong and disrespectful to the creatives in your life as long as the models are built with material stolen from unconsenting and uncompensated writers and artists
there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own