It’s that time of year where I start to see seedlings for sale that look gargantuan. These are my babies this year. Scrawny little things, they’re MINE, and I love them. (They are tomatoes and peppers.)

Life is good this weekend as I’ve been sleeping well.

Xopher built a new pasture gate!

I read about a stupid app where at a random point of the day you will have two minutes to post two pictures to the site, “one from each phone camera” which had me scratching my head wondering if the assumption is that everyone owns two phones nowadays. I think it must mean both looking outward and looking selfie. Anyway, at the time of reading that, I proceeded to take an outward picture, and a self-facing picture, both shown here. I’ll admit to taking the self-facing picture three times before settling. I had a murderous scowl on my face for the first one. Wow, no wonder I have a hard time making friends. To compensate, I put on a stupid grin for the second one. I decided with the third one to keep myself off to one side for best results.

This is my blog, and I like to have pleasant pictures on it. I understand some people have a problem with the curated nature of social media, that we only show positive aspects of our lives. But who really wants to see pictures of the meltdown I have like every three days when I can’t sleep? Trust me, they happen. Grown-ups realize that it is normal and healthy that people tend to show other people only the pictures where they don’t look like the bloody devil himself.

Today I dyed Pro-Chem Eggplant and bought an eggplant for dinner. Did not premeditate any of this, not consciously.

My Util-a-Tub and my mohair washing basket, almost ready for the new season…

• Insomnia and the whole barrage of treatments worse than the ills
• Found a tick in my navel this morning
• Two mice in the house in two days

Sometimes it can be good to count your antiblessings! Because it’s kind of funny when everything starts piling on! Ha ha! What next!

I highly highly highly highly recommend everyone schedule themselves a Mental Health Day right now. On Mental Health Day, you do whatever the eff you want.

Me, I went used book shopping. Along with whatever the eff else I felt like.

I also unmucked this pretty much by myself. I don’t know exactly why or how I did these things. This was originally so high with wasted hay and muck, Florey was starting to have trouble climbing in & out. Somehow Florey alone managed to generate more waste than Florey plus Milky.