Blessings Darlings!
It's 10:50 am, and 94 degrees. Rah.
I've been as busy as I could be in this heat and humidity. Garden, housework, having folks block me on FaceBook, the usual.
Altho' no one has asked, here's my view of the 'witches on TikTok are cursing the Fae, and the Moon, and the Sun" thing. And my view is "Whatever". It has the same vibe as that thing the 4th of July - "Antifa is going to Gettysburg to desecrate the cemetery!" The vibe is 'some one is trolling for reaction."
If some witches try it - shrug. All beginners try to do stuff they can't pull off. That's normal.
Maybe I'll do a blog on 'how to appease beings you've pissed the fuck off' sometime soon. Not just because of that, but because ... anyone doing magic is more 'visible' to the spirits, and more likely to step over a line with one or more of them, AND GET NOTICED doing it. It's nice to know what to do in such cases.
But this WitchTok stuff is ... kinda like putting on masks and crashing a party in Verona, given by a family your family is feuding with. Normal white kid stuff. The police will drive them home, no charges filed.
Frondly, Fern
Monday, July 20, 2020
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Herbs!
Blessings Darlings!
The heat advisory continues ... It's 97 degrees at noon, feels like 112. Spawn weeded the bushes today, to stay in the shade.
I harvested sage, oregano, spearmint, and thyme. Want to water the mugwort before I harvest that. The new rosemary is too small to do a real harvest of, as are the struggling parsley plants. Basil has been harvested every week, to make sure it doesn't go to seed. I have potted basil that I'm letting go to seed. They have all been rinsed clean and are spread out on cardboard to dry. The dining room smells amazing.
Whole chicken for dinner tonight. Might spatchcock it, will use a red rub on it. Will certainly make it outside on a grill rather than heating the house. I want to serve squash fritters with it, but a dark green veggie will look better. Especially if I use corn as the starch. Ended up with leftover rice as the starch, and frozen green beans, since my green beans are probably still 2 weeks away.
That, and other housework, and family stuff, is it.
Frondly, Fern
The heat advisory continues ... It's 97 degrees at noon, feels like 112. Spawn weeded the bushes today, to stay in the shade.
I harvested sage, oregano, spearmint, and thyme. Want to water the mugwort before I harvest that. The new rosemary is too small to do a real harvest of, as are the struggling parsley plants. Basil has been harvested every week, to make sure it doesn't go to seed. I have potted basil that I'm letting go to seed. They have all been rinsed clean and are spread out on cardboard to dry. The dining room smells amazing.
Whole chicken for dinner tonight. Might spatchcock it, will use a red rub on it. Will certainly make it outside on a grill rather than heating the house. I want to serve squash fritters with it, but a dark green veggie will look better. Especially if I use corn as the starch. Ended up with leftover rice as the starch, and frozen green beans, since my green beans are probably still 2 weeks away.
That, and other housework, and family stuff, is it.
Frondly, Fern
Saturday, July 18, 2020
John Lewis and Rev. Vivian both dead.
Blessings Darlings!
Not only did I sleep most of yesterday, I slept all night just fine. My last dream was a successful battle, with my co-warriors splitting up the silver.
I am really being buried in yellow crookneck squash. There's a lot of tempura and ?croodles? in my future. But it is SO DRY. Second haying here is going to be sparse. I'm watering the garden almost daily, in small part because the Spawn can't get weeds out of the dry clay if I don't. And II have no idea what type of fruit of veggies the volunteer in the squash family is. It's not a crookneck. It's not a cucumber. It could be a muskmelon or honeydew, since we grew them last year, or a cross between them. Or a spaghetti squash. Time will tell, I guess.
John Lewis and Rev. Vivian both died in the last 24 hours. Sadness.
75000 daily new cases of Covid 19, and the Trump admin is insisting on opening schools.
Tempura was great. But. oh, what a mess! Guess I'll spent all my time between now and end of day offerings cleaning the kitchen. SO WORTH IT.
Frondly, Fern
Not only did I sleep most of yesterday, I slept all night just fine. My last dream was a successful battle, with my co-warriors splitting up the silver.
I am really being buried in yellow crookneck squash. There's a lot of tempura and ?croodles? in my future. But it is SO DRY. Second haying here is going to be sparse. I'm watering the garden almost daily, in small part because the Spawn can't get weeds out of the dry clay if I don't. And II have no idea what type of fruit of veggies the volunteer in the squash family is. It's not a crookneck. It's not a cucumber. It could be a muskmelon or honeydew, since we grew them last year, or a cross between them. Or a spaghetti squash. Time will tell, I guess.
John Lewis and Rev. Vivian both died in the last 24 hours. Sadness.
75000 daily new cases of Covid 19, and the Trump admin is insisting on opening schools.
Tempura was great. But. oh, what a mess! Guess I'll spent all my time between now and end of day offerings cleaning the kitchen. SO WORTH IT.
Frondly, Fern
Friday, July 17, 2020
Tacos and Tempura and Summer Temperatures.
Blessings Darlings!
Sluggish today. Just want to drink coffee and read. But not outside, where it already feels like 102 degrees before noon.
Garden has been watered, a few hours ago. Weeding has taken place, by the Spawn. That's one of his daily jobs. I've not worked on dishes or laundry yet. Dinner will be tacos, so that's easy enough, but might need a tomato or two, I think we're low on fresh tomatoes, since I planted late and we're not getting them from the garden yet. Tomorrow night we're having a Tempura Extravaganza, featuring the squash, the jumbo shrimp, and a few other veggies from the store. Maybe ... turnips? I wonder how they'd be as tempura?
Damn! A bee just flew from the back yard over the house ... looking as big as a military transport plane.
I ended up NOT drinking more coffee, but did try to read and thus ended up asleep for about 3 hours in the afternoon. I got all my daily chores done, just no exercise or reading ... yet. I might get some in. I might not. It's okay.
Frondly, Fern
Sluggish today. Just want to drink coffee and read. But not outside, where it already feels like 102 degrees before noon.
Garden has been watered, a few hours ago. Weeding has taken place, by the Spawn. That's one of his daily jobs. I've not worked on dishes or laundry yet. Dinner will be tacos, so that's easy enough, but might need a tomato or two, I think we're low on fresh tomatoes, since I planted late and we're not getting them from the garden yet. Tomorrow night we're having a Tempura Extravaganza, featuring the squash, the jumbo shrimp, and a few other veggies from the store. Maybe ... turnips? I wonder how they'd be as tempura?
Damn! A bee just flew from the back yard over the house ... looking as big as a military transport plane.
I ended up NOT drinking more coffee, but did try to read and thus ended up asleep for about 3 hours in the afternoon. I got all my daily chores done, just no exercise or reading ... yet. I might get some in. I might not. It's okay.
Frondly, Fern
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Living the Vida Boring
Blessings Darlings!
Welp, the grey squash, which I love, is very very very susceptible to bacterial wilt spread by squash bugs. The yellow crookneck squash is both a bit less attractive to squash bugs AND doesn't seem to give much of a care about bacterial wilt. The one plant I put in is producing very heavily, too. The volunteer squash (which I suspect is also yellow crookneck) looks like it will also start producing in a week or so. Some of the peppers are beginning to bloom, but I fear that the only ones that survived are the cayenne peppers. They are useful, but ... I just used up the last of the sweet peppers that I froze from last year, and would like to freeze a batch of THEM. I need to check to see if I have more of them that I dried still available.
Humidity is not my friend today.
I don't feel like I have much to blog right now. Not that most of my blogs are particularly wonderful, but blogging how life goes on during relatively awful times is ... pretty mundane and boring itself. And I'm not blogging about things that are HEADLINES and GOING ON IN MY YARD. We have small Black Lives Matter protests in our area, and because I'm isolating I don't go to most of them. I don't go to the weekly Rockwool protests. I'm not about to list groups/amounts/times I give money, or every single other 'good deed'/virtue signalling type thing. I'm not going to bore you or me with the details on my little exercise program, or how I felt exercising this day, and whine about ... exercising. Because I do that a lot in my life, and no one else should have THAT imposed on them.
So you get lists of what I got done, and details on the garden. And some other nature notes about birds and fireflies. And squash bugs.
I can't see some future Ken Burns using this for some amazing documentary on the year 2020, or CoronaVirus: The Mini Series, and no one's going to look to an old white woman's blog for Black Lives Matter stuff.
Welp, that's it for today.
Frondly. Fern
Welp, the grey squash, which I love, is very very very susceptible to bacterial wilt spread by squash bugs. The yellow crookneck squash is both a bit less attractive to squash bugs AND doesn't seem to give much of a care about bacterial wilt. The one plant I put in is producing very heavily, too. The volunteer squash (which I suspect is also yellow crookneck) looks like it will also start producing in a week or so. Some of the peppers are beginning to bloom, but I fear that the only ones that survived are the cayenne peppers. They are useful, but ... I just used up the last of the sweet peppers that I froze from last year, and would like to freeze a batch of THEM. I need to check to see if I have more of them that I dried still available.
Humidity is not my friend today.
I don't feel like I have much to blog right now. Not that most of my blogs are particularly wonderful, but blogging how life goes on during relatively awful times is ... pretty mundane and boring itself. And I'm not blogging about things that are HEADLINES and GOING ON IN MY YARD. We have small Black Lives Matter protests in our area, and because I'm isolating I don't go to most of them. I don't go to the weekly Rockwool protests. I'm not about to list groups/amounts/times I give money, or every single other 'good deed'/virtue signalling type thing. I'm not going to bore you or me with the details on my little exercise program, or how I felt exercising this day, and whine about ... exercising. Because I do that a lot in my life, and no one else should have THAT imposed on them.
So you get lists of what I got done, and details on the garden. And some other nature notes about birds and fireflies. And squash bugs.
I can't see some future Ken Burns using this for some amazing documentary on the year 2020, or CoronaVirus: The Mini Series, and no one's going to look to an old white woman's blog for Black Lives Matter stuff.
Welp, that's it for today.
Frondly. Fern
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Midnight Music?
Blessings Darlings!
I forgot to blog yesterday!
It WAS a busy day, with eyeglass stuff for the Chubby Hubby, appointment with nurse practitioner for me then I went to the hardware store and the pharmacy (which didn't have the drug I needed), and with doing all the usual stuff in the garden, cleaning, cooking, etc.
We will all survive the fact that I missed a day.
I've been hearing music in the middle of the night. Hard rock, with an emphasis on electric guitars - I hear them, not any base. It's soft, not very close ... but I hear it just as loud in the house with the windows closed as I do outside. I have NOT NOT NOT gone wandering to seek the source of it. Sure, most likely it's a human neighbor. But ... sigh ... the Good Neighbors could have some hard rock interests. It's not at all clear how they'd be powering electric guitars, of course. What IS clear is that I am NOT following strange music in the middle of the night.
The hot weather, bugs, dry weather, and clay soil is doing a number on my newly planted and transplanted Swiss Chard. I'm going to have to transplant more, and give all of it special attention. I'm already giving the summer squash bug egg checks two times a day, I'll have to water and bug check the chard at the same times.
Now, a lot of us are attending meetings via Zoom now, and have been watching/making podcasts for ... years. Wouldn't you like transcripts? You can get them, easily. And free/cheap. The Otter App does it. I just whined about no transcripts for podcasts, and ... realized that we have this tool as part of our business. I didn't PLAN on posting it here, but I'm about it. We are not an affiliate of theirs, but I DO think that if a lot of folks get the paid version we get some gift. That said, we use the free version and have never needed the paid version.
Here's the link : https://otter.ai/referrals/UL62OMEZ
A free account gives them 600 audio minutes per month.
If they need a transcript of a video, they can upload the video file, and Otter will extract the audio from that.
If they need a transcript of audio, they need to upload an audio file:
Otter lets you import existing recordings in the following formats:
audio: mp3, aac, wav, m4a, wma
video: mp4, avi, mov, wmv, mpg
If they need more info, the Chubby Hubby can help.
Damn, it's hot and humid today. I should plant a new batch of green beans, but instead I'm hiding indoors with the air conditioning on.
We bought a little table top portable grill. The guys have finally put it together. We finally figured out how to light it. It is now on the 15 minutes 'burn off toxic shit' stage. I don't know if this has enough BTU power for my purposes.
Update - it takes at least 4 minutes per side for yellow crook neck squash slices.
Now I have pans of chicken in it. Because I didn't have time to marinade the chicken and I want them immersed in flavor. Maybe tomorrow I'll throw drumsticks on = because I don't think I'll have to worry about burning them using direct heat. Tonight is boneless chicken.
Tonight was also the first evening I heard the screams of the cicadas. They were the musical accompaniment to the beginning of the firefly show, but they didn't scream for very long.
Until tomorrow ...
Frondly, Fern
I forgot to blog yesterday!
It WAS a busy day, with eyeglass stuff for the Chubby Hubby, appointment with nurse practitioner for me then I went to the hardware store and the pharmacy (which didn't have the drug I needed), and with doing all the usual stuff in the garden, cleaning, cooking, etc.
We will all survive the fact that I missed a day.
I've been hearing music in the middle of the night. Hard rock, with an emphasis on electric guitars - I hear them, not any base. It's soft, not very close ... but I hear it just as loud in the house with the windows closed as I do outside. I have NOT NOT NOT gone wandering to seek the source of it. Sure, most likely it's a human neighbor. But ... sigh ... the Good Neighbors could have some hard rock interests. It's not at all clear how they'd be powering electric guitars, of course. What IS clear is that I am NOT following strange music in the middle of the night.
The hot weather, bugs, dry weather, and clay soil is doing a number on my newly planted and transplanted Swiss Chard. I'm going to have to transplant more, and give all of it special attention. I'm already giving the summer squash bug egg checks two times a day, I'll have to water and bug check the chard at the same times.
Now, a lot of us are attending meetings via Zoom now, and have been watching/making podcasts for ... years. Wouldn't you like transcripts? You can get them, easily. And free/cheap. The Otter App does it. I just whined about no transcripts for podcasts, and ... realized that we have this tool as part of our business. I didn't PLAN on posting it here, but I'm about it. We are not an affiliate of theirs, but I DO think that if a lot of folks get the paid version we get some gift. That said, we use the free version and have never needed the paid version.
Here's the link : https://otter.ai/referrals/UL62OMEZ
A free account gives them 600 audio minutes per month.
If they need a transcript of a video, they can upload the video file, and Otter will extract the audio from that.
If they need a transcript of audio, they need to upload an audio file:
Otter lets you import existing recordings in the following formats:
audio: mp3, aac, wav, m4a, wma
video: mp4, avi, mov, wmv, mpg
If they need more info, the Chubby Hubby can help.
Damn, it's hot and humid today. I should plant a new batch of green beans, but instead I'm hiding indoors with the air conditioning on.
We bought a little table top portable grill. The guys have finally put it together. We finally figured out how to light it. It is now on the 15 minutes 'burn off toxic shit' stage. I don't know if this has enough BTU power for my purposes.
Update - it takes at least 4 minutes per side for yellow crook neck squash slices.
Now I have pans of chicken in it. Because I didn't have time to marinade the chicken and I want them immersed in flavor. Maybe tomorrow I'll throw drumsticks on = because I don't think I'll have to worry about burning them using direct heat. Tonight is boneless chicken.
Tonight was also the first evening I heard the screams of the cicadas. They were the musical accompaniment to the beginning of the firefly show, but they didn't scream for very long.
Until tomorrow ...
Frondly, Fern
Monday, July 13, 2020
Experimental Dinner Meh
Blessings Darlings!
Garden? Check
Healthy breakfast? Check
Dinner decided on? Check
Spawn out shopping? Check (it's Moolatte Monday at Dairy Queen. Thus, he goes shopping on Mondays as well as Wednesdays)
Dishes caught up on? Check
The Meatball Sub Casserole for dinner was meh. Fortunately, I only made a half batch. The meatballs and sauce will be fine on spaghetti.
Frondly, Fern
Garden? Check
Healthy breakfast? Check
Dinner decided on? Check
Spawn out shopping? Check (it's Moolatte Monday at Dairy Queen. Thus, he goes shopping on Mondays as well as Wednesdays)
Dishes caught up on? Check
The Meatball Sub Casserole for dinner was meh. Fortunately, I only made a half batch. The meatballs and sauce will be fine on spaghetti.
Frondly, Fern
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