the yard is very crunchy. we haven’t had rain in a few weeks (2-3?), but it looks like it could rain this weekend. i did water my few potted plants that live on the porch since they were looking especially thirsty.

immediately the “drip drip drop” song from bambi rolled into my head!

i set mine up last weekend, too!

my partner ordered them online. guessing from amazon.

if you can plop the tablets in there, i think that would help!

my partner ate some of the fruit, but they don’t seem quite ripe enough to eat.

and yeah on the fungus! it was heavily infected last year, though we pruned heavily and it seems mostly gone this year. i’ll have to take a pic sometime, poor tree was shooting off ten billion branches trying to survive the neglect so it’s really bushy and awkward looking.

figured out that our big fruiting tree is… an apricot tree! sadly, it seems to be struggling. it didn’t fruit at all last year, and some of the bark is sloughing off the trunk, so i’m not sure how much longer it will last. i think it’s nearly done fruiting, which is good because the fruit flies are going NUTS out there.

we had to cut down a native cherry tree last year because it was crowding the deck. a new one popped up just far enough away that we decided to keep it, and it is absolutely thriving!

we also have some weird fruiting trees out there, which are dropping all over the place. might be an almond tree? and another one might be a plum or peach tree? whoever planted these was really going wild.

I JUST WANT TO SMOTHER IT WITH LOVE

i didn’t have time to do a food garden this year, but i do have some general updates. this is only our second spring in this location, so i still feel like i’m getting to know the land.

• planted tons of clover in bare spots around the yard
• we’ve got lots of ground ivy, pink-sorrel, purple dead nettle, and bulbous buttercup growing in the yard
• need to replant the mature rosemary out of the container and into the ground — not sure where to put it yet
• my neglected succulent is flowering??? literally haven’t thought about this housewarming gift in at least six months

i had the same reaction haha.

good. i found a ton of these nasty little things in my backyard when i moved into my current house. the house was (no surprise) previously occupied by a bunch of undergrads.

from what i understand, vaping is much easier to get into due to the taste/smell. so neither is good for anyone, but cigarettes are seen as gross and the companies that make vaping products have tricked teens into thinking that they’re safe.

both clever and not scraping and saving usernames to some mass database (as far as i can tell).

yes! flexbox is great for this.

wholeheartedly agree! css has been my main job for going on 15 years because i’ve always enjoyed its quirks. the past 5 years or so have felt like leaps and bounds in terms of how i structure markup and styling. it’s such a fun language to learn. stuff like flex and grid make my work so much easier so i can spend more time on the fun stuff.

i think about this article a lot whenever i hear about tailwind.

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css

there’s also a peru, indiana!

i got to see a brooding parasite happen in real time! a carolina wren raised a brown headed cowbird in the potted plant on my back porch. it was a little sad to see none of the wrens make it, but it didn’t feel like my place to intervene.