Seattle based, UK born human being with a wildly swinging pendulum of interests, not limited to: reading, stationery, geopolitics, gardening, television, film, fashion (not fast) and food.
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natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ If anyone has particularly strong opinions about tape cutters, I just want to let you know that Jetpens has the Sun Star Cassette Tape Cutter back in stock, and they are truly excellent. For example: they stack. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I don't have much to say today except that I watched the videos, and those videos showed a murder, not anything that could be considered self-defence or justifiable force. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ PSA for anyone looking: Jetpens now has the Diamine Lady Gray ink in stock! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I'm starting to put together my seed wishlist for the upcoming season, so if anyone out there wants to recommend me a company to buy from (I already know of Adaptive Seeds & Uprising Seeds), especially if they have good big tomato & cucumber varieties, that would be awesome! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ oh yikes, that's some pretty bad flooding down in Pacific, WA. A much bigger breach in their levee than the Tukwila one (see: 2m18s). npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Oop, looks like the White River levee in Pacific (south of Auburn, north of Puyallup) failed last night, this time with actual flooding. It really does feel like it's time that this state poured money into updating the levee system. It's not like we didn't know this kind of rain was coming - this winter was forecast to be warmer and wetter. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I did not expect them to just place giant sandbags into the levee breach? I assumed they'd dump some sort of loose filler. Maybe some rocks. The more you know! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Some guys are filling the breach! Go guys! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Via the WaWxChasers livestream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxuXWLLn0s): look at the height of the Green River. That is absolutely flooding tomorrow. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ KIRO7 is also confirming that Southcenter Mall is not at risk, it's just everything east of the Green River, or the South-East corner of Tukwila. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ KIRO7 has a picture of the levee break: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The local Fox News affiliate has a livestream with updates on the levee break + occasional views of the traffic cams on the freeways: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Man, this sucks, this is BEFORE tomorrow's atmospheric river hits. What is it going to be like on Wednesday??? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ WaWx Chaser is on the way to the levee break. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Damn, a levee in Tukwila just failed. Emergency evacuations are now in place for the southeast of Tukwila and basically everything around the Green River. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The footage of the Skykomish river at 5:10 is insane. That's guaranteed death water. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Also, there's more rain coming in a few days, and way more next week. Wunderground says 3-7 inches. And temperatures won't be as warm. Happy holidays :| npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Some good drone footage here of Hamilton, WA in Skagit County. They're right next to the Skagit river, and just from looking back and forth from Google Maps (thanks to that big ugly building near the bright blue house), as of this morning they're under 3-5ft of water. Bad times. Most of those people will probably have to live somewhere else through this winter, because I doubt anything is getting remediated there soon. Hopefully everyone evacuated. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ whhhhhhew look at Snoqualmie Falls today! So voluminous! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The rice is ready, if anyone wants some ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Looks like the rain and wind start picking up in the next few hours, so I'm going to put some rice on to cook sooner rather than later. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ IMPORTANT FERAL CAT UPDATE: THE CAT IS IN THE LITTLE HOUSE. REPEAT: THE CAT IS IN THE LITTLE HOUSE. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Today in the garden (late fall edition): there's one last calendula flower in my pollinator box trying its very best. We're forecast a frost over the weekend (finally), so I hope it can make it to a full bloom tomorrow ๐ค npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I am live from the Dearborn Goodwill, issuing an executive order that no one in this city is allowed to buy a brand new bag for the next six weeks. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Huh. Did you know that Portland, Detroit, Ypsilani, Seattle & Long Beach (WA) have free payphones? They're run by an indie organisation called Futel. You can visit the phone booth, make a call and that will connect you with an operator who will help you connect further: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I also refilled my bird station for the first time of the season! The chestnut chickadees kept staring at the empty cage, so I guessed that it was time. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Huh, I was checking to see if the clover seed I had put down out front was sprouting yet (answer: a little bit) and found an extremely healthy sedum growing on my fenceline? I accidentally pulled a few while trying to remove some grass, and the roots came with them so now they're in the backyard, on the hill. I'm guessing I would be wise to do that a few more times? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ this is a good example of his work: Why My Father Votes for Le Pen - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/opinion/sunday/why-my-father-votes-for-marine-le-pen.html / https://archive.ph/L8gaN npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ have you read any Edouard Louis? He writes (autobiographically) about this very issue in France. He's an incredibly gracious person because he absolutely hated the way he was brought up, and the way his family members behaved towards him and others, and could have turned his back on it all, but has instead dedicated himself to trying to understand the underlying motivations and political sabotage of the working class. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ this is why I have a hard time believing in dragons as a concept. Meat farming requires a huge amount of resources, and to dedicate it to maintaining even a single dragon seems risky. And even if you can slot an artificial cattle farm industry into your story, presumably the dragons existed before they were domesticated, so what kind of world was that? And why did humans consider it worthwhile to continue the species vs cull them and free up the resources for their own survival? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Looking at the low temperatures on the forecast and I think tomato season is now officially over. I've been topping and cutting back my plants for the last few weeks, but still have plenty of green fruit on the vine. Today I'm thinking: do I pick? Or do I pull the plants and hang them in the garage (as suggested by a few people on the gardening subreddits)? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ ๐ด npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Last night I started reading Caroline Fraser's MURDERLAND, an exploration of PNW serial killers & geography, and damn, she is so good. I knew she would be though, because her previous book was about the American reality of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and was similarly engrossing. She seems to only write about subjects she has a deep investment in - with MURDERLAND, she grew up on Mercer Island (the island in the middle of Lake Washington) in the 60s/70s. This is in her blood. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I thrifted ONE Shaeffer nib and every single time I've bought parts for it, I've ended up with extras. Now I have four Shaeffer pens with nibs and somehow: an extra cartridge converter. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ This Staedtler calligraphy pen I thrifted for $4 (with a tin, and 2 of its set siblings, plus working! cartridges and a Schaeffer nib) is hands down the most ridiculous thing to use for writing a chore list. So wide, so kicky. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Good morning from Seattle, where the air quality is worse than ever and the sun is rising like a threat but on the bright side: my kid gets mac & cheese with hot dog pieces in his lunchbox today, and our air conditioning is working great to keep the bad air out. I hope everyone has their air filters going or access to a clean space ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ There's ash on my tomatoes again :( npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ whoa, so small. Congratulations on your new cactus babies! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Also: I have no idea what this tomato is. I did not buy seed like that. My notes say it's supposed to be a Mashenka? But none of the other Mashenka tomatoes look like this. Answers on the back of a postcard if you've got them. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Quick cucumber harvest today, as I did nearly everything else yesterday and now my dining table is covered in cherry tomatoes: a MidEast Peace and a White Heron cucumber. Lots more to come on the vine too. And there I was, convinced those pots would be too small! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The harvest before the rain: tomatoes, tomatoes tomatoes and beans. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Tonight's harvest! The beans are really picking up now - the big bed of bush and pole beans all have baby beans that will be grown up beans by the end of the week. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Absolute stunners ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Folks, is this wildfire ash on my tomato leaves? (It's all in the spiderwebs too, just harder to photograph.) npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I knew I was going to see something weird in the garden tonight. What the heck is this? Google Lens says it's a parasitic bolete? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Looks like KGW went offline, but Pacific Northwest Weather Watch is now streaming: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Russia: always fucking everyone's shit up. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ KGW in Oregon are also livestreaming coverage for the PNW. Estimated time of arrival: somewhere around 11pm. Not great for a good night's sleep. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Agenda Free is also streaming with general updates and news. He can be a bit full on but I've never seen him share anything unreliable. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ For anyone that wants to keep track of the tsunami warnings: Hawaii News Network is livestreaming on YouTube. Mostly focused on the Hawaiian islands but they're dropping general news too. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ b e a n s npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ No blossom end rot on this baby! Never skip fertilisation day! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ It's happening!!! ๐๐ฅ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ This is my best "grown from a sucker" tomato plant. No fruit yet, but no nutritional deficiency damage either ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Bean status: growing. No flowers yet though. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Bean updates: doing so well ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Cucumber update: thinned to two per pot, given some bamboo stakes and a little string for training. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Bah, some of my bigger tomato plants (Mashenka) are getting blossom end rot. Disappointing, but at least I know the solution (more calcium), so I'll apply that tonight and hope for the best. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ My hardest opinion is that cities should just remove private vehicle through-traffic from every arterial street until that street has a bus lane, a protected bike lane, a green belt and a sidewalk wide enough for three people to walk side by side on. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ My actual personal opinion of Morris Dancing is that we lost an opportunity when no one decided to upgrade the sticks to swords and make it a true martial art. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ If you're going to Morris dance your way through life, then Morris dance for better transit I guess? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ the Wild Wales book you're reading sounds interesting by the way, I might pick that up as a companion for the (all set in Wales) Leslie Norris short stories. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Louise Kennedy's Trespasses (2022), Andrea Long Chu's Authority (2025), Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) (not sure if I like it though) plus short fiction collections of Edna O'Brien, Shirley Hazzard, Dorothy Parker, Tessa Hadley, Fiona Macfarlane, Leslie Norris and Claire Boyne. Plus a 2019 issue of The White Review, which has a great essay about the global recycling initiative and it's problem with human labour ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Sunflower update: it grew four heads. More to come. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ This is too many cucumbers. Some must die. Then I'll put bamboo stakes in here and see what happens next. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The less aesthetic, but just as productive view: beans / beans / tomatoes (including the retaining wall pot crew) and some cucumbers plus extra borage/ tomatoes, beans AND cucumbers. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ *sicko* yes... ha ha ha... YES! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ ๐ฑ this is where I google to see whether yellowjackets prey on cucumber beetles and THEY DO! I think that nest in my compost bin might have won themselves a reprieve. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Found a deadstock Platinum Preppy highlighter pen for $9, put in a converter, added some TWSBI orange ink and voila: drama. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Habitually cramming my fridge with vegetables means it's always soup season. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ It's an infrequent job, and I don't even hate doing it, it's just a lot of bending and lifting and digging. Also sometimes beetles climb up my arms while I'm doing it. This is two out of the three that are clear and ready for late season beans and cucumbers and maybe some fall planting? npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Giving myself a little cookie and some Ribena after spending 2+ hours de-rooting and amending the soil in the raised beds. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Just direct sowed the last round of cucumber seeds, even though it almost feels too late. I put in extra of these guys, as they seem particularly good for me (I hate the weird thick skin of mass grown American cucumbers), but also for giving away if I have too many: npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I wasn't sure if I liked this fude nib (Jinhao 82) or the ink (Push/Pull's Frozen Brew) but I think this was a skill issue vs a tool issue because in all caps, on cheap composition paper, with a bit of concentration, I think it looks OK ๐ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I love that a passing vehicle can throw an unbranded bubble wrap mailer at my doorstep and surprise, it's the fude nib Jinhao 82 fountain pen I ordered a month ago and not some sort of improvised explosive. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ *zooms in* that's a good book! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ #Mosstodon npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Completed! With a bonus special box for my special Indigo Blue tomato plant which seems really resilient and should yield well. The forks are to stop the feral cats trying to sit in it. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ This was not our best attempt at seedlings (we started too early) but these are the bigger ones we put out a few weeks ago and they look great now so ยฏโ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ยฏ npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ We're going in lads. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Seattle-area/west of the Cascades people: is it too late to direct sow hyssop seeds? I forgot I had them! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ KING5 fact checks the "Seattle ports are ghost towns" social media claims. Short answer is: ehhh not quite, but also no one seems to know what the future holds right now. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ we're doing a big reorganisation of our spare room/office space/hobby storage, so it's going to be a lot of pulling things out, dusting/vacuuming surfaces and putting IKEA furniture/pegboards together. But it should turn out nicely, and I'm looking forward to having a cleaner, more organised room! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ he should be careful - that's how men end up with their fingers broken. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Gardeners of Seattle: Second Use in SODO has plenty of 7-ish gallon pots for 50 cents a pot today. Also burlap sacks (although you WILL be attacked by loose beans). npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ this bird is on my wishlist for my back yard! Merlin tells me it's supposed to be a common sighting around urban Seattle, and my garden attracts plenty of birds (15+), but I have NEVER seen one. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I'm curious what definition of relevant you're working from here because the most common use of that word is "to have application", so in my eyes music can absolutely be relevant, especially in social/political situations. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ that person is especially out of touch - we live in a streaming age, where all music is relevant all the time, and all the current teens are heavily into 90s fashion and music. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ My new TWSBI Go fountain pens arrived and yes, that stub nib was worth it. It's like a marker pen, in my fountain pen. Excellent. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The local coyotes are very audible tonight! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I also weeded a crap ton of shotweed. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ We officially started spring planting today. Managed to get kinnikinnick (x2), English Thyme (x2), a Blue Bog Ice Rosemary, and periwinkle (x6) plants in the ground, plus sowed seed for general wildflowers (in the parking strip), Danish yarrow and California poppies. But best of all: this year I got to transplant a volunteer lavender plant that's been growing in the garden path ๐ I've been waiting two years to do this! I wanted her to be strong! I hope she makes it. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ The absolute tragedy of the last cartridges for one of my favorite fountain pens (the Pilot Petit) starting to disappear from online stores ๐ luckily, I have plenty left + the ability to refill the empty ones later. But what if it's not the same! Ugh! npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ ๐ฏ I'm saving this for later, because these are excellent questions that everyone should ask all the time. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I will be planning my spring garden as I have seeds arriving in the mail. I also want to watch all the special features on the Decision to Leave (by Park Chan Wook) DVD while my kid is at school, as I'm pretty sure at least half of it is NSFW. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Looks like Zelensky left without signing the minerals deal, which I think is the right move. You don't let someone treat you and your people like that and then keeping working with them. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ "This is going to be great television," he says, the malevolent cunt. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Oh my god, this footage of Zelensky at the White House being berated by Trump is disgusting. This country is off the fucking rails. npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ I started archiving mine tonight and it didn't take as much labour as I expected. I upgraded my copy of Calibre, found step by step instructions on Reddit, added the deDRM plugin and fifteen minutes later had all the books on my Kindle converting to .epub files. (Next I'm going to cross reference the list, to archive older books, but those are less important to me than the ones I haven't finished yet, or those I use for reference.) npub1xqfcu9305ken8trjj6sh4s28356sh694n8teaekjfuhxtdywswpsze3e8f ๐๐
natalie ๐ชป๐ฎ Looks like Metro are reopening the 12th and Jackson bus stop. Here's hoping the area stays clear for the foreseeable future ๐ค๐ป
