Discover New Worlds...

Moved all outdoor houseplants from greenhouse to porch, moved remaining indoor trees out to greenhouse. Moved a bunch of unsprouted canna pots indoors to warm. Spread compost on front and bridge gardens.

Started a new language challenge, imitating evildea again but without lingopie for reasons that are largely, I enjoy other content more.

So I was going to make a manifesto for polyamships' write a ship manifesto challenge, but then I read fanfic instead. All dogs are good dogs, and all ships are good ships. I took my dog to the playground this evening, picked up some more farm-fresh compost on the way home (they leave it by the side of the road and you put your money in a tin), and also got groceries.

Not at the farm, which was lucky for me, because the grocery store had tea roses! Mini roses! Whatever. I love roses for no particular reason I can identify. I bought some mini roses at another grocery store four years ago, and I don't remember what possessed me to plant them in the garden, but they've come back every year and they always look adorable. I have added new colors each year, and I thought I had them all - but no! What luck! I found a variegated mini rose.

I did not know such a thing existed, and I am delighted.

Yesterday we took the day off and drove up the coast to see a forest beside the ocean. Unexpectedly, we also found a pond with a cool swing where we had lunch.

It's still early for beach businesses to be open, so we went into to town to get an ice cream flight and a pup cup with biscuit sprinkles. We found a nice walk across the river and back, then drove home.

( field trip pictures )

The dahlias are outside. I hope I don't regret that in the morning,* but they looked so happy and there are just so many of them. Originally I thought putting them on a tray near the back door meant we could carry them outside (on the tray) during the day and bring them back in the same way at night. Ha ha. They are much too big for that.

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*"Star, didn't you set up not one but two popup greenhouses outside the back door?" I did, yes, and one of them is full of unsprouted cannas and the other one is full of patio furniture and houseplants, so clearly the space is well-planned and efficiently utilized.

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I should clarify, all the dahlias are too big to easily move, but some are tall and spindly despite my efforts to feed them artificial sun. I see now that putting the smaller tubers in smaller pots disadvantaged them in the race for light: the smaller pots were shorter, and that inch or two made a difference. Anyway, I put the bushy ones outside and left the skinny ones inside under the plant lights for now.

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I moved the blueberry twigs out too and put the indoor cannas where the blueberries used to be. I set up a dedicated seedling light next to them for the nasturtiums (and Cheri's cosmos and Marci's sagelings). I hope the seedling light turned itself off. I just realized I didn't check, but hopefully I plugged it into the timer side of the outlet strip.

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I also have some montauk daisy cuttings inside: my neighbor told me to just put them in the ground, but it's been so dry, and they'd be great out by the street if I can get them growing, so I started them in water. They are not happy. But another neighbor dug up some geraniums for the shade garden, and they bounced back after just a day, so the spring plant migration has begun. (All that discarded pachysandra and vinca definitely didn't hurt.)

In conclusion, here is a relatable short video by jesuisbaggsy on youtube: The thing that threw me most about neurotypical living was their homes. (They have spare rooms! "that's different")

In further conclusion, here are some pretty pictures for reading all of that.

( bridge garden - with bridge! )

( unrelated vet notes )

polyamships is hosting a discussion, rec, and comment event for 3weeks4dreamwidth, with a post every other day (masterlist) and the ongoing promise to include "all your polyamorous shipping content."

The Day Two prompt asks, How did you discover poly ships? What makes you write/read/draw them?

And I thought, it was Power Rangers in Space, right? I started writing Zhane with Andros and Ashley because I wanted to write Zhane and Andros together, and I also wanted to continue an established series (another million-worder) where Andros and Ashley were together. That seems straightforward enough.

( it was not quite that straightforward )

"oh that was one year for the record
I know I never will forget her and how it was between us
in the great love of 1998"
--South65

♥ a ficlet a day, 2026 prompts by lilly_c for 3weeks4dreamwidth~
♥ A story about fox!xian and dragon!ji at the Cloud Recesses guest lectures, where they both get pulled under the cold springs for no reason, and time has passed on the other side, also for no reason.

♥ ( story )

🦊

temperature	breakdown	magic	gone	darkness	improvise	investigate
late	echo	seed	analyse	weakness	tied together	charm
fragile	backwards	smirk	substance	desolate	alien	finish

Yay it's 3weeks4dreamwidth! What should I post about? I have no idea! (If there's something you want me to post about, let me know and I'll do it.) Right now I'm eating microwave pasta and mushrooms with chopsticks, so that's pretty exciting.

I did accomplish a variety of small tasks this morning: relocating my Reunion Dinner legos to Flower Fruit Mountain (that set makes so much more sense now that I've read something about Sun Wukong and his monkeys), super gluing the pin in my favorite moldavite pendant so I can wear it again (I'm sure I did this when I first got it, but that must have been at least 10 years ago now), and moving the compost I was storing beside the porch to behind the garage (thanks for that idea Marci; it was a hassle but it looks so much neater).

I left my hardiest houseplants outside in the greenhouse last night, and all of them appear to have survived. The weather app says it got down to 29F; our greenhouse temperature sensor says 35F. And I put some new faux flower/vines on the moongate yesterday, so the whole patio looks cheerier.

All blueberry plants are still alive as far as I can tell. The cosmos have sprouted but the nasturtiums have not. I have finished my lunch, and Daphne is asleep after a long and windy walk in the park, so I guess it's time to hang up the laundry.

Happy birthday, Dreamwidth!