Little late in the growing season to pivot.
I like their dots and their weird little dance. That's why I searched iNaturalist for them. And now they're all going to die by my hand. I'm not a bug murderer by nature. I'm fully catch and release... until now.
I'm starting the murder spree tomorrow. I've never seen a nymph before, but now I know what they look like.
My neighbor started an eradication campaign. I had no idea either, so I looked it up. She knew about the jumping worms from living in the southeast US for a while.
Thrifted blankets that match your sensibilities over the main couch, or the dog portions of the couch.
He has his own ikea loveseat as his bed. I tuck in a blanket around the seat cover and swap it out when it smells like dog.
We have a significant number of dog blankets here.
Artichoke hearts. Straight from the jar with a fork. Yum.
Pimento olives, chopped fine and mashed into cream cheese, spread on pumpernickel (bread, bagel, etc).
Capers can fuck off entirely.
...... I wanna eat that
I'm going to put peanut butter on mine and skip the fast.
Annals of the Former World is great, for a physical/historical/structural geology primer that's also a digestible travelogue.
Stephen Jay Gould did a lot to make shale interesting in his book on the Cambrian Explosion.
Syphilis Grampa can't reset the router. Surprise surprise.
