Today is cloudy and cool.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I set out the flats of pots and watered them.
I've seen a young fox squirrel.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- Of the 6 pots I sowed with
Gaillardia 'Firewheel' seeds on 2/23/25, three sprouted. One of those has since died, but one of the remaining pots had two seedlings in it. I planted the survivors in one of the mowed strips of the prairie garden. So that's roughly 50% success if you count by pots, but less if you count by seeds since I put two in each pot. I plant them by pots, though, so it's not a terrible result.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I started trying to trim grass around the septic garden, but the grass shears broke. >_< Fortunately I had an older pair that I could use, but I need new ones. I did get one section trimmed. I'm taking advantage of the cool, cloudy weather for a laborious project.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I trimmed more grass around the septic garden.
I've seen a mourning dove, a phoebe, and two young ground squirrels.
The first peas sprouted a couple days ago and more are up now. :D The '
Chocolate Sprinkles' cherry tomato has the first green fruit, although it's among the last ones I planted, just over a week ago.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I wanted to go back out, but it was raining.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- Eventually it stopped raining long enough for me to do more trimming.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- Aaaaand now it's raining again.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I brought in the flats of pots.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I got back outside and started pulling weeds from inside the septic garden.
EDIT 5/22/25 -- I pulled more weeds from inside the septic garden.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
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Thursday: Painting Titles
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Today's theme is painting titles. Much like Tuesday's theme, I struggled with how to describe this. Just prompt a painting title and writer, you are free to interpret the prompt as you want.
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ any, any, Long Point by Robert Genn
+ any, any, Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler
+ any, any, The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
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While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
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