No one at book group, including the person who works managing volunteers at a hospice business, knew that the new #covid #vaccine is available. Neither did my family member who has MS and takes immunosuppressants.

Spread the word! Covid #wastewater levels in Colorado are Very High! Get your #CovidVaccine !


This is the annoying strip between two houses. It's shady, because the houses are too close to each other, but can't be watered, because that would cause more damage to the foundation. I had the grade corrected to slope away from my house and covered it with rocks. I'd like to let whatever grows there grow, but there are invasive weeds that make that a bad idea.

#gardening

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I have a young friend who has been programming in Scratch, and wants to learn to program for real. What programming environment for python would you recommend for a kid with a MacBook?

#programming #kids #python #AdviceWanted


nostr:npub1fjzwp3x9k8496j36grj4t3pw0hc0vp5dcgw4lw44arpdmefcjn2qfw3aet I like eating, like, *one*. And then I make a face like that baby eating a kiwifruit for the first time.


Wild grapes. Small fruit with a large seed. I pick them for my friend who jiuces them and really likes their punch-you-in-the-mouth flavor. The birds, squirrels, and raccoons get most of them.

#Gardening #GrowYourOwn #NativePlants

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Zoomies!

#DogsOfMastodon

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I found this mouse skeleton in the mulch next to my fence last October. Tiny bones undisturbed.

#mouse #skeleton #Halloween

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It is still Too Many Tomato Time. In spring I can't understand why anyone would ever cook a tomato, but by October, I just want something different. I roasted these with garlic, then added a can of chickpeas and some chopped basil. Delicious!

#food #tomatoes #GrowYourOwn

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#SilentSunday #GrowYourOwn #AutumnGarden

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I'm going to a restaurant with my bookgroup this afternoon. We are all old (this bookgroup is more than 30 years old) so some of us are immune-compromised, some of us are very uncomfortable in the cold. We have met at this restaurant several times during the pandemic. Last spring it was cold, so we ate inside. Today it is beautiful, but there is a chance of rain.

I got my booster Thursday.

I think I need to get there first and dig my heels in if I don't want to eat inside.

#CovidCalculations


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nostr:npub1aw9ee3qkw5rn9uvpcx7mc3dgh2g7kd48xv5ecwfq9cjgntakdftse3tpuq He looks adorable!


Dutch was not happy about any of this. "Excuse me," I said. "My dog doesn't like strangers."

They kept trying. "Can I ask, are you religious at all?"

What is wrong with men? How do three teenaged boys think it is okay for them to pursue an old woman who has crossed the street to get away from them and brushed off their attempts at conversation? And why aren't they afraid of a dog who is telling them, as clearly as possible, to back off?


Dutch was already kind of ramped up, because at dusk, when we were walking home, I saw three people standing in the sidewalk, and crossed the street to avoid them. Because my dog bites people. But the people, who turned out to be three teenaged boys wearing white button-down shirts and ties, crossed the street to follow me and tried to engage me in conversation. "Hello!" they called. "You out walking the dog? What kind of dog is that? Is that an Australian Shepherd?"


Thing is, I think he really was just hired to kill wasps. Whoever manages the property at South [my address] keeps sending workmen to my address. Never at 10 p.m. before. Every time, I ask the workmen to let the property manager know that they have the wrong address on their books, but it never percolates through.


We were yelling at each other through the door, over my dog who was making credible threats to kill him. "You don't have any wasps?" he asked.
"You're in the wrong place!" I yelled.
"Well, where's [the address he was looking for]?" he asked.
"That's South [street name]!" I yelled, and pointed south. "Not North [street name]!" I yelled, and pointed at the floor.
He said "Well, sorry," as he was leaving, but he said it reproachfully, as if I were the one in the wrong.


I just yelled at a guy who was on my deck with a flashlight. At 10 p.m. He was there to kill wasps, he said. He showed me the company logo on his shirt. Apparently the company logo on your shirt protects you from getting shot or bitten when you go into people's back yards at night? I was not aware.


My library files holds by your initials. I have a library twin, who uses the holds system a lot, has my initials, and is always reading books I want to read. Every time I sort out my holds from hers I think we should be friends!

(Paradise Lot, The Revisionaries, and Howl's Moving Castle are mine.)
#Bookstodon #libraries

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Susan Ramirez

"Books, plants, and babies, that's all you care about," my kid said to me once. And really the only rejoinder I could make was "...dogs?"