Just Create - Sunburn Edition

[silvercat17]

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> What are you working on? <<

Garden chores -- currently a lot of stuff needs weeded or trimmed around.


>> What have you finished? <<

* Weeded and planted telephone pole garden. It's mostly flowers. Asiatic lilies have buds.

* Weeded and planted septic garden. This one is mostly flowers.

* Assembled a lot of pots to turn the new picnic table into a garden with some of the top, on the benches, and on the ground. Plus made cords to secure the trough pots. This one is mostly vegetables plus some herbs and flowers.

* Assembled and planted the two strawberry towers.

* Set up all the new wire planters with pots. At some point I'll want to get trough pots for the tall one with shelves, and more wide low pots for the little round ones, but for now I've used what I had.

* Set up the Cookie Jar Terrarium.

* Today I weeded the purple-and-white garden.

* And made my goal post for May.


>> Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype? <<

Next up will be the Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, June 3 with a theme of "Gentleness Is Strength." I invite you to drop by, watch the fun, and give me prompts.

summerofthe69 and sunshine_revival are coming up soon!


>> What have you been watching or reading? <<

We recently finished watching the first season of Dark Winds, which is a Navajo mystery show. It is exactly the kind of content I wished for back in college when all the modern Native American literature was bleak to the point of dangerous. This is honest about the dark stuff, but also includes brighter elements like how people pass on their traditions in the face of oppression. Also it would make great crossovers with some other shows, like Supernatural or Lovecraft Country.

Most recently we finished reading Nutritious Delicious, a cookbook about cramming lots of nutrients into recipes. We marked a lot of recipes in that one. I've just started reading Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction -- a good choice if you're playing 50books_poc.

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[cornerofmadness]

I am interested in the terrarium. I had one I built a year ago (the library hosted a party) but the plant suddenly died

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I've been making mine with locally foraged plants, except for the fern that I bought. Not all plants -- even all mosses -- will thrive in a terrarium. Some of my moss died in the first terrarium but the rest is still going.

I find that it helps to get some bits of a live ecosystem in the jar. Wet leaf litter, worm castings, a chunk of rotten wood, that sort of thing. It brings in organisms that help balance the system. Plus I purposely gather pillbugs, a couple of earthworms, tiny millipedes if I can find them.

I may also try making a terrarium with tropical plants. There's a store with an excellent selection and they have a glass cabinet with plants that like humidity.

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[cornerofmadness]

This was a tropical plant but the power had gone out and the cold did it in this winter.

Getting pill bugs is easy enough around here (I love those things). I'll have to do a little more research before I try again

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Oh yeah, I've lost houseplants to cold before. :/

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[cornerofmadness]

Yeah My biggest issue is the university greenhouse which has issues (like the watering system failing) and if I don't remember to check that week half my stuff is dead