[growth] pineapple is go!
Sep. 18th, 2025 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettA little while ago the toddler's household told me that you could turn the top of a pineapple into a whole entire pineapple plant (with the caveat that at least 60% of the time it goes mouldy). My first attempt at this had got as far as growing a whole entire root network but then suffered a Tragic Incident from which it never recovered; the second had been sat around with partially-browned but no-longer-becoming-more-browned and definitely-still-partially-green leaves for Quite Some Time. I had more or less hit the point of "... is this actually doing anything? at all?" and then upon my return from the most recent round of Adventures I rotated it in service of watering it, to discover...
... that it's growing a WHOLE NEW SET OF LEAVES. Look at it go! I am very excited!
(My understanding is that if I manage to keep it alive that long it'll take somewhere in the region of 3 years to fruit, and then in the fashion of all bromeliads will die having produced said single fruit. Happily this is about the rate at which we eat fresh pineapple...)
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Sherlock (mostly of Moriarty), Fleabag, Andrew Scott in Hamlet, Andrew Scott, Winona Ryder, Gillian Anderson, Little Mermaid, Moonstruck, Alice in Wonderland.
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Pythagoras be like
Sep. 16th, 2025 06:16 pmprimeidealHappy 9-16-25 (or even 16-9-25 if you're in a country that has that dating system) to Raz from Anathem and all other perfect square appreciators! ;)
tired. so tired.
Sep. 16th, 2025 10:24 pmkaberettHave spent most of the day asleep.
- Attempt #2 at pineapple-from-trimmed-top has NEW LEAVES.
- I am also fairly sure that attempt #2 at lemongrass is taller than it was when we set off on our terrible adventures about ten days ago.
- Actual bed. Favourite mattress.
- I got to make someone's entire day by sending an "... I think I have your object" e-mail.
- Leftovers for dinner: curry from the crew party on Sunday night. Didn't have to think about food. Extremely grateful for this fact.
vital functions
Sep. 14th, 2025 11:59 pmkaberettReading. Tiny bits of Solutions and Other Problems and The Painful Truth.
Listening. More Hidden Almanac.
Exploring. Chester, including Chester Zoo!
Eating. Almost all of my favourite field foods, including raspberry and lemon curd toasties, noodle pots with the addition of the prepped salad bits (spinach! red onion!), the giant lemon and sugar crepes, and flapjack. ("Almost" because the cake options CHANGED.)
Observing. The Milky Way. Something that might have been some kind of satellite or might have been some kind of shooting star. CHESTER ZOO, etc. At least one field bat.
first weekend
Sep. 13th, 2025 08:09 pmfinchThere's nothing quite like reading fanfic that jumps up on your buttons and rolls around on them like my cat jumping up on my keyboard while I'm working.
Weekend one is not off to a great start, I'm gonna be honest. It's definitely now Autumn and the pressure change has my vertigo messing with me. At the moment I have tinnitus in both ears, but the right ear is the whooshing sound I usually get and my left ear is a high-pitched sound. The combination of tinnitus and audio processing disorder leads to the most ridiculous scenes in stores or restaurants or anywhere I have to talk to people because I'll be partway through an interaction and lose the ability to understand what the other person is saying.
The plan for this weekend has been cut down since bending over and other various weird movement is out, but at minimum we're planning on taking some stuff to goodwill tomorrow. This will happen. Bug went through her books some and for her that's huge. And we paid somebody with a truck to come take a few things too big for the car, so... Definitely some progress. Just not as much as I'd like.
I did also finish a fic last night but not anything I've been intending to work on, just something that took over my brain this week. Yay, that!
BATS
Sep. 9th, 2025 09:56 pmkaberettBetween one thing and another we wound up having a semi-impromptu mini-break in Chester, including a few hours at Chester Zoo.
... where we went into the bats enclosure and were transfixed for about an hour, basically from the moment we walked in until chucking-out time.
It's a big dark room, artificially crepuscular, with lots of trees (dead) for roosts, and somewhere in the vicinity of 350 bats (Seba's short-tailed and Rodrigues fruit bats). THEY WILL COME SO CLOSE TO YOU. THEY WILL COME SO CLOSE TO YOU. They were flying well within a foot of our faces. You could FEEL THE WIND FROM THEIR WINGBEATS.
And A was greatly honoured by one LANDING ON THEIR TROUSERS.
There were many other Excellent Creatures -- the Humboldt penguins in particular were very excited by the rain (so much porpoising), and the giant otters were indeed giant, and there was an enormous dragonfly, and the flamingos went from almost entirely asleep (including one baby that had not yet got the hang of the whole one-leg trick) to YELLING INCESSANTLY after being buzzed by the scarlet ibis.
Extremely good afternoon out, 13/10, would recommend.
vital functions
Sep. 7th, 2025 10:50 pmkaberettReading. Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie: finished the Radch stories; on to The World Of The Raven Tower!
The Painful Truth, Monty Lyman: in progress; not yet Cross with it but also not yet Impressed by it.
More Dreamwidth catchup.
Listening. More Hidden Almanac!
Eating. SO many tomatoes.
Exploring. Poked around Preston a very little!
Growing. ... SO many tomatoes. More watering system established at plot (so hopefully all the peppers will still be alive and well upon my return). Sowed some probably-past-it seeds.
Observing. A saw a deer on the drive up to Preston! A proper big one with antlers and all! We were very impressed.
Also the local owl Yell.
EEP!!! Apparently, that 8.8 Russian quake rang the Cascade volcanoes like a gong
Sep. 6th, 2025 03:48 pmsulien“EEP!!!” doesn’t even begin to cover it. A friend sent this my way and it’s a good thing to share. We are noticing all kinds of interesting new things with the geoscience technologies we have developed and this new tidbit definitely gives me pause. So long as the Cascadia Subduction zone doesn’t rip loose or the Cascade volcanoes and/or Yellowstone don’t go kerblooey, I’ll be a happy camper. In the mean time, it is definitely a great reminder to see to emergency preparedness, just in case.
https://youtu.be/os4QxrNXNwk
https://youtu.be/os4QxrNXNwk
