Oof.

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Went outside to rescue a duckling (they come wit built-in distress alarms) and came back in with a million mosquitoes. Seems like the recent rain really replenished the supply, this is the worst mosquito year I've seen up here. To balance the scales I made some saskatoon berry lemonade (using a strawberry lemonade recipe and whatever one calls a chinoise nowadays) which is truly lovely and captures the almond aroma of saskatoons well, and some bacon and ribs using Ron's hand-me-down smoker that Avi fixed. Jury is out on those until I can actually chill, slice, and fry the bacon and eat the ribs, but they smell great. I went up and carried pollen around for the corn this morning, which was nice. I'm not sure what it means to have a routine with someone without a long term relationship with them. Or something. Changes in routine are so hard for me. I don't know, I'm tired and should sleep. Driving tomorrow, some super long workdays next week.