Jun. 29th, 2022

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And it rained hard, thunder and lightning and power flickering and so so so much water that my little pond refilled and is trickling a stream through the spring streambed. Flats of plants filled up with water. The ducks are playing everywhere. Over an inch of water came down, I think.

I was having dinner with a coworker and his wife, which was a good time. I brought sausages and he cooked them in an amazing little brazier thing made by lodge cast-iron; I really want one of those now. Everything tastes better cooked over a fire and in good company.

This morning I went out into the garden before work to see how it felt about the rain. Mostly it felt happy; the favas have their first flower, the corn is settled in and I suspect prepping to shoot up several inches, the tomatoes are rooted in and happily greening and ramifying, the squash is throwing up its 4th and sometimes 5th leaves (it was planted with 1-2 true leaves last week), the beans are something between unfurling and popping up out of the ground, there are heart-shaped brassica seedleaves everywhere. It's good.

The tomatoes are going to be very difficult to navigate by August. I planted them in fairly tight (2' centers in a grid) blocks for better cross-pollination, and I'm leaving the weeds come right up to the edge of the block. I want pollinators, especially little pollinators, to feel comfortable. I planted pretty late so the plants won't get huge, but it's still going to be quite a carpet of plants and need careful stepping and a little judicious pruning. Note I don't stake anything.

Open oak party dent corn is just leaping upwards. It's a 10' tall corn, I didn't notice that when I ordered the seed, so it's very different from the majority of my small, northern-adapted flints. Very interested to see what it does.

I have not yet stepped out onto my deck to see how my potted tomatoes are doing.

Somewhere today I need to make some time to excavate my kitchen; I'm hosting cookie-baking tomorrow apparently.

It's nice to have some social stuff manifest. I'm trying to hold space for myself and not bite off too much humaning at once and so far that doesn't feel onerous.

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Jun. 29th, 2022 09:23 am
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I need to think very hard about how I struggle to connect impermanence and gratitude, and think of ways to honour and cherish things that don't involve permanence. This is revealing a gap there for me, because everything composts in the end. Why can I not honour gifts given me and also allow them to return to the earth?

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