They are little reddish bugs that you can barely see, their bites leave welts like this

Trumpet vine showing off a bit

Saw these two sleeping bees on a new sunflower this morning. SO CUTE!!!

Grilling romaine because I don’t want my lettuce to give me explosive diarrhea. Great country we got here.

Ash from the Canadian and Michigan wildfires. It smells like a campfire outside, itchy lungs and eyes. Suboptimal

Giving power red blood donation today. Go give if you can

“verify your age” This was the first porn I ever watched

Grilling up leftover veggies from our anniversary Mongolian barbeque

The 80’s have an answer for this question

Grilling sojuk- a fermented turkish sausage and zucchini for dinner

Getting some decent bee photos today. One of my favorite pastimes in the summer!

Fish pepper plant growing pretty good. I got all my peppers jumbled this year, so I won’t know what they are until the fruits develop, but except for the fish peppers because of the white striations

From my classroom walls

POV: me sitting in my dark classroom with fuck all to do. It is dark because the district installed motion detectors in all the classrooms, so my lights go out when I’m at my desk after about 10 minutes. Very handy when I’m grading essays.

Making a dish of ebelskivers to get kids to come to the regents cram tomorrow AM. Will be here for a bit

Clivia flower stalk 1 fully pushed out, and another just starting

And I got my peppers in their crates finally

Flowers are killing it this year

Peonies and lillies looking good this year

With a bag of sugar

And it comes with one of these and 2 bullets

I had one chilling in the trees across the street last week. They are big birds