#until she jumps in the pool and immediately rips up my vinyl with her dreadful little claws

[pigeonfancier]

Allergies are so much funnn. I made bourbon creme cookie spoons, because my bffle sent me a bunch and I immediately became obsessed! Used as pudding pack instead of custard powder, because I didn’t feel like going to the store. It had the ever-ambiguous “spices”, but surely, I reasoned, no allergens, because it’s a fucking pudding pack?

The cookies are delicious! Delicious and allergenic - that, or else switching my dog over to a food that has soy in it was more of a dumb idea than I thought. I figured that she doesn’t really lick people, so it’d be fine.. but I did not fully consider the fact that she licks herself, and she also wants to be held and/or leaning against me and/or directly underfoot at least 60% of the time she’s awake, so she might just be spreading soy protein across her pelt and then me.

Either way: I was a fool, haha.

Week for it! Garden is finally going alright, now that we’re out of the hell heatwave, but flare-ups are being a pain in general, but this time with 3x the brain fog, which is.. a little concerning to realise I keep zoning the fuck out and going on autopilot, but it happens. I’m still getting shit done, so just kind of shrugging? We stan a productive lizardbrain. My heart rate has thankfully dropped from resting at 110-180, down to 85-140 on average, which is still infuriating and unpleasant to deal with, but it is a lot more manageable. Just have to keep an eye on it, take breaks, build plans around the fact my energy and focus is -30%, lol, and don’t fuck around with elevation. People have been sweethearts and keeping it in mind, so at least it’s not as frustrating as these spells have been in the past - I want to do more still, but that’s just a constant.

On the infinitely more positive side, though, the lemon and lime trees are thriving. I’m so pleased with them! I don’t know if they’ll ever quite settle enough to start producing fruits, but they’re readily producing flowers, the pollinators love them, and they smell great, so that’s all I need, tbhhh. I was a bit distraught that the heatwave has managed to murder all attempts at sunflowers or corn this year, but whereas those wilted, my peppers have gone completely batshit, and even the smallest plant has four peppers nearly as long as the main stalk growing. And all three varieties of colours have survived, so there’s purple, red and green. I’m hypeddd.

Still planting seeds, and seeing what I can prompt into popping up! Plan is still to maintain a nice garden inside of the greenhouse over the winter, because watching the slowly rising price of produce in the stores are making me feel a little feral. Main concern is making sure the humidity inside the greenhouse stays low enough not to foster disease or fungus between the plants, at this point? But the air’s dry enough in winter that I might be overthinking it! We’ll see.

Also on the positive side: the pool is getting to the point I am a little less suspicious of its existence! Quarantine run-arounds and other assorted bullshit means that we’re doing the usual BBQ closer to the end of the month, rather than at the start, so.. might actually have it up for people to swim in! I don’t like nor trust any bodies of water very much. I technically know how to swim and float, but I just don’t see the particular appeal.

However, reading on the sideline and kicking water in people’s faces when they forget I’m there does have a certain nostalgic thrill to it. That, and I’m very curious on seeing what the fuck Domino’s reaction is going to be to people jumping into the pool. She fucking loathes all water, to the point of refusing to go outside if it’s rained.. but she does love obsessively copying anything that she sees people doing as well. So which will win out? Excited to see!