• Day 10: Pot

    Experimentation with container gardening continues! This white, pink, and blue situation is delightful.

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  • Day 9: Bloom

    Look at this blanket flower! Get outta here!

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  • Day 8: Union

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  • Paddington 2, 2017 — ★★★½.  A soothing balm/marmalade.

  • Baby Boom, 1987 — ★★★½.  Ah yes, the three acts of the 80s hero’s journey: 9 to 5, Three Men and a Baby, and Funny Farm.

  • Day 7: Park

    Take a stroll through Maymont’s bamboo forest! JK, this is an exreme closeup of some tickseed in my yard.

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  • Day 6: Silhouette

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  • Day 5: Earth

    New clematis planted under the fish wine rack! excited to see this thrive and bloom.

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  • Day 4: Thorny

    The roses are blooming! I’ve kept a close eye on them since they caught the bite last year (aka Rosette Disease, click through for some disgusting pictures—especially “excessive thorns”). We’ll see if these can survive, or if I’ll have to dig them up next season. Huge bummer, though, since they were one of the first plants we put in the ground when we bought the house!

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  • The Princess Diaries, 2001 — ★★★½.  My only hope in life is to yell “YOU GOT CONED!” at someone.

  • Day 3: Experimental

    This extremly dramatic, but extremely metal, Bloody Sorrell is part of a new container-based shady garden situation. Moved it to a pot, brought it inside, and ten minutes later it was totally fine.

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  • Day 2: Photo

    What are you doing, Ross. 📸

  • Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee, ★★★★

    I gave up on reading climate horror to focus on the Avatar extended universe. 📚

  • Day 1: Switch

    We recently switched our garden flag from a snakes and skulls thing to this one which says HELL SUNSHINE. Perfect for spring! 📸

  • The Batman, 2022 — ★★★½.  I like how you can really land a punch on this particular Batman if you try hard enough.

  • Metal Lords, 2022 — ★★★½.  Charming…I mean, 🤘💀🤘.

  • Just watched Metal Lords and thinking about GWAR, Dave Brockie, and how he wrote a column for RVANews.

  • I think I like spring mountain foliage better than fall mountain foliage.

  • Weekend at Bernie’s, 1989 — ★★½.  How in the world does this movie take an entire 33 minutes before it gets around to killing Bernie??

  • This is probably the most egregious doublethink example I’ve seen from the governor yet:

    “Governor Glenn Youngkin Signs Executive Order Recognizing the Value of Recycling and Waste Reduction”

    <two sentences later>

    “The Executive Order repeals Governor Northam’s Executive Order #77, removing the burdensome restriction on single-use plastic at state agencies, colleges and universities. "

  • Unintentional poem from the Wikipedia entry on sweetgums:

    The long-persisting fallen spiked fruits can be unpleasant to walk on;

    Sweet gum is banned in some places for this reason.

    In abundance, they can leave a lawn lumpy.

  • I woke up this morning and someone had put a six-foot metal wine rack shaped like a fish in my front yard?

  • Train to Busan, 2016 — ★★★★.  I’m working to expose my son to the full breadth of the zombie canon.

  • Top Gun, 1986 — ★★★½.  🏐

  • Master, 2022 — ★★★½.  A little too much of everything and not enough of anything. Lots of great horrible/creepy stuff in the first couple acts, though.

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