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  @flyhigh@universeodon.com I agree. It usually knocks me out for a day. if I get the vax mid morning, I’m ok that day then groggy the next, fine by the next after that. Way way better than having covid.

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  For those following along, grape jelly making was a success! Six jars plus a tester. It jelled! Only got to 218 °F before a cold plate test looked like it was boiled enough. I was hesitant to take it further since friend’s jelly with these grapes went to hard candy (they boiled by time, not temp). It’s so dense, its almost black. It’s not completely clear either. The twice filtered and settled juice had an almost satiny appearance. But wow! I tense flavor! Calling this a win!

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  Well look at that! A giant swallowtail, Papilio cresphontes, the largest butterfly in North America. I’ve never even seen one before and today saw two. One at my house and one out at #Area51 (2+ miles away). A 747 of a butterfly, an albatross. This one has been through the wars and is missing most of its right hind wing and a significant chunk of the left. Still, graceful and very good and finding flowers to feed on. #insects

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  Last night as I was going to bed, I noticed a small plane circling overhead. Very annoying. Over and over and over. Mentioned it to oldest who figured out who it was, where from and likely was an infrared imaging survey for deer. There are so many deer! But, supporting bobcat and coyote populations too. So ok?

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  Sat down for a second in between tasks and now am cat captured so guess I’m immobilized until he decides to go.

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  Picking up child and resting with the Calder Stegosaurus in Hartford CT US for a minute.

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  Moon, clouds, lake.

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  Squam Lake, New Hampshire, US

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  When your buddy is a botanist with a corpse flower blooming, these are the texts you get! #Bloomscrolling

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  Spent a few days with an old college friend and their partner at a cottage on an island in a northern lake. Utterly delightful. Laughter, deep, thoughtful conversation about books, music, how we move through the world. Great food, fabulous bird watching (fall warblers moving through that none of us could ID, causing more laughter). Giant moon, stars, loon song. Refreshing and restoring.

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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117048015415336821 I’ve caught a lot of flack from folks for ditching FB, Insta, etc., “You don’t care enough about us to be connected on FB ?!” The exact opposite, friend, the exact opposite.

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  For Val, sans slug @dillyd@turtleisland.social

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  I am being judged. #CatsOfMastodon

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  Ok. Guess I’m going whitewater kayaking today. That was unexpected.

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  Spicebush swallowtails feeding on the flower buffet at #Area51. Edit: they are Black Swallowtails! Looking more closely, far more yellow spots in wing edge and they were acting very suspicious on the dill, a host plant for the caterpillars.

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  Indigo bunting! Eating the elderberries! #BirdCallOut

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  Had not appreciated how much I love following people who do things and go places and above all, notice and share the world around them. I love reading about the odd little Macedonian museum you found, or the baby porcupine with its mom in your backyard or seeing the view from the top of a Welsh hill, the whimsical weirdness at EMFcamp, what’s blooming in your garden or being build in your workshop. I love that we are invited to tag along, virtual participants. Thanks.

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  #SilentSunday

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  Today’s bouquet. Yarrows, oregano and dill, daisies and black-eyed-Susans.

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  Not enjoying the smokiness outside.

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  I want to share something that happened this week at camp. We have a mixed gender scout troop (basically, if you have (or don’t) a gender, you are welcome). Five of my scouts went on a whitewater rafting trip, a 2 hour bus ride away. On the way up, a young scout with some impulse control issues from another troop was misbehaving. My scouts tried to stop him and alert adults who eventually separated him, and gave him more supervision. 1/4

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  Fixed the hose that was soaking the people as much as the plants. Finally cut out the bittersweet choking a rhododendron. After looking hard, found one solitary peach the squirrels overlooked. #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

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  One of my favorite times at #Area51 is when the swallows show up. Usually at dusk, but apparently midday too. In the video you can hear car noise on the road, but barn swallows, grey cat birds, a common yellow throat, song sparrow and maybe goldfinches. Really need to get a bee/wasp person out here, too and a lepidopterist.

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  About to go have an educational discussion with my scouts and leaders who menstruate about how to deal with that on a camping trip, in the back county, at summer camp. The adults invited have overwhelmingly been thrilled and eager to share the lore, grateful we are doing this. The scouts, well, mostly middle school age where the entire world is hugely embarrassing. Let’s see if we can make it less so.

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  Me at the March for Science back in 2017 being waaaayy before my time. #algae

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  Happy bee on the blanket flowers.

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  Such intersting patterns in the sand as the tide went out in the bay Saturday. Like an unknown language.

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  I am being taken on a surprise date to go hear historians speak. Even better, the tickets were free (a dean offered them up). I’m sure I’ve got a red dress somewhere I can wear…

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  Protest frog at the waterworks. One of the nearby universities wants to build a golf training facility on a rural road that has a historic conifer research area. Our town has no golf courses. I can only think of two in the surrounding six towns.

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  Northern Parula in the garden! It’s starting! Warblerpalooza for the next three weeks!! #BirdCallOut