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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-10 11:40 pm

Photos: Charleston Food Forest Part 2 Left Side

Continuing from Charleston Food Forest Part 1 Right Side, these photos show the remainder of the right side and the left side. Continue with the Coles County Community Garden and Seeds.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-10 08:46 pm

World Migratory Bird Day

WHEN IS WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY? ¿CUÁNDO ES EL DÍA MUNDIAL DE LAS AVES MIGRATORIAS?

World Migratory Bird Day is officially celebrated on the second Saturday in May (May 10th in 2025) as migratory birds journey to nesting sites and on the second Saturday in October (October 11th in 2025) as they return to wintering areas. Because birds do not all migrate at the same time and to provide the opportunity to observe birds on stopover sites as they journey, however, we encourage you to celebrate when the timing is best at your location. WMBD programs and events are hosted nearly every month of the year.

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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-10-10 10:43 pm

proof of saffron

Another nine strands today. :)

a saffron crocus in flower, petals somewhat chewed

(Photo actually from Wednesday 8th, of the first one!)

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-10 04:37 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is partly cloudy and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/10/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/10/25 -- I did a more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/10/25 -- I loaded the new construction staple gun and tested it. This thing works great with very little pressure against a surface to get the staples in. :D The only drawback is that, like most tools, it is sized for a man's large hand and is awkward for me to use with my small hands.

EDIT 10/10/25 -- I got the wire mesh cut, but I clearly don't have the time or energy to finish the whole project today. Still, progress.

EDIT 10/10/25 -- I put damp sand in the bag of groundnuts to keep them from drying out.

EDIT 10/10/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I watered the telephone pole garden and savanna seedlings, irises, new picnic table, and septic garden.

As it is almost suppertime, I am done for the night.
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the_siobhan ([personal profile] the_siobhan) wrote2025-10-09 11:54 pm

this is my boomstick

I called the engineer back and they haven't heard from the contractor because "he's going through a medical procedure". This was his excuse for ghosting me back in March as well. Engineer also said they will not send me any reports - will not even say for sure that the reports exist - without going through the contractor because they work for the contractor and not for me.

So now I guess I commence hassling the contractor. In the meantime I will reach out to the city inspector and find out what my options are.

I am definitely talking to a fucking lawyer.

***

'Tis the season when restaurant work starts to ramp up, and so I have to figure out what jobs absolutely need a second person and get them done while daughter still has time. (Also we are starting to get closer into not-having-windows-open season and since daughter takes zero infection precautions that is an absolute deal-breaker for having her in the house.)

I think getting the new lights hung is number one and then I have a sideboard that needs to be partially reassembled and it's way too heavy to wrangle by myself, and then that's it.

to-do list under cut )

There are ants in the new kitchen. There were ants in the old kitchen, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I keep finding them in the kitchen sink though, which is... weird.

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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2025-10-09 06:27 pm
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Yes it's cold, no I will not turn on the heat. Though naturally I didn't want to get up this morning because bed so toasty warm, thus fell asleep again and dreamed of trying to get home ('home' being some kind of Bedford place) in a snowstorm with Nora Jemisin and a friend of hers who were supposed to be staying with me.

However, up eventually and out to the BoM where I exchanged $21 in dimes and nickels for bills and a loonie, and also got a new card because they're phasing out the old ones. That's two things off the list of to-does, but I should have asked for more coin wrappers and didn't. So of course I came home with a dollar in dimes because the restaurant I got take out at didn't have change. Restaurant was the Middle Eastern halal place my friend A. goes to, the one with the ridiculously huge portions. Alas, shall not be going there in person again because their music is so loud as to start a headache in the ten minutes I was waiting for my order. But still really good food.

Then by the Spadina library because they have a Charles Lenox in hardcover and I want one for this long weekend and my ebook is still showing two weeks wait. And home, for a measly 5000 steps that felt like much more. I think I need to book another massage, but will see what stretching accomplishes. Obviously I didn't do enough after gardening yesterday.
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-10-09 10:07 pm
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[food] ... cursed

You know the way I just said -- I just said -- that I had worked out how to make wagamama's current menu yield something I was actively enthusiastic about eating?

WELL GUESS WHAT. THIRD TIME UNLUCKY.

I had really not expected the pad thai to vanish in a menu overhaul, okay, what on EARTH.

(So we came home and ate butternut squash & quince stew instead, and maybe by the next time it is Ritual Wagamama O'Clock I'll have resigned myself to eating something that isn't The Thing I Just Worked Out.)

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-09 01:52 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is mostly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/9/25 -- I spent a total of 1 1/2 to 2 hours gathering seeds at the Charleston Food Forest and Coles County Community Garden.  I am sooo tired, but I got a great haul. \o/

EDIT 10/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.










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Anna the Piper ([personal profile] annathepiper) wrote2025-10-08 05:46 pm

In Which Siobhan Has a Very Bad Ocean Journey

Welcome to my very first post ever for playing Enderal, the total conversion mod for Skyrim that transforms it into an entirely different game!

If you’ve never played Enderal before, suffice to say, this post will be full of spoilers, like any other playthrough post on my site.

And meet my character Siobhan, half-Nehrimese, half-Kiléan, who finds out right quick that maybe sneaking on board a boat to get to Enderal is maybe not the smartest thing she ever did….

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Read more on Anna Plays Skyrim.

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Got another bag filled with linden seedlings and English ivy, then put both bags out for pickup tomorrow. Given that it rained all yesterday,  the seeds were oddly dry, for which I am grateful. Had to do my gardening without alcohol because system took exception to Black Russians with no carbs to absorb them. Very much the downside to no bread, because rice and potatoes don't have the same balancing effect. 

We return to autumn temperatures for a spell. I may not have to use the A/C again as I did on Sunday and Monday night but this month will still be above average. There are rumours of us going to single digits tonight. However my house still holds the warmth: and in fact a high of 15 with sun is still too warm for a jacket. I shall just sleep with a heavier hoodie and will be fine in my newly plumped up down duvet. Really I should have had that thing cleaned a good ten years ago.

In yesterday's enforced idleness I finally finished Terra Nostra, which kindly fell apart in the last 200 pages so I needn't wonder whether to keep it or not. True, I had to take a break and read David Wishart's version of the emperor Tiberius to counteract Fuentes'. What I also didn't register 40-odd years ago was the very dated attitude that women exist for love and more especially sex and have no other motive for living except that. This, when you're talking about a version of Elizabeth of England, is so wrong-headed as to be laughable. But it seems a commonplace amongst all the (male) Hispanic writers I've come across.

In any case, that's done. I have the latest Flavia Alba on the tablet and may start that biography of Leonardo that's been sitting on the shelf since forever, as a grounding corrective to Fuentes.
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RI Birdnerd ([personal profile] ribirdnerd) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-08 06:36 pm

Rainy morning

10/8/25 A rainy morning had some Blue Jays and House Sparrows stopping but that's about it.

My bird cam picked up a pair of Northern Cardinals and White breasted Nuthatches.
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-10-08 10:08 pm
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[stationery] contemplating a self-indulgence

In My Ridiculous Pen Collection, I have a Lamy 2000 (largely inspired by Ant Newman of UKFountainPens waxing lyrical). I got it second hand, as with all but one of my pens; the one that showed up cheap came with an F nib.

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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-10-08 04:58 pm

Kinktober 2025: Limericks of Jedi gettin' it on - update

There are now 8 days of limericks in the Kinktober 2025 series. The Blindfold poem is even more deliberately vague about the pairing than the others. I would love to know how people read it!
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-08 02:08 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.  I heard a bluejay screaming but didn't see it.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/8/25 -- I did some work around the patio.

I saw a male cardinal in the forest garden.

EDIT 10/8/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/8/25 -- I gathered sunflower seeds and wild senna seeds from the gardens.

EDIT 10/8/25 -- I watered the irises, telephone pole garden and savanna seedlings, new picnic table, and old picnic table.

As it is almost suppertime, I am done for the night.

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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-10-07 06:34 pm

[growth] SAFFRON

This morning I had Physio at The Hospital Up The Road, which is a really good way to get me to actually go to the allotment (which is round the back of the hospital site, so the way this usually goes is I cycle to the allotment, drop my bike off, and then cut through to the opposite side of the site where Physio Happens, thereby not needing to faff about with bike locks).

Upon my return from physio (which was not... great; I got probably-a-cold two and a half weeks ago and my cardiovascular-respiratory situation is still Distinctly Not Happy) I actually paid slightly closer attention to my saffron bed -- the last couple of trips I've been all "ugh, nothing doing, I should really weed but UGH clearly the saffron has all DIED yes I KNOW that this is the traditional time of year for me to be convinced that The Saffron Has Died only to discover--" and indeed not only were there multiple clumps of saffron, most of them have flowers that are clearly going to happen Any Moment Now.

So today I have come home with six saffron strands, and am expecting A Bunch More, and have reinspected the saffron containers on the patio and established that one of those has them starting to come up as well -- and so now, obviously, I need to work out what to do with the RIDICULOUS RICHES represented by... maybe like two dozen strands of saffron. (Yes I also have a stash of shop-bought.)

Saffron & bay custard tarts with sticky blackberries? More saffron and cardamom panettone pudding (which we know we like)? Saffron rice pudding? All the saffron recipes from Sweet, which is possibly going to be my next cook-(almost)-all-the-way-through project? Lebovitz's saffron ice cream, to go with the planned quince sorbet? Saffron buns? Literally any of the obvious savoury options??? SO MUCH CHOICE.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-07 02:10 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/7/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/7/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/7/25 -- I picked up some flowerpots that got knocked over.

EDIT 10/7/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is almost suppertime, I am done for the night.
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Reeby ([personal profile] reeby10) wrote in [site community profile] dw_community_promo2025-10-07 10:30 am
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characters20in20 Round 19



Link: Round 19 Sign Ups | Round 19 Themes

Description: [community profile] characters20in20 is a 20in20 community dedicated to making icons of characters from movies and tv shows. You have 20 days to make 20 icons about a character of your choice, based on a set of themes for the round.

Schedule: Round 19 sign ups are open NOW. Icons are due October 27, 2025.
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Nothing weekend spent entirely indoors drinking Black Russians and doom-scrolling. Did order in yesterday from  Middle Eastern place.  I usually tip 20% in the app to provide incentive to pick my order, and then add cash at the door so as not to max my credit card too soon.  And because 20% of a low ball order isn't a lot. Didn't have the usual five dollar bill so had to give guy an envelope of coins. Then he sent me a text saying 'thank you for the tip, it really made my day.' Which maybe he says to everyone who tips him, but it certainly made my day.

It continues to be summer with high 20sC, pushing 80F. This will end tonight in rain and storms. Must get out and sweep up more leaves and seedlings for  Thursday's garden waste pickup but am not really moved to.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] birdfeeding2025-10-06 01:50 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is mostly sunny and hot.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I did a bit of work around the yard.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I watered the septic garden and the new picnic table garden.

I picked a few groundcherries.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I watered the irises and the patio plants.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I watered the new picnic table, telephone pole garden, and savanna seedlings.

EDIT 10/6/25 --  I did a bit of work around the yard.

I bagged up the last of the Ginger Gold apple seeds to cold-stratify in the fridge.

As it is almost suppertime, I am done for the night.
  
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kitarella_imagines ([personal profile] kitarella_imagines) wrote2025-09-30 03:07 pm

Seasonal update 2025 #3 Wild/Queen Season

My third update of the year.

Just a reminder:

The Maiden or Goddess season is January, February, March.
The Mother or Nurturer season is April, May, June.
The Wild or Queen season is July, August, September.
The Wise or Crone season is October, November, December.

Oh dear! Only one story this season! I have been busy with work, mother, legal stuff etc. But my fic is a doozy. VERY popular because it's about a popular Formula 1 RPF couple. It's got the most bookmarks ever and gets kudos every day. It was something I wrote quite quickly so not something heartfelt but still, it is cute and funny.

Matchmakers

Gabriel Bortoleto/Nico Hülkenberg and the other 5 rookies of 2025

Tags: Oblivious Nico, Bad Matchmaking, Awkward Flirting, Matchmaking Rookies, 5+1 Things, Romance, Humor, Age Difference

Summary:

5 times Nico admired Gabi from afar and 1 time he didn’t.

Or: 6 times the rookies tried matchmaking.


https://archiveofourown.org/works/67686681