TIL –

“Glurge” refers to stories, often shared via email or online, that are purportedly true and uplifting but are actually fabricated and sentimental. The word imitates the retching or feeling of revulsion that these stories can evoke, as they are often overly saccharine and manipulative.

Day 20,538

We had a lovely morning – the weather was nice, so we grabbed bagel breakfast sandwiches and then walked by the river a little, and read books next to the water for a bit before coming back home.

Upon returning home, we sat on the back porch, and read a bit more. Can’t beat that.

According to the USDA, approximately 80 percent of the world’s flowering plants require pollinators to eproduce, including three-quarters of agricultural crops.

A 2021 study on nocturnal pollinators that was conducted by the University of kansas led researcher Stephen Robertson to call moths “unsung heroes of polination,” indicating that, as an under-studied group, moths could potentially beat out butterflies and bees in pollinator importance globally.

But just as we’re discovering how important moths are, they’re disappearing.

My favorite bread recipe has four ingredients.

Water. Flour. Salt. Yeast.

When the loaf is ready, I often think, “this seems like magic.”

Then I recall, of course simple things produce magic.

I have internalized too much of the marketing fiction that worth requires complexity.

RFK: “Autism is a preventable disease.”

Diseases are something you get, autism is a neurodevelopmental condition and a natural variation of the human genome that you are born with.

Autistic people are not broken. Autistic people are not damanged.

Autism is not preventable. Autism is not curable.

You know what is a preventable disease?

Measles.

Happy Alien Day! (For LV-426)

Envious of my neighbor a few doors down, spotted a bear on her cam this morning!

Still none in mine yet.

“He went around front and knocked over our trash cans, went after some expired tortillas.”

My neck of the woods

Spoilers: I just read ahead to the last page of your life and it turns out that you were always worthy of love and hope and surpassing kindness.

Nicknames I use regularly:

Booboo, sweetheart, dove, dolly, honey, poop – for spouse

Dingus, monkey, belly, bootsy, maniac, goober, cutie – for Pearl

Buddy, brother, bud, kid, pal – assorted folks/animals (usually critters)

If I do not know you, and I call you “friend”, well, it’s not good.

I recently heard about a YA book in which Schrödinger’s cat and Pavlov’s dog team up for a cross-country adventure, so I went to the library to see if they had a copy. The librarian said my description rang a bell, but she was unsure if it was there.

Day 20,534

I expect to be wearing noise canceling headphones all day tomorrow, as a crew is coming over to replace our roof.

Upstairs AC picked a heck of a time to poop out… evaluating our options for rhat fix next.

Life as a homeowner is tricky, but we are getting things done.

Moved all lawn furniture inside either the garage or the living room. Got to get up extra early tomorrow, the team gets here at 7am