of a thistle head. tachycardia attack last night, lasted from 03:20 til 09:30. i jinxed myself by thinking earlier in the day that it had been almost 3 months since the last one, and maybe... yeah, well, if wishes were horses. but it wasn't particularly fast to start with, and the bloodpressure never went sky high either; worst was right after it started with 156 / 110...

lady fern (athyrium filix-femina). took the paramour out to eat our usual at smitty's (santa fe chicken quesadilla), which is yummy, except that i wish they'd use another cheese than the generic orange stuff they're slopping on it. after that we wandered around the southgate area to look at the new assisted living campus that's about to open, and to check out what's...

my new echinacea, this being the only bloom, fading, but still impressive. it's the cultivar echinacea big sky (tm) 'summer sky' . i don't usually buy patented plants because "propagation prohibited" pisses me off, but hey, this one needed rescueing. i guess yesterday's energy burst was borrowed from the future. and it was nice and cool even, while i slept the day away...

The comment count is for the entire life of my journal; it's interesting to think about how things change over time. I had 892 separate commenters, which is too large a post. I've cut it off at 200. Total comments: 9640 1 beckyzoole 2205 2 lefthand 279 3 ithildae 256 4 dakiwiboid 247 5 curiouswombat 226 6 ...

some of you thought the previous picture was a slime mould. it wasn't, but this is a slime mould, the scrambled egg slime (fuligo septica) probably. to doubly tie it to the previous post, this slime is also sometimes called dog's vomit slime, especially in the later stages when it turns more brown and differently textured . allegedly some people in mexico eat it, though considering...

i don't think anyone will be able to guess what this is (it's slightly gross). walklog: 8-22 long mailbox walk, 2.45 km, 0:41. nothing even vaguely exciting happened today.

the joy of looking at plants at canadian tire is that they're ever so informatively labelled: cactus, succulent, tropical foliage, fern. i'm guessing this is a pachyphytum. walklog: 8-21 short mailbox walk, 2 km. lots of errands today: canadian tire for an umbrella dryer, london drugs for a video card for the paramour, wholesale store for some groceries and memory foam...

water striders (gerridae) are fascinating . rain rain rain. nice rain. i stayed inside and listened to the sound on the grape leaves outside the window. and then the network was flakey (not at our end this time) and that's why the picture is late.

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productive errands today -- recycling (for refund) to ladysmith, bought new toothpaste at the health food store there (green apple flavour -- i HATE most regular toothpaste in north america; it is too ... sharp), then onto harewood to drop off the bag of clothes i had sorted for the diabetes foundation (who didn't pick them up). there is now room in the truck for buying straw...