athousandpicnics.net
Uncommonly spirited (two decades of bourbon opinions), amateur raconteur (sparsely edited), a thousand picnics or none.
He/Him. Louisville, KY
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hell of a choice of words there
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@erinsiobhan.bsky.social why are you arguing with this dipshit on the internet, the fireflies are out.
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Hydrangeas, marigolds, cone flowers, borage. All just steps from our house, though my arranging needs work
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Heaven for WiFi hell is for conversation
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what do you call St. Peter, then
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Okay but “D.B. ‘Dumb bitch’ Cooper – Boomers had it easy (crime style)” would make a fine shirt, is all.
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Grew those cone flowers, too, but it’s better described as “didn’t get in their way”
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Yesterday I picked some of those flowers I mentioned because @ennuigo.bsky.social was redoing the florals for the week
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@ennuigo.bsky.social is usually p. Handy with questions such as these
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the keyboard installed in a fake upright piano is grounds for being pilloried, IMHO
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Huh, same album. I stand corrected.
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As with many such things I feel like the David Bowie duet was redemptive.
He did go on to pen “burger queen” so yknow, no lessons learned, but hey.
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SUPERIOR
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no it's more just an inability to let enough alone, I don't plan to achieve anything more than bug bites
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I regret to inform you that it will not remain simple, that is not in how my beloved and I approach basically anything. This little idyll is gonna have a scale map and a planting spreadsheet by 2027
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It’s a dark art and I don’t pretend to understand it. I will start after the new year tho, I got a bench set up and everything
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Gardening is deadly serious, see the alt text
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On impulse I plunked down a bunch of gladiolus around the place, this pot was the three I was sure wouldn’t make it. We respect a plant what will not die.
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Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane/but until I’m surrounded I just can’t stopppp
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Foxglove loved the front yard: about half of these are volunteers from the initial two. Once we have a trouble of foxglove (foxdie? SNAAAAAAAKE) I'll probably try cutting some
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@ennuigo.bsky.social planted this hollyhock last year and it was a challenge to keep it alive— something was snacking on its leaves pretty aggressively, just getting it to flower was an accomplishment
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there's a reason starts are expensive: these...forget me nots? (oh, the irony) were started in probably April with the idea of planting them by Derby.
it is mid-June. There's a reason nobody is particularly precious about seedlings. 🌱
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i still find the odd cork in a corner
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an amaryllis that's flowered once next to tomato seedlings a neighbor grew and some strawberries in pots that yield pretty infrequently but man, that's a vibe
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growing annuals and cut flowers as well, here's some what's the story (morning glories) training up
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a plot of edamame that won't shut up about preferring pet sounds in mono (and a single pea shoot in the back what won't stop singing that Barenaked Ladies song, RIP brian wilson)
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our first blackberry which I check every morning in anticipation of hand feeding it to @ennuigo.bsky.social
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Lenny the beefsteak tomato plant, who is in tomato jail because he wouldn't stop getting spider mites
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One (1) hipster's worth of kale
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Companion plants kicking it in the dirt (tomatoes, marigold, basil, some kind of volunteer squash)
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front: lavender, which prefers to be left alone, back is a dahlia that needs pruning and oh no I watered the mint oh god oh fuck
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a container fig tree that doesn't know whether to fruit or grow and really, whomst amongst us
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Bee balm, doing great in the sunshine. Attracts butterflies and bumblebees, smells of bergamont
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hell yes
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A thirsty ass post, look at that