Put your boots on, do they fit you comfortably?

[sovay]

I forgot to bring my camera when I left the house to walk around the block this evening, but I saw a white hibiscus growing through a hedge and bees clustered around some brilliantly Halloweenish orange flowers. I have not had my head in the sand despite being under quite a lot of rocks this month, but I am still demoralized that an international friend's postcard could not reach me because of the intimidation theater of the tariffs. Nor am I thrilled that last week I had an unexpectedly bizarre interaction with a medical professional about Tylenol. I am much more cheered by the existence of ghost ponds and the renascent fern, not to mention the eleven-million-year-old asteroid no one knows yet where it hit. The Draconids peak on the eve of my birthday this year. Last week was still too many doctors, but I have hopes of fewer in the week to come. At least I managed for the first time on this new regimen to write about a film.

Comments

[davidgillon]

not to mention the eleven-million-year-old asteroid no one knows yet where it hit.

Different asteroid, but Silverpit in the North Sea is now confirmed as an asteroid strike: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/scientists-find-proof-that-an-asteroid-hit-the-north-sea-over-43-million-years-ago

[selkie]

...Not to vague at everybody, but I just remembered he saw the Draconids. *blinks* But we didn't make these plans until comparatively last-minute. *blinks moar*

Godspeed your boots and you in them.
*hugs*

[gwynnega]

Ghost ponds!

(I am sorry about the bizarre Tylenol thing.)

[aurumcalendula]

Yay for hibiscus and other flowers! (I'm hoping next summer the deer leave my Rose of Sharon alone long enough so I can see it bloom). The ghost ponds stuff is so cool!

(Ugh, re: the tariff and Tylenol nonsense.)

[sabotabby]

Ghost ponds! That's so cool.

I was going to hold forth with a longtime Facebook friend who seems to have bought into the Tylenol hoax but I think other people must have laid into him because the post disappeared. Thank fuck. If I heard it from a medical professional I'd lose my shit entirely.

[asakiyume]

The asteroid story puts me in mind of a story I heard the other day of someone who collects micrometeorites. Apparently if you go up onto a flat roof and just go through the dust and sand up there, looking at it under a microscope, some portion of it will reliably be micrometeorites, that, I gather, look quite different from terrestrial sand and itty-bitty pebbles.

The return of the holly fern is a GREAT story.

And your film review is something I have bookmarked to read today.

[regshoe]

D:< Oh no, was that my postcard? I am sorry.

[moon_custafer]

The ghost pond article was a delight, not only for the concept itself but because the people restoring the ponds all sound like they’re slightly adjacent to Flanders’ and Swann’s Bedstead Men.