[ten good things]

[kaberett]

1. The sweetcorn is coming up! I am amused by how much more advanced the stuff I sowed direct into the beds on the 10^th is than the ones I sowed into modules in the greenhouse on the 13th.
   
2. Peas are also coming up! Both the ones I actually managed to sow direct (of which... one looks to be making it to adulthood), and the ones I have starting off in pots at home.
   
3. PAKIDGE. Three ink samples: Sailor Kiwa-Guro, Sailor Souboku and Sailor Seiboku, all of which are permanent/waterproof inks that are also (nominally) safe for fountain pens, chosen on the basis that (i) I really do want waterproof ink, (ii) I glumly suspect that I am a Mostly Black Ink person these days, and yet (iii) in my Heart I am still a Blue Ink person. I am going to try them all out and see which I like best. (First I need to write the test pen dry...)
   
4. PAKIDGE part II: a set of Really Useful BoxesDrawers for better organisation of the misc bags of spice in the pantry, which will hopefully make A much happier and mean that we are collectively less reliant on my weird wireframe-spatial memory for Which Food Is Where In The Pile.
   
5. Yoghurt and banana and honey.
   
6. I am deriving a great deal of enjoyment from experimenting with How I Want To Bullet Journal, and giving myself permission to Make Bad Art. I have worked out a layout for individual days that lets me draw useful small symbols for Things I Want To Do Daily; I have worked out also how I want to start doing sleep tracking (as of next month).
   
7. During today's honking I achieved a couple of beautiful arpeggio-exercises that Just Worked more-or-less effortlessly. I've been managing doing all of [set of exercises] closer to every day than not, recently, and it is definitely paying off and I'm definitely enjoying the results.
   
8. I am delighted that my (late-started) tomatoes are beginning to produce flowers...
   
9. ... and that the parsley I've sown is coming up...
   
10. ... and that I get to bimble gently to the allotment in the evenings with Adam, and poke around a bit, and come home again, and eat strawberries, and watch the bat.
    

Bonus: ready access to painkillers.

Comments

[randomling]

Hurrah for good things!

I am just popping in to say HELLO I LIKE YOU because I'm not very good at keeping in touch sometimes and I would like to be better.

[kaberett]

Yes this <3

[lunabee34]

Yay for good stuff!

[oracne]

Hooray for honking! Also for organizing spices, which in my case also results in fewer accidental tumbling cascades of bottles.

[jesse_the_k]

All that AND painkillers! This is a better timeline.

[vass]

Yay for peas. I got the daffodil bulbs in on Monday. A bit late, but hopefully they'll still do their thing. When I planted them, I saw a daffodil-shaped volunteer green shoot already there.

[pipisafoat]

I always love your good things. (And you of course!)

[jjhunter]

I really really love the lovely blue ink you used in your letter, and am now coveting acquiring some myself + a proper fountain pen to use it with.

We are also flush with strawberries in Boston- I love their bursting sun flesh, and the local farms' enthusiasm for planting All the Variants. Am wistful that the squirrels dug up and ate all my sugar snap peas before they could realize themselves as seedlings.

Thank you for sharing what brings you joy. <3

[sfred]

<3