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Yesterday was the first really nice day we've had since, like, October, and it was also the spring workday for garden #4. My bed there is now nicely topped up with compost and I will put asparagus and rhubarb in when I get back from the Obligatory Family Event next week. (I also got a bunch of numbers from fellow gardeners and am going to try to organize an expedition to a local native nursery.)

Today was a little chillier and windy, but I got out and planted four kinds of peas (Snak Hero, Cascadia, Mammoth Melting, and a sweet pea mix) and pruned the rosemary in my plot in garden #1. Providence is so beautiful in the spring, and everything has started blooming practically overnight, trees foaming with white and pink and gold, daffodils and tulips and violets glowing.

Tomorrow is the election for the board for the group backing garden #3, I am not running and no one can make me.

ETA: Goddamn it, I am informed no one has volunteered to lead the infrastructure committee, which is what I care about anyway. But I only care about a subset of things in infrastructure (benches and the pollinator garden) and what I have said before still applies: I don't want to be in charge of shit! I am very good at it but it is very bad for me! This is not how I want to spend my one wild and precious life!

watersword

I just got an email about joining the community garden near my apartment: this would be my FOURTH garden. (The community garden I was in last year, the pollinator garden in the park, and the space in front of my building.)

If I say yes, I can get started on rhubarb and asparagus. Maybe some saffron crocus in the fall. (kaberett, any advice?)

I guess it was inevitable, I have been looking forward to being the local crone with delicious-smelling baked goods and mysterious pronouncements, gardening is kind of part of the job description for that.

beatrice_otter

Hallelujah, Praise the Lord! There's finally a canonical tag for reader-insert fic on AO3!

From the latest admin post:

During this round of updates, we tested a discussion method which permitted many related canonicals to be canonized at once, instead of each canonical having its own separate discussion period. This allowed us to canonize over 200 additional tags from one discussion.
Consequently, we've canonized many additional tags related to Reader-Insert. All Reader-Insert modifier tags will be subtags of Reader-Insert. The full list is available via tag search.

Let us hope that people start using this so that people who want it can find it, and those who don't want it don't have to deal with it!

They're also changing pregnancy canonical tags, so if you've got fic that deals with pregnancy you might want to check it out and figure out if you want to change how you have tagged it.

watersword

Eeeeeeee I think I get to host a seder! I was resigning myself to it not happening this year, but it might be! I'm so glad I went ahead and did the haggadah revisions even though I didn't know if I'd use it. (I thought that doing the revisions might have to be Enough for the experience this year, but now I get to use them.)

A. says she'll bring wine and matzah ball soup, so I can make a watermelon-feta salad and rhubarb-soy duck with roast potatoes, and I can just poach some pears and get ice cream and call it a day.

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a vain girl with a scalpel

(but once she was the king of spain!)

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last! frost! date!

in my Garden Era, I guess

Reader-Insert Canonical on AO3 at last!

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