Market day! You know you're in good with the wild mushroom woman when she throws a couple extra fat chanterelles in your bag. (I 🖤 the mushroom woman. She's French Canadian w/ a mess of grey & purple hair, & looks exactly like you'd expect a woman who lives in the woods gathering mushrooms to look.)

Also shopping for Thanksgiving next weekend, which is why I now have 4 dozen eggs. 1 dozen are for ice cream.

Damn, I love living here.

#VancouverIsland #CowichanValley #EatLocal

Friend is going through health stuff, complicated by the fact that she's a large woman, so they won't believe that her diet is actually healthy despite her logging what she eats for them. Instead (while admitting that what she's dealing with can just happen out of nowhere) they obsess about food.

I suggested saying this at her next appointment:

Hey, I know it makes you feel safer when you blame people’s health problems entirely on their behaviour and act like it’s a moral failing ...

The Sauerkraut that Went Horribly Wrong, or: Why Are All the Windows Open?

an elizarde tale.

Why do I feel so under the weather today? Why am I coughing so much for no reason?

*checks air quality index* Oh.

As I've learned over the course of this summer, an AQI of 3 is low enough that the smoke's not really noticeable, but high enough that I feel like I'm fighting a bug. We've been so lucky with smoke compared to other places, but it's still not nothing.

The number of #knitting pattern support questions for which the answer is, 'did you make a swatch first? No? Well, there's your problem right there' is higher than I'd like it to be, tbh.

I mean, swatch or don't, I'm not the boss of your knitting, but if you don't swatch, the pattern may not be the problem here.