A pleasant surprise after we returned home from 8 days of thanksgiving travel, one of the cacti has actual flowers🌵

My much more typical “trick” is to overwater these types of plants (cacti, succulents) so this is quite nice!

#plants #houseplant #photography #flowers

I definitely don’t mind this kind of view of the sky as I go for a walk in the evening 😁

#walk #EveningWalk #sky #EveningSky #photography

Why does this sometimes happen on #Mastodon; what can I do about it?

After I initially #Follow an account the text changes to “Following” but then a few seconds later (if I’m still on that page or check back out of an abundance of caution) it has changed to “Cancel follow request”. If it would immediately jump to the second option I would understand that, and assume that the account owner is carefully moderating their followers, but this… how many accounts have I not _actually_ followed? 🤔

Today was definitely not a typical walk in the park, with a small group of LARPers practicing their sword fighting, with as background music someone practicing bagpipes. Normally it’s just people, dogs, and the occasional (birthday) party in the picknick area, so this was quite the contrast.

I apologize for the blurriness but I didn’t want to interrupt them so i had to zoom quite a bit.

#park #sunday #walking #bagpipes #swords #swordfighting #larp

This Sunday morning is for “people watching”, sitting in a Starbucks, sipping coffee, enjoying an oatmeal, and watching the world go by. A fairly diverse crowd that’s visiting the weekly farmers market. Doesn’t hurt that there are about 8 “stops” in easy reach 😁

#coffee #people #pogo #pokemongo

Woke up this morning to two voicemails from PG&E, telling us that the power is out starting around 5am, and an ETA for repair of 8am. Ok, no problem, mostly we can’t make coffee but that’ll be fine. Now we’re ~9 hours later and 3 more updates further and clearly they got busy with other more important things since those initial calls because the latest estimate is tomorrow, shortly after noon.

Guess I’ll be doing a lot of catching up on RSS feeds and downloaded podcasts!