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Mar. 1st, 2026 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI got my ukulele last week and I'm a little surprised at how quickly I'm picking some of it up. Fret fingering is slow, but every lesson I've watched online says it will be, just keep practicing and give it time. I had extra time this afternoon while Fox was out on a walk, so I pulled up chords for "Can't Help Falling in Love With You," and realized I don't know how strumming works. I mean, I know how to strum, but the uke has a bunch of different down and up strums that change the sound slightly. I also need a strap - holding the neck with my hand isn't working, I tend to be touching the string.
I think we've had the last real cold spell of the season. At any rate, we started cleaning up the garden beds, and I put in a seed order. I've got my hands on canvas grow bags for the potatoes, but my seed 'taters haven't shipped yet. And there's a mint plant out there that not only survived the winter, but spread. Mint genuinely gives zero fucks.
I put hummingbird feeders out, but no birds yet. Sad face. The migration map shows some sightings around me, but the notes also all say "early this year," so maybe I just put my feeders out too soon. OTOH we marked the first bird of the year on our Google calendar, so in 2025 we already had them. On the other other hand, we've also had unusually cold weather.
I gotta put some writing together this week. We're going to stop in at Mystery Springs to taste the waters of enlightenment, and see how Derrick likes those fancy coffee machines. The high schooler he hired to help out is having trouble keeping a cat out of the shop, though. Not Jonesy, but we should be getting back to Jonesy soon. Now that it's spring in St. Felix, he wants to go outside and eat grass.
I think we've had the last real cold spell of the season. At any rate, we started cleaning up the garden beds, and I put in a seed order. I've got my hands on canvas grow bags for the potatoes, but my seed 'taters haven't shipped yet. And there's a mint plant out there that not only survived the winter, but spread. Mint genuinely gives zero fucks.
I put hummingbird feeders out, but no birds yet. Sad face. The migration map shows some sightings around me, but the notes also all say "early this year," so maybe I just put my feeders out too soon. OTOH we marked the first bird of the year on our Google calendar, so in 2025 we already had them. On the other other hand, we've also had unusually cold weather.
I gotta put some writing together this week. We're going to stop in at Mystery Springs to taste the waters of enlightenment, and see how Derrick likes those fancy coffee machines. The high schooler he hired to help out is having trouble keeping a cat out of the shop, though. Not Jonesy, but we should be getting back to Jonesy soon. Now that it's spring in St. Felix, he wants to go outside and eat grass.
