weighing the options

i've got an appointment to get my hair cut on monday. the shorter my hair is, the better i think i look with contacts. in the end, i see better with my glasses, but contacts have a lot of pros. they don't steam up when i open the oven door. they don't have to be dried off when i'm walking in the rain. i sleep in them, so i can see as soon as i wake up in the morning. there's no edge to my field of focus. plus, i like being able to wear sunglasses. now if the clouds would just go away, i could enjoy that perk. :)

i took two sets of "glasses in the bathroom mirror" photos today. the first with my big camera, the second with my little camera. why both cameras? well, the big camera has more options and takes artsier photos (more customization for focus, mostly, and better use of natural light), but the little camera uses a memory card that fits into my laptop's built-in reader. yup. i'm that lazy. although as i'm typing this, i realize that the card reader for my big camera connects via usb, which of course fits in my laptop. so, maybe it wasn't so much laziness as a failure to think it through. i was thinking i'd need to get my big mac set back up to read the card from the big camera. nope. not so much.

you didn't notice the ten minutes i minimized blogger to go find my card reader and upload the photos from the big camera, did you? but i did. those photos at the top are from my big camera. they're better than the one i was originally going to settle for from the little camera. maybe i should just buy a new big camera that uses the cards that fit in the laptop to save myself the trouble of having to do all of that again next time. yes, the trouble. i'm not lazy at all.

well, my big mac is still sitting in the dining room from when i brought it home last week. that is because i'm lazy.

speaking of fungus

remember the fungus growing in the wood pile? this one is much larger. :) i found it today, though based on it's size i'd say it's been growing for quite some time. it's a good 14" long and probably 9" wide. yup. not a bad size, right? it's growing out of a bag of mulch in my garage. or, at least, it was. i probably killed it when i found it this evening. my poking at it disconnected it from the bag, which i'm guessing was its food source. i poked at it because i wasn't sure what it was. but now i'm pretty sure it's a fungus.




i mean, look at the gills on the underbelly. it's gotta be a fungus.

gills? i think they're gills.

what's that? a bud?

i do believe burt is going to bloom. i'm very excited about this as i've had burt for almost exactly one year and i love him very much. not as much as i love the gal who gifted him to me, of course, but the proper amount a person should love a succulent that was gifted to them by an amazing gal. yes. i love him that much. very excited.

frost warning

lawn trash bags and a staple gun might be a bit hokey, but it'll have to do. i heard at work today that we've got a frost warning for tonight, and when you're driving home at 11pm the options are limited. here's hoping the li'l guys weather the weather.

the garden, currently

box number 1: spinach (front four rows) and a mixture of lettuces (back three rows).



box number 2: watermelon radishes (front two rows), cherry belle radishes (middle two rows), albino cucumbers (back left) and pickalot cucumbers (back right).



in other news, my wood pile is growing some fungus. :)

happy early birthday, matey

tomorrow's my brother's birthday. he's in town for the weekend, so we had a birthday cake. a pirate birthday cake. yarrr.

sights of sunday

- a gorgeous sunset that lit the sky on fire
- a night rainbow (kid you not, we could see both ends and follow the entire arc across the sky)
- potted romaine lettuce (it was tasty, too!)