Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

People are complicated. Love is not.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

In after Baud. Damn.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

So very ready.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: More Pacific Northwest Glory

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Thanks, again, to commentor Mike in Oly:

A selection of photos I took at my dear friend’s garden in Ilwaco, WA. She and her partner tend their small garden just blocks from the port of Ilwaco, in a very interesting microclimate. The flat landscape required mounding for the flowerbeds in order to deal with excess water from the Pacific Northwest rains, and the cool damp climate limits the plants that can thrive here.

Pacific Northwest Passionflower

Cosmos and Campanula

Sunday Morning Garden Chat: More Pacific Northwest Glory

Purple Cat Bench

Poppies and Salvia

And garden cat #2 – Frosty, enjoying the sunshine and trying to get attention, as one does.
Frosty the Garden Cat

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Minor silver lining to the current situation, at least here north of Boston: Self-quarantining doesn’t rule out gardening, at least on one’s own turf. If the current unusually clement weather holds, Murphy the Trickster God willing, we’ll be able to spend valuable daylight hours raking detritus out of the flower beds & continuing last year’s bed-remodeling efforts. (With, as Adam would point out, valuable aerobic exercise bonus.) Get things to the point where we can see how much space we have to cram in a few more enticements from the stacks of garden catalogs!

What’s going on in your garden (planning), this week?

Pacific Northwest Garden Composition

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  2. 2.

    Jeffery

    The tulip tree down the street is flowering. The hardy almond in my yard is as well. The lilac is about to flower. Everything is so early this year in Philadelphia.

  3. 3.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    After little rain since December, it’s been raining here in SoCal since Tuesday and rain is predicted every day(except Thursday) for the next 10 days.  I’ll take January in March(does that mean I get a do-over of my b-day?).

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    Ducked into local market yesterday while waiting for wash and dry cycles to finish at the laundromat because I had forgotten to get eggs during the monthly shopping trip into town.

    Normal crowd size for a Saturday, lines at registers not long. Didn’t do a check of the shelves as it is such a crappy supermarket that half the time they have some bare or nearly empty shelves anyway. Cashiers gloved, didn’t notice any shoppers wearing them.

    Spoke to Mom in NYC area and she related that a local all kosher supermarket now is handing out gloves to shoppers entering the fresh produce section and checking that they are being worn there.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    The flowers are lovely and the pictures are a welcome respite from the horrors of the world.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    Beautiful flora.

     

    @NotMax:

    Costco was packed yesterday. So much for social distancing.

    I’m pretty sure I have the coronavirus now. I might also be a little bit pregnant.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    What fried my grits was the two out of the four shoppers ahead of me in the express lane who plunked down obviously more 8 eight items.

  11. 11.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: I believe still crappy.  Actually this past storm was mainly in SoCal.  I think the next one should also hit the northern part of the state as well, also a much colder storm

    ETA: And as I wrote this, it started raining again.

  16. 16.

    satby

    Business was way down at the Farmer’s market here, which is probably a good sign. I packed up my booth and took everything home at the end. Which everyone seemed to think was a huge overreaction; but the market manager was too sick to come in yesterday, supposedly home with “stomach flu”. By the time I’m expected to go back, things will probably start shutting down hard. The schools are closed for the next two weeks too, but I think by the end of two weeks the case load around here will be much higher and the shut down will be extended.

    So, my yard and garden are going to get the most consistent attention they’ve ever had since I moved here. I see some of the crocus starting to show, and some of the new bulbs planted in the front bed. Lots of leaves still to rake and mulch, but it’s going to be a nice change to start summer ahead of the curve in outdoor chores for once ?.

  20. 20.

    satby

    @NotMax: that’s why I cleared it out, if it’s rented while I’m gone that pays part of my bill. But, considering how much traffic dropped they may not be able to rent it. And they won’t consider closing up at all unless the health department or government make them.

  25. 25.

    satby

    @laura: yep, still doing online! I figured I’d continue to the end of this year. Not looking like this is the year to retire and start some bucket list traveling ??!

    And apologies, but prices went up a bit (50¢/item) to cover shipping when it’s free to the buyer. Shipping costs were one reason I was going to close up shop.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:

    I’ve been at a few supermarkets over here where express-lane clerks strictly enforce the maximum item count.

  36. 36.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Once Again I have a massive dose of garden envy.

    sigh…

    I should be used to this by now.

    My own meager attempts at garden construction and preparation have been interrupted by incessant rains. I do have a few things I can do that don’t involve wading in mud. I just ordered some bamboo so I can make a few bee houses. I’ve been working a little bit on a visual screen for the carport. I can pick up another p/u load of mulch to spread in the beds along the drive. Anything more than that will probably have to wait until April. The rains don’t seem to be going anywhere.

  39. 39.

    satby

    @WereBear: I had changed the date but not saved it, so it was showing the old end date, though the store was still open. I have to update a bunch of pictures though, I changed some soaps out. Message me if you want to know what else I have not pictured.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    These photos are beautiful.  It’s mud season here – a bit early.  I had some anxiety last night. Kid has been sending lots of new puppy photos and videos to cheer me up.

    I’m going to do some stress cleaning and wait to hear about work this week.

  41. 41.

    WereBear

    @satby: Since soap is so much on people’s minds, I wanted to send links out to my fans, with the “helping animals” angle you have. I did that during past holiday seasons, too.

    I will check!

  42. 42.

    Immanentize

    Thank you Mike in OLY! Encouraging that Spring is on its way.

    My forsythia are blooming and my dogwood is budding. A month early. I certainly hope we do not get a long freeze again….

  43. 43.

    MazeDancer

    Gorgeous pics!

    Outstanding bench!

    About to do my last shopping run. Then have to go tomorrow AM to pick up case of recycled toilet paper at Post Office, if they haven’t sold it.

    Then lock down. Have 3 months of cat food. Probably the same on people food depending on how much I can stand black bean soup.

    Started stocking up two-three weeks ago, when it was a lil wacky to do so. Very glad I did. Also grateful I could.

  44. 44.

    joel hanes

    I think that second one is a passionflower.

    They’re well-established on the edge of our patio, and cover one wall of the house every summer.  We even get a bunch of fruit, which so far we’ve done nothing with.  There’s a beautiful intensely-orange fritillary — [googling] — the Gulf Fritillary — whose caterpillars live on passionflower vines, and in high summer I can usually see three or four of the adults out the kitchen window in the early afternoon.

  46. 46.

    debbie

    @Jeffery:

    Unbelievable. Here, I finally saw a single daffodil on Friday. The tree out my back windows has the fattest buds I’ve ever seen.

     

    ETA: Forgot to say how lovely these photos are. Your friend and her partner live in paradise!

  47. 47.

    Nicole

    Going on a run in Central Park with a friend in a little bit; it’s easy to maintain social distance outside.

    We have food in store, and, after 20+ years living together in the city (none of them ever more than a five-block walk from a coffee shop), finally caved and bought our own coffee maker.  We stopped in Chipotle on the way back from a Bed Bath Beyond trip yesterday, and they’d removed all the movable chairs, so there was only one person actually staying to eat.

    I’ve taken to carrying a couple of Clorox wipes in a ziplock bag in my jacket pocket if I need to go out.

  50. 50.

    MoCA Ace

    It’s seed starting day here in the north!!  just have patches of snow left but we usually get one last soul-crushing blizzard in March or April.

    I did see the Rhubarb had pushed up a few leaves yesterday… stupid plant, it was 15 last night so they will freeze for sure.

  51. 51.

    Lapassionara

    @OzarkHillbilly: Please send photos of the bee houses when they (it)  are (is) done.

    also, I hear you on the rain. I have a lot of work outside I could be doing, but . . .

     

    these photos are lovely. Thanks for sending.

    and good morning, everyone.

  54. 54.

    Lapassionara

    @Immanentize: I did not see it. I do know that getting legal information from the press is always a mistake. And it appears that the rules of the DC Circuit provide that judgments of the panel are vacated when en banc review is granted, so there was nothing unusual about that action. Thanks for following up.

  55. 55.

    L&DinSLT

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Approximately 18” since yesterday afternoon on our deck here at Lake level – 6226 feet. The storm is supposed to go through Tuesday. It will be hard to get mountain readings because most of them COVD-19 closed yesterday. This is the first real snow since January 17, best storm of the season, and some serious powder. I think Sierra at Tahoe and Mt. Rose are still open but that could change. Lots of tourists are sad.

  58. 58.

    TomatoQueen

    Lovely inspiring pics on this grey morning in DC, where the weird news is the Cherry Blossom hoopla is cancelled and peak bloom is moved up about a week. Hoping for glorious views from the Tidal Basin in about 10 days, which in ordinary times is about as far as I go with them, because I am violently allergic to cherry trees in bloom, especially those of the Yoshino variety.

    Randy Rainbow is spot on, as usual; that version scans beautifully so extra bonus points. Really well done.

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